Downgrading, back to Mandrake 10.0
I recently got some new-ish computer gear with hopes that things like more/faster memory, faster bus, higher rpm harddisc and faster processor would help with my audio recording. I didn't have my Mandrake 10.0 disc around and the distro I'm developing isn't quite stable yet, so I though, what the hell, I'll give Mandrake 10.2 (a.k.a. Mandriva Ltd Ed. 2005) a try.
BIG MISTAKE!
I was struck dumb that at the fact that it seems that Mandrake 10.2 is completely broken (at least from my perspective).
Here's a few things that went wrong. I use the jack audio server, I buit it from source. With 10.0 I would run jack with a sample rate of 96khz. No problems on 10.0, xmms and dvd/video players would send audio to it no trouble as well as my music oriented stuff. As of 10.2, I CAN'T run it at this rate, xmms sounds like the chipmunks hijacked it all the audio plays really fast, same with dvd/video and any sample using music tool. Odd as hell. Seems that the sample rate the card is set to by jack is now what everything uses instead of (the way it seems to have worked before) each app sending audio at whatever rate it does and jack serving a mix of all that to the alsa driver so that everything plays at the speed it's supposed to regardless of sample rates (this way jack captures at 96khz and play every sample rate). Also, I use enlightenment DR16. I built it from source and it with all it's dependent e-specific libs are install in my home dir instead of in user. But, with 10.2, enlightenment can no longer "remember" settings. All epplet have to be manually restated, etc..
I'm currently on a mad quest to figure out why this happened, as well as figuring out which versions each Mandrake version is using to make SURE this DOES NOT happen to my distro project.
If any of you geeks out there have any clues or ideas about this issue, please please please chime in.
BIG MISTAKE!
I was struck dumb that at the fact that it seems that Mandrake 10.2 is completely broken (at least from my perspective).
Here's a few things that went wrong. I use the jack audio server, I buit it from source. With 10.0 I would run jack with a sample rate of 96khz. No problems on 10.0, xmms and dvd/video players would send audio to it no trouble as well as my music oriented stuff. As of 10.2, I CAN'T run it at this rate, xmms sounds like the chipmunks hijacked it all the audio plays really fast, same with dvd/video and any sample using music tool. Odd as hell. Seems that the sample rate the card is set to by jack is now what everything uses instead of (the way it seems to have worked before) each app sending audio at whatever rate it does and jack serving a mix of all that to the alsa driver so that everything plays at the speed it's supposed to regardless of sample rates (this way jack captures at 96khz and play every sample rate). Also, I use enlightenment DR16. I built it from source and it with all it's dependent e-specific libs are install in my home dir instead of in user. But, with 10.2, enlightenment can no longer "remember" settings. All epplet have to be manually restated, etc..
I'm currently on a mad quest to figure out why this happened, as well as figuring out which versions each Mandrake version is using to make SURE this DOES NOT happen to my distro project.
If any of you geeks out there have any clues or ideas about this issue, please please please chime in.