I have a maestro3 in a laptop which is behaving funnily. It works OK through oss emulation (eg. xmms), but if I try to use aplay, ecasound or jack I get big overruns. lspci shows:
02:03.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1983S Maestro-3i PCI Audio Accelerator (rev 10) Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 00e6 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Step ping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 32 (500ns min, 6000ns max) Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 5 Region 0: I/O ports at dc00 [size=256] Region 1: Memory at f6ffe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- If I run jackd -p 1024 I see: alsa_pcm: xrun of 2664 frames, (55.500 msecs) alsa_pcm: xrun of 4776 frames, (99.500 msecs) alsa_pcm: xrun of 2816 frames, (58.667 msecs) alsa_pcm: xrun of 4776 frames, (99.500 msecs) alsa_pcm: xrun of 2792 frames, (58.167 msecs) alsa_pcm: xrun of 4832 frames, (100.667 msecs) ... And if I run at 2048 I see: alsa_pcm: xrun of 4648 frames, (96.833 msecs) alsa_pcm: xrun of 8616 frames, (179.500 msecs) alsa_pcm: xrun of 4648 frames, (96.833 msecs) alsa_pcm: xrun of 8672 frames, (180.667 msecs) alsa_pcm: xrun of 4656 frames, (97.000 msecs) alsa_pcm: xrun of 8672 frames, (180.667 msecs) alsa_pcm: xrun of 4656 frames, (97.000 msecs) ... aplay quits after a fraction of a second with a xrun error. It works fine with the native oss driver in 2.4.7. Cheers, Steve _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel