Hi - I've been desperately trolling dejanews and google for ages trying
to get this issue sussed. I've just got an AudioExcel AV512 (CMI8737
chipset - cmipci driver), and I'm trying to get multiple sound sources
simultaneously a-la-esd using the latest and greatest beta ALSA drivers
I've given up on trying to get Alsa 0.9.0beta10 working with Linux 2.4.17,
so I went back to 0.5.12a. Normal sound works fine -- recording,
playback, etc.
The problem is anytime I try to access /dev/sequencer with a MIDI
application, then entire system locks up. Hard freeze -- cursor stops
On Sat, 2001-12-29 at 11:30, Erik Lotspeich wrote:
I've given up on trying to get Alsa 0.9.0beta10 working with Linux 2.4.17,
so I went back to 0.5.12a. Normal sound works fine -- recording,
playback, etc.
Hmm. I couldn't get 0.9.0beta10 to work with 2.4.17, either. However, it
just occurred
I'm afraid the SB 128 PCI does not natively support midi. That's
why you have to do all the wave-synthesis in software. Timidity
can do this for you (recent versions at least).
You have to compile timidity with support for alsa sequencer.
That's the option --enable-alsaseq to configure.
Then
I tried to send AC3 data via SPDIF and a CMI8738 card (Leadtek Winfast 6x)
with ./tools/extract_ac3 /cdrom/AC3TEST.VOB | ./ac3dec
I got
5.1 Mode 48.0 KHz 448 kbps English Complete Main Audio Service
and a nice audio over SPDIF but downmixed to 2 channels
if I try the raw mode:
It's not a PnP card, forget about ISAPNP. I have a
Tecra 8000 and alsa 0.9beta10 works, except for MIDI
(a bug, not a feature). Make sure your BIOS config is
in Setup by OS mode and use the default values.
Here's my modules.conf:
=
#
# YaST2: sound cards
I took a bit of a break from my ALSA problem and now I'm back into it.
I've tried recompiling the alsa-driver (0.9.0B10) with the default /usr
prefix. I'm using these configure flags, for driver and lib:
./configure --with-oss=no --with-debug=full --with-debug=detect
--without-sequencer
Okay, Thanks for the feedback. I'll work on that today and let the list know
how it goes.
In your opinion, which of the .9 versions are best? I have been seeing mixed
reviews of them all here on the list.
-Eric
On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 09:38:22AM -0500, David Gerard Matthews Jr. wrote:
On Fri, 2001-12-28 at 23:13, Michael Leone wrote:
Anybody using ALSA .9beta10 with kernel 2.4.17? I seem to be getting no
sound, but OSS sound works. SoundBlaster Live!; Mandrake 8.1.
Answering my own question I get unresolved symbols in the
snd-rawmidi module, and so the ALSA drivers do
