[Alsa-user] CS46xx spdif output + ogle question
hey,
using alsa 1.0.0pre1
picked up a Hercules DigiFire 7.1 card today. CS46xx based.
i only have an optical s/pdif cable in the card going to my amp
normal stuff works fine (using the oss compat module). i get
nice clean sound. but what i really want to do is play dvds
w/ ogle and get the surround sound single to my amp.
but ogle fails to configure the device correctly. the ogle
code is at the bottom of the email. it fails on the call to
snd_ctl_elem_write. the snd_pcm_info_get_device(info) and
snd_pcm_info_get_subdevice(info) are returning the correct
values (device 2, sub device 0). just can't seem to update
the IEC958 control.
here is the output of iecset:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] alsa-utils-1.0.0pre1]# ./iecset/iecset
Mode: consumer
Data: audio
Rate: 48000 Hz
Copyright: protected
Emphasis: none
Category: PCM coder
Original: original
Clock: 1000 ppm
i then ran iecset -x and copied that output into the config
of ogle. still no go.
what am i doing wrong?
thanks
henri
spdif.status[0] = IEC958_AES0_NONAUDIO | IEC958_AES0_CON_EMPHASIS_NONE;
spdif.status[1] = IEC958_AES1_CON_ORIGINAL | IEC958_AES1_CON_PCM_CODER;
spdif.status[2] = 0;
spdif.status[3] = IEC958_AES3_CON_FS_48000;
snd_ctl_elem_value_alloca(ctl);
snd_ctl_elem_value_set_interface(ctl, SND_CTL_ELEM_IFACE_PCM);
snd_ctl_elem_value_set_device(ctl, snd_pcm_info_get_device(info));
snd_ctl_elem_value_set_subdevice(ctl, snd_pcm_info_get_subdevice(info));
snd_ctl_elem_value_set_name(ctl,
SND_CTL_NAME_IEC958(, PLAYBACK, PCM_STREAM));
snd_ctl_elem_value_set_iec958(ctl, spdif);
ctl_card = snd_pcm_info_get_card(info);
if(ctl_card 0) {
ERROR(Unable to setup the IEC958 (S/PDIF) interface - PCM has no assigned
card\n);
goto __diga_end;
}
sprintf(ctl_name, hw:%d, ctl_card);
if((err = snd_ctl_open(ctl_handle, ctl_name, 0)) 0) {
ERROR(Unable to open the control interface '%s': %s\n,
ctl_name, snd_strerror(err));
goto __diga_end;
}
if((err = snd_ctl_elem_write(ctl_handle, ctl)) 0) {
ERROR(Unable to update the IEC958 control: %s\n,
snd_strerror(err));
goto __diga_end;
//Shouldn't ctl_handle be closed here?
}
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[Alsa-user] Problem with Return to Castle Wolfenstein and AC97 Soundcard driv er
Hi, Here is my problem : I've an onboard soundcard. My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-8KNXP with a Realtek ALC655 AC97 compliant onboard soundcard. I'm using ALSA 0.9.6 on a SuSE 9.0 distrib, but I compiled the 0.9.8 release to see if it changes something. The driver used by the Alsa conf is snd-intel8x0 and all is correctly configured in my /etc/modules.conf. Sound is working very well in all apps and games except one : Return To Castle Wolfenstein ! When I launch it and try to play a single user game, it hangs with a Signal 11 error. I tried many things : launching the game with aoss or artsdsp, no success. I found some hacks on some forums (snd_nonblock_open=1) which didn't worked at all. I installed a Sound Blaster Live and disabled the onboard soundcard under my bios. Then I reconfigured Alsa with snd-emu10k1. And you know what ? The game works with it ! No signal 11, sound ok, ... Is there a bug in the snd-intel8x0 driver ? Is this the good driver for my onboard sound card ? I can't find it in the soundcard matrix. Is there a hack ? I didn't tried something like echo app_name 0 0 direct /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss Can you think it can help ? Sébastien ROHAUT --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ ___ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
[Alsa-user] pcm_lib.c: Unexpected hw_pointer value
Hi folks, I usually see the message below in /var/log/messages. Using alsa 0.9.8 over a SuSE 8.1's 2.4.19-4GB, modutils 2.4.26. It doesn't happen w/ all the played sounds. kernel: ALSA ../alsa-kernel/core/pcm_lib.c:216: Unexpected hw_pointer value (stream = 0, delta: -62, max jitter = 8192): wrong interrupt acknowledge? Does this indicates a broken/incompatible .wav file, a bug or a config problem? AFAIR, I did see such msg w/ 0.9.6. Regards, -- wwp --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ ___ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
[Alsa-user] SPDIF on nforce / intel8xO working.
Hello,
Thanks to all those who made Alsa, its great and has helped me achieve one of my goals
- AC3 / DTS output via the digital SPDIF on my system! This means I can playback DVD's
using xine with full Dolby Digital 5.1 sound.
I've seen lots of people asking if this is possible with my particular chipset and how
to do it, so I thought I'd post the info to the group, and I have one small question
at then end!
