>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? tim _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel