Hi alsa people,
OK, this is probably in the dumb green user category of question but we are all there at some time or other ! Nothing in the archives seems to help. Background: I am writing a simple linux application which uses a professional multichannel soundcard: envy24 Originally parts of this program were done under windows, but things were getting real messy with the standard windows API when you need more than 2 channels capture. Alsa 0.9 seems to fit the bill perfectly, allowing 96000 sample rate on 4 channels with 24 bit sampling, and even in & out sync ! Where I'm at: alsa 0.9.0rc2 has been installed sucessfully. aplay works, evny24control (wonderful!!) works. Also, if I only playback from my application, it works (as long as I use plughw:0.0) Problem 1: When I try to record I get segmentation fault in "snd_pcm_route_convert1_one" called indirectly by my "snd_pcm_readn" call. I would prefer to use readn rather than readi since it suits my application better. The capture is opened in blocking mode (whereas my playback was opened in non-blocking mode). It is possible I have misinterpreted the parameters for "snd_pcm_readn", but the API doco doesn't describe "void **bufs" very well. I have assumed I am meant to pass a pointer to an array of pointers (array size = #channels configured), which in turn point to buffers (one for each channel) each which must be at least as big as ("size" * #bytes-needed-to-store-sample) bytes. In this current test I am using 16bit samples, but I'm using the "snd_pcm_format_width" anyway. I have assumed the buffers for the channels do not need to be contigueous with each other. Is this correct ? Problem 2: When I try device "hw:0.0" the very first hardware parameter set fails with unavailable. It's snd_pcm_hw_params_set_access(handle, params, SND_PCM_ACCESS_RW_NONINTERLEAVED); that fails. I have seen other posts talking about using non-interleaved frames.... surely the ice1712 supports this ?? -- Cheers, Bruce ------------------------------------------------------------------- This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. /\\\/\\\/\\\ / / Bruce Paterson / \\\ \\\ \\\ / / Senior Design Engineer / /\\\/\\\/\\\/ / 87 Peters Ave, Mulgrave, Vic, 3170 / / \\\ \\\ \\\ / PO Box 4112, Mulgrave, Vic, 3170, Australia / / \\\/\\\ \\\/ Ph: +61 3 8561 4232 Fax: +61 3 9560 9055 Tele-IP Ltd. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Icq: #32015991 WWW: http://www.tele-ip.com VK3TJN ------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek No, I will not fix your computer. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel