Re: [Alsa-user] OT: Recommendations for sound recording with SPDIF
Greetings, If you can find one you like with a coaxial sp/dif input (or even just a sp/dif in header), it is a small matter to convert optical to coaxial. If you're handy with soldering, you basically need a photo transistor (toslink receiver) and a few other components ... or if you prefer a finished product, toslink to coax converters are normally around $20, even cheaper if you shop I bit ... I think I paid around $15 for mine, but it's the other way around, coax to toslink. Gordon On 6/8/06, Avuton Olrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm soon to be needing a sound card for recording (24/7) with optical SPDIF. I already have one doing the job, an Audigy2 Platinum, which I could get another one, but I'm looking to see if there's a cheaper alternative, maybe even something that doesn't require a 5 1/4 slot, that would accomplish the same thing. PCI and ALSA/reliability are a must. Thanks for the recommendations, -- avuton -- Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell. ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
Re: [Alsa-user] big soundfont and audigy
At Sat, 3 Jun 2006 00:42:49 +0200, Dominique Michel wrote: Le Fri, 2 Jun 2006 15:34:43 +0200, Dominique Michel [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Hi all, I have an audigy2, run a 2.6.16-rt22 kernel and the alsa drivers from this kernel. So, the right driver for this card is emu10k1. When I load a soudfont of 61 Mb in the card, asxfload -M tell me att I have about 70Mb left. The biggest font I can load is about 131Mb. My problem is at I want to load per default a 238 Mb soudfont in the card. I have 1.5Gb ram in the box. Is it a way to load it in the card? I rtfm, but I don't find anything. The audigy need unfragmented memory to load a soundfont. Is it a way to reserve a amount of unfragmented memory for this card at boot time? I see on the alsa website at the driver for my card have changed with the last alsa drivers. Not true. No matter, I just installed the last stable version of all the alsa packages and get exactly the same result with asfxload. You need to increase the value of max_buffer_size module option. The default is 128MB. See ALSA-Configuration.txt. Takashi ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
Re: [Alsa-user] Polypaudio plugin docs
At Mon, 05 Jun 2006 18:17:30 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: Where are the docs for the ALSA Polypaudio plugin? alsa-plugins/doc/README-polyp Specifically, how do I use it to make ALSA applications network transparent? AFAIK, you can specify server parameter or POLYP_SERVER environment variable. I've not tested it by myself, though... Takashi ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
Re: [Alsa-user] Recording spdif/iec958 on ice1725 terratec 7.1 space
Lee Revell wrote: On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 17:10 +0100, Ian Malone wrote: (Sorry, this must have gone to the list twice. Thought I'd tripped up with subscription) Hi, I'm trying to work out how to record from an S/PDIF input using a Terratec 7.1 Space (Envy24 based card, supported by ICE1724 Alsa driver). It seems that I should be doing something like: $ arecord -D hwplug:0,1 -f cd test.wav But his doesn't seem to be working. Admittedly I tested this in loopback with a cable between SPDIF in and out, I've now got a DAB radio plugged in rather than the loopback. Recording line-in works, as does recording spdif in Windows. the equivalent arecord -D hwplug:0,1 and IEC958 output unmuted. I'll have a go in a while with a different SPDIF source, although my previous attempts didn't get very far: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2006-June/msg00236.html Use arecord -D iec958 (it should do the same thing but it's more readable). I get arecord: set_params:901: Sample format non available unless I do -D plug:iec958 or add -f S32_LE to the command line. Try it with -f dat rather than -f cd. What exactly do you mean by 'it does not work'? That could mean anything - silence, noise, machine crashes, blows up, etc? Except for the cases when it complains about format non available it appears to record, but the resulting .wav contains only silence (checked in audacity, shows a flat line). Happens for -f dat, cd, S32_LE, -D hw:0,1, plughw:0,1, iec958, spdif. I can boot into Windows without doing anything to the hardware and successfully record. -- imalone ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
Re: [Alsa-user] OT: Recommendations for sound recording with SPDIF
On 6/8/06, Gordon McLellan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, If you can find one you like with a coaxial sp/dif input (or even just a sp/dif in header), it is a small matter to convert optical to coaxial. Whoa! I didn't even realize that existed. Found one at http://www.ramelectronics.net/html/audio_toslink_adapters.html . That's great. Hopefully I can record through both my optical and coaxial at the same time on the SB Audigy2. That'll be the end of the research I need to complete. Thanks so much. -- avuton -- Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell. ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
Re: [Alsa-user] Cyrrus Logic Crystal CS4237B to configure
Take the debian unstable linux-source-2.6.16 and alsa 1.0.11 source packages and compile them (for the kernel you can use kernel-package, you can search google for an howto about recompile a kernel in debian/ubuntu and package compilation from debian sources). I tried to do that, and works. Be careful to not use binary packages from Debian, you will probably break something, or they just don't work. Tell me if you want more help :-D Rene Herman ha scritto: Hulin Thibaud wrote: I have now the Ubutu version Dapper 6.06 (related 1st june 2006), with the kernel Linux 2.6.15-23-386. I have the same errors with my old kernel 2.6.12-10 : pnpdump and alsaconf don't fall the soundcard. Well, it's rather amazing, seeing as how your computer (a Pentium 1 laptop) isn't exactly new but I'm looking at 2.6.15 here now and it indeed also has no (PnP-BIOS) support for your onboard CS4236. That support is new to 2.6.16. Look at it this way -- your computer is still so advanced it needs the very latest Linux kernel to function completely. Great isn't it? I asked around, and it appears that Ubuntu does not yet have a 2.6.16 kernel available either. Them releasing with 2.6.15 is in fact a bit strange but nothing I can do about that. I'm really quite reluctant to make you compile a new kernel (or ALSA) yourself though. The added bit in 2.6.16 is just the "works magically" PnP-BIOS support so let's try if we can just enable the thing manually (if needed) and then tell the driver to not use pnp. Your Crystal PNPBIOS devices were 00:0f and 00:10. In the directories: /sys/devices/pnp0/00:0f and /sys/devices/pnp0/00:10 there should be files named "resources". If you do a: cat /sys/devices/pnp0/00:0f/resources does it say "state = disabled" and nothing more? If so, try a: echo auto /sys/devices/pnp0/00:0f/resources It should now look something like (that cat again): state = disabled io 0x534-0x537 io 0x388-0x38b io 0x220-0x22f irq 5 dma 1 dma 0 Then, do a: echo activate /sys/devices/pnp0/00:0f/resources after which that "state = disabled" should have been changed to "state = active". Ie, you should now have something like state = active io 0x534-0x537 *1 io 0x388-0x38b *2 io 0x220-0x22f *3 irq 5 *4 dma 1 *5 dma 0 *6 If it already looked like this before you echoed anything into the resource file, all the better! For 00:10 (the CTRL port) you should, possibly again after echoing that "auto" and "activate" into the resource file, you should have: cat /sys/devices/pnp0/00:10/resources state = active io 0x538-0x53f *7 All still well? If so, we can try loading the driver. I already made you try this with the values as given here, so I'm hoping your values are different and it will work this time. Try: modprobe snd-cs4236 isapnp=0 port=*1 cport=*7 irq=*4 dma1=*5 dma2=*6 substituting the *N items with the values from the resources files as numbered. Did it work? Please? Ah? And with snd-cs4232 and those same parameters instead? If it did work, you'd need to do that same echoing into that resource file that you did on every boot -- you could do this from your "rc.local" startup file if needed. If you didn't need any echoing (ie, your BIOS already actived everything, as is likely) you can just always load the driver with those parameters. To just need a "modprobe snd-cs4236", you can say in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base (I believe that's where ubuntu puts it but I'm not an ubuntu or debian user) options snd-cs4236 isapnp=0 port=*1 cport=*7 irq=*4 dma1=*5 dma2=*6 And a last resort for now: modprobe snd-sb8 port=0x220 irq=5 dma8=1 Hey ! No error ! With xmms, I have music ! But sound is very bad... How can I improve that ? Well, you could play a bit with volumes in ALSA mixer to see if it improves but this is the wrong driver anyway. It's just that the Crystal chip _has_ a soundblaster compatible part so it can be used, but the chrystal driver should be preferred. It is good to know that it does work since that will mean that at least your BIOS has enabled that part of the chip. I'm hoping that with the above things will work. I can imagine it all looks a bit clumsy if you're a new Linux user but due to some weird reason the PnP-BIOS support for your chip was only added very recently and due to some other weird reason Ubuntu is not using 2.6.16 but 2.6.15. As indicated, on 2.6.16 "modprobe snd-cs4232" should be all you need, and alsaconf should be able to figure that all out as well. Rene. ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
Re: [Alsa-user] OT: Recommendations for sound recording with SPDIF
Hi, I am not sure, but AFAIK Optical and coaxial input has one shared input to DSP and I am not sure, if they are independent. Peter Zubaj On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 11:05 -0700, Avuton Olrich wrote: On 6/8/06, Gordon McLellan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, If you can find one you like with a coaxial sp/dif input (or even just a sp/dif in header), it is a small matter to convert optical to coaxial. Whoa! I didn't even realize that existed. Found one at http://www.ramelectronics.net/html/audio_toslink_adapters.html . That's great. Hopefully I can record through both my optical and coaxial at the same time on the SB Audigy2. That'll be the end of the research I need to complete. Thanks so much. ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
Re: [Alsa-user] OT: Recommendations for sound recording with SPDIF
I'm pretty sure you won't be able to do that.. for cards that have both options, they just have a Toslink to Coax converter built on the card, and feed the coax signal into the dsp. you could probably have both sources connected, but not actually use them at the same time. Gordon On 6/8/06, Avuton Olrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whoa! I didn't even realize that existed. Found one at http://www.ramelectronics.net/html/audio_toslink_adapters.html . That's great. Hopefully I can record through both my optical and coaxial at the same time on the SB Audigy2. That'll be the end of the research I need to complete. Thanks so much. -- avuton -- Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell. ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
[Alsa-user] No volume control in FC5
I am trying to get alsa working in a new install of FC5 using an
onboard nvidia nforce2 intel8x0 sound chip and an SP/DIF output. I am
using the same .asoundrc file from my previous FC3 installation that
was working fine. I am using the 2.6.16-1.2122_FC5 kernel and the
1.0.11-4rc2 version of alsa that came with it. I don't remember what
version I was running under FC3.
Unlike most people with sound problems, who have no sound, my sound
works, but it is too loud and nothing I do in alsamixer has any
effect on it. I have disabled the built-in sound in the KDE sound
control panel. I can't find any error messages anywhere that seem to
have anything to do with sound. All the tests I tried from the
various how-to pages seem to indicate that alsa sees the card.
I did notice that the /etc/modprobe.conf file has a remove line but
no install line for snd-intel8x0. Also it has some lines for snd-
mpu401. Is that correct?
alias eth0 forcedeth
alias scsi_hostadapter sata_nv
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c
options snd-card-0 index=0
options snd-intel8x0 index=0
remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 /dev/null 21
|| : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0
alias snd-card-1 snd-mpu401
options snd-card-1 index=1
options snd-mpu401 index=1
remove snd-mpu401 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 1 /dev/null 21
|| : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-mpu401
# nvidia kernel module
alias char-major-195 nvidia-1_0-8762
alias nvidia nvidia-1_0-8762
# ivtv modules setup
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
install lirc_i2c /sbin/modprobe ivtv; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install
lirc_i2c
I was thinking of upgrading to the 1.0.11 final version to see if
that fixed it but I haven't been able to find any RPMs of that one yet.
Thanks for any ideas,
Jamie
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Re: [Alsa-user] No volume control in FC5
On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Jamie Stotz wrote:
I am trying to get alsa working in a new install of FC5 using an
onboard nvidia nforce2 intel8x0 sound chip and an SP/DIF output. I am
using the same .asoundrc file from my previous FC3 installation that
was working fine. I am using the 2.6.16-1.2122_FC5 kernel and the
1.0.11-4rc2 version of alsa that came with it. I don't remember what
version I was running under FC3.
Unlike most people with sound problems, who have no sound, my sound
works, but it is too loud and nothing I do in alsamixer has any
effect on it. I have disabled the built-in sound in the KDE sound
control panel. I can't find any error messages anywhere that seem to
have anything to do with sound. All the tests I tried from the
various how-to pages seem to indicate that alsa sees the card.
I did notice that the /etc/modprobe.conf file has a remove line but
no install line for snd-intel8x0. Also it has some lines for snd-
mpu401. Is that correct?
No idea. Do you have an mpu401 sound card? If not remove those lines-- or
just put a # at the beginning of them.
alias eth0 forcedeth
alias scsi_hostadapter sata_nv
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
This says-- when the system tries to install snd-card-0, install the module
snd-intel8x0.
alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c
options snd-card-0 index=0
options snd-intel8x0 index=0
remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 /dev/null 21
|| : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0
This says when you remove the modules snd-intel8x0, instead run this
little script which saves the soundcard settings.
alias snd-card-1 snd-mpu401
This says you have a second sound card which is a snd-mpu401. YOu may be
trying to affect the volume on the wrong card.
options snd-card-1 index=1
options snd-mpu401 index=1
remove snd-mpu401 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 1 /dev/null 21
|| : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-mpu401
# nvidia kernel module
alias char-major-195 nvidia-1_0-8762
alias nvidia nvidia-1_0-8762
# ivtv modules setup
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
install lirc_i2c /sbin/modprobe ivtv; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install
lirc_i2c
I was thinking of upgrading to the 1.0.11 final version to see if
that fixed it but I haven't been able to find any RPMs of that one yet.
I think you have to get your sound cards straight first.
You have two options, alsamixer -c 0
and alsamixer -c 1
Maybe youshould try both to see which one controls the volume of the sound
you get.
Thanks for any ideas,
Jamie
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Re: [Alsa-user] No volume control in FC5
On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 15:30 -0700, Bill Unruh wrote: I think you have to get your sound cards straight first. You have two options, alsamixer -c 0 and alsamixer -c 1 Maybe youshould try both to see which one controls the volume of the sound you get. Don't touch modprobe.conf, none of this has anything to do with the problem. Your soundcard probably does not have a hardware volume control. Try removing your .asoundrc, does the problem persist? Please post the contents of /proc/asound/card0/codec97#0/ac97#0-0. Lee ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
Re: [Alsa-user] No volume control in FC5
On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Lee Revell wrote: On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 15:30 -0700, Bill Unruh wrote: I think you have to get your sound cards straight first. You have two options, alsamixer -c 0 and alsamixer -c 1 Maybe youshould try both to see which one controls the volume of the sound you get. Don't touch modprobe.conf, none of this has anything to do with the problem. Your soundcard probably does not have a hardware volume control. Sure it could. If he is actually listening to the sound from soundcard 1 and trying to control the volume on soundcard 0 ( the default) it will not work very well. His system seems to have two soundcards and he does not know about it. He has to make sure that he knowns which soundcard is handling the sounds tht he is hearing. Try removing your .asoundrc, does the problem persist? Please post the contents of /proc/asound/card0/codec97#0/ac97#0-0. Lee ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
Re: [Alsa-user] No volume control in FC5
On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 15:45 -0700, Bill Unruh wrote: On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Lee Revell wrote: On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 15:30 -0700, Bill Unruh wrote: I think you have to get your sound cards straight first. You have two options, alsamixer -c 0 and alsamixer -c 1 Maybe youshould try both to see which one controls the volume of the sound you get. Don't touch modprobe.conf, none of this has anything to do with the problem. Your soundcard probably does not have a hardware volume control. Sure it could. If he is actually listening to the sound from soundcard 1 and trying to control the volume on soundcard 0 ( the default) it will not work very well. His system seems to have two soundcards and he does not know about it. He has to make sure that he knowns which soundcard is handling the sounds tht he is hearing. MPU401 is not a soundcard, it does not have a mixer, it's just a MIDI port. The distro almost certainly gets this right. Lee Try removing your .asoundrc, does the problem persist? Please post the contents of /proc/asound/card0/codec97#0/ac97#0-0. Lee ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
Re: [Alsa-user] No volume control in FC5
On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Lee Revell wrote: On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 15:45 -0700, Bill Unruh wrote: On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Lee Revell wrote: On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 15:30 -0700, Bill Unruh wrote: I think you have to get your sound cards straight first. You have two options, alsamixer -c 0 and alsamixer -c 1 Maybe youshould try both to see which one controls the volume of the sound you get. Don't touch modprobe.conf, none of this has anything to do with the problem. Your soundcard probably does not have a hardware volume control. Sure it could. If he is actually listening to the sound from soundcard 1 and trying to control the volume on soundcard 0 ( the default) it will not work very well. His system seems to have two soundcards and he does not know about it. He has to make sure that he knowns which soundcard is handling the sounds tht he is hearing. MPU401 is not a soundcard, it does not have a mixer, it's just a MIDI port. Ah, ok, my ignorance is hanging here for all to gaze at. Sorry. The intel 810 soundcard certainly usually has a volume control. The distro almost certainly gets this right. Lee Try removing your .asoundrc, does the problem persist? Please post the contents of /proc/asound/card0/codec97#0/ac97#0-0. Lee ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
Re: [Alsa-user] No volume control in FC5
On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 15:59 -0700, Bill Unruh wrote: Ah, ok, my ignorance is hanging here for all to gaze at. Sorry. The intel 810 soundcard certainly usually has a volume control. Depends on the codec. C-Media codecs do not. Lee ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
[Alsa-user] Fw: Sound problem under Mandrake Linux 2006 installation - urgent help needed
