Alessio's PPA Natty - 2.6.37-11.25~ppa1 - OK

[Asmo Koskinen]

So installed Alessio's 2.6.37-11.25~ppa1 for Natty - it is OK for me.

NVidia (dual screen) works.

Here is kernel.

studio at ubuntu-studio:~$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu-studio 2.6.37-11-lowlatency #25~ppa1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT Thu 
Dec 23 07:40:56 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
studio at ubuntu-studio:~$

Here is jackd with M-Audio Delta 66.

studio at ubuntu-studio:~$ /usr/bin/jackd -m -dalsa -r44100 -p128 -n3
jackdmp 1.9.7
Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others.
Copyright 2004-2010 Grame.
jackdmp comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details
no message buffer overruns
no message buffer overruns
JACK server starting in realtime mode with priority 10
control device hw:0
control device hw:0
audio_reservation_init
Acquire audio card Audio0
creating alsa driver ... hw:0|hw:0|128|3|44100|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit
control device hw:0
Using ALSA driver ICE1712 running on card 0 - M Audio Delta 66 at 
0x10c0, irq 22
configuring for 44100Hz, period = 128 frames (2.9 ms), buffer = 3 periods
ALSA: final selected sample format for capture: 32bit integer little-endian
ALSA: use 3 periods for capture
ALSA: final selected sample format for playback: 32bit integer little-endian
ALSA: use 3 periods for playback

Here is jackd with Echo AudioFire 4.

studio at ubuntu-studio:~$ /usr/bin/jackd -m -dfirewire -r44100 -p128 -n3
jackdmp 1.9.7
Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others.
Copyright 2004-2010 Grame.
jackdmp comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details
no message buffer overruns
no message buffer overruns
JACK server starting in realtime mode with priority 10
libffado 2.999.0- built Nov  1 2010 21:44:06

Ardour2 works with both audio interfaces.

Here is some lines from 'ffado-diag'.

=== CHECK ===
  Base system...
   kernel version............ 2.6.37-11-lowlatency
FIXME: implement test for RT kernel
    RT patched............... False
   old 1394 stack present.... False
   old 1394 stack loaded..... False
   old 1394 stack active..... False
   new 1394 stack present.... True
   new 1394 stack loaded..... True
   new 1394 stack active..... True
   /dev/raw1394 node present. False

=== REPORT ===
FireWire kernel drivers:

The new FireWire kernel stack is loaded.
This stack is not supported by FFADO. Please use the old stack.


Happy New Year Alessio!

Best Regards Asmo Koskinen.