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.
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
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