Someone pls reply to my request. My system unable to load snd-riptide even I have downloaded and installed alsa-driver-1.0.11rc5. Best regards, Claude YU - Original Message - From: Claude Yu To: alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 12:20 PM Subject: Sound problem under Mandrake Linux 2006 installation - urgent help needed Hi Support, I am computer engineer helping a client to install his Mandrake Linux with problem. Pls help! I was running Mandrake Linux 2006 distrbution(free) consisting of 3 disks without great problem except without sound. Dual-boot option with Window Xp Prof smoothly. But after installedit gives no sound in Linux.But there is no sound problem in Window Xp Prof. I need your advice. I am giving you the following info: My desktop specs: HP Pavilion Celeron 466Mhz 128MB DIMM sound hardware on board video graphic onbaord Hdd 40GB $lsmod indicated no snd-x drivers installed $cat /proc/asound/version showed Alsa version installed Advanced Linux found Architecture Driver Version 1.0.9b $ cat / proc/asound/cards ---showed no sound card When Linux bootup, building processes showed 2 errors in [FATAL] flags 1. Starting ALSA version 1.0.9b: (riptide) start servicce sound (Y)/(N)/(C) ? (Y) Loading sound module(snd-riptide) FATAL: Module snd-riptide not found Fatal: Error running install command for snd-riptide [Fatal] Alsactl: save-state:1163:No soundcards found... Can't open /root/tmp/asound.state-tmp: No such file or directory [Fatal] Tried using Mandrake Control Center auto-hardware detection showed sound information as: Name: Riptide Audio Device showed driver used: snd-riptide However, Linux returned with error while initialising the sound driver: Device /dev/dsp can't be opened( no such file or directory) When inspecting /dev there sn't any dsp file existed. $lspci |grep -i audio showed audio controller Rockwell International Riptide PCI Audio Controller I have also tried to download; alsa-driver-0.4.1e.tar.gz alsa-lib-0.4.1d.tar.gz and alsa-utils-0.4.1.tar.gz and followed instruction to install. But met error while installing alsa-lib-0.4.1d ./configure : configure:error:install alsa-driver-v0.30pre5+package first... However i tried to look for v0.30 on your ftp site not found this version. Furthermore, i could not locate the exact manufcaturer of soundcard in your Alsa sound card driver pages so cannot really load the right driver. What should I do? Lastly the bottom line is the system could not detect a soundcard.--- it always showed no soundcard found. Pls suggest ways of fixing this problem and thanks in advance. Best regards, Claude YU ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
Re: [Alsa-user] Fw: Sound problem under Mandrake Linux 2006 installation - urgent help needed
On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 11:36 +1000, Claude Yu wrote: Someone pls reply to my request. My system unable to load snd-riptide even I have downloaded and installed alsa-driver-1.0.11rc5. Why -rc5? Why not just use ALSA 1.0.11? Also please don't post HTML to this list. Lee Best regards, Claude YU - Original Message - From: Claude Yu To: alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 12:20 PM Subject: Sound problem under Mandrake Linux 2006 installation - urgent help needed Hi Support, I am computer engineer helping a client to install his Mandrake Linux with problem. Pls help! I was running Mandrake Linux 2006 distrbution(free) consisting of 3 disks without great problem except without sound. Dual-boot option with Window Xp Prof smoothly. But after installed it gives no sound in Linux. But there is no sound problem in Window Xp Prof. I need your advice. I am giving you the following info: My desktop specs: HP Pavilion Celeron 466Mhz 128MB DIMM sound hardware on board video graphic onbaord Hdd 40GB $lsmod indicated no snd-x drivers installed $cat /proc/asound/version showed Alsa version installed Advanced Linux found Architecture Driver Version 1.0.9b $ cat / proc/asound/cards ---showed no sound card When Linux bootup, building processes showed 2 errors in [FATAL] flags 1. Starting ALSA version 1.0.9b: (riptide) start servicce sound (Y)/(N)/(C) ? (Y) Loading sound module(snd-riptide) FATAL: Module snd-riptide not found Fatal: Error running install command for snd-riptide [Fatal] Alsactl: save-state:1163:No soundcards found... Can't open /root/tmp/asound.state-tmp: No such file or directory [Fatal] Tried using Mandrake Control Center auto-hardware detection showed sound information as: Name: Riptide Audio Device showed driver used: snd-riptide However, Linux returned with error while initialising the sound driver: Device /dev/dsp can't be opened( no such file or directory) When inspecting /dev there sn't any dsp file existed. $lspci |grep -i audio showed audio controller Rockwell International Riptide PCI Audio Controller I have also tried to download; alsa-driver-0.4.1e.tar.gz alsa-lib-0.4.1d.tar.gz and alsa-utils-0.4.1.tar.gz and followed instruction to install. But met error while installing alsa-lib-0.4.1d ./configure : configure:error:install alsa-driver-v0.30pre5+package first... However i tried to look for v0.30 on your ftp site not found this version. Furthermore, i could not locate the exact manufcaturer of soundcard in your Alsa sound card driver pages so cannot really load the right driver. What should I do? Lastly the bottom line is the system could not detect a soundcard.--- it always showed no soundcard found. Pls suggest ways of fixing this problem and thanks in advance. Best regards, Claude YU ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
Re: [Alsa-user] Fw: Sound problem under Mandrake Linux 2006 installation - urgent help needed
