Felipe, Hi. IRQ5 == NOT_GOOD. The two normal ways to change hardware interrupts are: 1) Change the slot the card is in until you find the slot that uses the IRQ you want. I recommend you do not share IRQs between your sound card and any other device in your system. Asus MBs give you a table that describes which slots are using shared IRQs. Follow the documentation if you have some. 2) Look and see if your BIOS allows you to set the IRQ of a specific slot. If it does (my Asus MBs do, which is another reason I like them) then reserve IRQ10 (or even IRQ9) for the slot your audio card is in. This is sometimes a bit difficult to find. It is under something like Advanced PCI Configuration in my BIOS. I've seen some GigaByte MBs that say they have this feature, but then don't do anything. Humm...is this actually an ISA card? I hope not... Mark

Felipe, If it's ISA then I think you probably have no ability to configure the IRQ, or at least that would be my guess. Most PCI motherboards (I assume the machine is PCI?) save the 'good' interrupts for PCI devices. If it's not a PCI MB, well then you really tricked me!!! ;-) If I missed this at the early part of the thread, then I'm sorry I might have led you down a path that won't solve your problem. I think the real problem here is that you are trying to use a 2003 sound stack with a 1993 sound card. Even if you get it to work, you're likely going to be unhappy with the results. I'm willing to help you keep going if you decide to push forward. With best regards, Mark

Mark, No, in fact it didn't work, :-/ Anyway right now I seem to remember that redhat's sndconfig was able to choose among multiple IRQ's too, uhm. I guess It depends on the right configuration of /etc/isapnp.conf... I'll let you know :)°°° felipe On Wednesday 05 February 2003 01:00, Mark Knecht wrote: -- Prendi GRATIS l'email universale che... risparmia: http://www.email.it/f Sponsor: Il vero Pomodoro San Marzano D.O.P. dell' Agro-Sarnese-Nocerino. Clicca qui: http://adv2.email.it/cgi-bin/foclick.cgi?mid=981&d=5-2

Hi Paul, I don't know how exactly ALSA supports isapnp, all I discovered (after some pain) is I have to "activate" my sound card with isapnptools. In order: 1) isapnp supported in the kernel 2) pnpdumped -c to /etc/isapnp.conf 3) activated it with isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf 4) build ALSA with --enable-isa=yes or something To get sound working I had to do all the four points... Now could you tell me how did you use to change default IRQ with isapnptools? Thank you :) felipe On Wednesday 05 February 2003 18:00, Paul Winkler wrote: -- Prendi GRATIS l'email universale che... risparmia: http://www.email.it/f Sponsor: Manuali.net ti insegna a creare il tuo primo sito web con effetti speciali grazie a Macromedia FlashMX. 30 Lezioni ed assistenza tramite forum: Clicca qui: http://adv2.email.it/cgi-bin/foclick.cgi?mid=1186&d=5-2

Ok thanks Paul, It's more or less what I've been unsuccessful at :D With OSS it was quite simple, though... felipe -- Prendi GRATIS l'email universale che... risparmia: http://www.email.it/f Sponsor: Baby Zen riproduce i suoni della natura. Ideale per la gestante e per la nanna del bambino. In vendita in esclusiva nel MammaShop.it Clicca qui: http://adv2.email.it/cgi-bin/foclick.cgi?mid=626&d=6-2

Ok, ok =) Thanks everybody for the answers, now I'm a little less confused maybe. I just wanted to make it clear that 1) *I* did echo "1" >/proc/sys/kernel/lowlatency, thus "virtually" enabling lowlatency, infact I can't say wether it is really enbled or not just because I've set that to 1 instead of 0. 2) Those xruns I get are so many! And I get them even when I'm absolutely idle, ie. not recording and the such. 3) Anybody knows where do I get that capabilities patch? I'd prefer to compile the kernel myself... * * * Question to Fernando: thanks for the Planet CCRMA project, I've tried out some rpm's in my tests partition with mandrake. But what's the difference between CCRMA and the soon-to-be-released (maybe) RehMuDi? Aren't them more or less the same thing? As far as I know DeMuDi (debian version) and RehMuDi (redhat version) have lowlatency kernels together with the same large deal of multimedia software. For you debian fans out there, I simply added this line: deb http://http.demudi.org woody demudi to my sources.list and now I have demudi packages in my apt database :) Thanks everybody for existing references: http://www.agnula.org http://www.demudi.org -- Prendi GRATIS l'email universale che... risparmia: http://www.email.it/f Sponsor: Erboristeria.com: Fanghi Guam con sconti irresistibili Clicca qui: http://adv2.email.it/cgi-bin/foclick.cgi?mid=800&d=4-2

On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 10:34:09 +0100 Emiliano Grilli <emillo(a)libero.it> wrote: "The project started on the 1st April 2002 and will last for two years. In the second year the project will also extend to hardware platforms other than PCs (e.g. PowerPCs, 64-bit architectures)." www.agnula.org -- Alexandre Prokoudine ALT Linux Documentation Team JID: avp(a)altlinux.org

Hmmm, for Mandrake 9.0 you would be much better off using Thac's RPMS for Mandrake 9.0 at http://rpm.nyvalls.se/sound9.0.html or Turn-Key Linux Audio at http://lulu.esm.rochester.edu/kevine/turnkey/home.html The Planet CCRMA rpms have been compiled under RedHat, they might or might not run fine under Mandrake (I have not tried). Unless you rebuild from the source rpms, of course, and even you may hit compatibility problems with the naming of explicit package dependencies. RehMuDi's goal (same as the original DeMuDI) is to be a distribution. The current beta 2 version is built on top of RedHat 7.3. Planet CCRMA is added to an already installed RedHat 7.2, 7.3 or 8.0 distribution (it starts where the RedHat install stops), and uses apt for rpm (originally ported by Conectiva - same functionality as the original debian apt package) to manage the original installs and subsequent updates (apt is not part of the regular RedHat releases). Both approaches have advantages and disadvantages, but the end result is hopefully pretty much the same (low latency kernel, alsa drivers, tons of up-to-date neat applications to play with). They do share a lot of packages, in fact the current RehMuDi beta uses the Planet CCRMA low latency kernel as well as a bunch of other Planet CCRMA source packages. The origins of the two projects are different. RehMuDI is the RedHat based version of AGNULA, a two year project funded by the European Economic Community (and an expansion of the original debian based DeMuDi project). Planet CCRMA was originally conceived as a way to give our students / faculty / staff a chance to install the already existing CCRMA linux based sound and music environment in their pc's, in much the same way Turn-Key Linux Audio does for Mandrake users at ECMC. Planet CCRMA was first "officially" released in September 14th, 2001 with an internal announcement at CCRMA (but the name itself predates the public package collection, I "borrowed" it from Juan Reyes' very helpful guide to the CCRMA Linux world of the same name, which became available to ccrmalites on July 2001). The original release did not use apt, apt support and the accompaining public repository were added at the end of 2001 - that finally made it _really_ easy to install and mantain. Most of the original packages supported, at that time, oss, alsa 0.5 and 0.9 drivers! The actual environment it mirrors (linux based music/audio workstations being used for daily work at CCRMA) predates the initial public release of Planet CCRMA by a long time, I've been mantaining linux around here since the end of '96 or so... well, hmmm, maybe at that time it was not _that_ usable :-) Sorry for the historical disgression :-) -- Fernando