On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Frank van de Pol wrote: > The timer frequency I was refering to is the linux kernel scheduling > frequency, ie. the (asm/param.h) HZ constant. Since of 2.5 kernel it is > increased from 100 tot 1000 btw. > Ah.. I thought you were refering to something in the alsa drivers, which was why I was puzzled. I tried changeing the default value of 100 hz to 1024 hz and then 2048 hz and they both worked fine with the kernel supplied 'cmpci mpu401' driver(ie. solve the problem). Probably the 2048 hz was better. There is something wrong with the ALSA 'cmpci mpu401' driver, as it seems to drop bytes.
I reverted back to 100 hz to test your welcome suggestion of cards with good transmission characteristics of which I found an old Ensonic AudioPCI. It worked very well making the above questions on scheduling academic since it has the needed interrupts and a fifo so the card is a keeper, although I did revert back to 1024 hz for the kernel scheduler since I like it better. Thanks for you help. Now I can get back to writing that korg patch editor. Bruce