I have a Shuttle SN41G2 system running Gentoo Linux. The motherboard has an nforce 2
chipset and an intel8xO based sound chip. I have also purchased the extra spdif add-on
giving 4 digital connections (1 optical in, 1 optical out, 1 coax in and 1 coax out).
I am running with CVS alsa-driver and CVS alsa-libs, and have the following .asoundrc
(based on the one posted by Lars G in the sound card matrix). There is one small
change to the pcm value in the slave device.
pcm.nforce-hw {
type hw
card 0
}
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm nforce
}
#0,0 is analogue out (i.e. headphone socket on the shuttle), and 0,1 is spdif out.
pcm.nforce {
type dmix
ipc_key 1234
slave {
pcm hw:0,1
period_time 0
period_size 1024
buffer_size 4096
rate 44100
}
}
ctl.nforce-hw {
type hw
card 0
}
Everything else is as per the intel8xO sound card matrix.
HINTS
-
o) KDE
By default KDE uses artsd to mix sounds, but since we are using the dmix plugin this
is no longer necessery. artsd locks the sound device in such a way that it blocks any
other programs from generating sound output (unless they have an artsd plugin). This
causes programs like xmms, xine and even alsaplayer to just hang.
With the above .asoundrc, you can go into KDE, load the control panel and turn off
artsd and all sounds will work fine.
o) Noise / pops and interferance with aplay and KDE.
I found that with this .asoundrc I was getting annoying pops and spikes at the end of
sound clips when played with aplay (KDE uses aplay to play sound clips such as the
login / logout wav files). The problem appeared to be with the CVS alsa-utils. I
de-installed those and then installed older ones (I used emerge in Gentoo which I
think loads version 9.2)
Question:
The only problem is with the volume settings - I don't seem to have any control over
those when using the spdif output. alsamixer doesn't have any effect and neither does
the volume controls in the individual apps (i.e. xine or xmms with alsa support).
Hope this is useful to some other people!
Chris.
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[Alsa-user] Alsa - midi via82xx
Hi !
Just would like to add this simple solution to the list, maybe it could help
someone...
I also would like to say thanks to everyone who makes linux - audio possible.
Thanks to All !
*** Alsa - midi - midiport - via82xx***
The following example seems to be usefull together with a sequencer program
as Rosegarden. You also need to install the mpu401-uart alsa driver
snd-virmidi. (check if they are installed : #modprobe snd-mpu401-uart,
snd-virmidi )
First visit/read :
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/
template.php?company=VIAcard=chip=via82c686amodule=via82xx
Second, add the following to your /etc/modules.conf.
# ALSA
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx
alias snd-card-1 snd-virmidi
# module options :
options snd-via82xx mpu_port=0x300
And the following to your .asoundrc/asound.conf :
pcm.via82xx {
type hw
card 0
}
ctl.via82xx {
type hw
card 0
}
pcm.virmidi {
type hw
card 1
}
ctl.virmidi {
type hw
card 1
}
-
Peter
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Re: [Alsa-user] SoundMAX (intel8x0) surround on a Asus P4P800
Frank Hart wrote: I'm trying to get the onboard AC97 to work. Strange thing about this card is the multiple audio ports configs that are possible. [...] Is there documentation about reprogramming the ports on this card? The data sheet for the AD1985 codec is available at http://www.analog.com/UploadedFiles/Data_Sheets/180644528AD1985_0.pdf And can you give me some starting point where I should alter the config (.asoundrc, ICH.conf)? Install ALSA 1.0.0pre1, then set the appropriate mixer controls. HTH Clemens --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ ___ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
Re: [Alsa-user] alsa drivers on powermac g4
marco wrote: # insmod snd-powermac init_module: No such device In syslog I find : kernel: ALSA pmac.c:1104: pmac: can't request resource 0! kernel: no PMac soundchip found In dmesg : ... Audio jack unplugged, enabling speakers. AE-Init snapper mixer PowerMac Snapper DMA sound driver rev 016 installed Core driver edition 01.06 : PowerMac Built-in Sound driver edition 00.07 Write will use4 fragments of 32768 bytes as default ... This looks as if the OSS driver is still loaded. snd-powermac won't be able to request the sound resources as long as they're used by dmasound_pmac. HTH Clemens --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ ___ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
Re: [Alsa-user] als120
Tony Roba wrote: Hi ,I'm using aPentium III 500 with REDHAT 9.0 (2.4.20-8 kernelversion) and a ALS120 (avance logic) soundcard.I'm trying to make it work with the ALSA-driver 0.9.8.Download all from alsa-project.org.unzipped,untard,configured,maked ,and maked install.All this with no compilation errors or what so ever.chmod ,installed lib,utils.And now it goes wrong. When I use modprobe snd-als100 etc...I get the message,CAN'T LOCATE SND-ALS100. When you run configure for the alsa-driver package, the value after checking for directory to store kernel modules should be /lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/sound, and snd-als100.o should have been installed there. Is this the case? Regards, Clemens --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ ___ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
Re: [Alsa-user] Re: spdif input with cmipci based card
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Michael Mauch wrote: Michael Hunold wrote: In theory, I'd like to record the raw iec958 subframes, but using arecord like this fails: arecord -v -D hw:0,2 -f IEC958_SUBFRAME_LE arecord: begin_wave:1608: Wave doesn't support IEC958_SUBFRAME_LE format... I'm wondering what wave is about, since I want to capture the iec958 subframes... % arecord -v -v -D hw:0,2 -f IEC958_SUBFRAME_LE -r 44100 -c 2 -t raw a.raw Recording raw data 'a.raw' : IEC-958 Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo arecord: set_params:828: Sample format non available The CMI chip doesn't support recording raw subframes, it only records the PCM data contained in these frames (i.e., -f S16_LE). HTH Clemens --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ ___ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
[Alsa-user] HOWTO: spdif with nforce / intel8xO card inc AC3 DTS
Hello,
Thanks to all those who made Alsa, its great and has helped me achieve one of my goals
- AC3 / DTS output via the digital SPDIF on my system! This means I can playback DVD's
using xine with full Dolby Digital 5.1 sound.
