>Well, I tried restarting the alsasound and that did not fix it at all. >Granted, I was also trying to use cmixplay command which most likely >invokes rme card via oss emulation, and I've heard that oss emulation is >a bit flaky. So, I did end up having to restart the machine to get the >sound back in a workable state.
if you are using oss-emulation, all bets are off until you can demonstrate that you get the same behaviour with alsa native programs. there is a *lot* of untested code in the oss emulation/alsa-lib side of things, especially regarding conversion to 24-in-32 bit samples and non-interleaved streams. how are you using oss-emulation? if you're just opening /dev/dspN and expecting it to work, i'll be very surpised if this works (but happy if it does). perhaps abramo or someone else with a hammerfall could comment on whether they've gotten this kind of access to work ... >As far as the ardour is concerned, when I start it with -D rme9652 -i 8 >-o 8 flags, and press play it only plays a quick "click-like" snippet of >a sound and immediately stops (no xruns reported). Why is this happening >(I am using the 4-6 days old CVS version)? no idea. your description sort of implies you can record with ardour ... or did you just insert a pre-existing soundfile? >I've already posted my asound.state file, so you can look there for any >clues. unfortunately, that file doesn't contain anything relevant to the problem you're describing. the problems you are having are either in the OSS emulation code in ALSA or caused by subtle h/w issues that we don't fully understand, or both. >Also, I am using latest ALSA 0.9.beta10a or whatever its name is. that's good. >Finally, does anyone know if Hammerfall's driver can mix streams in >hardware like SBlive! does? the hammerfall cannot do this. the hammerfall-DSP can do matrix routing of signals between channels, but it does not mix software streams down to a channel. >I've also found an OSS version of the rme hammerfall driver (written by >Gunther Geiger), and I do not mean to instigate a flame war by posting >this, but am just wondering if anyone tried that one out (since it may >be more compatible with RTCmix)? gunther did not write that driver, winfried rietsch did. winfried's version predates my ALSA driver, and it is both simpler and missing some important data that i got from RME later on. it is also significantly less efficient than the ALSA driver unless you hack it because OSS does not allow for non-interleaved streams (meaning all I/O has to be interleaved by the app then de-interleaved by the driver). i would note in passing that there are people in the SF bay area who are prepared to pay US$600-$1000 to have machines set up to run linux audio software. its not a trivial thing to do, despite what you may hope for and might have read. in fact, its no more or less trivial than getting windows/macos setup for proper operation with audio software. --p _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
