25 Jun
2007
25 Jun
'07
12:05 a.m.
On 6/25/07, Chuckk Hubbard <badmuthahubbard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 6/24/07, Loki Davison
<loki.davison(a)gmail.com> wrote:
What do you mean by works really? My previous soundcard was fine for
playing mp3s but useless for recording with jack or doing anything
without xruns. New card, no problems. Works very well.
Loki
On 6/25/07, Chuckk Hubbard <badmuthahubbard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
ALSA
Thanks Loki. My soundcard works though. The wireless does not, but I'm
just posting here to find out how to improve my audio performance.
-Chuckk
On 12/1/06, Dave Phillips
<dlphillips(a)woh.rr.com> wrote:
>
> Bill Allen wrote:
>
> > At the risk of repeating myself, in the time that I've been just
> > reading this thread (not to mention the time that you've been
putting
> > into trying the stuff mentioned) I
could have downloaded 64Studio,
set
> > aside a 5-10 GB partition, installed
it, and had a working system
with
> > all the real-time patched AMD64
music-enabled system that you can
get.
> > Yes, you've got to dual boot, I do
it all the time. Ubuntu is my
> > family system that we use for work and play, but when I want to do
> > music I boot into 64Studio. It's simply a lot easier than trying to
> > make a general purpose distro into a music enabled one.
>
> Hear the man. I started writing a similar reply yesterday, but Bill's
> said it better here. Given the availability of multimedia-optimized
> distros I just don't see the point of putting myself through what the
> distro maintainers have already been through and mastered. Maybe it's
an
> age thing, at mine I get someone else to do
the heavy lifting. :)
>
> Really, I work with Linux audio software to make music. I lost
interest
> in mucking about with kernel configurations
long ago. Yes, I'm glad I
> know how to do some of that stuff by myself, but I no longer consider
it
a
necessary part of the process. I agree with Bill, use 64Studio,
PlanetCCRMA, or some other optimized distro and save yourself time and
energy.
Best,
dp
Hi Dave and everyone. I am still wrestling with this. I have the new driver that supports my card, finally, but under
64studio I still get
20-some xruns a second, and Audacity is unable to connect to jackd.
PortAudio appears for a split second in the jack connection dialog, and
disappears. Some of you told me 64studio was preconfigured for
low-latency
audio out of the "box" and all the apps
were tuned to the distro, but it
doesn't seem to work that way for me.
Anyone know an up-to-date guide to low-latency audio on Debian or Linux?
There's still a lot of info out there that is obsolete, so I'm wary of
Google.
Just a note: I have been trying for several years to get low-latency
audio
working right on Linux. This is a new machine,
though, as of November
06,
and I had to wait 7 months for my audio card and
wireless (still not
working
right) to be nominally supported, so I
haven't tried much for about 6
months. I'm still amazed at how everything just seems to work without
tweaking for some folks, and I'm wondering if there's something
fundamental
I'm just not doing. My problems have baffled
some of the very
developers
who created drivers specifically for the hardware
I have. What could be
wrong?
-Chuckk
I also had problems for ages getting my soundcard to work. After a
long time i found a good solution. I bought a decent soundcard. Got
cardbus on the laptop? grab an echo cardbus thing. They are cheap on
ebay in the USA. I got my Gina3g from the USA for 200 USD. Pretty damn
cheap compared to a new guitar or bass. If you have firewire you can
try that too after looking what cards work. The cardbus is easier
though.