From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dominik Stadler Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 09:03:43 +0000 Subject: AW: record overrun Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org Hi! I'm not an insider in sound-driver-stuff, but as far as I know, you can specify a certain amount of memory as DMA-Buffer (in sound-config during kernel-configuration). This amount of memory is used to store incoming sound until it is written to disk. Obviously if your hard-disk is too slow or your machine is too much stressed, the buffer will be too small and will overrun, causing it to be emptied and leave a crack in the sound.=20 You should check if your DMA-Buffer is set to the maximum amount (I think for 2.0.xx no more than 65536 Bytes), and try to decrease the load of your machine during recording. If this doesn't help, your machine is too slow for the desired sampling parameters (sampling rate, number of channels, ..) and therefore you could decrease the quality of your recording to avoid overruns. Dschau.. Dominik -----Urspr=FCngliche Nachricht----- Von: Karsten Patzwaldt [SMTP:kpa@gmx.net] Gesendet am: Dienstag, 8. September 1998 17:16 An: linux-sound@vger.rutgers.edu Betreff: record overrun hi! when i try to record something with my sb16, the kernel gives me 'Sound: Recording overrun' messages. this happens with the 'normal' sb-driver as well as with the oss/free. i use linux 2.0.33, oss/free 3.8 and a normal sb16. please tell me what this means, it sounds terrible when this occurs... thanks in advance, ---=20 Karsten Patzwaldt http://kpa.notrix.de kpa@gmx.net "Wisdom is earned... not given."