Re: [Jackit-devel] Re: [linux-audio-user] jackd and usb 1.1 audio on i386 non-functional
3 Mar
2006
3 Mar
'06
6:02 a.m.
Quoting Lee Revell <rlrevell(a)joe-job.com>om>:
On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 11:33 +0200, Sampo Savolainen
wrote:
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.
Sampo
Quoting Clemens Ladisch
<clemens(a)ladisch.de>de>:
LAU to
ask?
These are standard, well known error codes,
see /usr/include/linux/errno.h Lee A. Azzarello wrote:
Why doesn't jack tell the user this, why did Clemens need to post on ----- Clemens Ladisch <clemens(a)ladisch.de>
wrote:
cannot submit datapipe for urb 4, err = -28
28 = ENOSPC (not enough bandwidth) 
3 Mar
3 Mar
2:37 p.m.
New subject: [Jackit-devel] Re: [linux-audio-user] jackd and usb 1.1 audio on i386 non-functional
On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 12:02 +0200, Sampo Savolainen wrote:
Quoting Lee Revell <rlrevell(a)joe-job.com>om>:
We don't KNOW what's wrong beyond "not enough bandwidth".
Lee
On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 11:33 +0200, Sampo
Savolainen wrote:
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. Quoting Clemens Ladisch
<clemens(a)ladisch.de>de>:
LAU to
ask?
These are standard, well known error codes,
see /usr/include/linux/errno.h Lee A. Azzarello wrote:
> ----- Clemens Ladisch <clemens(a)ladisch.de> wrote:
> cannot submit datapipe for urb 4, err = -28
28 = ENOSPC (not enough bandwidth)
Why doesn't jack tell the user this, why did Clemens need to post on
5:09 p.m.
New subject: [Jackit-devel] Re: [linux-audio-user] jackd and usb 1.1 audio on i386 non-functional
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. :)
--
Sampo Savolainen <v2(a)iki.fi>
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".
5:20 p.m.
New subject: [Jackit-devel] Re: [linux-audio-user] jackd and usb 1.1 audio on i386 non-functional
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". 
11:24 p.m.
New subject: [Jackit-devel] Re: [linux-audio-user] jackd and usb 1.1 audio on i386 non-functional
On Friday 03 March 2006 13:18, Lee Revell wrote:
On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 12:02 +0200, Sampo Savolainen
wrote:
Then why not report "not engouh bandwidth" to the user?
Quoting Lee Revell <rlrevell(a)joe-job.com>om>:
We don't KNOW what's wrong beyond "not enough bandwidth".
Lee On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 11:33 +0200, Sampo
Savolainen wrote:
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. Quoting Clemens Ladisch
<clemens(a)ladisch.de>de>:
> Lee A. Azzarello wrote:
> > ----- Clemens Ladisch <clemens(a)ladisch.de> wrote:
> > cannot submit datapipe for urb 4, err = -28
>
> 28 = ENOSPC (not enough bandwidth)
Why doesn't jack tell the user this, why did Clemens need to
post on
LAU to ask?
These are standard, well known error codes,
see /usr/include/linux/errno.h
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