[PlanetCCRMA] Audigy Latency Issues

[Benjamin Hardy]

A set a new user account, and turn off some kde
services and toned down all the special gui effects.
Then I made sure my audigy got a irq 10 by itself.
Then I set latency to 512 on jack. Much better
performance, even on kde.

my rebirth stuff is still coming along, I'll get some
sound samples online some time to compare maybe.

--- Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:

> Benjamin,
>    Hi & wecome.
> 
>    As an ex-KDE user I can tell you I had a huge
> number of xrun
> problems with that Window manager the last time I
> used it. (Over 3
> years ago now) In leaving KDE I tried Gnome which
> didn't work much
> better at the time and finally settled on fluxbox
> for a couple of
> years. fluxbox is one os a number of very light
> weight WM's out there
> - fluxbox, openbox, blackbox, etc. are all probably
> very good options
> for Linux audio, but may be far too minimalistic for
> someone just
> coming over from Windows. A number of LAU types
> running Ardour, etc.,
> use it as did I for quite awhile.
> 
>    Today I'm a Gnome user and am mostly pretty
> happy. It has a
> reasonable mixture of iconish things like Windows
> would but runs far
> fewer processes than KDE. You might give Gnome a
> try.
> 
>    It's also possible that you're looking at some
> sort of machine
> configuration issue also. We could look into that if
> you continue to
> have problems after trying some different WM's.
> 
> Good luck,
> Mark
> 
> P.S. - no help from me on the ReBirth/Rosegarden
> question.
> 
> On 9/2/05, Benjamin Hardy <drycellbattery@yahoo.ca>
> wrote:
> > I'm not at my computer right now, but I've had a
> heck
> > of a time getting my computer running without
> xruns.
> > I'm running an athlon xp2600 with 1.5gig ram, ati
> > radeon 9200se, audigy, 200 gig hard drive, and a
> dvd
> > burner. I'm using kde 3.4 but I also have xfce
> 4.2,
> > qjackctl reports xruns on both desktops. Normally
> I
> > run rosegarden, zynaddsubfx, and hydrogen. I hook
> up a
> > yamaha usb midi keyboard too. I can't remember the
> > number of xruns off hand right now but it's alot,
> and
> > audio gets distorted. I vaguely remember someone
> > saying that an audigy card is limited to a latency
> > setting of 512 but it's not positive. Are there
> any
> > audigy users here that have had to really struggle
> to
> > get decent performance out it? I wish I could
> upgrade
> > to a maudio card now, but college life in Toronto
> > prohibits that. Oh, my mainboard allows me to have
> > reasonable control over my irq and pci latency
> > settings. My card is on irq 10 by itself and all
> cards
> > latency are set to 64.
> > 
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