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The ice1712 driver is used for sound cards that use the Envy24 chipset. These include several models from Terratec and M-Audio (formerly Midiman). Such cards are generally professional quality multi-track sound cards.

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Module options

Sound card options:

description: "ICEnsemble ICE1712 (Envy24)"
author: "Jaroslav Kysela "
license: "GPL"
parm: index int array (min = 1, max = 8), description "Index value for ICE1712 soundcard."
parm: id string array (min = 1, max = 8), description "ID string for ICE1712 soundcard."
parm: enable int array (min = 1, max = 8), description "Enable ICE1712 soundcard."
parm: omni int array (min = 1, max = 8), description "Enable Midiman M-Audio Delta Omni I/O support." 
parm: cs8427_timeout int array (min = 0, max = ?), description "Timeout for initialization of SPDIF. Lower values give faster playback response on OSS but might leave SPDIF uninitialized"

Notes

  1. Midiman cards consistently get good reports for sound quality and are recommended often as a good choice between price and professionalism.
  2. Many but not all users complain about sound glitches. This may be due to the cards being IRQ hungry.

There is a special control panel and mixer program called envy24control which allows you to set up and use your ice1712-based sound card. envy24control is contained in the alsa-tools package. A patch for envy24control to use GTK+ 2.0 is available here. The following cards use the ice1712 driver. Info taken from ALSA Project, 1 December 2004:

User comments

Z421 wrote on 2007-02-20: According to these sound glitches, i wan't you to say, that this was for me, on a m-audio1010lt, a problem in the bios. The option, which i had to disable, was "PCI Delay Transaction", to get this really disturbing glitches away. My mainboard is a asus a7v880, whith a via kt880/via vt8237. Also i often heard, that it is useful to set the "PCI Busmaster Waitstate" to a higher number than it is bios default. IRQ sharing is also sometimes a problem, and the "PCI Burst Mode" is also a good tip, but in my bios i don't have this option.

Westwood wrote on 2009-05-03: I also encountered irq problems with my MAudio Audiophile 2496. Setting the PCI Latency Timer in BIOS higher helped, but not all my glitches went away (especially while using cpu frequency scaling). Since this was the only adjustable option in BIOS I had to find another solution. Looking at /proc/interrupts I saw that ICE1712, nvidia onboard graphic and the nic almost only ask the 2nd cpu for an interrupt:

19:        101      38496   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ICE1712
21:        469     312415   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ehci_hcd:usb1, nvidia
1272:      1250    451983   PCI-MSI-edge      eth0

So I did "echo 00000001 >/proc/irq/19/smp_affinity", which basically tells the system to only ask the 1st cpu for interrupts on IRQ 19, and guess what - the occasional sound glitches are gone! Hope this helps others facing the same issue.

Antgel wrote on 2009-05-10: I'm using a M-Audio Delta 1010. I have no .asoundrc as I use the 1010 with jackd. However, I was confused as to why I would get sample rate errors when trying to play through the card (2 on my system) using normal alsa programs e.g.

$ alsaplayer -o alsa -d hw:2,0
error on set_format SND_PCM_FORMAT_S16

The solution is to use plughw: instead of hw: - thanks to Demian Martin and Vedran Miletic on the mailing list http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.alsa.user/32662.

See also

Retrieved from "http://alsa.opensrc.org/Ice1712"

Category: ALSA modules