Re: [gentoo-user] USB sound

2020-05-01 Thread Steve Evans
On Fri, 1 May 2020 19:42:54 +0100 Steve Evans wrote: > On Fri, 1 May 2020 09:34:56 -0700 > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 12:33 AM Peter Humphrey > > wrote: > > > > > > On Wednesday, 29 April 2020 20:37:23 BST Michael wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, 29 April 2020 16:24:31 BST

Re: [gentoo-user] USB sound

2020-05-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 11:43 AM Steve Evans wrote: > > On Fri, 1 May 2020 09:34:56 -0700 > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > QUESTION: I'm curious as to whether your Gentoo and my Kubuntu > > systemsettings are more similar. Did adding the pulseaudio flag > > create the Sound->Multimedia section with an

Re: [gentoo-user] USB sound

2020-05-01 Thread Steve Evans
On Fri, 1 May 2020 09:34:56 -0700 Mark Knecht wrote: > On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 12:33 AM Peter Humphrey > wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, 29 April 2020 20:37:23 BST Michael wrote: > > > On Wednesday, 29 April 2020 16:24:31 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > > > Have I to go the PulseAudio route

Re: [gentoo-user] USB sound

2020-05-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 12:33 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Wednesday, 29 April 2020 20:37:23 BST Michael wrote: > > On Wednesday, 29 April 2020 16:24:31 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > Have I to go the PulseAudio route after all? > > > > You do not *have to*, but if you find the PulseAudio

Re: [gentoo-user] USB sound

2020-05-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 29 April 2020 20:37:23 BST Michael wrote: > On Wednesday, 29 April 2020 16:24:31 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Have I to go the PulseAudio route after all? > > You do not *have to*, but if you find the PulseAudio server and associated > GUI/CLI tools are convenient for you, then

Re: [gentoo-user] USB sound

2020-04-29 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 29 April 2020 16:24:31 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday, 29 April 2020 10:15:09 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I'm still puzzled at why creating an asound.conf enabled - phonon? - to > > pick the right device. Alsa is not installed here, apart from alsa-lib; > > no

Re: [gentoo-user] USB sound

2020-04-29 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 10:24 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: [...] > Have I to go the PulseAudio route after all? > Hi Peter; I had refrained to comment in this thread since I had nothing to contribute regarding your original question. However, since you now ask if you should go to the PA route, I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] USB sound

2020-04-29 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 8:25 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Wednesday, 29 April 2020 10:15:09 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > I'm still puzzled at why creating an asound.conf enabled - phonon? - to pick > > the right device. Alsa is not installed here, apart from alsa-lib; no > > applications. >

Re: [gentoo-user] USB sound

2020-04-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 29 April 2020 10:15:09 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > I'm still puzzled at why creating an asound.conf enabled - phonon? - to pick > the right device. Alsa is not installed here, apart from alsa-lib; no > applications. Well, that was a hostage to fortune. Today, after a reboot and

Re: [gentoo-user] USB sound

2020-04-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 28 April 2020 23:41:59 BST Michael wrote: > On Tuesday, 28 April 2020 19:29:18 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 8:11 AM Peter Humphrey > > wrote: > > > On Tuesday, 28 April 2020 15:21:09 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > > Ah, so now we have more clues about what's going on.

Re: [gentoo-user] USB sound

2020-04-28 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 28 April 2020 19:29:18 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 8:11 AM Peter Humphrey > wrote: > > On Tuesday, 28 April 2020 15:21:09 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > Ah, so now we have more clues about what's going on. KDE supplies > pulseaudio. AFAIK it's part of the KDE

Re: [gentoo-user] USB sound

2020-04-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 28 April 2020 19:29:18 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > Ah, so now we have more clues about what's going on. KDE supplies > pulseaudio. Not here, it doesn't, as far as I can see. It may emulate it, I suppose. > AFAIK it's part of the KDE installation on other distros. I'm > running Kubuntu

Re: [gentoo-user] USB sound

2020-04-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 8:11 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Tuesday, 28 April 2020 15:21:09 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 6:51 AM Peter Humphrey > > --->8 > > > OK, so card 0 is using snd_hda_intel. Card 0 is most likely the default > > location that sound is going.

Re: [gentoo-user] USB sound

2020-04-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 28 April 2020 15:21:09 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 6:51 AM Peter Humphrey --->8 > OK, so card 0 is using snd_hda_intel. Card 0 is most likely the default > location that sound is going. Blacklisting it will help. That said you have > 2 USB devices so we need to

Re: [gentoo-user] USB sound

2020-04-28 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 28 April 2020 15:21:09 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > I personally don't think you need asound.conf until you prove that you have > a need to do some sort of non-standard configuration. That _might_ be > defining a different default card but KDE can do that for you in system > settings so

Re: [gentoo-user] USB sound

2020-04-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 6:51 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Tuesday, 28 April 2020 14:18:52 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > > Has KMail started misbehaving again? I'm certain I read a reply from Michael, > but now there's no trace of it after a reboot (see below). Anyway, I created > an

Re: [gentoo-user] USB sound

2020-04-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 28 April 2020 14:18:52 BST Mark Knecht wrote: Has KMail started misbehaving again? I'm certain I read a reply from Michael, but now there's no trace of it after a reboot (see below). Anyway, I created an /etc/asound.conf with the content he recommended. That gave me sound back.

Re: [gentoo-user] USB sound

2020-04-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 2:43 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Morning all, > > The motherboard sound chip failed, so I bought a USB sound adapter [1]. > Problem: no sound: firefox says it isn't working and KDE sounds don't 'appear'. > I have all the likely-looking options set in the kernel (5.4.28),

Re: [gentoo-user] USB sound

2020-04-28 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 28 April 2020 12:32:04 BST tu...@posteo.de wrote: > On 04/28 10:43, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Morning all, > > > > The motherboard sound chip failed, so I bought a USB sound adapter [1]. > > Problem: no sound: firefox says it isn't working and KDE sounds don't > > 'appear'. I have all

Re: [gentoo-user] USB sound

2020-04-28 Thread tuxic
On 04/28 10:43, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Morning all, > > The motherboard sound chip failed, so I bought a USB sound adapter [1]. > Problem: no sound: firefox says it isn't working and KDE sounds don't > 'appear'. > I have all the likely-looking options set in the kernel (5.4.28), modules > where

Re: [gentoo-user] USB sound card not recognized as capture device

2020-01-25 Thread edes
el 2020-01-23 a las 13:59 Mick escribió: > The way I went about it was to comment out the offending lines in these > files and recompile the kernel. It is a bit of pain, since I have to > perform this manual editing with each kernel so far. > > You could try to comment out the lines which

Re: [gentoo-user] USB sound card not recognized as capture device

2020-01-23 Thread Wols Lists
On 23/01/20 13:59, Mick wrote: >> Where can I post this problem? I've been using Linux for 20 years, but >> > this is my first problem with the kernel. I found these forums: >> > >> > https://forum.linuxfoundation.org/categories/drivers >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] USB sound card not recognized as capture device

2020-01-23 Thread Mick
On Thursday, 23 January 2020 13:50:59 GMT edes wrote: > el 2020-01-19 a las 16:49 Mick escribió: > > You could compare the dmesg output of working and non-working kernels > > and see what differences are present, then google for bugs/solutions on > > that basis. > > [...] > > > You could also

Re: [gentoo-user] USB sound card not recognized as capture device

2020-01-23 Thread edes
el 2020-01-19 a las 16:49 Mick escribió: > You could compare the dmesg output of working and non-working kernels > and see what differences are present, then google for bugs/solutions on > that basis. [...] > You could also diff the two different kernel tree versions and see what > drivers

Re: [gentoo-user] USB sound card not recognized as capture device

2020-01-19 Thread Mick
On Sunday, 19 January 2020 15:02:36 GMT edes wrote: > el 2020-01-18 a las 12:58 edes escribió: > > But now for some reason it works as playback device, but is not > > recognized as capture device. > > I kept investigating, and all the evidence points to a kernel problem > (gentoo-sources). > > I

Re: [gentoo-user] USB sound card not recognized as capture device

2020-01-19 Thread edes
el 2020-01-18 a las 12:58 edes escribió: > But now for some reason it works as playback device, but is not > recognized as capture device. I kept investigating, and all the evidence points to a kernel problem (gentoo-sources). I tried several versions, everything works fine with kernels up to

Re: [gentoo-user] Usb sound and ALSA

2006-10-31 Thread Christoph Eckert
Any clue? Thank you, your device identifies itself to the kernel as human input device (HID). Many manufacturers seem to like to make their devices to behave like this. On ALSA, the module snd_usb_audio is responsible to drive your card. But as it already works, it seems to be loaded. Then

Re: [gentoo-user] Usb sound and ALSA

2006-10-30 Thread Richard Fish
On 10/30/06, Leandro Melo de Sales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list... I have an usb sound system from Gradiente company (an eletronic device factory) and I plugged it on my system. dmesg command shows this: input: Gradiente AS-M5X0 as /class/input/input3 input: USB HID v1.00 Device

Re: [gentoo-user] Usb sound and ALSA

2006-10-30 Thread Leandro Melo de Sales
Hi... The device is configured and I type cat xxx /dev/sound/dsp1 and I got an strange sound, but this prove that the device was recognized by the kernel. I also can control volume of the second audio device through alsamixer. The question is: how can I specify (on alsa) that the default device

Re: [gentoo-user] Usb sound and ALSA

2006-10-30 Thread Leandro Melo de Sales
Hi, After I click on Apply button the Alsa Device Configuration section become enabled, but when I specify hw1,0 in Stereo text field and play a song amarok shows the message: Audio output unavailable; the device is busy.. /proc/asound/ # ls ASM5X0 Modem card1 cardshwdeposs seq