3 Mar
2006
3 Mar
'06
5:20 p.m.
On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 23:09 +0200, Sampo Savolainen wrote:
On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 13:18 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
"Problems with jackd using your soundcard. Specifically 'Not enough
bandwidth'. If you are using an USB soundcard, this probably means that
you are running the soundcard with either a wrong buffer size or a wrong
amount of periods. Try running jackd with -r 3"
We don't? I think we do know more. :)
"Or maybe you have enabled CONFIG_USB_BANDWIDTH. Or your kernel is
buggy. Or your device is connected through a hub. The solution may
depend on which host controller driver you are using..."
Etc.
Lee
So,
instead of interpreting them to users the software should say: "learn C
headers and read errno.h?". Gah.
Good software tells the users what's really wrong and directs the user in
how to fix the issue. This leads to happier users and less repeated "why
doesn't this work" questions on mailing lists, irc, personal email, etc.
We don't KNOW what's wrong beyond "not enough bandwidth".