I just wanted to inform that I have changed the cards with SoundBlaster
4.1 Digital (driver snd-ens1371) and they are working together like a
charm!
It has also been a nice opportunity to test the new Mandrake Linux 9.0
which comes bundled with the latest alsa drivers.
Thanks,
Franc
On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 10:41, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> On 19 Sep 2002, Francesco Rossi wrote:
>
> > I believe it may sound weird, but I have successfully ran 3 cards
> > recording at 32.000 Hz each stereo, 16 bits. I left it running for
> > 24hours to check if it was just luck and it never crashed!
> >
> > The configuration I have used with three cards sums up to 384K per
> > second running on the PCI bus.
> >
> > Now my test continues and I have added another two cards, reaching the
> > limit of my slots, 5 cards.
> >
> > When I start the arecord on all of them, it doesn't crash, but it's
> > recording at 8000 Hz 8bits mono by default.
> >
> > I then tried running arecord at 16000 Hz, stereo, 16 bits, and it
> > crashed when I started the 5th card.
> >
> > What's weird is that with this configuration on the bus we should have
> > only 320k per second.
> >
> > It appears to me that it is crashing when I am increasing the summed
> > sample rate. But then it doesn't make sense because 320k is less than
> > 384k.
> >
> > Do you have any idea?
>
> Note that ESS Solo1 hardware is not very good. We have several workarounds
> in our driver to fix the wrong hardware behaviour. Perhaps, it could have
> more design problems so it eats more bus bandwidth than necessary. Try
> another hardware.
>
> Jaroslav
>
> -----
> Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
> ALSA Project http://www.alsa-project.org
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