On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Claude Yu wrote: Someone pls reply to my request. My system unable to load snd-riptide even I have downloaded and installed alsa-driver-1.0.11rc5. Why did you download rc5 when 11 final is already out? Do yuo have a snd-riptide.* in your modules directory find /lib/modules/ -name snd-riptide\* What happens if you do modprobe snd-riptide Ie, we need more information. Best regards, Claude YU - Original Message - From: Claude Yu To: alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 12:20 PM Subject: Sound problem under Mandrake Linux 2006 installation - urgent help needed Hi Support, I am computer engineer helping a client to install his Mandrake Linux with problem. Pls help! I was running Mandrake Linux 2006 distrbution(free) consisting of 3 disks without great problem except without sound. Dual-boot option with Window Xp Prof smoothly. But after installed it gives no sound in Linux. But there is no sound problem in Window Xp Prof. I need your advice. I am giving you the following info: My desktop specs: HP Pavilion Celeron 466Mhz 128MB DIMM sound hardware on board video graphic onbaord Hdd 40GB $lsmod indicated no snd-x drivers installed $cat /proc/asound/version showed Alsa version installed Advanced Linux found Architecture Driver Version 1.0.9b $ cat / proc/asound/cards ---showed no sound card When Linux bootup, building processes showed 2 errors in [FATAL] flags 1. Starting ALSA version 1.0.9b: (riptide) start servicce sound (Y)/(N)/(C) ? (Y) Loading sound module(snd-riptide) FATAL: Module snd-riptide not found Fatal: Error running install command for snd-riptide [Fatal] Alsactl: save-state:1163:No soundcards found... Can't open /root/tmp/asound.state-tmp: No such file or directory [Fatal] Tried using Mandrake Control Center auto-hardware detection showed sound information as: Name: Riptide Audio Device showed driver used: snd-riptide However, Linux returned with error while initialising the sound driver: Device /dev/dsp can't be opened( no such file or directory) When inspecting /dev there sn't any dsp file existed. $lspci |grep -i audio showed audio controller Rockwell International Riptide PCI Audio Controller I have also tried to download; alsa-driver-0.4.1e.tar.gz alsa-lib-0.4.1d.tar.gz and alsa-utils-0.4.1.tar.gz and followed instruction to install. But met error while installing alsa-lib-0.4.1d ./configure : configure:error:install alsa-driver-v0.30pre5+package first... However i tried to look for v0.30 on your ftp site not found this version. Furthermore, i could not locate the exact manufcaturer of soundcard in your Alsa sound card driver pages so cannot really load the right driver. What should I do? Lastly the bottom line is the system could not detect a soundcard.--- it always showed no soundcard found. Pls suggest ways of fixing this problem and thanks in advance. Best regards, Claude YU -- William G. Unruh | Canadian Institute for| Tel: +1(604)822-3273 PhysicsAstronomy | Advanced Research | Fax: +1(604)822-5324 UBC, Vancouver,BC | Program in Cosmology | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Canada V6T 1Z1 | and Gravity | www.theory.physics.ubc.ca/ ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
Re: [Alsa-user] Fw: Sound problem under Mandrake Linux 2006 installation - urgent help needed
Lee Revell wrote: On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 11:36 +1000, Claude Yu wrote: Someone pls reply to my request. My system unable to load snd-riptide even I have downloaded and installed alsa-driver-1.0.11rc5. Why -rc5? Why not just use ALSA 1.0.11? Also please don't post HTML to this list. Lee An interesting observation Lee, considering that alsa is stuck at rc2 in the fc5 repos. Can you comment on the delay? -- Cheers, Gene ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
Re: [Alsa-user] Sound problem under Mandrake Linux 2006 installation - urgent help needed
Hi Alsa support, May someone pls reply to my request? My system unable to load snd-riptide even I have downloaded and installed the latest alsa-driver-1.0.11rc5 driver. Best regards, Claude YU - Original Message - From: Claude Yu To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 11:48 AM Subject: Sound problem under Mandrake Linux 2006 installation - urgent help needed Hi Support, I am computer engineer helping a client to install his Mandrake Linux with problem. Pls help! I was running Mandrake Linux 2006 distrbution(free) consisting of 3 disks without great problem except without sound. Dual-boot option with Window Xp Prof smoothly. But after installedit gives no sound in Linux.But there is no sound problem in Window Xp Prof. I need your advice. I am giving you the following info: My desktop specs: HP Pavilion Celeron 466Mhz 128MB DIMM sound hardware on board video graphic onbaord Hdd 40GB $lsmod indicated no snd-x drivers installed $cat /proc/asound/version showed Alsa version installed Advanced Linux found Architecture Driver Version 1.0.9b $ cat / proc/asound/cards ---showed no sound card When Linux bootup, building processes showed 2 errors in [FATAL] flags 1. Starting ALSA version 1.0.9b: (riptide) start servicce sound (Y)/(N)/(C) ? (Y) Loading sound module(snd-riptide) FATAL: Module snd-riptide not found Fatal: Error running install command for