Re: [Alsa-user] (snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL hw:0

2006-11-15 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Chuck Harrison wrote: It looks to me that /dev/snd/controlC0 was opened successfully but sound_ctl_nopdate disliked something about what it saw. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# strace -eopen aplay -l ... open(/dev/snd/controlC0, O_RDONLY)= 3 List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ALSA lib

Re: [Alsa-user] (snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL hw:0

2006-11-15 Thread Chuck Harrison
Hi Clemens, Contrary to what you expect, /dev/snd/controlC0 *does* get opened before alsa.conf gets stat'ed or opened. I added a simple alsa.conf file [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# cat /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf pcm.card0 { type hw card 0 } ctl.card0 { type hw card 0 } and here is the

[Alsa-user] Driver status of the Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live 24-bit external 7.1 USB?

2006-11-15 Thread Jan Ries
Hello, I'd like to purchase a (good) usb soundcard for a laptop. The technical specs the 'Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live 24-bit external 7.1 USB' fit my needs. Yet there is the Problem with the driver support. The alsa-soundcard-matrix

Re: [Alsa-user] getting hdsp multiface to work on a laptop

2006-11-15 Thread Rich E
I'm keeping this alive... after all, it will work eventually... I can run the oss driver at samplerates to 96k with 8 i/o, so it can't be the pcmcia card, although it may be the way alsa talks with the pcmcia card. This might not actually be true, now that I think of it: When I run hdspconf and

Re: [Alsa-user] capturing line-in

2006-11-15 Thread conrad berhörster
Am Dienstag 14 November 2006 16:16 schrieb Clemens Ladisch: These are for cases where multiple codec chips are connected to the southbridge. To select the line input for recording, start alsamixer, press F4, go to the Line control, and press Space. Hallo Clemens, Thanks, this was the hint,

Re: [Alsa-user] Driver status of the Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live 24-bit external 7.1 USB?

2006-11-15 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Jan Ries wrote: Hello, I'd like to purchase a (good) usb soundcard for a laptop. The technical specs the 'Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live 24-bit external 7.1 USB' fit my needs. Yet there is the Problem with the driver support. The alsa-soundcard-matrix

[Alsa-user] Trying to get an RME Multiface working on an old Compaq Evo N1000C and under openSUSE 10.1

2006-11-15 Thread Tim Barker
Dear all, Have been trying to get an old Compaq working for a portable recording solution with an RME Multiface DSP. Why? Well the original disc crashed and I don't want to reinstall Windows and set up Cubase (which works fine with the RME) but would prefer to try Linux and Rosegarden (or

Re: [Alsa-user] Driver status of the Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live 24-bit external 7.1 USB?

2006-11-15 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Jan Ries wrote: I'd like to purchase a (good) usb soundcard for a laptop. The technical specs the 'Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live 24-bit external 7.1 USB' fit my needs. What are your needs? I did not find a device with that name on Creative's web site. The Live 24-bit external thingy has 5.1

Re: [Alsa-user] (snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL hw:0

2006-11-15 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Chuck Harrison wrote: Contrary to what you expect, /dev/snd/controlC0 *does* get opened before alsa.conf gets stat'ed or opened. This is actually OK, that device file is also used to make sure that the sound card driver is loaded, and this happens before the control device is opened. I added

Re: [Alsa-user] Ego Systems (ESI) M4U: midi notes will only be played if previous notes have ended

2006-11-15 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Jacco Kramer wrote: On 11/6/06, Clemens Ladisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's possible that the M4U does not have an input buffer as big as it claims it has. As a workaround, try to change line 921 or so of usbmidi.c from ep-max_transfer = usb_maxpacket(umidi-chip-dev, pipe, 1);

[Alsa-user] ALSA usb sound card on ARM

2006-11-15 Thread Victor Librado
Hi all, I'm trying to connect a USB sound card to an ARM evaluation board. The ARM is running a Linux 2.6.15 kernel compiled with the option of ALSA support and USB device compiled as kernel options. Plugging the sound card to the board causes next exception: # ALSA sound/usb/usbmixer.c:393:

Re: [Alsa-user] Headphone + snd_hda_intel ?

2006-11-15 Thread Patrick J Kobly
G'day, What behaviour do you get with 1.0.13 as opposed to 1.0.1[012]? (do speakers still work, does sound not work at all or stutter,...). steef is probably going to respond that you should try adding disable_msi=1 as a module parameter (and that's not a half bad idea, it seems to help a

[Alsa-user] alsaconf: setup of soundchip VIA 8237 fails - SuSE-Linux 9.2

2006-11-15 Thread Heinz Knoche
Dear people! Without success I tried to set up my soundchip. I noted: 1. The alsa-driver via82xx is sharing IRQ 3 with ehci_hcd (related to the usb-system ??). 2. How could I prevent the usb-drivers from being loaded at boot? 3. How could I asign interrupts differently? 4. Is it at all possible

Re: [Alsa-user] Driver status of the Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live 24-bit external 7.1 USB?

2006-11-15 Thread Jan Ries
Am Mittwoch, 15. November 2006 13:20 schrieb Clemens Ladisch: What are your needs? Analog line-in/line-out (stereo) with a decent signal-to-noise ratio, therefore 24bit sampling resolution preferred. I did not find a device with that name on Creative's web site. The Live 24-bit external

Re: [Alsa-user] (snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL hw:0

2006-11-15 Thread Chuck Harrison
Thanks, Clemens! [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# aplay -l List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices card 0: default [C-Media USB Headphone Set ], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# aplay -D plughw:0,0 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Noise.wav

[Alsa-user] No sound on Lenovo Thinkpad Z61p using FC5

2006-11-15 Thread Glenn Connery
When I first installed FC5 I had sound. I did a yum update, sometime in October, and still had sound. I installed a variety of programs--mplayer, vlc, etc--including codecs, and somewhere along the way my sound went away. I have looked at the mixer settings in both alsa and oss and see

Re: [Alsa-user] snd_hda_intel on Asus M2N32 WS Pro Asus MB

2006-11-15 Thread Mws
On Sunday 12 November 2006 23:51, steef wrote: Mws wrote: On Sunday 12 November 2006 00:05, steef wrote: Mws wrote: On Monday 06 November 2006 11:43, Mws wrote: hiho, i encountered some problems after upgrading to kernel 2.6.19-rc4 vanilla from kernel

Re: [Alsa-user] snd_hda_intel on Asus M2N32 WS Pro Asus MB

2006-11-15 Thread Mws
--snip-- HA! i just recognised the alsa hda_intel thread on kernel ml and linus statements on MSI. so my first try has been to disable msi in kernel config make install reboot hmm, starting x and kde brought up a freezed machine like i had sometime before. then i took my kernel config again,

Re: [Alsa-user] snd_hda_intel on Asus M2N32 WS Pro Asus MB

2006-11-15 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 20:51 +0100, Mws wrote: hmm, starting x and kde brought up a freezed machine like i had sometime before. then i took my kernel config again, re-enabled msi make install reboot BUT with kernel cmd pci=nomsi Sounds like upstream kernel bug. Apparently it's a

[Alsa-user] AC3 passthrough on nForce 570?

2006-11-15 Thread Sean Cier
Hello, all; I'm running Fedora Core 6 (with updates from Fedora and ATRPMS) on a new x86_64 machine with an nForce 570 motherboard chipset, and am passing SPDIF to an external receiver. Stereo's working fine, but I can't get AC3 (or presumably DTS, though I haven't tried) passthrough to work.