[Alsa-user] Troubleshooting M-Audio Delta 44 (ICE1712)

2011-04-02 Thread James P. Early
Greetings everyone,
  I'm writing to request assistance with getting my M-Audio Delta 44
(ICE1712) functioning under a fresh Gentoo installation. At first, I
thought I had an issue with jackd, because I could not get it to
start. I tried many configuration options, but typically got ALSA
poll time out messages, then jackd would die. So, I decided to
examine my ALSA installation more carefully.

  Today, I decided to see if I could just get a sound to play using
aplay (from the command line without starting X11). What I notice is
that aplay just freezes at some point while processing the input wav
file. I get no sound, and I have to Ctlr-C to stop it. Here's an
example:

===

$ aplay -vv /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav
Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav' : Signed 16 bit
Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono
Plug PCM: Route conversion PCM (sformat=S32_LE)
  Transformation table:
0 - 0
1 - 0
2 - 0
3 - 0
4 - 0
5 - 0
6 - 0
7 - 0
8 - 0
9 - 0
Its setup is:
  stream   : PLAYBACK
  access   : RW_INTERLEAVED
  format   : S16_LE
  subformat: STD
  channels : 1
  rate : 48000
  exact rate   : 48000 (48000/1)
  msbits   : 16
  buffer_size  : 6144
  period_size  : 1024
  period_time  : 21333
  tstamp_mode  : NONE
  period_step  : 1
  avail_min: 1024
  period_event : 0
  start_threshold  : 6144
  stop_threshold   : 6144
  silence_threshold: 0
  silence_size : 0
  boundary : 6917529027641081856
Slave: Direct Stream Mixing PCM
Its setup is:
  stream   : PLAYBACK
  access   : MMAP_INTERLEAVED
  format   : S32_LE
  subformat: STD
  channels : 10
  rate : 48000
  exact rate   : 48000 (48000/1)
  msbits   : 24
  buffer_size  : 6144
  period_size  : 1024
  period_time  : 21333
  tstamp_mode  : NONE
  period_step  : 1
  avail_min: 1024
  period_event : 0
  start_threshold  : 6144
  stop_threshold   : 6144
  silence_threshold: 0
  silence_size : 0
  boundary : 6917529027641081856
Hardware PCM card 0 'M Audio Delta 44' device 0 subdevice 0
Its setup is:
  stream   : PLAYBACK
  access   : MMAP_INTERLEAVED
  format   : S32_LE
  subformat: STD
  channels : 10
  rate : 48000
  exact rate   : 48000 (48000/1)
  msbits   : 24
  buffer_size  : 6553
  period_size  : 1024
  period_time  : 21333
  tstamp_mode  : ENABLE
  period_step  : 1
  avail_min: 1024
  period_event : 0
  start_threshold  : 1
  stop_threshold   : 7378022089539715072
  silence_threshold: 0
  silence_size : 7378022089539715072
  boundary : 7378022089539715072
  appl_ptr : 0
  hw_ptr   : 0
+  | 46%^C
Aborted by signal Interrupt...

==

You'll notice in this example that it has frozen at the 46% mark.
Other files may stop at different points. All indications (aplay,
lspci, /proc/asound, alsamixer, etc.) are that the card is being
recognized, and that the associated kernel module is loaded.

I've tried a number of sites for answers including:
http://alsa.opensrc.org/TroubleShooting
http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Module-ice1712
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml

... and countless forum posts

I have run alsa-info, and the result can be seen here:
http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=0703a7d0bd8da7a7b4bc387e107900acd0674a7b

I would greatly appreciate hearing from anyone with information about
further testing or configuration.

Thanks,
~Jim

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Re: [Alsa-user] Troubleshooting M-Audio Delta 44 (ICE1712)

2011-04-02 Thread James Shatto
Try:

speaker-test -c 2 -D hw:0

where hw:# is the number of your card as it shows in /proc/asound/cards.

snd-ice1712 is the driver.  With a Delta 44 myself.  Pulse-audio
doesn't play nice with it, so disable that if reasonable.  Most apps I
use interface with alsa or jackd directly, so I just leave pulse audio
as it came with ubuntu.  Semi working, but mostly annoying.  Complete
with re-indexing the alsa drivers so that ice1712 is card 0 to get it
working initially.  Even if pauvcontrol says my only output option is
dummy out or HDMI out from my video card (snd-hda-intel).  But
probably not your issue, so I'll stop rambling.

