[CLUE-Tech] SB-Live latency issues (yuck)

[Dave Hahn]

The Live! card has worked well for me, but under the 2.4.16/17 kernel. 
Have you looked at the open source support for the Live from creative?
Not sure what they have for 2.2.x, but, it is my understanding, that
they have code available at their site.  I'll check and see if I have
the URL around here somewhere.
On Mon, 2001-12-31 at 14:23, Dave Price wrote:

    gang,
    
    After tolerating pathetic performance from a SB Live (emu10k1) sound
    card for a LONG time under kernel 2.2.19, I finally got around to
    dropping a (cheap) ensoniq 5880 pci card into the same box, and
    configuring drivers for both cards as modules under kernel 2.4.14 and
    2.4.16 (.16 with and without low-latency patches).
    
    To my dismay, the ensoniq card has NO dropout problems at all, where the
    SB Live has horrible dropouts when playing mp3 files (mpg123).  The
    dropouts occur under light load, and can be triggered by switching
    workspaces or moving a window in blackbox.  The ensoniq card is rock
    solid even when web browsing or downloading LARGE files to the same
    drive as the mp3 files that are playing.
    
    Sadly, the SB Live card work(ed) great under windoze, but i no longer
    run windoze on this box.
    
    Can anyone recommend a reasonably priced PCI sound card that works well
    under linux, and has good recording and playback quality ('near
    audiophile')? ... It seems as thought the emu10k1 has a checkered
    past in the open source world, and the picture does not seems to be
    looking any brighter.
    
    aloha,
    dave
    
    
    
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