Hello all,

I've been trying to set up a Linux box for some serious audio work. 
On the subject of building quiet hardware for studio use (my Athlon 
machine with four fans currently sounds like a vacuum cleaner), I've 
found some good pages at http://www.7volts.com/quiet.htm and 
http://home.swipnet.se/tr/silence.html

However, I've reached a dead end as far as configuring my TB Tropez 
Plus soundcard under Linux goes. It works for audio and basic midi 
playback, but it won't record audio. 

I posted to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list like any good Linux 
user should - but it looks like I'm the only member of the list left. 
I emailed the maintainer of the driver according to the kernel 
source, Paul Barton-Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, but the address seems to 
bounce. Is it just that all you Linux audio experts are fed up of 
answering questions from people who don't understand how to write 
device drivers? :)

If anyone could offer me any pointers, I'd appreciate it - details of 
my setup are below. I have read the documentation and everything else 
I can find on the subject, and have already failed to compile ALSA in 
case you're wondering...

Cheers

Daniel James
News + Web Editor
LinuxUser magazine
http://www.linuxuser.co.uk


I'm using a Turtle Beach Tropez Plus set up via isapnp.conf and 
sndconfig on a Mandrake 7.2 machine which works fine for playback, 
but won't record audio. I just get noise on the file when trying to 
record with Broadcast 2000. 

If I try this test:

dd bs=8k count=4 </dev/audio> sample.au

I get:

dd: standard input: Input/output error
0+0 records in
0+0 records out


cat /dev/sndstat shows:

OSS/Free:3.8s2++-971130
Load type: Driver loaded as a module
Kernel: Linux server 2.2.17-21mdksecure #1 SMP Thu Oct 5 12:52:38 
CEST 2000 i686Config options: 0
 
Installed drivers:
 
Card config:
 
Audio devices:
0: Crystal audio controller (CS4232) (DUPLEX)
 
Synth devices:
0: Yamaha OPL3
 
Midi devices:
 
Timers:
0: System clock
1: Crystal audio controller (CS4232)
 
Mixers:
0: Crystal audio controller (CS4232) 


lsmod shows:

Module                  Size  Used by
8139too                12544   1  (autoclean)
opl3                   11376   1
cs4232                  2960   1
ad1848                 16976   1  [cs4232]
uart401                 6480   1  [cs4232]
sound                  60256   0  [opl3 cs4232 ad1848 uart401]
soundlow                 464   0  [sound]
soundcore               3184   5  [sound]
reiserfs              129072   2  

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