[ardour-users] Problem with playback

Jürgen Schöneberg jschoeni at gmx.net
Sat Sep 16 14:49:34 PDT 2006


Thank you again!

The soundcard is just a cheap Soundblaster 16

thanks for your help.

Juergen


On Saturday 16 September 2006 23:16, Sampo Savolainen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> That looks okay. ext3 is a good choice, dma is enabled and your jackd
> parameters aren't anything too stressing. Have you tried other period
> sizes and nperiods? you could try switching to 3 or 4 periods and see if
> there is any change.
>
> btw. Which soundcard is that?
>
>   Sampo
>
> PS. when answering to posts on a mailing-list, it's customary to use the
> "reply to all" function, so that your reply is sent to the whole list
> and not just the person who wrote the email you are replying to. That
> way you get more coverage for your issue and the data you are providing.
>
> On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 21:33 +0200, Jürgen Schöneberg wrote:
> > Hej!
> > I run demudi.
> >
> > here some data:
> >
> > file system: /dev/hdb6       /home           ext3    defaults        0   
> >    2
> >
> > dma seems to be enabled:
> >
> > demudi:/home/harpo# hdparm -v /dev/hdb
> >
> > /dev/hdb:
> >  multcount    =  0 (off)
> >  IO_support   =  0 (default 16-bit)
> >  unmaskirq    =  0 (off)
> >  using_dma    =  1 (on)
> >  keepsettings =  0 (off)
> >  readonly     =  0 (off)
> >  readahead    = 256 (on)
> >  geometry     = 24792/255/63, sectors = 398297088, start = 0
> >
> > jackd:
> > /usr/bin/jackd -R -dalsa -dhw:0 -r48000 -p1024 -n2
> >
> > Thanks for your help!
> >
> >
> > Juergen
> >
> > On Saturday 16 September 2006 11:11, you wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 16:59 +0200, Jürgen Schöneberg wrote:
> > > > 12 tracks + 1 for master
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ardour 0.99.3
> > >
> > > Twelve tracks should be a breeze for ardour on almost any system. Do
> > > you have DMA enabled for your disks? On which filesystem is the
> > > session? What are your parameters for jackd?
> > >
> > >  Sampo



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