Re: [Alsa-devel] RME HDSP9652

2002-11-29 Thread Paul Davis
Its the same PCI ID, but insmod segfaults... does the attched patch cure the segfault? but it doesn't mean that your card will be supported by it :) takashi - thanks for this patch. i didn't understand that snd_hdsp_free() could be called when no hardware was detected. now i do :) --p

Re: [Alsa-devel] trying out usb hotplugs

2002-11-29 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Fri, 29 Nov 2002 15:14:28 +0100, I wrote: Please, remove from your code any checks from ioctl(), poll(), read() / write(). Then commit and I'll merge my tree with yours. ok. done. please merge your tree. ciao, Takashi --- This

Re: [Alsa-devel] trying out usb hotplugs

2002-11-29 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Takashi Iwai wrote: Hi, the attached is my latest patch. could you check it? Let's go and make things more complicated (like in my tree on disc): 1) waiting for time when all disconnected applications have closed all file descriptors is a bit problem, because no

Re: [Alsa-devel] trying out usb hotplugs

2002-11-29 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Fri, 29 Nov 2002 15:05:21 +0100 (CET), Jaroslav wrote: On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Takashi Iwai wrote: Hi, the attached is my latest patch. could you check it? Let's go and make things more complicated (like in my tree on disc): 1) waiting for time when all disconnected

Re: [Alsa-devel] Patch: YMF753 for rc5

2002-11-29 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Sun, 10 Nov 2002 02:32:11 -0800, David Shust wrote: My latest Yamaha YMF753 patch for alsa-driver-0.9.0rc5 is available at www.shustring.com. hi, the patch was applied to cvs with some modification. could you check whther it works for you? thanks! Takashi

Re: [Alsa-devel] Ali5451 on HP VT6200 notebook not working

2002-11-29 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Fri, 29 Nov 2002 12:40:48 +0100, Rafal Dejewski wrote: On Friday 29 November 2002 12:03, you wrote: ok, the devices are there. i think it's a bug of the driver, which assumes the order of devices from 1533 - 7101. please try the patch attached (to cvs). That did it! Cool! ok,

Re: [Alsa-devel] Ali5451 on HP VT6200 notebook not working

2002-11-29 Thread Rafal Dejewski
On Friday 29 November 2002 12:03, you wrote: ok, the devices are there. i think it's a bug of the driver, which assumes the order of devices from 1533 - 7101. please try the patch attached (to cvs). That did it! Cool! The oss emulation works great. I have some problems in mplayer and xmms

Re: [Alsa-devel] trying out usb hotplugs

2002-11-29 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Takashi Iwai wrote: At Fri, 29 Nov 2002 10:39:22 +0100 (CET), Jaroslav wrote: On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Takashi Iwai wrote: At Fri, 29 Nov 2002 08:52:43 +0100 (MET), Clemens Ladisch wrote: Takashi Iwai wrote: Martin Langer wrote: usb hotplug

Re: [Alsa-devel] trying out usb hotplugs

2002-11-29 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Fri, 29 Nov 2002 12:24:50 +0100 (CET), Jaroslav wrote: On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Takashi Iwai wrote: At Fri, 29 Nov 2002 10:39:22 +0100 (CET), Jaroslav wrote: On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Takashi Iwai wrote: At Fri, 29 Nov 2002 08:52:43 +0100 (MET), Clemens Ladisch wrote:

Re: [Alsa-devel] Ali5451 on HP VT6200 notebook not working

2002-11-29 Thread Rafal Dejewski
On Friday 29 November 2002 11:29, you wrote: At Fri, 29 Nov 2002 11:19:40 +0100, looking at the code, ali5451 driver access the following three pci devices: 10b9:5451 ali5451 main chip 10b9:1533 pci southbridge, used for ac97 codec 10b9:7107 power management controller (which

Re: [Alsa-devel] Ali5451 on HP VT6200 notebook not working

2002-11-29 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Fri, 29 Nov 2002 11:47:25 +0100, Rafal Dejewski wrote: On Friday 29 November 2002 11:29, you wrote: At Fri, 29 Nov 2002 11:19:40 +0100, looking at the code, ali5451 driver access the following three pci devices: 10b9:5451 ali5451 main chip 10b9:1533 pci southbridge, used

Re: [Alsa-devel] Ali5451 on HP VT6200 notebook not working

2002-11-29 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Fri, 29 Nov 2002 11:19:40 +0100, Rafal Dejewski wrote: On Friday 29 November 2002 11:12, you wrote: At Fri, 29 Nov 2002 10:53:15 +0100, ah, perhaps your chip has some different pci id? please check lspci -n whether a device 10b9:7101 exists. I think this is it! I should have

Re: [Alsa-devel] Ali5451 on HP VT6200 notebook not working

2002-11-29 Thread Rafal Dejewski
On Friday 29 November 2002 11:12, you wrote: At Fri, 29 Nov 2002 10:53:15 +0100, ah, perhaps your chip has some different pci id? please check lspci -n whether a device 10b9:7101 exists. I think this is it! I should have noticed! Here is mine lspci -vvn for this device: 00:04.0 Class 0401:

Re: [Alsa-devel] Ali5451 on HP VT6200 notebook not working

2002-11-29 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Fri, 29 Nov 2002 10:53:15 +0100, Rafal Dejewski wrote: PCI: Found IRQ 7 for device 00:04.0 resouces allocation ... resouces allocated. snd_device_new is called. chip initializing ... ALSA sound/pci/ali5451/ali5451.c:2159: ali create: chip init error. it looks like the

Re: [Alsa-devel] trying out usb hotplugs

2002-11-29 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Fri, 29 Nov 2002 10:39:22 +0100 (CET), Jaroslav wrote: On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Takashi Iwai wrote: At Fri, 29 Nov 2002 08:52:43 +0100 (MET), Clemens Ladisch wrote: Takashi Iwai wrote: Martin Langer wrote: usb hotplug works perfect if my usbmidi client isn't aconnected to

Re: [Alsa-devel] Ali5451 on HP VT6200 notebook not working

2002-11-29 Thread Rafal Dejewski
On Thursday 28 November 2002 17:36, Takashi Iwai wrote: Hi, At Thu, 21 Nov 2002 12:29:59 +0100, Rafal Dejewski wrote: Hi, I have HP vt6200 notebook. It has ALI5451 chip. I tried diffrent kernels 2.4.18, 2.4.19, 2.4.20rc1, 2.5.48 and alsa-driver 0.9rc4,rc5,rc6. The standard kernel

Re: [Alsa-devel] trying out usb hotplugs

2002-11-29 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Takashi Iwai wrote: At Fri, 29 Nov 2002 08:52:43 +0100 (MET), Clemens Ladisch wrote: Takashi Iwai wrote: Martin Langer wrote: usb hotplug works perfect if my usbmidi client isn't aconnected to another midi client. But the aconnected usb midi device still

Re: [Alsa-devel] trying out usb hotplugs

2002-11-29 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Fri, 29 Nov 2002 08:52:43 +0100 (MET), Clemens Ladisch wrote: Takashi Iwai wrote: Martin Langer wrote: usb hotplug works perfect if my usbmidi client isn't aconnected to another midi client. But the aconnected usb midi device still remains in the clients list, after hotpluging

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: Audigy and AC3-passthrough

2002-11-29 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Thu, 28 Nov 2002 21:47:11 -0500, Boris Shingarov wrote: Takashi, make a patch for emu10k2 to make it work as emu10k1-compatible Are you referring to the recent post from Garin on emu10k1-devel, named Audigy 2 anomalies? As far as I understand, the guy is talking about making

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: rme96 and mmap, bug?

2002-11-29 Thread Anders Torger
On Friday 29 November 2002 00.05, vanDongen-Gilcher wrote: Out of curiosity, What makes a card support mmap directly in general? And what would be missing? I'm sure I'll get corrected if I say something wrong here: If the card itself can transfer its samples from its onboard buffer into

Re: [Alsa-devel] trying out usb hotplugs

2002-11-29 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Takashi Iwai wrote: Martin Langer wrote: usb hotplug works perfect if my usbmidi client isn't aconnected to another midi client. But the aconnected usb midi device still remains in the clients list, after hotpluging out. yep, when the connection exists, the connected devices (on both

[Alsa-devel] Re: Audigy and AC3-passthrough

2002-11-29 Thread Boris Shingarov
Takashi, make a patch for emu10k2 to make it work as emu10k1-compatible Are you referring to the recent post from Garin on emu10k1-devel, named Audigy 2 anomalies? As far as I understand, the guy is talking about making Audigy2 behave like Audigy - not Audigy vs. emu10k1 :-(

[Alsa-devel] Re: rme96 and mmap, bug?

2002-11-29 Thread vanDongen-Gilcher
Out of curiosity, What makes a card support mmap directly in general? And what would be missing? Gerard Anders Torger said at Re: rme96 and mmap, bug?.r[2002/11/27 18:13] The hardware does not support memory mapped I/O, so it is copied by the CPU in the interrupt handler. Thus for that

Re: [Alsa-devel] Envy24HT

2002-11-29 Thread James Stafford
At 12:06 25/11/02, you wrote: On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, James Stafford wrote: Has anyone started work on a driver for the VIA VT1724 (alias Envy24HT)? The company I work for are planning to release a PC104+ card based on this chipset (paired with the VT1616) in the very near future so I have

Re: [Alsa-devel] es18xx - 1869 not working, debugging ALSA drivers

2002-11-29 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Tue, 5 Nov 2002 20:33:16 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've been trying to get ALSA running on my Compaq Armada 3500 for quite a while now. The soundchip is a es1869, which is supposed to be supported by the es18xx driver. It only works 1 out of 10 times though - and I figured

Re: [Alsa-devel] RME HDSP9652

2002-11-29 Thread Justin Cormack
On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 16:22, Justin Cormack wrote: Thanks, this fixes the segfault, and adding the rev 0x64 in snd_hdsp_create makes it work... It recognises the IO box as a digiface which I think is ok (3x adat + midi + 2 * spdif). Playback works, and the mixer is recognised - will test it

Re: [Alsa-devel] Audigy and ac3-passthrough not working..

2002-11-29 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Tue, 5 Nov 2002 12:18:40 +0200 (EET), Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Takashi Iwai wrote: At Sun, 3 Nov 2002 22:49:10 +0200 (EET), Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: Hello! Anyone working with SB Audigy driver to get hwac3 working? unfortunately, it's not supported

Re: [Alsa-devel] RME HDSP9652

2002-11-29 Thread Justin Cormack
On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 15:40, Takashi Iwai wrote: all i need is the PCI ID from you. i've already spoken to RME about the card, and the claim is that it will with the existing h-dsp driver. the only thing that won't work are the RMS meters. the existing driver, however, doesn't

Re: [Alsa-devel] [PATCH] Use rawmidi device name for sequencer client name

2002-11-29 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Thu, 28 Nov 2002 17:00:35 +0100 (MET), Clemens Ladisch wrote: Takashi Iwai wrote: Clemens Ladisch wrote: The snd_seq_midisynth_register_port() function already knows the name of the rawmidi device, so there is no reason to invent another name for the sequencer client. the

Re: [Alsa-devel] Ali5451 on HP VT6200 notebook not working

2002-11-29 Thread Takashi Iwai
Hi, At Thu, 21 Nov 2002 12:29:59 +0100, Rafal Dejewski wrote: Hi, I have HP vt6200 notebook. It has ALI5451 chip. I tried diffrent kernels 2.4.18, 2.4.19, 2.4.20rc1, 2.5.48 and alsa-driver 0.9rc4,rc5,rc6. The standard kernel trident module works OK on all kernels but alsa driver does not

Re: [Alsa-devel] Nforce SPDIF

2002-11-29 Thread Takashi Iwai
At 24 Nov 2002 17:49:55 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have an Nforce equipped Motherboard that has an SPDIF output. The intel8x0 driver works great for the analog out, but no SPDIF. Is the SPDIF supported? at the last time i've tried, it didn't work. above

Re: [Alsa-devel] [PATCH] Use rawmidi device name for sequencer clientname

2002-11-29 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Takashi Iwai wrote: Clemens Ladisch wrote: The snd_seq_midisynth_register_port() function already knows the name of the rawmidi device, so there is no reason to invent another name for the sequencer client. the reason was that many rawmidi devices give the same name even if there are

Re: [Alsa-devel] Am I asking the right people ?

2002-11-29 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 27 Nov 2002 10:46:53 +0100 (CET), Jaroslav wrote: On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Bruce Paterson wrote: Am I sending these queries about the operation of alsa through the API to the right place ? I'm trying to use alsa for a real scientific application and I'm starting to worry it simply

Re: [Alsa-devel] PATCH] SPDIF out clock sync for via8235 / ALC650

2002-11-29 Thread Takashi Iwai
Hi, At 26 Nov 2002 12:42:12 +0100, Antonin ENFRUN wrote: I'm using alsa-driver 0.9.0rc6 on an Asus A7V8X (via8235 southbridge and ALC650 -ac97 compatible- codec). PCM output is fine on the main analog channel, but SPDIF out is not working for any FS != 48khz. Looking at the source, the

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: snd-azt3328 bug.

2002-11-29 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Tue, 26 Nov 2002 22:43:35 +0100, Andreas Mohr wrote: On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 09:37:03AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 3 Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 11:40:38 +0900 From: Patrick Shirkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Boost Hardware To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Alsa-devel] RME HDSP9652

2002-11-29 Thread Takashi Iwai
At 28 Nov 2002 14:39:41 +, Justin Cormack wrote: On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 13:42, Paul Davis wrote: I have just got a couple of the new RME Hammerfall HDSP9652 cards, and find that they are not supported by the snd-hdsp driver yet. The card is basically the same hardware as the other hdsp

Re: [Alsa-devel] RME HDSP9652

2002-11-29 Thread Martin Langer
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 02:39:41PM +, Justin Cormack wrote: On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 13:42, Paul Davis wrote: I have just got a couple of the new RME Hammerfall HDSP9652 cards, and find that they are not supported by the snd-hdsp driver yet. The card is basically the same hardware as the

Re: [Alsa-devel] [PATCH] Use rawmidi device name for sequencer client name

2002-11-29 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Thu, 28 Nov 2002 13:38:01 +0100 (MET), Clemens Ladisch wrote: The snd_seq_midisynth_register_port() function already knows the name of the rawmidi device, so there is no reason to invent another name for the sequencer client. the reason was that many rawmidi devices give the same name

Re: [Alsa-devel] RME HDSP9652

2002-11-29 Thread Justin Cormack
On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 13:42, Paul Davis wrote: I have just got a couple of the new RME Hammerfall HDSP9652 cards, and find that they are not supported by the snd-hdsp driver yet. The card is basically the same hardware as the other hdsp cards but with the io integrated on the card. I would

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: buffer sizes

2002-11-29 Thread Paul Davis
its also worth noting that it too is not immune from missing xruns, but there isn't anything we can do about kernel/driver code that blocks interrupts for an entire buffer :( I do not know how long an entire buffer is. I assume this will differ per card, but how small could the worst-case

[Alsa-devel] Re: buffer sizes

2002-11-29 Thread Mark Swanson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On November 27, 2002 10:04 am, Paul Davis wrote: its also worth noting that it too is not immune from missing xruns, but there isn't anything we can do about kernel/driver code that blocks interrupts for an entire buffer :( I do not know how long

Re: [Alsa-devel] RME HDSP9652

2002-11-29 Thread Paul Davis
I have just got a couple of the new RME Hammerfall HDSP9652 cards, and find that they are not supported by the snd-hdsp driver yet. The card is basically the same hardware as the other hdsp cards but with the io integrated on the card. I would guess that it will need a different firmware and

Re: [Alsa-devel] smix plugin available?

2002-11-29 Thread Paul Davis
actually, it can't. if the user space application is delayed for precisely 1 buffer's worth of data, it will see the pointer at what appears to the the right place and believe that no xrun has occured. the only way around this is to provide either: Well, but if you combine it with the current

[Alsa-devel] [PATCH] Use rawmidi device name for sequencer client name

2002-11-29 Thread Clemens Ladisch
The snd_seq_midisynth_register_port() function already knows the name of the rawmidi device, so there is no reason to invent another name for the sequencer client. Index: alsa-kernel/core/seq/seq_midi.c === RCS file:

Re: [Alsa-devel] trying out usb hotplugs

2002-11-29 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Thu, 28 Nov 2002 01:27:02 +0100, Martin Langer wrote: Hi, usb hotplug works perfect if my usbmidi client isn't aconnected to another midi client. But the aconnected usb midi device still remains in the clients list, after hotpluging out. The next hotplug in of my usb device needs an

Re: [Alsa-devel] Am I asking the right people ?

2002-11-29 Thread Bruce Paterson
Paul Davis wrote: Am I sending these queries about the operation of alsa through the API to the right place ? I'm trying to use alsa for a real scientific application and I'm starting to worry it simply isn't ready yet. the API is ready. the documentation is not. some of us have been using

[Alsa-devel] trying out usb hotplugs

2002-11-29 Thread Martin Langer
Hi, usb hotplug works perfect if my usbmidi client isn't aconnected to another midi client. But the aconnected usb midi device still remains in the clients list, after hotpluging out. The next hotplug in of my usb device needs an aconnect -x before or I won't see my card in /proc/asound/cards

Re: [Alsa-devel] RME HDSP9652

2002-11-29 Thread Justin Cormack
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 17:21, Justin Cormack wrote: I have just got a couple of the new RME Hammerfall HDSP9652 cards, and find that they are not supported by the snd-hdsp driver yet. The card is basically the same hardware as the other hdsp cards but with the io integrated on the card.

Re: [Alsa-devel] smix plugin available?

2002-11-29 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Paul Davis wrote: i see this as more promising than the approach i think you are thinking of. you can't avoid the context switching - they *have* to happen so that the apps can run!! the question is *when* does it happen ... in JACK, they are initiated in a chain when the

Re: [Alsa-devel] smix plugin available?

2002-11-29 Thread tomasz motylewski
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Paul Davis wrote: Please stop the complication of available/delay etc. Just the raw pointer. Each application knows where its application pointer is, so it can easily calculate delay/available and decide for itself whether there was an overrun or not. actually, it

Re: [Alsa-devel] smix plugin available?

2002-11-29 Thread Kai Vehmanen
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Paul Davis wrote: Let's be totally clear about this. its not just that the callback model is suitable - the mserver model will actually not work for sample sync between applications. I have always been sure that the I think this is the critical point. ALSA's smix/mserver

[Alsa-devel] Fwd: Re: DSP24 MEDIA 7.1 - Linux/Alsa support?

2002-11-29 Thread Henry Walpool
Hi Please review the attached message. I was requested to post this message in the alsa-devel group by the author. I would like to get my hoontech/staudio 7.1 sound system working with linux and I'm very close. I still can't control the volume, and I made the changes in the source code

Re: [Alsa-devel] Arm based driver ?

2002-11-29 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Alamy Liu wrote: Hi All, I am going to write a audio driver which connect to ARM based CPU directly using I2C and L3. From the developer's document. It seems the main structure are Card Chipset. In the Card layer, what kind of card driver should I implement ?

Re: [Alsa-devel] smix plugin available?

2002-11-29 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, tomasz motylewski wrote: On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Jaroslav Kysela wrote: In my brain, there is also totaly different solution with the zero context switching overhead - sharing the soundcard DMA buffer among more applications. There is only one problem:

Re: [Alsa-devel] smix plugin available?

2002-11-29 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Paul Davis wrote: This is my personal preference. In this model the only service ALSA has to supply are: 1. initial configuration/start/stop. 2. mmapable DMA buffer 3. fact and precise ioctl telling the current HW pointer in the buffer. If the card is not queried each

Re: Avoiding xruns... was Re: [Alsa-devel] smix plugin available?

2002-11-29 Thread Paul Davis
I am currently taking the following approach: - Always prepare 2 audio hardware periods of sample frames in advance inside the user app. 1) snd_pcm_wait() 2) write() 3) prepare new sample frames, then go back to (1). for lower latency, you'd do: 1) snd_pcm_wait() 2) prepare new sample frames

Re: Avoiding xruns... was Re: [Alsa-devel] smix plugin available?

2002-11-29 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Paul Davis wrote: I am currently taking the following approach: - Always prepare 2 audio hardware periods of sample frames in advance inside the user app. 1) snd_pcm_wait() 2) write() 3) prepare new sample frames, then go back to (1). for lower latency, you'd do: 1) snd_pcm_wait() 2)

Re: [Alsa-devel] smix plugin available?

2002-11-29 Thread Paul Davis
This is my personal preference. In this model the only service ALSA has to supply are: 1. initial configuration/start/stop. 2. mmapable DMA buffer 3. fact and precise ioctl telling the current HW pointer in the buffer. If the card is not queried each time, then the last period interrupt timestamp

[Alsa-devel] Arm based driver ?

2002-11-29 Thread Alamy Liu
Hi All, I am going to write a audio driver which connect to ARM based CPU directly using I2C and L3. From the developer's document. It seems the main structure are Card Chipset. In the Card layer, what kind of card driver should I implement ? A virtual-card ? (exp : i2c/i2c-pxa250.c and

Re: [Alsa-devel] smix plugin available?

2002-11-29 Thread Paul Davis
Sorry, it's not as easy as you've described. It's not possible to invoke any user code from the kernel code directly. There is a scheduler which is informed that a task has been woken up. It depends on scheduler when the task is really invoked. It's quite same as for the r/w model where the

Re: [Alsa-devel] smix plugin available?

2002-11-29 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
tomasz motylewski wrote: Please stop the complication of available/delay etc. Just the raw pointer. Each application knows where its application pointer is, so it can easily calculate delay/available and decide for itself whether there was an overrun or not. I use the delay() function. I

Re: [Alsa-devel] Am I asking the right people ?

2002-11-29 Thread Paul Davis
Am I sending these queries about the operation of alsa through the API to the right place ? I'm trying to use alsa for a real scientific application and I'm starting to worry it simply isn't ready yet. the API is ready. the documentation is not. some of us have been using ALSA to develop

Re: [Alsa-devel] smix plugin available?

2002-11-29 Thread Paul Davis
Ok, it's only simple example, that there are more solutions than Paul suggests. I fully agree, that the callback model is suitable for the perfect synchronization among more applications. Let's be totally clear about this. its not just that the callback model is suitable - the mserver model

Avoiding xruns... was Re: [Alsa-devel] smix plugin available?

2002-11-29 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
I have read your comments below, and I would like to try to explain the problems I am coming up against when writing a multi-media app. I am not going to say that I know everything about kernel scheduling, but for multi media applications, avoiding xruns is a major concern. This becomes

Re: [Alsa-devel] smix plugin available?

2002-11-29 Thread tomasz motylewski
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Jaroslav Kysela wrote: In my brain, there is also totaly different solution with the zero context switching overhead - sharing the soundcard DMA buffer among more applications. There is only one problem: snd_pcm_rewind() implementation This is my personal preference.

Re: [Alsa-devel] Am I asking the right people ?

2002-11-29 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Bruce Paterson wrote: Am I sending these queries about the operation of alsa through the API to the right place ? I'm trying to use alsa for a real scientific application and I'm starting to worry it simply isn't ready yet. I don't pretend to be a developer of alsa

Re: [Alsa-devel] smix plugin available?

2002-11-29 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: Paul Davis wrote: the APIs that are used to write almost all audio software code in production these days all use a callback model. Sorry for questioning this statement. Of course we all don't have any statisti cal data

Re: [Alsa-devel] Driver document for ALSA 0.9.x ?

2002-11-29 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Alamy Liu wrote: I would like to know if there is any Developer documentation for ALSA 0.9.x (or 0.8.x) available ? The docs generated by doxygen from the alsa-lib sources are available at http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-lib/. HTH Clemens

Re: [Alsa-devel] Am I asking the right people ?

2002-11-29 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Bruce Paterson wrote: Am I sending these queries about the operation of alsa through the API to the right place ? I'm trying to use alsa for a real scientific application and I'm starting to worry it simply isn't ready yet. I don't pretend to be a developer of alsa drivers themselves, and I'd

[Alsa-devel] Am I asking the right people ?

2002-11-29 Thread Bruce Paterson
Am I sending these queries about the operation of alsa through the API to the right place ? I'm trying to use alsa for a real scientific application and I'm starting to worry it simply isn't ready yet. I don't pretend to be a developer of alsa drivers themselves, and I'd hoped I didn't need to

[Alsa-devel] Driver document for ALSA 0.9.x ?

2002-11-29 Thread Alamy Liu
Hi All, I am viewing ALSA 0.5.0 Developer documentation at http://www.math.tu-berlin.de/~sbartels/alsa/ I would like to know if there is any Developer documentation for ALSA 0.9.x (or 0.8.x) available ? Regards, Alamy Liu --- This SF.net

Re: [Alsa-devel] HDSP and the hw: interface

2002-11-29 Thread Paul Davis
Ok, thanks for the line out help, and I think I understand how the matrix mixer works, and I can hear stuff through my monitors, but now I can't figure out how to get alsa input or output functioning. I can plug in my mic/pre and hear that through the monitors, and I can use the oss compatability

[Alsa-devel] HDSP and the hw: interface

2002-11-29 Thread drclaw
Ok, thanks for the line out help, and I think I understand how the matrix mixer works, and I can hear stuff through my monitors, but now I can't figure out how to get alsa input or output functioning. I can plug in my mic/pre and hear that through the monitors, and I can use the oss compatability

Re: [Alsa-devel] smix plugin available?

2002-11-29 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Paul Davis wrote: the APIs that are used to write almost all audio software code in production these days all use a callback model. Sorry for questioning this statement. Of course we all don't have any statisti cal data but you miss what I see as the majority of applications that use

Re: [Alsa-devel] smix plugin available?

2002-11-29 Thread Florian Bomers
That makes sense. I also fully agree that callback-driven APIs are better suited for audio. On the other hand, nobody would doubt that o/c/r/w apps would not allow low enough latency for GUI-type apps like EQs (e.g. with buffer sizes of 10-20ms the total latency isn't so inacceptable). But

Re: [Alsa-devel] Extigy testing

2002-11-29 Thread mark
After having been pretty busy at work the past few weeks, this morning I decided to give this testing another shot. Last time I had been able to dicern or notice any change at all when most of the switches were fliped... this time amixer/alsamixer simply seg faults. On console the kernel just

[Alsa-devel] Half Speed on rc6 ?

2002-11-29 Thread Bruce Paterson
Bruce Paterson wrote: Thanks for your reply Daniel. Daniel Haus wrote: Behaviour: The output sound is perfect for about 2 minutes. After that every now and then I get distortion in the audio. No xruns or errors are reported in the software. It sounds like only part of the output buffer is

[Alsa-devel] unresolved symbol snd.o

2002-11-29 Thread Patrick Shirkey
I tried to update the cvs here last night and was getting an error installing the alsa-driver. Something about unresolved symbols in snd.o Going back to cvs from the 18/11 the problem is not there. -- Patrick Shirkey - Boost Hardware Ltd. For the discerning hardware connoisseur

Re: [Alsa-devel] driver's mixer interface

2002-11-29 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Mon, 18 Nov 2002 10:54:09 -0800 (PST), Guilhem Tardy wrote: Hi all, Could anyone tell me the purpose of the index field in struct snd_kcontrol_t ? if there are controls with the same name (e.g. a card with several codec chips), they can be distinguished by different indices. Takashi

Re: [Alsa-devel] USB devices should not oops after disconnect now

2002-11-29 Thread Takashi Iwai
Hi Jaroslav, i'm back from vacation now. At Mon, 25 Nov 2002 19:15:41 +0100 (CET), Jaroslav wrote: Hello all, the subject says everything. CVS contains first code to avoid oops / systems hangs when a running hotplug device is removed from the system. Please, test and report

Re: [Alsa-devel] USB devices should not oops after disconnect now

2002-11-29 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Patrick Shirkey wrote: Jaroslav Kysela wrote: Hello all, the subject says everything. CVS contains first code to avoid oops / systems hangs when a running hotplug device is removed from the system. Please, test and report problems. I have updated and

Re: [Alsa-devel] USB devices should not oops after disconnect now

2002-11-29 Thread Patrick Shirkey
Jaroslav Kysela wrote: Hello all, the subject says everything. CVS contains first code to avoid oops / systems hangs when a running hotplug device is removed from the system. Please, test and report problems. I have updated and now when I disconnect the device it will not register on

Re: [Alsa-devel] USB devices should not oops after disconnect now

2002-11-29 Thread Patrick Shirkey
Jaroslav Kysela wrote: Note that you'll have to terminate all applications using that soundcard before you'll try to reconnect the device again. In next code, hopefully the applications will be somehow terminated to make the cleanup process automatic. Ok. That's the probable cause as I am

Re: [Alsa-devel] USB devices should not oops after disconnect now

2002-11-29 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Patrick Shirkey wrote: Jaroslav Kysela wrote: Note that you'll have to terminate all applications using that soundcard before you'll try to reconnect the device again. In next code, hopefully the applications will be somehow terminated to make the cleanup process

[Alsa-devel] AD1816

2002-11-29 Thread Martin Langer
Hi, there was no ad1816 document on ftp.alsa-project.org and so I was looking around and I found one here, but I don't know how long it's there... http://theblue.net/hardware/datasheet/Converter/AD1816.PDF martin -- 2b|!2b --- This

Re: [Alsa-devel] cs4236 on thinkpad 600e problem!

2002-11-29 Thread Takashi Iwai
Hi, At Tue, 26 Nov 2002 10:04:45 +0530, Pannaga Bhushan wrote: Hi all, I have a cs4236 chipset which was working fine till abt 5 days back. but now seems to have gone dead. i just cannot get any sound out of it at all. then, could you try again the old version whether it really

Re: [Alsa-devel] Major Bug in Alsa 0.9 for over 1 year

2002-11-29 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I allways have the same bug when trying to modprobe the cs4232 or cs4236 sounddriver for my Terratec EWS654XL soundcard. The bug is called unresolved symbol, this bug exists in ALSA 0.9 since the existing of ALSA 0.9. I tried nearly every ALSA 0.9x version.