- James


On 4/2/11, James P. Early earl...@gmail.com wrote:
 Greetings everyone,
   I'm writing to request assistance with getting my M-Audio Delta 44
 (ICE1712) functioning under a fresh Gentoo installation. At first, I
 thought I had an issue with jackd, because I could not get it to
 start. I tried many configuration options, but typically got ALSA
 poll time out messages, then jackd would die. So, I decided to
 examine my ALSA installation more carefully.

   Today, I decided to see if I could just get a sound to play using
 aplay (from the command line without starting X11). What I notice is
 that aplay just freezes at some point while processing the input wav
 file. I get no sound, and I have to Ctlr-C to stop it. Here's an
 example:

 ===

 $ aplay -vv /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav
 Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav' : Signed 16 bit
 Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono
 Plug PCM: Route conversion PCM (sformat=S32_LE)
   Transformation table:
 0 - 0
 1 - 0
 2 - 0
 3 - 0
 4 - 0
 5 - 0
 6 - 0
 7 - 0
 8 - 0
 9 - 0
 Its setup is:
   stream   : PLAYBACK
   access   : RW_INTERLEAVED
   format   : S16_LE
   subformat: STD
   channels : 1
   rate : 48000
   exact rate   : 48000 (48000/1)
   msbits   : 16
   buffer_size  : 6144
   period_size  : 1024
   period_time  : 21333
   tstamp_mode  : NONE
   period_step  : 1
   avail_min: 1024
   period_event : 0
   start_threshold  : 6144
   stop_threshold   : 6144
   silence_threshold: 0
   silence_size : 0
   boundary : 6917529027641081856
 Slave: Direct Stream Mixing PCM
 Its setup is:
   stream   : PLAYBACK
   access   : MMAP_INTERLEAVED
   format   : S32_LE
   subformat: STD
   channels : 10
   rate : 48000
   exact rate   : 48000 (48000/1)
   msbits   : 24
   buffer_size  : 6144
   period_size  : 1024
   period_time  : 21333
   tstamp_mode  : NONE
   period_step  : 1
   avail_min: 1024
   period_event : 0
   start_threshold  : 6144
   stop_threshold   : 6144
   silence_threshold: 0
   silence_size : 0
   boundary : 6917529027641081856
 Hardware PCM card 0 'M Audio Delta 44' device 0 subdevice 0
 Its setup is:
   stream   : PLAYBACK
   access   : MMAP_INTERLEAVED
   format   : S32_LE
   subformat: STD
   channels : 10
   rate : 48000
   exact rate   : 48000 (48000/1)
   msbits   : 24
   buffer_size  : 6553
   period_size  : 1024
   period_time  : 21333
   tstamp_mode  : ENABLE
   period_step  : 1
   avail_min: 1024
   period_event : 0
   start_threshold  : 1
   stop_threshold   : 7378022089539715072
   silence_threshold: 0
   silence_size : 7378022089539715072
   boundary : 7378022089539715072
   appl_ptr : 0
   hw_ptr   : 0
 +  | 46%^C
 Aborted by signal Interrupt...

 ==

 You'll notice in this example that it has frozen at the 46% mark.
 Other files may stop at different points. All indications (aplay,
 lspci, /proc/asound, alsamixer, etc.) are that the card is being
 recognized, and that the associated kernel module is loaded.

 I've tried a number of sites for answers including:
 http://alsa.opensrc.org/TroubleShooting
 http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Module-ice1712
 http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml

 ... and countless forum posts

 I have run alsa-info, and the result can be seen here:
 http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=0703a7d0bd8da7a7b4bc387e107900acd0674a7b

 I would greatly appreciate hearing from anyone with information about
 further testing or configuration.

 Thanks,
 ~Jim

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