Re: Some problems with snd-au8830

[joshk@triplehelix.org (Joshua Kwan)]

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On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 03:22:09PM -0400, Manuel Jander wrote:
> That are hardware error flags. Normally, one "IRQ fifo error" occurrs
> for the first time playback ocurrs. But more than one message of those
> plus the others certainly is odd. I Would try to change the PCI slot. By
> the way, do you mind sending a lspci output, and some general
> information about your system ?

Yeah, I always notice the fifo error when I play for the first time.
There's also usually a large crackle which is kind of bad..

Well, the card is in my last PCI slot. I'll try moving it though.

Here's lspci info:

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (different version?) (rev c1)
0000:00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 1 (rev c1)
0000:00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 4 (rev c1)
0000:00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 3 (rev c1)
0000:00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 2 (rev c1)
0000:00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 5 (rev c1)
0000:00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 ISA Bridge (rev a4)
0000:00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce2 SMBus (MCP) (rev a2)
0000:00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
0000:00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
0000:00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
0000:00:04.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Ethernet Controller (rev a1)
0000:00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AC97 Audio Controler (MCP) (rev a1)
0000:00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 External PCI Bridge (rev a3)
0000:00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IDE (rev a2)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (rev c1)
0000:01:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Aureal Semiconductor Vortex 2 (rev fa)
0000:02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R100 QD [Radeon 7200]

> Cool that you actually got jackd working :P, i never got it working on
> whatever hardware i have tried it (intel8x0, ESS maestro 2e, au8820 and
> au8830). The aureal driver does support any period size power of 2 upto
> 4096 bytes; that includes 1024 (4096 if that where 16bit stereo frames
> instead bytes). Why jackd was unable to set that up ? I guess the error
> message is somewhat wrong; probably some other parameter could not be
> met.

-p512 -P sounds like utter crap, btw. And if I do jackd -d oss, it all
works very nicely.

Would it matter that my .asoundrc is set up for hardware mixing?

pcm.au8830 {
  type hw
  card 0
}

ctl.au8830 {
  type hw
  card 0
}

Thanks for the help so far.

-- 
Joshua Kwan

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