Re: [Alsa-user] skipping with ice1712

[Robert V. <f1...@gm...>]

On Thursday 27 September 2001 10:50, you wrote:

> > players remotely.  With latest ALSA cvs, it is *almost* perfect, but I
> > get a dropout about once a minute or so.  They are very short, but I
> > can't use this card for recording until I can be certain that I will get
> > a clean file.  So, for now, I have to boot window$ in order to record.
> >
> > It is frustrating, because ALSA support for the card is so very
> > exceptional otherwise.
>
> You need implement probably double buffering scheme with minimum sample
> copying to clean record on slower hardware (try ecasound). It doesn't have
> anything related with the sound drivers but overall system performance.
>
> Don't forget that we're always using 10 channels (it's 5 times more than
> standard stereo cards). On the other hand, if anyone implements better
> optimization code for such schemes to the kernel's OSS emulation code, the
> behaviour can be better.

I gather that 0.9.0beta7 is not a good choice. Is there going to be a beta8 
release soon (I don't want to mess with cvs) or is there an earlier version 
in which this driver performed better? Should I downgrade to 0.9.0beta4 or 
0.5.10b (these are available as Debian packages)?