Greetings, I've moved on to testing some audio performance. First results are very encouraging, especially with the on-board nVidia HDA chipset. I can get latency to ~8 msecs with 0 xruns while playing demos in Hydrogen. However, I've also built Ardour3 and will use the system for some tests of that program. Further stress tests will include Csound 5.10 and the AVSynthesis program, a combination that requires high-performance audio and video subsystems.
Some bad news: The mic input for the HDA produces only howling static, no matter if the mixer is set to dock, external, or internal mic. IIRC there's a switch for this chipset that alters the function on the hardware input jack, I'll see what more I can find about it and of course welcome any & all advice re: the HDA. My UA25 can't seem to perform reliably with less than 23 msecs latency. I've tried what I think has been every combination of numbers, but it will produce an xrun stream instantly once I bring the settings to a lower latency. I'm still researching this problem too. The touchpad was problematic and required a fix in xorg.conf (I want it off all the time). The system's nv driver doesn't like my on-board GeForce 8200M. Sometimes I got 800x600 but more frequently the video would default to 640x480 in vesa mode. After some tricky tricks I was able to install nVidia's binary driver, which works fine and now gives me excellent graphics on the machine (an HP G60-series notebook). I'd really like to get better performance from the UA25, so if anyone is using one with 64 Studio 3.0 please let me know what settings are working best for you. As always, vast thanks to the development team for this release. So far, so good. :) Best, dp _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
