Re: [Alsa-devel] rme 9632 crackling when sound 0db

2004-04-13 Thread Joachim Deguara
The good news: you don't have a driver problem! But it sounds like you have a Wordclock problem. Namely, your rme 9632 has a different clock than your playback device (D/A) and they are not in Sync. Check the setting for who is (and should be) Wordclock Master and take adjust accordingly.

[Alsa-devel] rme 9632 crackling when sound 0db

2004-04-12 Thread Ed Wildgoose
Hi, I'm running kernel 2.6.5-mm1 with built-in alsa drivers. Also, v 1.04 of the various alsa utils, etc. I'm playing (for example) Dido - No Angel, track Isobel, and according to the hdspmixer tool, at the end of the track the drums have transients that go greater than 0db, and this causes

Re: [Alsa-devel] rme 9632 crackling when sound 0db

2004-04-12 Thread Ed Wildgoose
You can also simulate this simply by turning up the mixer controls so that normal music starts to clip. Same effect. At risk of creating noise. Further experimentation shows that you need to set the output levels to +4db in hdspconf for this crackling to occur. So in fairness this could