On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 20:53 +0200, Dominique Michel wrote: > Le Fri, 09 Jun 2006 11:39:27 +0200, > Takashi Iwai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > > > At Thu, 8 Jun 2006 23:47:45 +0200, > > Dominique Michel wrote: > > > > > > Le Thu, 08 Jun 2006 12:46:21 +0200, > > > Takashi Iwai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > > > > > > > At Sat, 3 Jun 2006 00:42:49 +0200, > > > > Dominique Michel wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Le Fri, 2 Jun 2006 15:34:43 +0200, > > > > > Dominique Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > > > > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > > > > > I have an audigy2, run a 2.6.16-rt22 kernel and the alsa drivers > > > > > > from this kernel. So, the right driver for this card is emu10k1. > > > > > > > > > > > > When I load a soudfont of 61 Mb in the card, asxfload -M tell me > > > > > > att I have about 70Mb left. The biggest font I can load is about > > > > > > 131Mb. > > > > > > My problem is at I want to load per default a 238 Mb soudfont in > > > > > > the card. I have 1.5Gb ram in the box. Is it a way to load it in > > > > > > the card? > > > > > > I rtfm, but I don't find anything. The audigy need unfragmented > > > > > > memory to load a soundfont. Is it a way to reserve a amount of > > > > > > unfragmented memory for this card at boot time? > > > > > > > > > > > > I see on the alsa website at the driver for my card have changed > > > > > > with the last alsa drivers. > > > > > > > > > > Not true. No matter, I just installed the last stable version of all > > > > > the alsa packages and get exactly the same result with asfxload. > > > > > > > > You need to increase the value of max_buffer_size module option. > > > > The default is 128MB. See ALSA-Configuration.txt. > > > > > > > > > > > > Takashi > > > > > > Thank you for the answer. > > > I added "options snd-emu10k1 max_buffer_size=256 max_synth_voices=256" in > > > /etc/modules.d/alsa and I can load and use the soundfont. > > > But when doing > > > > > > # cat /proc/asound/card0/wavetableD1 > > > Device: Emu10k1 > > > Ports: 4 > > > Addresses: 17:0 17:1 17:2 17:3 > > > Use Counter: 0 > > > Max Voices: 64 > > > Allocated Voices: 0 > > > Memory Size: 268435456 > > > Memory Available: 26109738 > > > Allocated Blocks: 1716 > > > SoundFonts: 1 > > > Instruments: 9002 > > > Samples: 1715 > > > Locked Instruments: 9002 > > > Locked Samples: 1715 > > > > > > it show at I still have only 64 voices. > > > Is it normal? > > > > Yes. Emu10k1 has max 64 voices playable at the same time. > > > What is the meaning of this option if the card have 64 hardware voices and > the default for the module is 64 voices? I don't see why we can want less as > this default value, but maybe at I am wrong- >
Because those 64 voices are shared between the wavetable synth and PCM. Lee > Best, > Dominique > > > > > > I have other questions too. Is it a limitation beside the amount of ram > > > in my system with max_buffer_size? > > > > The hardware limitation is 2GB (or 1GB? I forgot). > > > > > Is it other limitation such as hardare limitation with this card? > > > > The kernel might be not able to allocate the memory if you have > > already used for other purposes. > > > > > > Takashi > > > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-user mailing list > Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
