[Alsa-devel] 1.0.0pre1 / ice1712 / mplayer-oss-delay

2003-11-20 Thread Steffen Sauder
Takashi Iwai wrote: - PCM OSS emulation was fixed, e.g. mplayer delay problem should be fixed now. Hopefully this doesn't introduce another bug... Strange, the new version doesn't seem to behave any different than the last cvs version I tested (Nov-02) (is there maybe any reason why make

Re: [Alsa-devel] USB Audio problems

2003-11-20 Thread Niklas Werner
Karim Yaghmour wrote: Well, it seems that I'm going to have to answer my own self ... :) Yes, usb-audio seems to be a bit forgotten... (Takashi, those mplayer-plughw-segfaults still persist, even on x86 and even with kernel 2.4 (current cvs of drivers/lib, of course) The following is what I've

Re: [Alsa-devel] 1.0.0pre1: au88x0 driver locks up kernel

2003-11-20 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Thu, 20 Nov 2003 00:42:33 -0500, Carolyn and Eric Hathaway wrote: I'm running RedHat 7.3 (RH kernel 2.4.20-20.7, gcc 2.96-113), and have a generic Aureal Vortex 1 card (au8820 chipset). Compiling and installing the 1.0.0pre1 ALSA driver works fine, but if I do a 'modprobe snd-au8820',

[Alsa-devel] Re: Testers of via82xx 5.1 output - report - swapped output still there

2003-11-20 Thread Richard Chan
via82xx with ALC655/8 patch and 1.0.0pre1 Summary - Swapped output 2,3==Center/LFE and 4,5==Surround has not been fixed by the patch. /proc/asound cat version Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.0pre1. Compiled on Nov 20 2003 for kernel 2.6.0-test9.2R. /proc/asound cat

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: Testers of via82xx 5.1 output - report - swapped output still there

2003-11-20 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Thu, 20 Nov 2003 18:29:17 +0800, Richard Chan wrote: via82xx with ALC655/8 patch and 1.0.0pre1 Summary - Swapped output 2,3==Center/LFE and 4,5==Surround has not been fixed by the patch. hmm...i'm puzzled. there must be no longer Swap Surround Slot control, anyway. can you confirm

Re: [Alsa-devel] 1.0.0pre1 / ice1712 / mplayer-oss-delay

2003-11-20 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Thu, 20 Nov 2003 11:01:24 +0100, Steffen Sauder wrote: Takashi Iwai wrote: - PCM OSS emulation was fixed, e.g. mplayer delay problem should be fixed now. Hopefully this doesn't introduce another bug... Strange, the new version doesn't seem to behave any different than the last

Re: [Alsa-devel] USB Audio problems

2003-11-20 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Thu, 20 Nov 2003 11:04:52 +0100, Niklas Werner wrote: Karim Yaghmour wrote: Well, it seems that I'm going to have to answer my own self ... :) Yes, usb-audio seems to be a bit forgotten... (Takashi, those mplayer-plughw-segfaults still persist, even on x86 and even with kernel

RE: [Alsa-devel] Pops at start of song

2003-11-20 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Mark Knecht wrote: Steve, You're the first person I can remember to report something very similar to what I'm dealing with every day. I get a huge loud cracking noise at the start of any audio operation that is not vanilla Alsa - i.e. - anything accessing OSS I think.

Re: [Alsa-devel] Pops at start of song

2003-11-20 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Steve deRosier wrote: Mark, I don't know if it's the same effect or not. We're working on an embedded Linux device. It has a full Linux kernel and basically is a hand-built distribution of stock Linux stuff, but is very stripped down and some of our apps are

Re: [Alsa-devel] 1.0.0pre1: au88x0 driver locks up kernel

2003-11-20 Thread Sergey Vlasov
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 11:21:43AM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote: At Thu, 20 Nov 2003 00:42:33 -0500, Carolyn and Eric Hathaway wrote: I'm running RedHat 7.3 (RH kernel 2.4.20-20.7, gcc 2.96-113), and have a generic Aureal Vortex 1 card (au8820 chipset). Compiling and installing the

Re: [Alsa-devel] 1.0.0pre1: au88x0 driver locks up kernel

2003-11-20 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Thu, 20 Nov 2003 15:17:31 +0300, Sergey Vlasov wrote: [1 text/plain; us-ascii (7bit)] On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 11:21:43AM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote: At Thu, 20 Nov 2003 00:42:33 -0500, Carolyn and Eric Hathaway wrote: I'm running RedHat 7.3 (RH kernel 2.4.20-20.7, gcc 2.96-113),

Re: [Alsa-devel] USB Audio problems

2003-11-20 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Thu, 20 Nov 2003 00:50:03 -0500, Karim Yaghmour wrote: Well, it seems that I'm going to have to answer my own self ... :) The following is what I've been able to find using additional tracing info. Also there's a fix for usbaudio.c. Basically, it's as I said before: the usbaudio

Re: [Alsa-devel] USB Audio problems

2003-11-20 Thread Patrick Shirkey
Takashi Iwai wrote: the current code is surely buggy, because it issues sync unlink inside the spinlocked context. it's problematic on 2.6 kernel or SMP system, and may result in kernel oops. i added async_unlink module option to change the behavior in the new version. but it's still disabled as

[Alsa-devel] ice1712 dshare asoundrc config problem

2003-11-20 Thread Garett Shulman
Hello, I am having three particular issues that I was hopeing someone might have some insight into. I have an ice1712 card and would like to be able to have the digital mixer mix xmms fluidsynth so I can jam with mp3s. Here is the asoundrc I have created so far: pcm.44_1 { type dshare

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: ALSA 1.0.0pre1 is released - intel8x0 is oopsing (2.6)

2003-11-20 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Thu, 20 Nov 2003 15:44:53 +0800, R CHAN wrote: Just tried ALSA CVS and 2.6.0-test9 current bk. CVS snd-intel8x0 is oopsing. could you try the attached patch? Takashi intel8x0-fix.dif Description: Binary data

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: Testers of via82xx 5.1 output - report - swapped output still there

2003-11-20 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Thu, 20 Nov 2003 22:53:16 +0800, Richard Chan wrote: Takashi Iwai wrote: At Thu, 20 Nov 2003 18:29:17 +0800, Richard Chan wrote: via82xx with ALC655/8 patch and 1.0.0pre1 Summary - Swapped output 2,3==Center/LFE and 4,5==Surround has not been fixed by the patch.

[Alsa-devel] 3D accelration control interface

2003-11-20 Thread Manuel Jander
Hi, I asked this before, but since nothing seems to happen by itself, i decided to start designing a control interface for ALSA to handle hardware assisted 3D positional audio. Goals of the design: * Provide a standart naming scheme to access 3D capable audio streams. * Provide a very thin

RE: [Alsa-devel] Pops at start of song

2003-11-20 Thread Mark Knecht
Jaroslav, I certainly want you to know that I have always sensed your commitment to solving these problems and making Alsa better. I also understand that it's terribly difficult for you to debug these things at a distance with a putz like me who isn't a developer, and apparently the only person

Re: [Alsa-devel] 3D accelration control interface

2003-11-20 Thread Justin Cormack
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 17:11, Manuel Jander wrote: Hi, I asked this before, but since nothing seems to happen by itself, i decided to start designing a control interface for ALSA to handle hardware assisted 3D positional audio. Goals of the design: * Provide a standart naming scheme to

Re: [Alsa-devel] 3D accelration control interface

2003-11-20 Thread Manuel Jander
Hi, Is there any hardware with enough documentation to write a driver? I guess, yes. AFAIK the ESS maestro3 HRTF engine is documented. For the aureal Vortex soundcards, there is no documentation at all, but i have just finished to tranlate the entire 3D interface code (disassembling the

Re: [Alsa-devel] Pops at start of song

2003-11-20 Thread Martin Langer
Ok, it's a thing that we would like to eliminate, but when I tried to figure what's going on in the past, I wasn't successful. The best thing to measure if ALSA sends a wrong sample sequence to the output is to use the digital I/O (S/PDIF or profi IEC958) for on playback side and

Re: [Alsa-devel] USB Audio problems

2003-11-20 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Niklas Werner wrote: hmmm, the submit_urb-error is gone, but random lockups and usb-device-disconnect until reboot have come... (bitkeeper-2.6 from just one hour ago...) with your function. Interesting. I haven't seen any of these. Karim -- Author, Speaker, Developer, Consultant Pushing

Re: [Alsa-devel] USB Audio problems

2003-11-20 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Takashi Iwai wrote: it'd be better to clean unlink_mask in the complete callback for the case you use async unlink mode (see below). and, the check of active_mask should be done in prepare callback, not in the trigger callback. the trigger callback must be as short as possible. we can put

Re: [Alsa-devel] 3D accelration control interface

2003-11-20 Thread Ville Syrjälä
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 06:25:39PM +, Justin Cormack wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 17:11, Manuel Jander wrote: Hi, I asked this before, but since nothing seems to happen by itself, i decided to start designing a control interface for ALSA to handle hardware assisted 3D positional

Re: [Alsa-devel] 3D accelration control interface

2003-11-20 Thread Manuel Jander
Hi, This is quote from the OpenAL devel list: ---/quote start ... All the fancy features that come along for the ride with DirectSound 3D under Windows -- such as HRTF -- will be there when using the DS3D backend for OpenAL under Windows. If the

[Alsa-devel] ALSA-CVS : delay in audio with OSS emulation

2003-11-20 Thread Chris Rankin
Hi, I've been noticing this for weeks, and it's still present in 1.0.0-pre1 (fresh from CVS): using RealPlayer v8 with OSS emulation, the sound is now several seconds behind the pictures. I haven't touched my RealPlayer installation, and there is no such delay if I use the native OSS drivers

[Alsa-devel] Uninstalling alsa drivers, lib, tools, oss and utils

2003-11-20 Thread Paul Hanly \(Hotmail\)
Could the files for each alsa download have an additional file added: UNINSTALL so that newbies who are trying alsa can know exactly what to do to uninstall and return their system to the exact state it was before their failed install. The same content could be in a section of the INSTALL

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: ALSA 1.0.0pre1 is released - intel8x0 is oopsing (2.6) - FIXED!

2003-11-20 Thread R CHAN
The oops has been fixed by the intel8x0 patch. Thanks. /proc/asound/card0 cat ../cards 0 [I82801DBICH4 ]: ICH - Intel 82801DB-ICH4 Intel 82801DB-ICH4 at 0xda00, irq 10 /proc/asound/card0 cat codec97#0/ac97#0-0 0-0/0: Realtek ALC202 rev 0 Capabilities : DAC

[Alsa-devel] Kernel oops/panic/hang with ALSA 1.0.0pre1 on Linux 2.4.22 with OSS emulation

2003-11-20 Thread Drake Wilson
After installing an unpatched ALSA 1.0.0pre1 on Linux 2.4.22, modprobe of snd-intel8x0 caused a kernel oops, and left the module in some strange half-initialized state from which it was impossible to rmmod it. Reboot followed. Patching with the recent intel8x0-fix.dif posted to the list,

Re: [Alsa-devel] [ANN] ALSA 1.0.0pre1 is released

2003-11-20 Thread Takashi Iwai
At 19 Nov 2003 17:30:29 -0800, Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote: as you might have already seen on the web news page, we released 1.0.0pre1 tarball. This is intended for the wide tests before the official 1.0.0 release. We planned to release 1.0.0 (hopefully) in this month, so please

[Alsa-devel] Re: [Alsa-user] [ANN] ALSA 1.0.0pre1 is released

2003-11-20 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Thu, 20 Nov 2003 10:30:32 -0800 (PST), Dave Neuer wrote: --- Takashi Iwai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, - PCM OSS emulation might cause oops when you compile the kernel without frame pointer (depending on the compiler). Hi, As a Gentoo user whose make.conf includes

[Alsa-devel] ice1712 dshare asoundrc

2003-11-20 Thread Garett Shulman
I would really like to do hardware mixing since my card should support it. I have been hacking away trying to google and decypher the plugin docs and have created the following asoundrc. However, when I try to run a second instance of fluidsynth on 44_2 I get the following error: ALSA lib