I've seen lots of people asking if this is possible with my particular chipset and how
to do it, so I thought I'd post the info to the group, and I have one small question
at the end.
I have a Shuttle SN41G2 system running Gentoo Linux. The motherboard has an nforce 2
chipset and an intel8xO sound chip. I have also purchased the extra spdif add-on
giving 4 digital connections (1 optical in, 1 optical out, 1 coax in and 1 coax out).
I am running with CVS alsa-driver and CVS alsa-libs, and have the following .asoundrc
(based on the one posted by Lars G in the sound card matrix). There is one small
change to the pcm value in the slave device.
pcm.nforce-hw {
type hw
card 0
}
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm nforce
}
#0,0 is analog out (i.e. headphone socket on the shuttle), and 0,1 is spdif out.
pcm.nforce {
type dmix
ipc_key 1234
slave {
pcm hw:0,1
period_time 0
period_size 1024
buffer_size 4096
rate 44100
}
}
ctl.nforce-hw {
type hw
card 0
}
Everything else is as per the intel8xO sound card matrix.
HINTS
-
o) KDE
By default KDE uses artsd to mix sounds, but since we are using the dmix plugin this
is no longer necessery. artsd holds the device in such a way that it blocks any other
programs from generating sound output (unless they have an artsd plugin) which causes
programs like xmms, xine and even alsaplayer to just hang.
With the above .asoundrc, you can go into KDE, load the control panel and turn off
artsd and all sounds will work fine.
o) Noise / pops and interferance with aplay and KDE.
I found that with this .asoundrc I was getting annoying pops and spikes at the end of
sound clips when played with aplay (KDE uses aplay to play sound clips such as the
login / logout wav files). The problem appeared to be with the CVS alsa-utils. I
de-installed those and then installed older ones (I used emerge in Gentoo which I
think loads version 9.2)
Question:
The only problem is with the volume settings - I don't seem to have any control over
those when using the spdif output. alsamixer doesn't have any effect and neither does
the volume controls in the individual apps (i.e. xine or xmms with alsa support).
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Re: [Alsa-user] CS46xx spdif output + ogle question
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: picked up a Hercules DigiFire 7.1 card today. CS46xx based. but ogle fails to configure the device correctly. the ogle code is at the bottom of the email. it fails on the call to snd_ctl_elem_write. What is the error code/message? the snd_pcm_info_get_device(info) and snd_pcm_info_get_subdevice(info) are returning the correct values (device 2, sub device 0). just can't seem to update the IEC958 control. What is the information for this control in /etc/asound.state? (If this file doesn't exist, run alsactl store.) Regards, Clemens --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ ___ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
[Alsa-user] Newbie question about Echo Audio Indigo
Hi all, I have recently bought an Echo Audio Indigo PCMCIA card for my notebook. I was wondering if there is any support for it under Linux: this card is not present in the ALSA Soundcard Matrix. Can you help me? Regards Luigi __ Yahoo! Mail: 6MB di spazio gratuito, 30MB per i tuoi allegati, l'antivirus, il filtro Anti-spam http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://it.mail.yahoo.com/ --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ ___ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
[Alsa-user] (no subject)
Hello,
Thanks to all those who made Alsa, its great and has helped me achieve one of my goals
- AC3 / DTS output via the digital SPDIF on my system! This means I can playback DVD's
using xine with full Dolby Digital 5.1 sound.
I've seen lots of people asking if this is possible with my particular chipset and how
to do it, so I thought I'd post the info to the group, and I have one small question
at the end.
I have a Shuttle SN41G2 system running Gentoo Linux. The motherboard has an nforce 2
chipset and an intel8xO sound chip. I have also purchased the extra spdif add-on
giving 4 digital connections (1 optical in, 1 optical out, 1 coax in and 1 coax out).
I am running with CVS alsa-driver and CVS alsa-libs, and have the following .asoundrc
(based on the one posted by Lars G in the sound card matrix). There is one small
change to the pcm value in the slave device.
pcm.nforce-hw {
type hw
card 0
}
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm nforce
}
#0,0 is analog out (i.e. headphone socket on the shuttle), and 0,1 is spdif out.
pcm.nforce {
type dmix
ipc_key 1234
slave {
pcm hw:0,1
period_time 0
period_size 1024
buffer_size 4096
rate 44100
}
}
ctl.nforce-hw {
type hw
card 0
}
Everything else is as per the intel8xO sound card matrix.
HINTS
-
o) KDE
By default KDE uses artsd to mix sounds, but since we are using the dmix plugin this
is no longer necessery. artsd holds the device in such a way that it blocks any other
programs from generating sound output (unless they have an artsd plugin) which causes
programs like xmms, xine and even alsaplayer to just hang.
With the above .asoundrc, you can go into KDE, load the control panel and turn off
artsd and all sounds will work fine.
o) Noise / pops and interferance with aplay and KDE.
I found that with this .asoundrc I was getting annoying pops and spikes at the end of
sound clips when played with aplay (KDE uses aplay to play sound clips such as the
login / logout wav files). The problem appeared to be with the CVS alsa-utils. I
de-installed those and then installed older ones (I used emerge in Gentoo which I
think loads version 9.2)
Question:
The only problem is with the volume settings - I don't seem to have any control over
those when using the spdif output. alsamixer doesn't have any effect and neither does
the volume controls in the individual apps (i.e. xine or xmms with alsa support).
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Re: [Alsa-user] SoundMAX (intel8x0) surround on a Asus P4P800
Clemens Ladisch wrote: Install ALSA 1.0.0pre1, then set the appropriate mixer controls. What is this? I have no sound output [using ALSA 0.9.8], do you think it will work if I get a new version, or it's a hopeless dream? Alberto Monteiro --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ ___ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
[Alsa-user] Multiple wave
Hello, I own an emu10k1 card, and I've always used multiple applications at the same time sharing the pcm; I always thought this was normal ( it was my first sound card apart from a soundblaster 8 ) with pci soundcards. that was using oss, lately I tried alsa as I came across an onboard card that couldnt play multiple wave streams. so, now two questions: I noticed that my emu10k1 with alsa could play multiple wave streams too, when the applications were alsa enabled. ( tried with aplay) But I noticed too, that the oss emulation ( as I use several apllications that are only oss at the same time during performing) was not capable of doing this. Is there a way to fix this? dmix seems to be the way but it doesn't work with oss emulation. also the onboard thing could not play multiple waves with alsa either. I this a common thing for today's sound chips? or is it simply a driver issue? for the first time I understand the need for stupid things like esd and arts... Is there any documentation wich cards can play multiple streams or not? its not even mentioned in advertisements for those cards... I'm curious to know if there's anybody else experiencing the same issues; The thing is I know about jack and I like it, but may of the applications I prefer to use are just really simple and old or only have oss implementations, and work just fine in combination with my older emu10k1; but now I'm going to buy new hardware it becomes an issue... cheers, Matthijs. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ ___ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
Re: [Alsa-user] SoundMAX (intel8x0) surround on a Asus P4P800
At Wed, 19 Nov 2003 13:46:00 +, Alberto Monteiro wrote: Clemens Ladisch wrote: Install ALSA 1.0.0pre1, then set the appropriate mixer controls. What is this? I have no sound output [using ALSA 0.9.8], do you think it will work if I get a new version, or it's a hopeless dream? there are some codes changed since 0.9.8 in this regard, so it might work with the new version. please check the mixer settings as Clemens mentioned. there are plenty of configurable elements. even if it doesn't work, don't try to start coding based on 0.9.8 any more. that makes no sense at all at this stage. Takashi --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ ___ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
Re: [Alsa-user] Re: spdif input with cmipci based card
Hello Clemens, % arecord -v -v -D hw:0,2 -f IEC958_SUBFRAME_LE -r 44100 -c 2 -t raw a.raw Recording raw data 'a.raw' : IEC-958 Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo arecord: set_params:828: Sample format non available The CMI chip doesn't support recording raw subframes, it only records the PCM data contained in these frames (i.e., -f S16_LE). Just to clarify this: it's not possible to record raw iec958 frames with this card, ie. frames with untouched ac3 data? If so: does anybody know a card that can this so it can be misused as an el-cheapo iec958 audio analyzer (ie. capture raw frames, then analyze it with hexedit) ? HTH Clemens CU Michael. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ ___ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
Re: [Alsa-user] HOWTO: spdif with nforce / intel8xO card inc AC3 DTS
At Wed, 19 Nov 2003 11:25:51 + (GMT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Thanks to all those who made Alsa, its great and has helped me achieve one of my goals - AC3 / DTS output via the digital SPDIF on my system! This means I can playback DVD's using xine with full Dolby Digital 5.1 sound. (snip nice info) it would be helpful if you put such info to ALSA wiki, too. Question: The only problem is with the volume settings - I don't seem to have any control over those when using the spdif output. alsamixer doesn't have any effect and neither does the volume controls in the individual apps (i.e. xine or xmms with alsa support). the master volume shouldn't affect (since it's digital-out) but PCM volume might influence unless non-audio spdif status bit is set. check the default status bit via iceset included in the new alsa-utils. ciao, Takashi --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ ___ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
[Alsa-user] ESS Allegro problem on Omnibook Xe3
Dear All, I have installed RedHat Linux (2.4.20-8) on an Omnibook Xe3 GC with ESS Allegro-1 soundcard. I'm using the 0.9.8 ALSA release, but unfortunately I have experienced a problem with the microphone. Actually I can not record anything with the microphone but noise. The speech is audible only in the background, and it is quite silent. I have read somewhere in the mailing lists, that HP might have modified the standard ESS Allegro, but I do not really know whether it is the case or not. Does anyone has experienced the same thing on an Omnibook? Moreover does anyone know a solution for this problem? I've tried modifying the mixer settings, and it did not help at all (Mic boost is enabled, all the mixers ar at 100%.) Best regards, Szabolcs PS. I posted a letter to the list some ten days ago, but I'm not sure whether it has arrived. If it already has, then sorry for the second posting. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ ___ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
Re: [Alsa-user] SoundMAX (intel8x0) surround on a Asus P4P800
Alberto Monteiro wrote: Clemens Ladisch wrote: Install ALSA 1.0.0pre1, then set the appropriate mixer controls. What is this? I have no sound output [using ALSA 0.9.8] No rear, or no sound at all? do you think it will work if I get a new version, or it's a hopeless dream? The new ALSA code works on my P4P800 (maybe because I wrote it), so I think there actually is a chance that it works on yours, too. HTH Clemens --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ ___ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
Re: [Alsa-user] CS46xx spdif output + ogle question
Henri wrote:
On 19 Nov 2003, Clemens Ladisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
it fails on the call to snd_ctl_elem_write.
What is the error code/message?
No such file or directory
= control not found
the snd_pcm_info_get_device(info) and
snd_pcm_info_get_subdevice(info) are returning the correct values
(device 2, sub device 0). just can't seem to update the IEC958
control.
What is the information for this control in /etc/asound.state?
control.35 {
comment.access 'read write inactive'
comment.type IEC958
iface PCM
device 2
name 'IEC958 Playback PCM Stream'
value '00820002...
}
This control is marked as inactive. AFAIK it's valid only while
something is playing.
Try to set this one instead:
control.33 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type IEC958
iface PCM
device 2
name 'IEC958 Playback Default'
value '00820002000...
}
HTH
Clemens
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Re: [Alsa-user] Re: spdif input with cmipci based card
Michael Hunold wrote: The CMI chip doesn't support recording raw subframes, it only records the PCM data contained in these frames (i.e., -f S16_LE). Just to clarify this: it's not possible to record raw iec958 frames with this card, ie. frames with untouched ac3 data? I've never used AC3, but I think it records the (untouched) AC3 data and then pretends it's S16 PCM. So recording a raw file should give you the AC3 data (but not the IEC958 frames). HTH Clemens --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ ___ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
[Alsa-user] SB Live/MIDI made difficult
Hello. Can it be this difficult? We should have better user docs, I see. I'm testing a MIDI keyboard with SB Live/LiveDrive, but Alsa receives no MIDI. I tested cat -v on every midi device I found and used rawmidi program. I checked at MS Windows. The correct driver is SB Live! Midi In [C000] and one that does not work is mpu401. What to do? Do I have two MIDI devices; mpu401 in SB mainboard and other in LiveDrive? Regards, Juhana --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ ___ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
Re: [Alsa-user] CS46xx spdif output + ogle question
On 19 Nov 2003, Clemens Ladisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Henri wrote:
On 19 Nov 2003, Clemens Ladisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
it fails on the call to snd_ctl_elem_write.
What is the error code/message?
No such file or directory
= control not found
the snd_pcm_info_get_device(info) and
snd_pcm_info_get_subdevice(info) are returning the correct values
(device 2, sub device 0). just can't seem to update the IEC958
control.
ARG. i posted the wrong asound.state output. sorry. here is
the .state for the CS46xx card:
how can i tell an app to use a specific control?
thanks
henri
control.55 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type IEC958
iface PCM
name 'IEC958 Playback Default'
value
'00820002'
}
control.56 {
comment.access read
comment.type IEC958
iface PCM
name 'IEC958 Playback Mask'
value
00ff
}
control.57 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type IEC958
iface PCM
name 'IEC958 Playback PCM Stream'
value
'00820002'
}
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[Alsa-user] ICE1724 driver doesn't work
When using alsaconf the soundcard is now detected. When I choose it the configuration in /etc/alsa/modules/0.9 seems to work but afterwards when alsa is started I get the following error: Starting ALSA (version 0.9.6): ice1724-failed failed Is there a log file somewhere where the error message is logged? After shutting down X I see on the console the following message: ALSA ../../alsa-kernel/pci/ice1712/ice1724.c:1614: invalid EEPROM (size=120) I guess there is something in the kernel driver wrong. How can I fix this? Is there a newer version? O. Wyss -- See http://wxguide.sourceforge.net/; for ideas how to design your app --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ ___ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
Re: [Alsa-user] SoundMAX (intel8x0) surround on a Asus P4P800
Clemens Ladisch wrote: What is this? I have no sound output [using ALSA 0.9.8] No rear, or no sound at all? No sound at all. Nothing. do you think it will work if I get a new version, or it's a hopeless dream? The new ALSA code works on my P4P800 (maybe because I wrote it), so I think there actually is a chance that it works on yours, too. It's a via82xx card. Alberto Monteiro --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ ___ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
Re: [Alsa-user] alsa friendly DJ hardware ?
First I've been told by those who know G that USB isn't real great as it has latency problems. You might look at the Midiman (www.midiman.com) Delta cards. They have a Delta 66 and a Delta 44 with 6 and 4 channels respectively. Thanks for your prompt replies recommendations. Unfortunately, the Delta series is PCI based, which excludes them from working with a laptop. The Midiman product line does look pretty good, and the M-audio Mobile Pre (http://www.midiman.net/products/m-audio/mobilepre.php) would meet me needs if I would be able to get a working ALSA driver. Not that they're in my price range, but is there work on supporting some of the new firewire audio interfaces ?( the Midiman Firewire 410 looks pretty sweet.. http://www.midiman.com/products/m-audio/fw410.php ) --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ ___ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
Re: [Alsa-user] alsa friendly DJ hardware ?
Hallo, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hat gesagt: // [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your prompt replies recommendations. Unfortunately, the Delta series is PCI based, which excludes them from working with a laptop. The Midiman product line does look pretty good, and the M-audio Mobile Pre (http://www.midiman.net/products/m-audio/mobilepre.php) would meet me needs if I would be able to get a working ALSA driver. The Mobile Pre looks nice. If I read this correctly, it will provide two output pairs, which is important for DJing. You might also want to take a look at the much cheaper boxes like the Audiotrak Mayas. As multichannel PCMCIA cards are in general much more expensive, USB is the only way to go in cost effective audio interfaces for DJs, regardless of what the Jack folks are saying. ;) One nice thing with USB is, that you can setup ALSA on your laptop in advance, then take it to the shop and just test an interface in how good it works. For multichannel interfaces you should also get the asoundrc from the Quattro page on alsa-project.org and try things like aplay -D q4 some.wav on your machine with any USB interface. USB audio might be flawed in its specification, but in many cases it Just Works (tm). Jack is one of those cases where you might run into problems. But I remember, that on the first Linux Audio Dev conference this year, several of the developers present had USB boxes (e.g. the M-Audio Quattro) The rich and famous had RME PCMCIA cards, of course. ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ __footils.org__ --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ ___ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
[Alsa-user] Joystick with alsa and snd-ens1371
It was hard and I hope it's nearly the end. I have succeeded in activating the gameport. I use Alsa included with my 2.6-test9 kernel. I activated the gameport using alsactl-store and restore. [EMAIL PROTECTED] thibaut $ cat /proc/asound/card0/audiopci Ensoniq AudioPCI ES1371 Joystick enable : on Joystick port: 0x200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] thibaut $ cat /proc/ioports ... [g]0200-0207 : ens137x: gameport[/g] ... It seems to be enabled, I have also loaded the modules for my joystick: [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux # lsmod Module Size Used by sidewinder 13056 0 joydev 9024 0 ac97_codec 17472 0 snd_ens137121764 4 snd_rawmidi21632 1 snd_ens1371 snd_ac97_codec 53060 1 snd_ens1371 gameport3776 2 sidewinder,snd_ens1371 But my pc says that there is no peripheric js0 :/. Special nodes have been created. I have read this http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/12350/2002/7/0/9153136/ but I can't load ns558 modules, it tells me that I haven't this. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ ___ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
[Alsa-user] also vs midi
Greetings all; I've recently moved to a kernel-2.6.0-test9-mm4, which is getting pretty close to final. The formerly OSS audio system has been replaced with alsasound, and can be built right into the kernel, which I have. Most of the audio functions are working, with the notable exception of timidity. It goes thru the motions visually, but makes no sound, and when its closed, it leaves a copy of itself using about 75% of the cpu behind that can be found and killed. So whats the proceedure to make the midi synth work? I have no alsa installed other than whats in the kernel. The mixer that comes up is kmix, from kde-3.1.1a. It apparently has no sequencer or synth controls. -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.27% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ ___ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
[Alsa-user] C-Media CMI9739 and volume control
Hi, I have a motherboard with an nForce2 chipset and the CMI9739 AC97 codec. As some helpful person has pointed out, the Chip lacks a PCM-Out volume control in hardware. All there is, is the mute bit. Now, using alsa-libs plugin arcitecture, can I implement volume control in software (maybe by even writing a plugin) ? If this seems to be possible, can anybody hint the direction to go, give a rough sketch of what has to be done ? Thanks a lot, Stefan -- Stefan Bittner [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ ___ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
Re: [Alsa-user] Re: [Alsa-devel] [ANN] ALSA 1.0.0pre1 is released
On 19 Nov 2003 17:30:29 -0800 Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as you might have already seen on the web news page, we released 1.0.0pre1 tarball. This is intended for the wide tests before the official 1.0.0 release. We planned to release 1.0.0 (hopefully) in this month, so please everyone test this version and give bug reports now. Looks like somehow hdspmix and hdspconf did not make it to the alsa-tools tarball (but they are there in CVS) -- Fernando Are these improvements in the 2.6 kernel series; if not, when? -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ ___ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
[Alsa-user] alsa 1.0
Hi, i downloaded alsa 1 and installed but when i restart my systemthe 0.9 still loading, how i have to make the change form 0.9 to 1. Thanx Gonzalo Zapata --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ ___ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
Re: [Alsa-user] alsa vs midi
On Wednesday 19 November 2003 19:37, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; Yeah, I know, its poor form to answer/comment on ones own messages, but more info below. I've recently moved to a kernel-2.6.0-test9-mm4, which is getting pretty close to final. The formerly OSS audio system has been replaced with alsasound, and can be built right into the kernel, which I have. Most of the audio functions are working, with the notable exception of timidity. It goes thru the motions visually, but makes no sound, and when its closed, it leaves a copy of itself using about 75% of the cpu behind that can be found and killed. So whats the proceedure to make the midi synth work? I have no alsa installed other than whats in the kernel. The mixer that comes up is kmix, from kde-3.1.1a. It apparently has no sequencer or synth controls. I have since discovered that kmidi works, while kmid doesn't. Kmidi is a cpu hog though, taking about 80% of a 1400 mhz athlon, and skips a lot if other graphics are being drawn or copied. It also seems to miss out on some voices its own sample .mid files call for. Do I have a basic miss-understanding of the rolls of these two programs and timidity? -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.27% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ ___ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
[Alsa-user] ice1712 dshare asoundrc config problem
Hello, I am having three particular issues that I was hopeing someone
might have some insight into. I have an ice1712 card and would like to
be able to have the digital mixer mix xmms fluidsynth so I can jam
with mp3s. Here is the asoundrc I have created so far:
pcm.44_1 {
type dshare
ipc_key 10242
slave {
pcm hw:0,0
period_size 64
periods 16
}
bindings {
0 0
1 1
}
}
pcm.44_1p {
type plug
slave {
pcm 44_1
}
}
pcm.44_2 {
type dshare
ipc_key 10245
slave {
pcm hw:0,0
}
bindings {
0 2
1 3
}
}
pcm.44_2p {
type plug
slave {
pcm 44_2
}
}
The first issue is that fluidsynth will only output S16_LE format. This
is why I have 44_1p 44_2p. Is this the best way to get from hw:0,0
which is S32_LE to S16_LE?
The second issue is that I cannot open more than one of the dshare
devices. If 44_1p is opened by fluidsynth and I try and open 44_2 or
44_2p I get an error that the device is already opened. Am I
missunderstood that the point of dshare is so you can have different
applications open different channels of a digital mixer? Or, am I using
it incorrectly in the asoundrc?
The third issue is that even though I specify period_size 64 and periods
16 in 44_1, fluidsynth still complains that it got a period_size of 3009
and a periods of 2. I believe that the period_size of 3009 is causing
serious latency.
I would really appreciate any suggestions that anyone might have. If you
have any ideas, please take a moment to let me know. If I can get this
working I will take some time and post info to the ice1712 wiki. Thanks.
-Garett
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Re: [Alsa-user] alsa vs midi
On Thursday 20 November 2003 00:15, David Garcia wrote: Timidity is a software (CPU wasting) synth that synths audio (say wav) from midi information. That audio information can be played by any Wav device so its sound level is controlled by pcm/wav controls. Mainly, kmidi is a kde frontend to timidity. On the other side, kmid uses any of the available MIDI devices (ALSA/OSS) to play midi. But there doesn't seem to be a method to name the device in the menus for kmid. Shouldn't this be configurable someplace? Kmid can choose as output device: - the soundcard builtin synth, I don't think this one has such a beast. - timidity (when running with some options), - or the MIDI UART/USB output port as output device. Which I do not have, and is not enabled in the kernel. Depending on the device you choose then you should consider the following: - MIDI output port will not sound if no HW midi device is connected. - Some builtin soundcards synths need loading some pathes in order to sound (sfxload...) - Builtin soundcards synths have their own channel on the mixer, unmute it. Does this one have suuch a facility?: Nov 18 11:04:58 coyote kernel: ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: ALG16 (ALC200/200P) If kmidi is a front end for timidity, its a puzzle that it works. When timidity is run by itself, its silent, and 2 copies need to be killed after the gui goes away. I'd imagine there should be some way to configure this, but my admittedly limited searchs have not found the preferences tools. Also, kmix has a subpanel for the brooktree/bttv stuffs, but they are all turned on, and the gain controls wide open but non-functional ANAICT. So how does one go about setting that up?, with pointers to the web docs being fine. I get messages in /var/log/dmesg saying something about the seq: Nov 18 11:04:58 coyote kernel: Via 686a/8233/8235 audio driver 1.9.1-ac3-2.5 Nov 18 11:04:58 coyote kernel: via82cxxx: Six channel audio available Nov 18 11:04:58 coyote kernel: ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: ALG16 (ALC200/200P) Nov 18 11:04:58 coyote kernel: via82cxxx: board #1 at 0xE800, IRQ 12 Nov 18 11:04:58 coyote kernel: btaudio: driver version 0.7 loaded [digital+analog] Nov 18 11:04:58 coyote kernel: btaudio: Bt878 (rev 17) at 00:09.1, irq: 5, latency: 32, mmio: 0xef005000 Nov 18 11:04:58 coyote kernel: btaudio: using card config default Nov 18 11:04:58 coyote kernel: btaudio: registered device dsp1 [digital] Nov 18 11:04:58 coyote kernel: btaudio: registered device dsp2 [analog] Nov 18 11:04:58 coyote kernel: btaudio: registered device mixer1 Nov 18 11:04:58 coyote kernel: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 0.9.7 (Thu Sep 25 19:16:36 2003 UTC ). Nov 18 11:04:58 coyote kernel: can't register device seq Nov 18 11:04:58 coyote kernel: unable to register OSS mixer device 0:0 Nov 18 11:04:58 coyote kernel: ALSA device list: Nov 18 11:04:58 coyote kernel: #0: Virtual MIDI Card 1 Hope this helps. It does, and thank you, but doesn't go far enough for me to make the leap of faith and actually put a big mental block diagram in the grey matter under my ancient, thinning hair. Probably not your fault. On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 19 November 2003 19:37, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; Yeah, I know, its poor form to answer/comment on ones own messages, but more info below. I've recently moved to a kernel-2.6.0-test9-mm4, which is getting pretty close to final. The formerly OSS audio system has been replaced with alsasound, and can be built right into the kernel, which I have. Most of the audio functions are working, with the notable exception of timidity. It goes thru the motions visually, but makes no sound, and when its closed, it leaves a copy of itself using about 75% of the cpu behind that can be found and killed. So whats the proceedure to make the midi synth work? I have no alsa installed other than whats in the kernel. The mixer that comes up is kmix, from kde-3.1.1a. It apparently has no sequencer or synth controls. I have since discovered that kmidi works, while kmid doesn't. Kmidi is a cpu hog though, taking about 80% of a 1400 mhz athlon, and skips a lot if other graphics are being drawn or copied. It also seems to miss out on some voices its own sample .mid files call for. Do I have a basic miss-understanding of the rolls of these two programs and timidity? -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.27% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here:
[Alsa-user] [ANN] ALSA 1.0.0pre1 is released
Hi all, as you might have already seen on the web news page, we released 1.0.0pre1 tarball. This is intended for the wide tests before the official 1.0.0 release. We planned to release 1.0.0 (hopefully) in this month, so please everyone test this version and give bug reports now. Especially, if you have a card or a mobo with ICH (or compatible) chip and *multiple* AC97 codecs, testing this version is appreciated. Please give (also positive) feedback whether it works. The handling of multiple codecs was changed recently, but not tested well because of lack of hardware. Important changes / fixes since 0.9.8 - joystick is configured now (again) by module options instead of control API. see alsa-kernel/Documentation/Joystick.txt. - the default value of cards_limit option of sound module is 1. note that this doesn't mean that the max. number of cards is limited to 1, but it restricts the number of auto-loaded cards. if you load a module manually, it's added safely. - PCM OSS emulation was fixed, e.g. mplayer delay problem should be fixed now. Hopefully this doesn't introduce another bug... - AC97 handler is rewritten. please test! - some serious ISA PnP bugs are fixed (e.g. cs4236 freeze). - some bugs in OSS-emulation library are fixed. please test! - dmix problems with xmms ALSA plugin is solved. - alsa-driver tree can be built with 2.6 kernel. - alsaconf is now moved to alsa-utils tarball. Known problems - pdplus driver seems broken. more testers? - korg1212 driver seems broken (somehow). - PCM OSS emulation might cause oops when you compile the kernel without frame pointer (depending on the compiler). - opti92x still might not work (although some bugs were fixed). -- Takashi Iwai [EMAIL PROTECTED]ALSA Developer - www.alsa-project.org --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ ___ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
[Alsa-user] Re: [Alsa-devel] [ANN] ALSA 1.0.0pre1 is released
as you might have already seen on the web news page, we released 1.0.0pre1 tarball. This is intended for the wide tests before the official 1.0.0 release. We planned to release 1.0.0 (hopefully) in this month, so please everyone test this version and give bug reports now. Looks like somehow hdspmix and hdspconf did not make it to the alsa-tools tarball (but they are there in CVS) -- Fernando --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ ___ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
[Alsa-user] In progress: *User* documentation in Spanish
I am currently working on a 'no-compilation, no-installation, no-programming' user manual for Alsa-Jack-Ladspa. I wanted to bring some friends of mine to Linux. They use Windows based music software, so i intended to do some introduction (in spanish) to the capababilities of Alsa-Jack-Ladspa(-Ladcca?) arquitecture for final users. Due to the initial intent I did it in Spanish. Now it seems language was a wrong choice. Most related documentation is full of programming and installation details and I think that it is a globally needed documentation. So i plan to do it more general and translate it but only after the structure would get some degree of stability. The current (Spanish) draft is located at: http://www.salleurl.edu/~is04069/Modders/Docs/alsadoc.html Most mature sections are 'General arquitecture', 'Sequencer' and 'Config files syntax'. Maybe, some alsa hacker who undestand Spanish (Jordi? Nando?) could review them. I have lot's of questions, since i had to figure out a lot of things from code or from proposals (which i don't know if they finally get implemented as explained). But I will ask those questions only to the developers lists. That's the correct audience by now, isn't it? -- David García Garzón (Work) dgarcia at iua dot upf anotherdot es (Home) vokimon at telefonica adot net http://www.salleurl.edu/~is04069 --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ ___ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
