[Ardour-Users] Which distro best supports Ardour using the Delta 44 (ICE1712)?

[Paul Coccoli]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
<nando at ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote:
> On 03/20/2011 07:06 PM, Bill Sack wrote:
>>
>> i was going to suggest pulseaudio too - ice1712 support has been
>> rock-solid in alsa (and jack) for a long time. i use planetccrma&
>> fedora and a delta44 and have not had a problem after i've gotten rid
>> of pulseaudio.
>> do a search for
>> "<your-distro>  disable pulseaudio"
>
> We're running ice1712 (delta 66 + OmniIO box) with pulseaudio with no
> problems.
>
> We do use a workaround (find it attached) to get pa to properly use the
> delta 66 (this has been an issue for a long time with pa and alsa mutually
> pointing fingers and nobody really fixing it). This is also a problem for
> high channel count rme cards, a similar workaround fixes that as well.
>
> -- Fernando

I've been a Fedora/PlanetCCRMA user for years, and I always recommend
it.  Fernando does an excellent job, and more and more packages seem
to be moving into Fedora proper.

Fernando - I have a different workaround that I got from Red Hat
bugzilla 499435 that involves patching ALSA's ICE1712.conf.  Does your
workaround make the other one unnecessary?  Your looks cleaner.