Re: [Alsa-user] DELL SP2309W Monitor with Integrated microphone
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gentoo at gmail.com writes: Dell does not support Ubuntu at all, Dell just sells computers with Ubuntu on them and sells support contracts from Canonical. On the Dell forums people have specifically asked Dell about it and they basically say the microphone is not linux compatible, try asking the ubuntu forums for help, maybe someone can figure it out... despite the fact that it will let you order this monitor along with an Ubuntu computer. FWIW the microphones do not work on Mac OS X without commercial third-party drivers, and there have been numerous posts by Windows users who are having problems getting the microphones to work on XP/Vista as well. So I guess the mic is not totally standard usb-audio (if there is such a thing as standard). Yeah, that appears to be correct. There are a number of Ubuntu users that have not had any success if the Dell forums are anything to go by. I haven't seen this difficulty with Windows, however. The only problems that appear to be unresolved are on W7 (beta this and that). I have not been successful on a VMware virtual XP on Linux, but that's not too surprising. There is a posting on the Mac forums that indicate that the device itself may be a re-badged Creative with an Omnivsion chipset: Creative Labs webcam monitor Device : 05a9:2649 OmniVision Monitor Webcam UVC =3 Model : OA002 This was apparently from the Dell driver support. I don't know if this helps,but I suspect that the camera is similar to the Sony PS3 Eye because it uses the OV538 controller chip that appears to be what that camera is based on: http://www.ovt.com/products/ip_detail.php?id=9 where the specs state that the chip supports audio input for full audio/video operation. I think the sensor is a OV2640. This jives with what lsusb reports. There is a Creative WebCam Live! Ultra that may be the essential camera device in a Dell form factor, but I can't get the chip specs directly for that camera. However, this jives very well with its age, and the Windows webcam software app that accompanies the monitor is clearly Creative Labs software. I don't know if any of this helps, but I'm at least reasonably sure of the chipset and direct audio output. I'm certainly not a device driver developer, but willing to assist as much as I possibly can. If one of the many cameras that do work uses this chipset, then it may not be too difficult to hack up a fix. Cheers. -- Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
[Alsa-user] Reactivating my headphone under Intel HDA on my laptop
Hi, I have a Nexoc Osiris 620 II laptop which comes with a Intel HDA audio device running under various incarnations of Fedora. I started with Fedora 8 During updates there was one point in time and space in which my audio system worked just fine for me. 1) Normal audio output via the speakers 2) Muting when plugging in the headphones and redirection on to the headphone. For quite a while now that didn't work anymore. Either the headphones didn't work at all (no muting of the speakers, no sound on the headphone) Or the headphones only muted the speakers. I've used alsamixer to unmute all available channels and loaded the snd-module with all available 'model' options to no avail. I've compiles vanilla kernels 2.6.22, 2.6.23.1, 2.6.23.2, 2.6.23.6, 2.6.24, 2.6.25.15 to somehow emulate the progress Fedora 8 made but it didn't help at all. When compiling a verbose ALSA sound system in 2.5.25.15 dmesg gives me: snip ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:1813: chipset global capabilities = 0x4401 Marking TSC unstable due to: TSC halts in idle. ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:749: codec_mask = 0x3 ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:2239: hda_codec: model 'laptop-eapd' is selected for config 1558:0 (Clevo laptop) ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1076: Cannot find slave Headphone Playback Volume, skipped ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1076: Cannot find slave Speaker Playback Volume, skipped ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1076: Cannot find slave Mono Playback Volume, skipped ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1076: Cannot find slave Line-Out Playback Volume, skipped ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1076: Cannot find slave Speaker Playback Switch, skipped ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1076: Cannot find slave Mono Playback Switch, skipped ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1076: Cannot find slave IEC958 Playback Switch, skipped ALSA device list: #0: HDA Intel at 0xf120 irq 22 /snip Right now I'm trying to move on to Fedora 11 Beta which currently uses a kernel 2.6.29.1 derivate and the situation seems to be still the same. my hardware info can be found under http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=00ebea267c0fb1d3f8e18f53aaa3a82979abce5e If anyone could tell me where to tweak the driver to potentially resolve the issue or at least provide more debugging info for the alsa-project I would be more then happy to patch the driver and see what's happening. Regards O. -- Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
Re: [Alsa-user] Reactivating my headphone under Intel HDA on my laptop
Update on the issue, So now I've installed alsa-drivers 1.0.19 under 2.6.29.1 (fedora). The speakers get muted whenever I plug in the headphone. But no sound on the headphone. dmesg tells me: snip pci/hda/hda_codec.c:2718: hda_codec: model 'clevo-m720' is selected for config 1558:721 (Clevo laptop M720R) pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1341: Cannot find slave Front Playback Volume, skipped pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1341: Cannot find slave Surround Playback Volume, skipped pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1341: Cannot find slave Center Playback Volume, skipped pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1341: Cannot find slave LFE Playback Volume, skipped pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1341: Cannot find slave Side Playback Volume, skipped pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1341: Cannot find slave Mono Playback Volume, skipped pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1341: Cannot find slave Line-Out Playback Volume, skipped pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1341: Cannot find slave PCM Playback Volume, skipped pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1341: Cannot find slave Front Playback Switch, skipped pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1341: Cannot find slave Surround Playback Switch, skipped pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1341: Cannot find slave Center Playback Switch, skipped pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1341: Cannot find slave LFE Playback Switch, skipped pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1341: Cannot find slave Side Playback Switch, skipped pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1341: Cannot find slave Mono Playback Switch, skipped /snip Cheers O. On 04/19/2009 12:37 PM, Oncaphillis wrote: Hi, I have a Nexoc Osiris 620 II laptop which comes with a Intel HDA audio device running under various incarnations of Fedora. I started with Fedora 8 During updates there was one point in time and space in which my audio system worked just fine for me. 1) Normal audio output via the speakers 2) Muting when plugging in the headphones and redirection on to the headphone. For quite a while now that didn't work anymore. Either the headphones didn't work at all (no muting of the speakers, no sound on the headphone) Or the headphones only muted the speakers. I've used alsamixer to unmute all available channels and loaded the snd-module with all available 'model' options to no avail. I've compiles vanilla kernels 2.6.22, 2.6.23.1, 2.6.23.2, 2.6.23.6, 2.6.24, 2.6.25.15 to somehow emulate the progress Fedora 8 made but it didn't help at all. When compiling a verbose ALSA sound system in 2.5.25.15 dmesg gives me: snip ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:1813: chipset global capabilities = 0x4401 Marking TSC unstable due to: TSC halts in idle. ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:749: codec_mask = 0x3 ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:2239: hda_codec: model 'laptop-eapd' is selected for config 1558:0 (Clevo laptop) ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1076: Cannot find slave Headphone Playback Volume, skipped ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1076: Cannot find slave Speaker Playback Volume, skipped ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1076: Cannot find slave Mono Playback Volume, skipped ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1076: Cannot find slave Line-Out Playback Volume, skipped ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1076: Cannot find slave Speaker Playback Switch, skipped ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1076: Cannot find slave Mono Playback Switch, skipped ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1076: Cannot find slave IEC958 Playback Switch, skipped ALSA device list: #0: HDA Intel at 0xf120 irq 22 /snip Right now I'm trying to move on to Fedora 11 Beta which currently uses a kernel 2.6.29.1 derivate and the situation seems to be still the same. my hardware info can be found under http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=00ebea267c0fb1d3f8e18f53aaa3a82979abce5e If anyone could tell me where to tweak the driver to potentially resolve the issue or at least provide more debugging info for the alsa-project I would be more then happy to patch the driver and see what's happening. Regards O. -- Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user -- Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
[Alsa-user] Updating to latest alsa-util on Ubuntu 8.10
Hi -- very newb question, I'm sorry. I'm just getting started with Ubuntu on an Acer Aspire, and there is a problem with Skype, namely that I can't use it, as the microphone does not seem to work. One possible solution I saw was to update Alsa, so I have downloaded the compressed file for the latest alsa-utils, but now have no idea how to go about installing it. Could anyone advise, or point me in the direction of a tutorial that might tell me what I need? Thanks very much, Doug. -- Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
[Alsa-user] emu10k1 jackd not working with realtime Kernel
Hi, i had installed the realtime kernel 2.6.26.8-rt16 on a debian linux 5.0 (Lenny). Cause jackd don't like realtime mode i've searched on google and i found this page: http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Low_latency_howto Okay, that's great. I did all what is described in this howto, except compiling and installing of the ALSA driver und libraries. I thing the debian packages should do the same, or not? But i can do what i want (had googled and googled and so on and i tried much more) but if i like to start jackd with -R option i always get this message: cannot use real-time scheduling (FIFO at priority 10) [for thread 1988003552, from thread 1988003552] (1: Operation not permitted) My soundcard is a soundblaster live Platinum. Version of jackd is 0.109.2 Do you have any idea? Much greetings, Matthias -- Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
Re: [Alsa-user] emu10k1 jackd not working with realtime Kernel
On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:01:48 +0200 Matthias Mann matthia...@jesus.de wrote: Hi, i had installed the realtime kernel 2.6.26.8-rt16 on a debian linux 5.0 (Lenny). Cause jackd don't like realtime mode i've searched on google and i found this page: http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Low_latency_howto Okay, that's great. I did all what is described in this howto, except compiling and installing of the ALSA driver und libraries. I thing the debian packages should do the same, or not? But i can do what i want (had googled and googled and so on and i tried much more) but if i like to start jackd with -R option i always get this message: cannot use real-time scheduling (FIFO at priority 10) [for thread 1988003552, from thread 1988003552] (1: Operation not permitted) My soundcard is a soundblaster live Platinum. Version of jackd is 0.109.2 Do you have any idea? Much greetings, Matthias I vaguely remember that you have to add your user ID to audio group or something like this. The point is that increasing priority normally requires root privileges, and in order to enable doing this by non-root that group was created. Regards, Sergei. -- Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
Re: [Alsa-user] Updating to latest alsa-util on Ubuntu 8.10
On Sunday 19 April 2009 18:29, doug livesey wrote: Hi -- very newb question, I'm sorry. I'm just getting started with Ubuntu on an Acer Aspire, and there is a problem with Skype, namely that I can't use it, as the microphone does not seem to work. One possible solution I saw was to update Alsa, so I have downloaded the compressed file for the latest alsa-utils, but now have no idea how to go about installing it. Could anyone advise, or point me in the direction of a tutorial that might tell me what I need? Thanks very much, Doug. Hi Doug. What is the Make/Model of your machine, and PC, or Laptop? Which Ubuntu, or Kubuntu version? Ok I see that's Intrepid on your subject line. If Ubuntu, pulseaudio may be the problem, and it may worth removing pulseaudio, then seeing if the mike now works. To remove pulseaudio use the command below. You can always reinstall it with apt-get install pulseaudio. sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio It may also be worth looking at alsamixer on Gnomes terminal. If you are using Ubuntu, typing alsamixer in the terminal will just bring up the control for pulseaudio, so open alsamixer as below, and you will see all the mixer settings for your soundcard. alsamixer -D hw:0 This will show playback controls. The F4 function key will show capture controls, and there is some microphone stuff there. The F3 key will take you back to playback controls. I've no experience with Skype, or microphones for that matter, but if the above hasn't resolved your problem, it's not the alsa-utils package, but the alsa-driver tarball you should have downloaded. Get the latest snapshot from the link below. Don't get the unstable one, just the one named alsa-driver-snapshot, which will be the latest. Either the .bz2, or the .gz one will do. http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tiwai/snapshot/ Just to keep everything organised first create a new folder in your /home/user directory named Alsa-drivers, then download the latest alsadriver snapshot, and put it in this directory. Having done that, open a terminal, and type the following. cd Alsa-drivers Now type the following, and this depends on whether you have downloaded the tar.gz, or the tar.bz2 version of the snapshot. For the .bz2 version. tar xjvf alsa-driver-snapshot.tar.bz2 For the .gz version. tar xzvf alsa-driver-snapshot.tar.gz So far so good? You should now have a new directory in your Alsa-drivers directory named alsa-driver. Before going any further, install the package below, as I believe it's necessary. Don't do this on the terminal you have open for working with the alsa-driver, but open a second terminal, then on the new terminal type the following. sudo apt-get install build-essential That done, exit the 2nd terminal, and now we can get back to compiling the alsa-driver snapshot. Type the following on the terminal that is still open. cd alsa-driver Do check that the newly created directory is named alsa-driver, and if different, change the cd command to the actual directory name. Now type the following commands as user. ./configure That runs for a while, and then should complete without complaining. Now type the following. make Make should run to completion, without complaining, but takes some time. If it complains, post back. If it doesn't complain type the following. sudo make install That should upgrade the alsa driver to the latest snapshot version. To check this out, and now see if you have the latest alsa-driver version installed, reboot, then run, cat /proc/asound/version, which should show alsa driver version 1.0.19. If this has gone OK, you may still have to mess with mike settings in alsamixer to get Skype doing it's stuff. Apologies if my help falls short, and doen't help to resolve your problem. Nigel. -- Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
