a2 zs notebook issues

j0yr3x

chester: ok, now i have the same setup.. with resampling, we'll see

ehm. but "4 voices in kx mixer" what? where??! i didnt see it

Chester01

when you run 24 bit, it uses 4 voices instead of 2, right click on the kx icon in the tray, click on kx mixer, then on the left side of the window that pops up, there will be icons, ones a speaker, ones a chip with arrows ones a speaker with a red dot (recording)... at the bottom, there are the 'vu' bars, click that one. if you are playing audio from foobar @ @ 24 bit and 48 khz they should be green bars with red dots at the top

Chester01

if you were using 16 bit, it would show two red bars rather than 4 green bars.

Chester01

has it been working?

j0yr3x

firstly.. it seems good.. but i've played some videos while foobar was playing sounds & bleeep returns! after this everything bleeeps, also yours 24b-rabbit config so.. im back on fresh creative beta drivers, they are stable.... i'm using pc mainly for listening and producing sounds, so stability is at first place!! kX definately needs more debug

Chester01

you were playing the videos with 24 bit 48 khz? didnt know you can play videos through foobar... perhaps the videos were not running through kernel streaming?

EDIT: once 'the voices' are screwed up, they have to be reset to it would make sense that the 24bit 48khz kernel streaming audio would be messed up also... i believe you can configure winamp to output video with kernel streaming, 24 bit and sample rate conversion (perhaps even rabbit as you call it )

fonling

can my a2zsNB output 5.1 or 7.1 thru optical cable to my receiver? i've got the newest kX installation

samplehunter

Quite late, but...

It's likely the Intel Speedstep thing, which causes the garbled XTRAM Effects. Turn off Speedstep in CMOS Setup or use Rightmark CPU Clock Utility with CPU-HALT on idle option checked. (was the solution for me) Then you'll have clear Reverbs again. This might be the reason why this doesn't occur on cheap laptops.

Chester01

be careful when disabling CPU-HALT; dont put your laptop on your laptop for long this will cause alot more heat to be produced.

Eugene Gavrilov

no, optical does only transfer stereo data. encoded 5.1 dolby digital signal from a dvd movie can theoretically be passed through, but this function has never been tested

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speedstep: yes, this is a known issue with most pcmcia adapters

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samplehunter

With my Laptop (Samsung Q35) there is no big difference in temperature. The only disadvantage is, that windows Taskmanager always reports 100% CPU Load, because of the two RMClockHLT Processes. These are running in Idle-Priority and run a HLT/NOP Loop for each core if there's nothing else to do.
Without these Processes you can hear the CPU "sizzling" when it's idle. Then it switches on and off unused parts in Hardware. Maybe this affects a bit the memory- or PCMCIA-Timing which is vital for XTRAM-based effects like reverbs and delays. I recognized that this distorted sound (and the CPU sizzling) goes away, when it has to work on something.
The alternative is to swich off Speedstep in the CMOS Setup. But this consumes even more energy and you can't switch it on again until next reboot. With this RMClock HLT Thing you can simply kill the Processes or quit the Program if you finished work with your A2 ZS.
BTW: Interestingly you can even quit kxMixer and safely remove the Card, which was impossible with the CL-Drivers. They didn't release the Card anymore and if you removed it - Boom, Bluescreen!
Very nice that with Eugenes drivers you can finally use the Card the way it was intended for and it gets hot-pluggable.