22 May
2011
22 May
'11
10:20 a.m.
On Sat, 2011-05-21 at 21:18 -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Ralf
<ralf.mardorf(a)alice-dsl.net> wrote:
It started with the need to edit /usr/share/alsa/cards/...
#
# Configuration for the ICE1712 (Envy24) chip
#
[snip]
slave.format S32_LE
slave.channels 10
[snip]
For Ubuntu Maverick this didn't solve the issue any more, I
pseudo-disabled PA this way http://www.jeffsplace.net/node/12 to get the
card working.
If you read several audio user lists you'll see that's not only me,
having this issue ;), but every Envy24 card user, while RME card users
write similar to this:
"I have an RME 9652 that has worked out of the box for the past 5 years
on every distro I have run (to date with this card I have used Fedora,
Debian, 64Studio, and various Ubuntu releases.).
It was expensive but has been worth every single penny."
"Any Rme card is good, although they're a bit expensive. Didn't have to
do a thing to get my hdsp 9632 working."
I guess I'll search for RME cards in a price range between 300,- to
800,- EUR.
Regarding to sound quality issues RME cards also get better gradings
than TerraTec, M-Audio and other cards that cost between 80,- and 400,-
EUR.
I didn't ask for latency and didn't read a report about RME card's
latencies, but I don't think those cards do have higher latencies than
cheaper cards ;).
Best,
Ralf
op-amps are ok, Envy24 cards cause issues, resp.
PulseAudio does.
Pulse's issues (as such) are with multichannel cards, not with Envy24 cards.
It has the same issue with any "high" channel count device.