When I bring my laptop home from the club tonight I'll check the irq allocation and let you know.
Gord----- Original Message ----- From: "Luis Elorza" <luiselorza@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2007 12:52 AM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: ADK laptop owners, soundcards please
you are using a good laptop with a very popular sound card, i'm sure dancing dots will be able to help. i know how it feels but imagine how it is for people who does not have a background in computers or midi or audio and eventually they get to do nice things.it's a matter of getting one soundcard to work and you'll be running.----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Halton" <philhalt@xxxxxxxxxxx>To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 8:31 PM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: ADK laptop owners, soundcards pleaseI haven't yet called DancingDots, but I called ADK today and I swear the guy sounded like he couldn't give a damm and didn't even know the specifics of the laptop system. I got the feeling they just threw it together and called it a DAW.MAudio basically told me to forget about using the Audiophile USB on the system once they looked over the IRQ resource allocations. There suggestion was to try using different USB ports and if that didn't help... I got the same inoperability with the MAudio Audiophile on all USB ports.On my HP laptop, the echo indigo soundcard works like a dreambecause it has sole use of IRQ 17 (probably just the luck of the draw). On the ADK it sounds like its been buried in river mud. Again, IRQ resource allocations seem to be the culpret as the video chipset is hogging all the resources on the IRQ that it shares with the USB and Cardbus. So, the USB ports(where the audiophileUSB soundcard would go), the PC Cardbus (where the echo indigo goes) and the graphics all share the same IRQ 16, and, the graphics always win in resource allocation which leaves the other devices sucking wind. There is graphics acceleration which I suppose could be reduced to free up some resources, but thats not an acceptable solution for the cost.I don't know all this for absolutely sure, but from talking with the techs at MAudio, looking over the system device info, and what I've experienced with both soundcards thus far, its hard to see a bright side.I sure hope you're right Luis, and I'll give it a few days and wait to talk with some people from DancingDots and ADK(again), but right now, from what I've experienced thus far, this isn't a DAW, its aDOG----- Original Message ----- From: "Luis Elorza" <luiselorza@xxxxxxxxx>To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 10:52 PM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: ADK laptop owners, soundcards pleasei guess adk and dancing dots must have good support.did you try calling?be patient every piece of gear is always like a wild untamed horse you have to domesticate.and sometimes it takes a few days. i wish i had bought one of those machines----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Halton" <philhalt@xxxxxxxxxxx>To: "ddots-l" <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 6:54 PM Subject: [ddots-l] ADK laptop owners, soundcards pleaseTo anyone who is using an ADK laptop purchased from ADK (either directly or via dancing dots), please chime in and give me the details of the soundcard you are using.Please be specific as to connection (firewire, USB etc), Brand & model, and any quirky little problems you've encountered. I am having tremendous trouble with this system and am all but determined to return this machine.Please help me to understand the problems I've encountered by giving me details of your successful implementations.As I've been able to determine thus far, the graphics card (Envidia) is stacked on the same IRQ as the Cardbus controller and USB controller and something else I can't remember, and this configuration has made USB soundcard(audiophileUSB) completely unusable, and the cardbus virtually unusable. I don't know if this is a standard configuration, or if the tech guy was having a really bad day.Okay, I'll spare you all the full depth of my disgust... 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