On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Tim Goetze wrote: > >from the driver source, it would appear an issue with whether the card > >is using 16 or 8 bit DMA. if its using 8 bit DMA, you don't get > >S16_LE, which is one of the two formats Ardour can use (S32_LE being > >the other) > > > >it appears that there is a control for the card that sets the DMA > >mode; alsactl or amixer or aset should set/display it. its called > >"16-bit DMA allocation". its not quite clear to me how it works. > > [/usr/src/ardour] cat /proc/dma > 1: SoundBlaster - 8bit > 4: cascade > 5: SoundBlaster - 16bit > > and in /etc/asound.state i find: > > state.awe64 { > control.1 { > comment.access 'read write' > comment.type ENUMERATED > comment.item.0 Auto > comment.item.1 Playback > comment.item.2 Capture > iface PCM > name '16-bit DMA Allocation' > value Auto > } > [...] > } > > so shouldn't the driver silently turn 16bit dma on if it wasn't already?
It's the auto value. You can also prefer to have 16-bit playback or capture. Jaroslav ----- Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SuSE Linux http://www.suse.com ALSA project http://www.alsa-project.org _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel