[Alsa-devel] Suggestion: Multichannel enharnacements to alsa-lib.

2002-10-02 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Hello It would be nice if there was a feature in alsa that would let the user tell alsa which speakers are plugged into which sound card sockets. E.g. On sound card 0, I have: - Left speaker in Stereo Jack 1-Left Right speaker in Stereo Jack 1-Right Rear Left in Stereo Jack 2 - Left Rear Right

[Alsa-devel] ALSA in 2.5.x

2002-10-02 Thread Peter L Jones
Hi all, I was wondering when we can expect an update to ALSA in the kernel source - we're still on -rc2, aren't we? Now that 2.5.x is getting a little more useable, I'd like to start running it again (I stopped at 2.5.25 as it really did become too dangerous). But I want ALSA :-) I'm

Re: [Alsa-devel] update of known bugs list

2002-10-02 Thread Thierry Vignaud
Takashi Iwai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * via8233 -- fixed no problems now (on cvs it's merged together with via686 as snd-via82xx driver) i got reports saying via686 produce digital noise since we switched from alsa-0.9.0 rc2 to rc3

Re: [Alsa-devel] update of known bugs list

2002-10-02 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 02 Oct 2002 13:25:00 +0200, Thierry Vignaud wrote: Takashi Iwai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * via8233 -- fixed no problems now (on cvs it's merged together with via686 as snd-via82xx driver) i got reports saying via686 produce digital noise since we switched from

Re: [Alsa-devel] update of known bugs list

2002-10-02 Thread Thierry Vignaud
Takashi Iwai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i got reports saying via686 produce digital noise since we switched from alsa-0.9.0 rc2 to rc3 drivers for via chip were merged now to snd-via82xx, and many fixes have been done on it. please check the cvs version. that's what i said to the guy but

[Alsa-devel] Re: questions for alsa-devel

2002-10-02 Thread Takashi Iwai
Hi Paul, At Wed, 2 Oct 2002 07:57:57 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: takashi - i can't post to alsa-devel at the moment (my ISP and sf.net have messed up their configuration somehow). oh it's bad... i tried sending these via jaroslav, but i got no reply whatsoever and they never showed up on

Re: [Alsa-devel] ALSA in 2.5.x

2002-10-02 Thread Peter L Jones
On Wednesday 02 Oct 2002 11:44, Jaroslav Kysela wrote: On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Peter L Jones wrote: Hi all, I was wondering when we can expect an update to ALSA in the kernel source - we're still on -rc2, aren't we? Now that 2.5.x is getting a little more useable, I'd like to start

[Alsa-devel] Re: questions for alsa-devel

2002-10-02 Thread Thierry Vignaud
Takashi Iwai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2) i recently compiled rc3 on a mandrake 8.2 system. everything went smoothly. when i went to modprobe, i got messages suggesting to me that there a mismatch between the kernels and the ALSA modules with respect to symbol versioning. (several

[Alsa-devel] Re: questions for alsa-devel

2002-10-02 Thread Thierry Vignaud
Takashi Iwai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 4) note that if you boot with a kernel with alsa-0.9.0, all your alsa apps won't work unless you use them in oss emulation mode. why? is there any incompatibility? i presume you joke ? remember the incompatible apis of alsa-0.5.x and alsa-0.9.x

Re: [Alsa-devel] USB Audio/Midiman - partial success

2002-10-02 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Thu, 26 Sep 2002 12:42:32 -0700 (PDT), Fedor G. Pikus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is the right interface and altset (I was capturing with -r 96000 -f S16_LE). Two more files from proc about this pcm: pcm0c/sub0/hw_params access: RW_INTERLEAVED format: S16_LE subformat: STD channels:

Re: [Alsa-devel] pkg-config for alsa?

2002-10-02 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello! I haven't done any development for sound in the userspace, so don't put too much weight into my words, but for what it's worth ... i'd like to rewrite configure for alsa-utils and alsa-tools to use pkg-config for alsa-lib. you might have found alsa.pc already in alsa-lib. the only

Re: [Alsa-devel] pkg-config for alsa?

2002-10-02 Thread Takashi Iwai
Hi, At Wed, 2 Oct 2002 09:46:52 -0400 (EDT), Pavel Roskin wrote: Hello! I haven't done any development for sound in the userspace, so don't put too much weight into my words, but for what it's worth ... i'd like to rewrite configure for alsa-utils and alsa-tools to use pkg-config

Forward: Re: [Alsa-devel] pkg-config for alsa?

2002-10-02 Thread Takashi Iwai
---BeginMessage--- [ please forward to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] While at this issue, is it possible to compile everything from CVS without intermediate installs? I mean, compile alsa-lib against the headers of alsa-driver in CVS and alsa-util against alsa-lib in CVS. If it's possible, please make

[Alsa-devel] Forward: Re: questions for alsa-devel

2002-10-02 Thread Takashi Iwai
---BeginMessage--- [ the usual forward request for [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] i have a bit of a problem with all of this. why doesn't ALSA build out of the box? the description you've given of what is necessary to get this to work seems (for the most part) to be a bit ridiculous. insulting

[Alsa-devel] Re: questions for alsa-devel

2002-10-02 Thread Thierry Vignaud
Paul Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: its just that my experience of using ALSA for several years when built with a kernel from kernel.org has been that i just type: cd .../alsa-cvs/alsa-{driver,lib,utils} then cvscompile or ./configure make make install and it works. i

Re: [Alsa-devel] Forward: Re: questions for alsa-devel

2002-10-02 Thread Takashi Iwai
i have a bit of a problem with all of this. why doesn't ALSA build out of the box? the description you've given of what is necessary to get this to work seems (for the most part) to be a bit ridiculous. insulting people that take time to answer you has always been a constructive

[Alsa-devel] Forward: Re: questions for alsa-devel

2002-10-02 Thread Matthias Saou
Once upon a time, Takashi wrote : the problem is that many different kernel binaries are built using the same kernel tree, i.e. there are many different kernel configs while there is only one kernel-source package. thus you have to adjust the kernel config by yourself anyway. in case

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: questions for alsa-devel

2002-10-02 Thread Patrick Shirkey
Takashi Iwai wrote: Hi, At Wed, 02 Oct 2002 15:17:10 +0200, Thierry Vignaud wrote: Takashi Iwai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2) i recently compiled rc3 on a mandrake 8.2 system. everything went smoothly. when i went to modprobe, i got messages suggesting to me that there a mismatch between

Re: [Alsa-devel] ALSA in 2.5.x

2002-10-02 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Peter L Jones wrote: On Wednesday 02 Oct 2002 11:44, Jaroslav Kysela wrote: [snip] ALSA tree was fully synced with kernel yesterday. Not all changes are in 2.5.40. Please, wait for 2.5.41 or get the kernel sources from BitKeeper repository of 2.5.

Re: [Alsa-devel] Forward: Re: questions for alsa-devel

2002-10-02 Thread Thierry Vignaud
Matthias Saou [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've managed to work something out for Red Hat Linux that should be easily portable to Mandrake I guess (then again, they already have ALSA 0.5.x built in, is that what I understood from the last few mails??). yep, we shipped alsa-0.5.x for quite some

Re: [Alsa-devel] Forward: Re: questions for alsa-devel

2002-10-02 Thread Matthias Saou
Once upon a time, Thierry wrote : since it must be rebuild for each kernel, we integrated in our kernel package (first as a separate tarball with configure/make/..., now we untar it under sound in kernel linux sources and apply a few patches to config.in so that there's one make to run)

Re: [Alsa-devel] ALSA in 2.5.x

2002-10-02 Thread Peter L Jones
On Wednesday 02 Oct 2002 11:44, Jaroslav Kysela wrote: [snip] ALSA tree was fully synced with kernel yesterday. Not all changes are in 2.5.40. Please, wait for 2.5.41 or get the kernel sources from BitKeeper repository of 2.5. Jaroslav Takashi,

Re: [Alsa-devel] Forward: Re: questions for alsa-devel

2002-10-02 Thread Jack O'Quin
Matthias Saou [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: All this will get so much easier once stable kernels used by Linux distributions come with ALSA by default ;-) Sure will. Providing we stay focused on maintaining binary compatibility... :-) -- Jack O'Quin Austin, Texas, USA

Re: [Alsa-devel] Forward: Re: questions for alsa-devel

2002-10-02 Thread Thierry Vignaud
Matthias Saou [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: All this will get so much easier once stable kernels used by Linux distributions come with ALSA by default ;-) suse mandrake come with alsa in their kernel, debian has a package, rh doesn't since linus posts on klm seems to indicate we'll have a new

[Alsa-devel] Breakage in alsa-driver/include/adriver.h on CVS

2002-10-02 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello! ALSA on CVS doesn't compile. alsa-driver/include/adriver.h has several problems: /usr/local/src/alsa/alsa-driver/include/adriver.h:186: parse error before `dir' /usr/local/src/alsa/alsa-driver/include/adriver.h:188: multiple storage classes in declaration of

[Alsa-devel] Audiophile 2496 S/PDIF Support

2002-10-02 Thread Robert Robinson
This is a re-post. We are still interested to know if work is planned to implement digital I/O support for the M-Audio Audiophile 2496. Analog I/O works fine with ALSA. Thank you. Robbie --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome

[Alsa-devel] xrun recovery

2002-10-02 Thread Florian Bomers
Hi, I was wondering for the example xrun_recovery function: http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-lib/_2test_2pcm_8c-example.html#a15 In the ESTRPIPE case, it repeats to resume until it does not return EAGAIN anymore. Then it calls snd_pcm_prepare only if snd_pcm_resume returned a negative