On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Bruce Paterson wrote:
> Am I sending these queries about the operation of alsa through the API
> to the right place ? I'm trying to use alsa for a real scientific
> application and I'm starting to worry it simply isn't ready yet.
>
> I don't pretend to be a developer of alsa drivers themselves, and I'd
> hoped I didn't need to become one. I understand alsa needs many people
> debugging it and finding problems to make it bulletproof (afterall there
> would be a myriad of different possible configurations people can use).
>
> However, the silence I get in reply to queries is golden (unlike the
> distortion I'm getting from the soundcard) !
>
> It's possible I'm not using the alsa API in the way intended and
> bringing the problems upon myself, but please, somebody tell me !
>
> It would be a real blow to the progress of linux in this company if all
> the alsa work had to be scrapped.
>
> Apologies for the frustrated tone.
Sorry, I haven't EWS88 on my table. It seems that the problem is with the
DAC initialization, but it's difficult to debug these things without
hardware. Perphaps, if you can gather information about wiring of
electrical components on this soundcard, I can look to datasheets what can
be wrong.
> Bruce Paterson wrote:
> >>>>>> Behaviour:
> >>>>>> The output sound is perfect for about 2 minutes. After that every
> >>>>>> now and then I get "distortion" in the audio. No xruns or errors
> >>>>>> are reported in the software. It sounds like only part of the
> >>>>>> output buffer is correct (the general gist is right, but there's
> >>>>>> crap and warbles there as well).
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Bruce
Jaroslav
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Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, SuSE Labs
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