snd-riptide [Fatal] Alsactl: save-state:1163:No soundcards found... Can't open /root/tmp/asound.state-tmp: No such file or directory [Fatal] Tried using Mandrake Control Center auto-hardware detection showed sound information as: Name: Riptide Audio Device showed driver used: snd-riptide However, Linux returned with error while initialising the sound driver: Device /dev/dsp can't be opened( no such file or directory) When inspecting /dev there sn't any dsp file existed. $lspci |grep -i audio showed audio controller Rockwell International Riptide PCI Audio Controller I have also tried to download; alsa-driver-0.4.1e.tar.gz alsa-lib-0.4.1d.tar.gz and alsa-utils-0.4.1.tar.gz and followed instruction to install. But met error while installing alsa-lib-0.4.1d ./configure : configure:error:install alsa-driver-v0.30pre5+package first... However i tried to look for v0.30 on your ftp site not found this version. Furthermore, i could not locate the exact manufcaturer of soundcard in your Alsa sound card driver pages so cannot really load the right driver. What should I do? Lastly the bottom line is the system could not detect a soundcard.--- it always showed no soundcard found. Pls suggest ways of fixing this problem and thanks in advance. Best regards, Claude YU ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
Re: [Alsa-user] Fw: Sound problem under Mandrake Linux 2006 installation - urgent help needed
On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Gene Heskett wrote: Lee Revell wrote: On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 11:36 +1000, Claude Yu wrote: Someone pls reply to my request. My system unable to load snd-riptide even I have downloaded and installed alsa-driver-1.0.11rc5. Why -rc5? Why not just use ALSA 1.0.11? Also please don't post HTML to this list. Lee An interesting observation Lee, considering that alsa is stuck at rc2 in the fc5 repos. Can you comment on the delay? I think you would have to ask Fedora. It is probable that the distro uses rc2, and they do not update. They just fix bugs. ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
Re: [Alsa-user] Fw: Sound problem under Mandrake Linux 2006 installation - urgent help needed
On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 20:56 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: Lee Revell wrote: On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 11:36 +1000, Claude Yu wrote: Someone pls reply to my request. My system unable to load snd-riptide even I have downloaded and installed alsa-driver-1.0.11rc5. Why -rc5? Why not just use ALSA 1.0.11? Also please don't post HTML to this list. Lee An interesting observation Lee, considering that alsa is stuck at rc2 in the fc5 repos. Can you comment on the delay? No, I don't use Fedora and have no idea why they don't provide a newer ALSA version. Many critical bugs have been fixed since rc2. Lee ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
Re: [Alsa-user] Sound problem under Mandrake Linux 2006 installation - urgent help needed
On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Claude Yu wrote: Hi Alsa support, May someone pls reply to my request? My system unable to load snd-riptide even I have downloaded and installed the latest alsa-driver-1.0.11rc5 driver. You just asked 26 minutes ago. Do you really think that people are sitting there anxiously awaiting your questions? (And I did answer you 10 min ago) (But then I am not alsa support either. ) ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
Re: [Alsa-user] Fw: Sound problem under Mandrake Linux 2006 installation - urgent help needed
On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Lee Revell wrote: On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 20:56 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: Lee Revell wrote: On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 11:36 +1000, Claude Yu wrote: Someone pls reply to my request. My system unable to load snd-riptide even I have downloaded and installed alsa-driver-1.0.11rc5. Why -rc5? Why not just use ALSA 1.0.11? Also please don't post HTML to this list. Lee An interesting observation Lee, considering that alsa is stuck at rc2 in the fc5 repos. Can you comment on the delay? No, I don't use Fedora and have no idea why they don't provide a newer ALSA version. Many critical bugs have been fixed since rc2. Also, it's OK, Mandriva 2006 is still at 1.0.9b (Kernel 2.6.12) ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
Re: [Alsa-user] Fw: Sound problem under Mandrake Linux 2006 installation - urgent help needed
On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 19:09 -0700, Bill Unruh wrote: Also, it's OK, Mandriva 2006 is still at 1.0.9b (Kernel 2.6.12) Um, it's OK if you don't have any hardware that requires a newer ALSA to work (there's a lot of it, mostly intel HDA stuff) Lee ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
Re: [Alsa-user] Fw: Sound problem under Mandrake Linux 2006 installation - urgent help needed
