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<DIV><SPAN class=966221815-22122003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Probably because your card doesn't support it.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=966221815-22122003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>For
instance, the RME cards will support buffer sizes as low as 64, but they won't
support anything other than 2 periods. All these cards are different and,
unfortunately, no one has really thought to update the Alsa site to have a nice
table of what parameters each card can accept. That would be pretty cool,
really...</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=966221815-22122003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>-
Mark</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
planetccrma-admin@ccrma.Stanford.EDU
[mailto:planetccrma-admin@ccrma.Stanford.EDU]<B>On Behalf Of
</B>Sonar<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, December 22, 2003 6:56 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
planetccrma@ccrma.Stanford.EDU<BR><B>Subject:</B> [PlanetCCRMA] Alsa and
frames size<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>Hi all,<BR><BR>Why can't I start jack with
less than 512 frames per period?<BR>
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loading driver ..<BR>creating alsa driver ...
hw:0|hw:0|256|2|48000|0|0|nomon|swmeter|rt|32bit<BR>control device
hw:0<BR>configuring for 48000Hz, period = 256 frames, buffer = 2
periods<BR>Couldn't open hw:0 for 32bit samples trying 16bit instead<BR>ALSA:
cannot set period size to 256 frames for capture<BR>ALSA: cannot configure
capture channel<BR>cannot load driver module alsa<BR>
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Can't find anything on that in the archives and you guy's all seems to be able
to set the frames as low as 64!<BR><BR>Starting Jack with qjackctl.
Soundblaster live! with the latest planet kernel on
RH9.<BR><BR>Thanx!<BR>_______________________________________________
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