Hi Kai, thank you. You are right: my ide-dma is turned off. I only activated it in the SUSE setup, but I've never check if it is really switched on. Unfortunately I can not turn on the dma:
linux:/home/woody # hdparm -m 8 -d 1 -u 1 -c 1 /dev/hda /dev/hda: setting 32-bit IO_support flag to 1 setting multcount to 8 setting unmaskirq to 1 (on) setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted multcount = 8 (on) IO_support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq = 1 (on) using_dma = 0 (off) Ok, this is probably because I've bought a brandnew motherboard with a brandnew chipset (VIA KT400). So I will seek around for a dma solution. Anyway, I tried again ecasound: woody@linux:~> ecasound -z:db -z:intbuf -i alsa,ice_spdif -o test.wav **************************************************************************** * ecasound v2.0.4 (C) 1997-2001 Kai Vehmanen * **************************************************************************** (eca-chainsetup) Using double-buffer of 100000 sample frames. (eca-chainsetup) Enabling extra buffering on realtime devices. - [ Chainsetup/Enabling audio inputs ] ------------------------------------- (eca-audio-objects) Audio object "alsa", mode "read". (audio-io) Format: s16_le, channels 2, srate 44100, interleaved. - [ Chainsetup/Enabling audio outputs ] ------------------------------------ (eca-audio-objects) Audio object "test.wav", mode "read/write". (audio-io) Format: s16_le, channels 2, srate 44100, interleaved. - [ Engine/Init - mixmode "simple" ] --------------------------------------- (eca-main) Prefilling i/o buffers. (audioio-alsa3) warning! capture overrun - samples lost! Break was at least 7.60 ms long. (audioio-alsa3) warning! capture overrun - samples lost! Break was at least 215.45 ms long. (audioio-alsa3) warning! capture overrun - samples lost! Break was at least 0.03 ms long. - [ Engine/Exiting ] ------------------------------------------------------- (audioio-alsa3) WARNING! While reading from ALSA-pcm device C0D0, there were 3 overruns. That was only 1 Minute sampling. Sometimes I get up to 500ms. That looks strange to me. Mmmh, I should really hurry up getting my dma to work. 215ms!!! But thank you very much Mark ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