Bill Unruh wrote: On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Gene Heskett wrote: Lee Revell wrote: On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 11:36 +1000, Claude Yu wrote: Someone pls reply to my request. My system unable to load snd-riptide even I have downloaded and installed alsa-driver-1.0.11rc5. Why -rc5? Why not just use ALSA 1.0.11? Also please don't post HTML to this list. Lee An interesting observation Lee, considering that alsa is stuck at rc2 in the fc5 repos. Can you comment on the delay? I think you would have to ask Fedora. It is probable that the distro uses rc2, and they do not update. They just fix bugs. And where obviously my opinion isn't worth a bucket of warm spit. But IMO, when ALL major VoIP programs have trouble with full duplex, its a bug. But I'm told to take my problems to the alsa list when I ask on the fedora list. The alsa list claims its the apps, but the alsa performance is so poor that even the most recent VoIP release, twinkle, only 3 weeks old, is STILL USING OSS BECAUSE APPARENTLY those who subscribe to oss, DO have working systems. Does that not tell the alsa people anything? Its a classic case of the he said/she said pissing match. Maybe TPTB ought to have themselves a game of rock, paper, scissors, with the loser finally admitting there is a problem? I'd build and install 1.0.11 from the tarballs, but after it took me a year to get all the major bugs squished in FC2 by doing that, then I find that while my home FC2 system works very well indeed, the whole world says its hopelessly broken when I do ask about howto do something new on it. You cannot, IMO, have your cake and eat it too. If a package manager is to be used, and its dependency rules adhered to, then as far as I'm concerned, those glaring problems found by the users of certain chipsets can damned well be fixed by the packagers IF the code to do so exists in the upstream tarballs. However, finding out this information seems to require the employment of a good private detective agency or something equally unappetizing. Or maybe I'm just tired, its now about 60 days of trying to make both this and NM work on a laptop I bought to get me away from the outrageous telephone costs of trying to get a job done just because its located in the upper peninsula of Michigan. FWIW, skype AND the network both work rather well when this box is booted to XP, so it CAN BE DONE. Unforch, windows gives me a rash I haven't found a skin cream to fix. -- Cheers, Gene ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
Re: [Alsa-user] Fw: Sound problem under Mandrake Linux 2006 installation - urgent help needed
On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 23:14 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: Bill Unruh wrote: On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Gene Heskett wrote: Lee Revell wrote: On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 11:36 +1000, Claude Yu wrote: Someone pls reply to my request. My system unable to load snd-riptide even I have downloaded and installed alsa-driver-1.0.11rc5. Why -rc5? Why not just use ALSA 1.0.11? Also please don't post HTML to this list. Lee An interesting observation Lee, considering that alsa is stuck at rc2 in the fc5 repos. Can you comment on the delay? I think you would have to ask Fedora. It is probable that the distro uses rc2, and they do not update. They just fix bugs. And where obviously my opinion isn't worth a bucket of warm spit. But IMO, when ALL major VoIP programs have trouble with full duplex, its a bug. I am sorry about your Skype problem, but no one but Skype can debug it as WE DO NOT HAVE THE SOURCE CODE. Which OPEN SOURCE VoIP apps have you tried? There are plenty of VoIP apps with ALSA support. For example: http://www.openwengo.org/index.php/openwengo/public/homePage/news?payload[newsId]=0 Lee ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
Re: [Alsa-user] No volume control in FC5
On Jun 8, 2006, at 6:40 PM, Lee Revell wrote: On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 15:30 -0700, Bill Unruh wrote: I think you have to get your sound cards straight first. You have two options, alsamixer -c 0 and alsamixer -c 1 Maybe youshould try both to see which one controls the volume of the sound you get. Don't touch modprobe.conf, none of this has anything to do with the problem. Your soundcard probably does not have a hardware volume control. Try removing your .asoundrc, does the problem persist? Please post the contents of /proc/asound/card0/codec97#0/ac97#0-0. Lee Here is the output of cat /proc/asound/card0/codec97#0/ac97#0-0 0-0/0: Realtek ALC655 rev 0 PCI Subsys Vendor: 0x1565 PCI Subsys Device: 0x8201 Revision : 0x00 Compat. Class: 0x00 Subsys. Vendor ID: 0x Subsys. ID : 0x Capabilities : DAC resolution : 16-bit ADC resolution : 16-bit 3D enhancement : No 3D Stereo Enhancement Current setup Mic gain : +0dB [+0dB] POP path : pre 3D Sim. stereo : off 3D enhancement : off Loudness : off Mono output : MIX Mic select : Mic1 ADC/DAC loopback : off Extended ID : codec=0 rev=2 LDAC SDAC CDAC DSA=0 SPDIF Extended status : SPCV LDAC SDAC CDAC SPDIF=3/4 SPDIF SPDIF Control: Consumer PCM Category=0x2 Generation=1 Rate=48kHz When I do alsamixer -c 0 I get the mixer display but it doesn't control anything. When I do alsamixer -c 1 I get an error message about an invalid parameter. I guess because I only have the 1 onboard sound card. I know there are no actual sound cards stuck into physical PCI slots. When I disable the .asoundrc file I get no sound from mythtv. Jamie ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
