[PlanetCCRMA] little tome about the emi2|6

[Mark Knecht]

Ryan,
   Did Takashi explain the use of '-p 480'? I've very curious about
that.

   How does one make an informed choice? Maybe it's becasue I do not
understand the 'emi's 48' comment? 

Clueless,
Mark


On Sat, 2002-12-28 at 17:51, Ryan Gallagher wrote:
> Dear diary,
> 
> You know the setup;
> 
> pIII600 (overclocked a bit to 660)
> ASUS P3B-F mobo 384mb
> emagic emi 2|6 usb audio interface
> RedHat 8.0 and CCRMA packages
> 
> Ardour jackd and I weren't getting along at all. 
> Latency out of control, jackd -R -d alsa -d hw -p 2048
> kinda helped but I still got xruns.
> 
> Thanks to  Mark Knecht, I changed the pci/usb/emagic
> irq from 5 to 9.  Thanks to Takashi Iwai, I'm using a
> multiple of the emi's 48 for the jackd
> frames-per-period setting.
> 
> jackstart -R -d alsa -d hw -p 480
> 
> Now jackd, ardour and I are making great music
> together.  I hope others can learn from my experience.
> 
> Next challenge; getting all 6 outs to work and
> stopping xruns in xmms etc.
> 
> later-
> -ryan
> 
> =====
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