[Alsa-user] Some tests of pyalsa fail
Hi, everybody.
I run the tests of pyalsa 1.0.24 on my Fedora 14 x86_64 machine,
but some of them, namely, ctltest1.py, hctltest2.py, mixertest1.py and
mixertest2.py fail.
I have kernel-2.6.35.11-83.fc14.x86_64 and alsa-lib-1.0.24-1.fc14.x86_64.
My soundcard info from lspci -v:
01:05.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RS880 Audio Device [Radeon HD 4200]
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 843e
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
Memory at feae8000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: access denied
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
Output of failed tests:
$ python ctltest1.py
Card info:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File ctltest1.py, line 10, in module
print 'Card info:', ctl.cardInfo()
AttributeError: 'alsacontrol.Control' object has no attribute 'cardInfo'
$ python hctltest2.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File hctltest2.py, line 49, in module
nelementid, 2, 0, 100, 1)
IOError: new element of type 2 create error: No such device or address
$ python mixertest1.py
GC DEBUG: init.
channel_id:
{'REAR_CENTER': 8, 'LAST': 31, 'UNKNOWN': -1, 'REAR_RIGHT': 3, 'MONO':
0, 'FRONT_RIGHT': 1, 'SIDE_LEFT': 6, 'REAR_LEFT': 2, 'SIDE_RIGHT': 7,
'FRONT_LEFT': 0, 'WOOFER': 5, 'FRONT_CENTER': 4}
channel_name:
['Front Left', 'Front Right', 'Rear Left', 'Rear Right', 'Front
Center', 'Woofer', 'Side Left', 'Side Right', 'Rear Center', '?', '?',
'?', '?', '?', '?', '?', '?', '?', '?', '?', '?', '?', '?', '?', '?',
'?', '?', '?', '?', '?', '?', '?']
regopt_abstracts:
{'NONE': 0, 'BASIC': 1}
event_mask:
{'INFO': 2, 'ADD': 4, 'TLV': 8, 'VALUE': 1}
event_mask_remove: 4294967295
Element Count: 2
Elements:
(('Master', 0), ('Capture', 0))
Traceback (most recent call last):
File mixertest1.py, line 66, in module
element = alsamixer.Element(mixer, PCM)
IOError: cannot find mixer element 'PCM',0
gc: collecting generation 2...
gc: objects in each generation: 121 3468 0
gc: done, 0.0029s elapsed.
$ python mixertest2.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File mixertest2.py, line 38, in module
element1 = alsamixer.Element(mixer, Front)
IOError: cannot find mixer element 'Front',0
Cheers.
Robin
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Pawel -- Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
Re: [Alsa-user] MobilePre USB support
I have the mobile pre (old one, but not the oldest one). It just works. USB compliant, at least for USB 1.x standards. i.e. 2 channels input, 16 bit, 48kHz max. The gray one with buttons on front, and pretty much any analog connection type known to man. Although the line input (3.5mm) does not provide the plug in power for cheap-ish / camcorder type mics. And the phantom power is known to be a bit under volt, but good enough for most mics IMO. Worked out of the box for me. But there is some wonkyness in Debian Lenny(5.0) with freezes (wasn't an issue in sarge). But then again mine is old enough that the blue LED light comes and goes. And I'm running the distro supplied kernel 2.6.26. As some of the changes in the current version of things makes it a lot more difficult to run a custom kernel. At least with old school ways and a working config from a previous install. I may upgrade to 6.0 as soon as some of my current projects are wrapped up. But for $80 off of craigslist, I'm not complaining. - James On 3/15/11, Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a relatively inexpensive USB audio interface that will work (painlessly) on a laptop running Gnewsense, which would basically mean either Hardy or Squeeze. After some looking and reading I'm thinking about something like Maudio Fast Track (one with the knobs on the top) Fast Track Pro or MobilePre (one with the knobs on the top). Can anyone tell me which of these works the most reliably with ALSA? Or if there's some other interface in this price range that has an XLR input and works as well as the USB Transit seems to do? I basically want to record into Ardour or Pure Data, and monitor with headphones. Thank you, Jonathan -- Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user -- Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
Re: [Alsa-user] MobilePre USB support
Thanks, James. From a quick google search it looks like one can still get these. But just to make sure I'm talking about the same one-- what's the difference between the oldest one you referred to and the one you've got? And has anyone had success with the new shiny little one with top knobs? Thanks, Jonathan --- On Tue, 3/15/11, James Shatto wwwshad...@gmail.com wrote: From: James Shatto wwwshad...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Alsa-user] MobilePre USB support To: alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2011, 2:04 PM I have the mobile pre (old one, but not the oldest one). It just works. USB compliant, at least for USB 1.x standards. i.e. 2 channels input, 16 bit, 48kHz max. The gray one with buttons on front, and pretty much any analog connection type known to man. Although the line input (3.5mm) does not provide the plug in power for cheap-ish / camcorder type mics. And the phantom power is known to be a bit under volt, but good enough for most mics IMO. Worked out of the box for me. But there is some wonkyness in Debian Lenny(5.0) with freezes (wasn't an issue in sarge). But then again mine is old enough that the blue LED light comes and goes. And I'm running the distro supplied kernel 2.6.26. As some of the changes in the current version of things makes it a lot more difficult to run a custom kernel. At least with old school ways and a working config from a previous install. I may upgrade to 6.0 as soon as some of my current projects are wrapped up. But for $80 off of craigslist, I'm not complaining. - James On 3/15/11, Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a relatively inexpensive USB audio interface that will work (painlessly) on a laptop running Gnewsense, which would basically mean either Hardy or Squeeze. After some looking and reading I'm thinking about something like Maudio Fast Track (one with the knobs on the top) Fast Track Pro or MobilePre (one with the knobs on the top). Can anyone tell me which of these works the most reliably with ALSA? Or if there's some other interface in this price range that has an XLR input and works as well as the USB Transit seems to do? I basically want to record into Ardour or Pure Data, and monitor with headphones. Thank you, Jonathan -- Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user -- Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user -- Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
Re: [Alsa-user] MobilePre USB support
AFAIK, the old old one is white-ish and looks like a fallback to the 1950's. And AFAIK, that is the only difference. The Fast Track Pro is probably the more liked modern one (USB 2.x?). Although I don't know of it's linux status. Should be fine IMO, if it's class compliant. It took a good long while, but there is a 2.0 audio standard now. When recording you want 24 bit IMO. 16 bit is more of a delivery format. 24 bit gives you more dynamic range, which better suits recording IMO. About all I use my Mobile Pre for is laptop sound. Or if I need to archive an odd format like reel to reel tapes or cassettes (judges tapes). I have a Delta 44 (24/96) on the desktop and a Korg MR-1000 (24/192 or DSD) for anything more serious. Except for the DSD part, all linux compatible as well. Although the Korg only functions as a usb storage device as far as a computer is concerned. M-Audio tends to use the same ADC/DAC chips in most of their gear, so it's a fairly safe bet IMO. Safe-er than some other options anyway. Although not that configured by default in things like pulse audio and such. But the driver(s) work, always have IMO. Some of the mixer stuff can be a little off. But I'm not exactly running the latest and greatest of everything. Most of my hardware is sufficiently old that I don't need to in most cases. - James On 3/15/11, Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com wrote: Thanks, James. From a quick google search it looks like one can still get these. But just to make sure I'm talking about the same one-- what's the difference between the oldest one you referred to and the one you've got? And has anyone had success with the new shiny little one with top knobs? Thanks, Jonathan --- On Tue, 3/15/11, James Shatto wwwshad...@gmail.com wrote: From: James Shatto wwwshad...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Alsa-user] MobilePre USB support To: alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2011, 2:04 PM I have the mobile pre (old one, but not the oldest one). It just works. USB compliant, at least for USB 1.x standards. i.e. 2 channels input, 16 bit, 48kHz max. The gray one with buttons on front, and pretty much any analog connection type known to man. Although the line input (3.5mm) does not provide the plug in power for cheap-ish / camcorder type mics. And the phantom power is known to be a bit under volt, but good enough for most mics IMO. Worked out of the box for me. But there is some wonkyness in Debian Lenny(5.0) with freezes (wasn't an issue in sarge). But then again mine is old enough that the blue LED light comes and goes. And I'm running the distro supplied kernel 2.6.26. As some of the changes in the current version of things makes it a lot more difficult to run a custom kernel. At least with old school ways and a working config from a previous install. I may upgrade to 6.0 as soon as some of my current projects are wrapped up. But for $80 off of craigslist, I'm not complaining. - James On 3/15/11, Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a relatively inexpensive USB audio interface that will work (painlessly) on a laptop running Gnewsense, which would basically mean either Hardy or Squeeze. After some looking and reading I'm thinking about something like Maudio Fast Track (one with the knobs on the top) Fast Track Pro or MobilePre (one with the knobs on the top). Can anyone tell me which of these works the most reliably with ALSA? Or if there's some other interface in this price range that has an XLR input and works as well as the USB Transit seems to do? I basically want to record into Ardour or Pure Data, and monitor with headphones. Thank you, Jonathan -- Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user -- Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user -- Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net
