Re: [Alsa-user] USB soundcard advice
I got 2 usb sound cards, one is a 5.1 and work with the new .31 kernel out of the box (even 5.1 spdif trought the optical out), it's a generic chineese sound card with CMI chipset, I bougth for my Home Theater. Search for USB external 5.1 sound card on ebay, it's a blue or orange little case. like this http://cgi.ebay.com/USB-6-Channel-5-1-External-Sound-Audio-Card-PC-Laptop_W0QQitemZ300361484591QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item45eef0892f#ht_3251wt_968 And I purchased an UCA-202 (the best snd card for this price) for my 2 speaker stereo, it's flawless and sound is much better than any pci snd card or onboard i've listened. The only problem with linux is 96khz / 24bit support, but if you stay with 16bit/44khz I don't think you will be in trouble. ___ Fabrício Nihues 2009/11/3 Felix Pfeifer pfeifer.fe...@googlemail.com Hi, USB Audio is a standard. Sadly this is only true for usb 1.x. Most usb 2.0 audiocards don't work under linux. I am not sure if there is even 1 ^^ (Edirol ua101's playback is glitchy) Felix 2009/11/3 James Shatto shado...@earthlink.net: On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 20:42:48 +0100 Y.A. Bolawy bol...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'd like some advice on a USB soundcard. The reason for getting one is that I'd like to have good quality sound on all the computers I use or will use. The quality should be good enough to allow speech recognition. Of course, that is possible to some extend with any soundcard, but if the quality is low it has a big impact. Unfortunately, the better the quality of the cards, the less standard compliance they seem to be. At least that seems to be the underlying message of everything I've read so far. USB Audio is a standard. As long as the box says class compliant, it should work out of the box in linux. Only one caveat though as it wont default to card 0 and be your default card. Since you probably have a motherboard with onboard sound. Configure accordingly. I have a USB M-Audio Mobile Pre and it works fine. Although web browsers don't seem to use it properly even though I have it configured to card 0. I've never had a problem recording from it though. Not really the best audio option, but loads better than most stock soundcards. HTH, James -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
Re: [Alsa-user] USB audio adapters (CM6206 chip)
Forget it found in the changelog... ALSA: usb - Add boot quirk for C-Media 6206 USB Audi ___ Fabrício Nihues 2009/8/31 Fabrício Nihues fabricio.nih...@gmail.com Hello Dan! Is your patch is in the .21 driver released today? Thanks ___ Fabrício Nihues -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
Re: [Alsa-user] USB audio adapters (CM6206 chip)
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Re: [Alsa-user] USB audio adapters (CM6206 chip)
Thanks!! =D ___ Fabrício Nihues 2009/6/8 Dan Allongo gongo...@gmail.com: Just FYI, I've submitted the patch and Takashi says it'll make it in with the next merge. Thanks for all the help. ---Dan -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
Re: [Alsa-user] USB audio adapters (CM6206 chip)
It's strange too I don't know what is causing, but I changed in
asound.conf the buffer size and period and everytime the dropouts was
different, sometimes more, sometimes less, but impossible to watch
because it was 1-2 drops every second.
Changed asound.conf to ressample everything to 44100 too (dunno if
changes anything to passtrough), but if I send a 48000 sample without
ressampling I get a weird sound like a train passing (very loud and
like static).
In windows seems like everything goes to 48khz via spdif... but with
alsa I need to force it to 44.1khz. You get normal sound coming from a
48khz sample with analog out?
I'll try to update my alsa to lastest, to see if changes anything, I'm
using the jaunty 1.18 and updated only the drivers to 1.19.
___
Fabrício Nihues
2009/5/26 Dan Allongo gongo...@gmail.com:
It's great to hear that it's actually working now, I'll split off the boot
quirk function to avoid interference with the Turtle Beach device.
I don't know how I'm going to troubleshoot the current issues with SPDIF out
though.
I didn't see any option in the Windows driver for changing the bitrate, I
could only select 48k and no options for buffering or anything like that.
I notice that the device identifies itself as USB 1.1, but if Windows
doesn't experience this issue then maybe it's not a bandwidth problem.
When the device is first initialized in Windows, it sets register 0 to
0x2004, then later to 0x200c. I have no idea what that means or what it
could possibly be doing.
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Fabrício Nihues fabricio.nih...@gmail.com
wrote:
Another issue, every second there is a pause of some miliseconds in
sound... maybe is buffer problem?
___
Fabrício Nihues
2009/5/25 Fabrício Nihues fabricio.nih...@gmail.com:
Good news!!!
aplay -D iec958 SURROUNDTEST_DD_640.wav is playing Doubly Digital to
my receiver and is working!
The file is a 16bit / 44100Khz audio test, the Dolby Digital and all
speakers works!
Mplayer plays fine too, the problem is when I try to play a movie, the
ac3 is 48000Khz, and maybe is not 16bit? How I can see or change to
16bit/44100?
Still got problems with any gstreamer sound. I'll try to play with
asound.conf...
Got the sample from
http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/mall/index.asp?programID=2445
___
Fabrício Nihues
2009/5/25 Fabrício Nihues fabricio.nih...@gmail.com:
Hello Dan!
Now it's working! Sound is comming to my receiver via optical!! I've
tested only 5min now, just got some problems I'm trying to solve.
1) Any gstreamer application send sound with wrong sampling rate (Same
as audacious ressampling to 48khz, but gstremer seems to ressample to
48khz even 44.1khz music, tested with Totem), so i'm looking a way to
send only 44.1khz.
2) Audacious is perfect.
3) Couldn't send Mplayer ac3 passtrough, I'm trying to send via Totem
(or other command to mplayer), working on it
Update: Just got sound via mplayer, but the passtrough is the same
garbled sound as in windows with 32/24bit enabled). Anyone know how
to send only 16bit stream passtrough via mplayer/alsa? Or any idea how
to solve? Must there be a way... we are so close to make this thing
100% working, it will be the best low price external sound card with
spdif for linux!
___
Fabrício Nihues
2009/5/25 Dan Allongo gongo...@gmail.com:
I did some more USB packet sniffing and discovered that the drivers
are
setting 2 extra undocumented registers and some unknown bits in the
existing
registers.
Try this out and let me know how it goes.
I'm trying not to post all of this code to the list immediately in
order to
avoid confusion.
If this works out, then I'll have to split off the boot quirk for this
into
a separate function due to the extra registers that CM6206 has.
All I can say is that after these changes the analog channels still
function.
Honestly, I don't know that I can do too much more on this because I'm
working on the assumption that the driver detects and properly handles
the
SPDIF device on this chip, which after looking at the code a little
more,
I'm not sure that it actually does...
My coding skills are not strong enough to write that sort of code,
especially since I don't actually have any background in audio
sub-systems.
I guess I just got lucky on this one with the registers being easy
enough to
identify.
static int snd_usb_cm106_boot_quirk(struct usb_device *dev)
{
/*
* Set registers to defaults:
* Clear SPDIF-out parameters
* Enable DACx2, PLL binary, Soft Mute, and SPDIF-out
* Enable line-out driver mode, set headphone source to front
* channels, enable stereo mic.
* Enable all channels and select 48-pin chipset
*/
return snd_usb_cm106_write_int_reg(dev, 0, 0x200c
Re: [Alsa-user] USB audio adapters (CM6206 chip)
Looking around I've found more people with the same problem of the sound stopping/playing (the receiver change from DTS or DD to stereo or other decode automatically). The problem can be corrected forcing DTS/DD decode to the receiver instead of auto, I'll try this at home when get there. ___ Fabrício Nihues -- Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT is a gathering of tech-side developers brand creativity professionals. Meet the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, iPhoneDevCamp as they present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian Group, R/GA, Big Spaceship. http://p.sf.net/sfu/creativitycat-com ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
Re: [Alsa-user] USB audio adapters (CM6206 chip)
Dan, everything works, I think was the test sample (a .wav Dolby
Digital sample) that I was using or my asound.conf
my asound.conf is this now
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave {
pcm spdif
format S16_LE
}
}
I'm listening a movie with ac3 sound now and is it perfect 5.1!
Thank you!
___
Fabrício Nihues
2009/5/26 Fabrício Nihues fabricio.nih...@gmail.com:
Looking around I've found more people with the same problem of the
sound stopping/playing (the receiver change from DTS or DD to stereo
or other decode automatically). The problem can be corrected forcing
DTS/DD decode to the receiver instead of auto, I'll try this at home
when get there.
___
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Re: [Alsa-user] USB audio adapters (CM6206 chip)
Hello Dan!
Now it's working! Sound is comming to my receiver via optical!! I've
tested only 5min now, just got some problems I'm trying to solve.
1) Any gstreamer application send sound with wrong sampling rate (Same
as audacious ressampling to 48khz, but gstremer seems to ressample to
48khz even 44.1khz music, tested with Totem), so i'm looking a way to
send only 44.1khz.
2) Audacious is perfect.
3) Couldn't send Mplayer ac3 passtrough, I'm trying to send via Totem
(or other command to mplayer), working on it
Update: Just got sound via mplayer, but the passtrough is the same
garbled sound as in windows with 32/24bit enabled). Anyone know how
to send only 16bit stream passtrough via mplayer/alsa? Or any idea how
to solve? Must there be a way... we are so close to make this thing
100% working, it will be the best low price external sound card with
spdif for linux!
___
Fabrício Nihues
2009/5/25 Dan Allongo gongo...@gmail.com:
I did some more USB packet sniffing and discovered that the drivers are
setting 2 extra undocumented registers and some unknown bits in the existing
registers.
Try this out and let me know how it goes.
I'm trying not to post all of this code to the list immediately in order to
avoid confusion.
If this works out, then I'll have to split off the boot quirk for this into
a separate function due to the extra registers that CM6206 has.
All I can say is that after these changes the analog channels still
function.
Honestly, I don't know that I can do too much more on this because I'm
working on the assumption that the driver detects and properly handles the
SPDIF device on this chip, which after looking at the code a little more,
I'm not sure that it actually does...
My coding skills are not strong enough to write that sort of code,
especially since I don't actually have any background in audio sub-systems.
I guess I just got lucky on this one with the registers being easy enough to
identify.
static int snd_usb_cm106_boot_quirk(struct usb_device *dev)
{
/*
* Set registers to defaults:
* Clear SPDIF-out parameters
* Enable DACx2, PLL binary, Soft Mute, and SPDIF-out
* Enable line-out driver mode, set headphone source to front
* channels, enable stereo mic.
* Enable all channels and select 48-pin chipset
*/
return snd_usb_cm106_write_int_reg(dev, 0, 0x200c) +
snd_usb_cm106_write_int_reg(dev, 1, 0x3000) +
snd_usb_cm106_write_int_reg(dev, 2, 0xf800) +
snd_usb_cm106_write_int_reg(dev, 3, 0x143f) +
snd_usb_cm106_write_int_reg(dev, 4, 0x) +
snd_usb_cm106_write_int_reg(dev, 5, 0x3000);
}
Thanks for helping out with this, it's really great that you're able to give
me feedback very quickly.
---Dan
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Fabrício Nihues fabricio.nih...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hello, I've tried again on windows, and spdif passtrough is working
with dts/ac3 files if you send it as 16 bit output, if sending as 24
bit or 32 bit I get noise, but the passtrough is working all the 5.1
channels, the receiver recognize dts and ac3 even if the analog out is
set to 2 Ch on the driver control panel. The only thing that enable or
disables the optical out is that switch in the cmedia control panel
inside windows.
If is there something I can do please tell, I'll try to do, I can only
test tomorrow.
___
Fabrício Nihues
2009/5/24 Dan Allongo gongo...@gmail.com:
Okay, well, if SPDIF out didn't work with the settings I sent out, then
I
really don't know what else to do for it since I'm only stabbing in the
dark
here.
Besides, everything I'm reading seems to imply that the optical out is
only
2-channel stereo anyway on most of these budget chips and they only do
surround sound in analog.
Surround 5.1 does indeed swap cen/lfe with rear outputs, but switching
to
surround 4.0 properly down-mixes to rear channels (and being that I only
have a 4.0 system at home, this works for me).
Before I submit a patch for this, I'll need someone with a CM106
TurtleBeach
device to check that everything still works okay.
I'm setting the registers to default for a 7.1 card using the 48-pin
chip as
per the datasheet with the only deviation of turning on the Line Out
driver
as well (which was already there in the existing quirk for the CM106).
Once I get some feedback from CM106 users, I'll submit the patch.
--- usbaudio.c 2009-05-06 03:06:04.0 -0400
+++ usbaudio.c 2009-05-24 11:07:44.0 -0400
@@ -3273,10 +3273,17 @@
static int snd_usb_cm106_boot_quirk(struct usb_device *dev)
{
/*
+ * Set registers to defaults:
+ * Clear SPDIF-out parameters
+ * Enable DACx2, PLL binary, Soft Mute, and SPDIF-out
* Enable line-out driver mode, set headphone source to front
* channels, enable stereo mic.
+ * Enable all channels and select
Re: [Alsa-user] USB audio adapters (CM6206 chip)
Good news!!!
aplay -D iec958 SURROUNDTEST_DD_640.wav is playing Doubly Digital to
my receiver and is working!
The file is a 16bit / 44100Khz audio test, the Dolby Digital and all
speakers works!
Mplayer plays fine too, the problem is when I try to play a movie, the
ac3 is 48000Khz, and maybe is not 16bit? How I can see or change to
16bit/44100?
Still got problems with any gstreamer sound. I'll try to play with
asound.conf...
Got the sample from http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/mall/index.asp?programID=2445
___
Fabrício Nihues
2009/5/25 Fabrício Nihues fabricio.nih...@gmail.com:
Hello Dan!
Now it's working! Sound is comming to my receiver via optical!! I've
tested only 5min now, just got some problems I'm trying to solve.
1) Any gstreamer application send sound with wrong sampling rate (Same
as audacious ressampling to 48khz, but gstremer seems to ressample to
48khz even 44.1khz music, tested with Totem), so i'm looking a way to
send only 44.1khz.
2) Audacious is perfect.
3) Couldn't send Mplayer ac3 passtrough, I'm trying to send via Totem
(or other command to mplayer), working on it
Update: Just got sound via mplayer, but the passtrough is the same
garbled sound as in windows with 32/24bit enabled). Anyone know how
to send only 16bit stream passtrough via mplayer/alsa? Or any idea how
to solve? Must there be a way... we are so close to make this thing
100% working, it will be the best low price external sound card with
spdif for linux!
___
Fabrício Nihues
2009/5/25 Dan Allongo gongo...@gmail.com:
I did some more USB packet sniffing and discovered that the drivers are
setting 2 extra undocumented registers and some unknown bits in the existing
registers.
Try this out and let me know how it goes.
I'm trying not to post all of this code to the list immediately in order to
avoid confusion.
If this works out, then I'll have to split off the boot quirk for this into
a separate function due to the extra registers that CM6206 has.
All I can say is that after these changes the analog channels still
function.
Honestly, I don't know that I can do too much more on this because I'm
working on the assumption that the driver detects and properly handles the
SPDIF device on this chip, which after looking at the code a little more,
I'm not sure that it actually does...
My coding skills are not strong enough to write that sort of code,
especially since I don't actually have any background in audio sub-systems.
I guess I just got lucky on this one with the registers being easy enough to
identify.
static int snd_usb_cm106_boot_quirk(struct usb_device *dev)
{
/*
* Set registers to defaults:
* Clear SPDIF-out parameters
* Enable DACx2, PLL binary, Soft Mute, and SPDIF-out
* Enable line-out driver mode, set headphone source to front
* channels, enable stereo mic.
* Enable all channels and select 48-pin chipset
*/
return snd_usb_cm106_write_int_reg(dev, 0, 0x200c) +
snd_usb_cm106_write_int_reg(dev, 1, 0x3000) +
snd_usb_cm106_write_int_reg(dev, 2, 0xf800) +
snd_usb_cm106_write_int_reg(dev, 3, 0x143f) +
snd_usb_cm106_write_int_reg(dev, 4, 0x) +
snd_usb_cm106_write_int_reg(dev, 5, 0x3000);
}
Thanks for helping out with this, it's really great that you're able to give
me feedback very quickly.
---Dan
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Fabrício Nihues fabricio.nih...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hello, I've tried again on windows, and spdif passtrough is working
with dts/ac3 files if you send it as 16 bit output, if sending as 24
bit or 32 bit I get noise, but the passtrough is working all the 5.1
channels, the receiver recognize dts and ac3 even if the analog out is
set to 2 Ch on the driver control panel. The only thing that enable or
disables the optical out is that switch in the cmedia control panel
inside windows.
If is there something I can do please tell, I'll try to do, I can only
test tomorrow.
___
Fabrício Nihues
2009/5/24 Dan Allongo gongo...@gmail.com:
Okay, well, if SPDIF out didn't work with the settings I sent out, then
I
really don't know what else to do for it since I'm only stabbing in the
dark
here.
Besides, everything I'm reading seems to imply that the optical out is
only
2-channel stereo anyway on most of these budget chips and they only do
surround sound in analog.
Surround 5.1 does indeed swap cen/lfe with rear outputs, but switching
to
surround 4.0 properly down-mixes to rear channels (and being that I only
have a 4.0 system at home, this works for me).
Before I submit a patch for this, I'll need someone with a CM106
TurtleBeach
device to check that everything still works okay.
I'm setting the registers to default for a 7.1 card using the 48-pin
chip as
per the datasheet with the only deviation of turning on the Line Out
driver
as well (which
Re: [Alsa-user] USB audio adapters (CM6206 chip)
Another issue, every second there is a pause of some miliseconds in
sound... maybe is buffer problem?
___
Fabrício Nihues
2009/5/25 Fabrício Nihues fabricio.nih...@gmail.com:
Good news!!!
aplay -D iec958 SURROUNDTEST_DD_640.wav is playing Doubly Digital to
my receiver and is working!
The file is a 16bit / 44100Khz audio test, the Dolby Digital and all
speakers works!
Mplayer plays fine too, the problem is when I try to play a movie, the
ac3 is 48000Khz, and maybe is not 16bit? How I can see or change to
16bit/44100?
Still got problems with any gstreamer sound. I'll try to play with
asound.conf...
Got the sample from http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/mall/index.asp?programID=2445
___
Fabrício Nihues
2009/5/25 Fabrício Nihues fabricio.nih...@gmail.com:
Hello Dan!
Now it's working! Sound is comming to my receiver via optical!! I've
tested only 5min now, just got some problems I'm trying to solve.
1) Any gstreamer application send sound with wrong sampling rate (Same
as audacious ressampling to 48khz, but gstremer seems to ressample to
48khz even 44.1khz music, tested with Totem), so i'm looking a way to
send only 44.1khz.
2) Audacious is perfect.
3) Couldn't send Mplayer ac3 passtrough, I'm trying to send via Totem
(or other command to mplayer), working on it
Update: Just got sound via mplayer, but the passtrough is the same
garbled sound as in windows with 32/24bit enabled). Anyone know how
to send only 16bit stream passtrough via mplayer/alsa? Or any idea how
to solve? Must there be a way... we are so close to make this thing
100% working, it will be the best low price external sound card with
spdif for linux!
___
Fabrício Nihues
2009/5/25 Dan Allongo gongo...@gmail.com:
I did some more USB packet sniffing and discovered that the drivers are
setting 2 extra undocumented registers and some unknown bits in the existing
registers.
Try this out and let me know how it goes.
I'm trying not to post all of this code to the list immediately in order to
avoid confusion.
If this works out, then I'll have to split off the boot quirk for this into
a separate function due to the extra registers that CM6206 has.
All I can say is that after these changes the analog channels still
function.
Honestly, I don't know that I can do too much more on this because I'm
working on the assumption that the driver detects and properly handles the
SPDIF device on this chip, which after looking at the code a little more,
I'm not sure that it actually does...
My coding skills are not strong enough to write that sort of code,
especially since I don't actually have any background in audio sub-systems.
I guess I just got lucky on this one with the registers being easy enough to
identify.
static int snd_usb_cm106_boot_quirk(struct usb_device *dev)
{
/*
* Set registers to defaults:
* Clear SPDIF-out parameters
* Enable DACx2, PLL binary, Soft Mute, and SPDIF-out
* Enable line-out driver mode, set headphone source to front
* channels, enable stereo mic.
* Enable all channels and select 48-pin chipset
*/
return snd_usb_cm106_write_int_reg(dev, 0, 0x200c) +
snd_usb_cm106_write_int_reg(dev, 1, 0x3000) +
snd_usb_cm106_write_int_reg(dev, 2, 0xf800) +
snd_usb_cm106_write_int_reg(dev, 3, 0x143f) +
snd_usb_cm106_write_int_reg(dev, 4, 0x) +
snd_usb_cm106_write_int_reg(dev, 5, 0x3000);
}
Thanks for helping out with this, it's really great that you're able to give
me feedback very quickly.
---Dan
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Fabrício Nihues fabricio.nih...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hello, I've tried again on windows, and spdif passtrough is working
with dts/ac3 files if you send it as 16 bit output, if sending as 24
bit or 32 bit I get noise, but the passtrough is working all the 5.1
channels, the receiver recognize dts and ac3 even if the analog out is
set to 2 Ch on the driver control panel. The only thing that enable or
disables the optical out is that switch in the cmedia control panel
inside windows.
If is there something I can do please tell, I'll try to do, I can only
test tomorrow.
___
Fabrício Nihues
2009/5/24 Dan Allongo gongo...@gmail.com:
Okay, well, if SPDIF out didn't work with the settings I sent out, then
I
really don't know what else to do for it since I'm only stabbing in the
dark
here.
Besides, everything I'm reading seems to imply that the optical out is
only
2-channel stereo anyway on most of these budget chips and they only do
surround sound in analog.
Surround 5.1 does indeed swap cen/lfe with rear outputs, but switching
to
surround 4.0 properly down-mixes to rear channels (and being that I only
have a 4.0 system at home, this works for me).
Before I submit a patch for this, I'll need someone with a CM106
TurtleBeach
device to check
[Alsa-user] USB audio adapters (CM6206 chip)
___
Fabrício Nihues
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From: Fabrício Nihues fabricio.nih...@gmail.com
Date: 2009/5/24
Subject: Re: [Alsa-user] USB audio adapters (CM6206 chip)
To: Dan Allongo gongo...@gmail.com
Hello, I've tried again on windows, and spdif passtrough is working
with dts/ac3 files if you send it as 16 bit output, if sending as 24
bit or 32 bit I get noise, but the passtrough is working all the 5.1
channels, the receiver recognize dts and ac3 even if the analog out is
set to 2 Ch on the driver control panel. The only thing that enable or
disables the optical out is that switch in the cmedia control panel
inside windows.
If is there something I can do please tell, I'll try to do, I can only
test tomorrow.
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2009/5/24 Dan Allongo gongo...@gmail.com:
Okay, well, if SPDIF out didn't work with the settings I sent out, then I
really don't know what else to do for it since I'm only stabbing in the dark
here.
Besides, everything I'm reading seems to imply that the optical out is only
2-channel stereo anyway on most of these budget chips and they only do
surround sound in analog.
Surround 5.1 does indeed swap cen/lfe with rear outputs, but switching to
surround 4.0 properly down-mixes to rear channels (and being that I only
have a 4.0 system at home, this works for me).
Before I submit a patch for this, I'll need someone with a CM106 TurtleBeach
device to check that everything still works okay.
I'm setting the registers to default for a 7.1 card using the 48-pin chip as
per the datasheet with the only deviation of turning on the Line Out driver
as well (which was already there in the existing quirk for the CM106).
Once I get some feedback from CM106 users, I'll submit the patch.
--- usbaudio.c 2009-05-06 03:06:04.0 -0400
+++ usbaudio.c 2009-05-24 11:07:44.0 -0400
@@ -3273,10 +3273,17 @@
static int snd_usb_cm106_boot_quirk(struct usb_device *dev)
{
/*
+ * Set registers to defaults:
+ * Clear SPDIF-out parameters
+ * Enable DACx2, PLL binary, Soft Mute, and SPDIF-out
* Enable line-out driver mode, set headphone source to front
* channels, enable stereo mic.
+ * Enable all channels and select 48-pin chipset
*/
- return snd_usb_cm106_write_int_reg(dev, 2, 0x8004);
+ return snd_usb_cm106_write_int_reg(dev, 0, 0x) +
+ snd_usb_cm106_write_int_reg(dev, 1, 0xb000) +
+ snd_usb_cm106_write_int_reg(dev, 2, 0x8004) +
+ snd_usb_cm106_write_int_reg(dev, 3, 0x007f);
}
@@ -3560,7 +3567,8 @@
}
/* C-Media CM106 / Turtle Beach Audio Advantage Roadie */
- if (id == USB_ID(0x10f5, 0x0200)) {
+ /* C-Media CM6206 / CM106-Like Sound Device */
+ if (id == USB_ID(0x10f5, 0x0200) || id == USB_ID(0x0d8c, 0x0102)) {
if (snd_usb_cm106_boot_quirk(dev) 0)
goto __err_val;
}
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Paolo Saggese pmsa4-a...@yahoo.it wrote:
On Saturday 23 May 2009, Fabrício Nihues wrote:
The light of optical is on now... but don't send sound again... I'm
sending to iec958:CARD=default,DEV=0 or spdif:CARD=default,DEV=0, on
both I don't hear sound. And, if I change the receiver to my analog
try plughw:0,1 as the spdif out device.
Also experiment with settings on alsamixer.
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Re: [Alsa-user] USB audio adapters (CM6206 chip)
Dan,
The light of optical is on now... but don't send sound again... I'm
sending to iec958:CARD=default,DEV=0 or spdif:CARD=default,DEV=0, on
both I don't hear sound. And, if I change the receiver to my analog
out, I hear the music normal, as I was sending to hw:1,0. There must
be a switch on the windows drivers to allow sound to optical or
something.
Linux driver only report one device, and should report two, one as
analog and second as digital...
I'm testing now 5.1 analog and it's normal, I was using a test
Surround WAV and was garbled... but with a movie everything is fine,
or almost, the rear out and the center/lfe is exchanged, nothing
really bad. Both hw:1,0 and plughw:1,0 plays fine, the samplerate
mplayer says is 48khz.
tested with mplayer -channels 6 -ao alsa:device=hw=1,0 movieac3.avi
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2009/5/23 Dan Allongo gongo...@gmail.com:
Fabricio,
Try changing the boot quirk function (around line 3270) to look like this:
static int snd_usb_cm106_boot_quirk(struct usb_device *dev)
{
/*
* Enable line-out driver mode, set headphone source to front
* channels, enable stereo mic.
*/
return snd_usb_cm106_write_int_reg(dev, 0, 0x) +
snd_usb_cm106_write_int_reg(dev, 1, 0xf00d) +
snd_usb_cm106_write_int_reg(dev, 2, 0x8003) +
snd_usb_cm106_write_int_reg(dev, 3, 0x077f);
}
Using these settings, it seems to turn on the light on the SPDIF out, but I
don't know if it's outputting anything.
Register 0 is the configuration for the optical out, but the individual bits
aren't documented.
I may eventually resort back to packet sniffing with Wireshark, but this is
low priority for me since I don't have the hardware to test.
I'm still trying to figure out the 5.1 analog, it seems to be stuck in
'headphones only' mode.
---Dan
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Fabrício Nihues fabricio.nih...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hello Dan,
I've tested the optical connection to my receiver and no sound
(exactly the same thing when optical is disabled on the windows
driver, maybe you can discover what the driver changes to allow sound
through optical out??), it appears to me as iec958 to my USB Audio
using aplay -L, with aplay -l only hw:1,0, no hw:1,1 etc etc (assuming
0,1 is onboard snd).
There is a key labelled PCM 2 and is checked too, dunno what means,
uncheking chenges nothing.
Front analog out works, could not play any dts/ac3 to analog outs
because was getting garbled sound, noticed that 48khz music is bad,
ressampling to 44.1khz made normal. Maybe garbled sound that comes is
a 96Khz sound, but mplayer say it's 44khz weird got no more
time or ideas to test now, maybe some ideas to try analog 5.1 out? And
the optical out?
Thanks
___
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2009/5/22 Fabrício Nihues fabricio.nih...@gmail.com:
Dan!
You are the man! Just tested your patch here, and worked great! At
least the analog out! Later i'll test optical out to my receiver...
one question remains for me, if the optical out can send 5.1 dts/ac3
passthrough... on windows I cannot send it, I get pink noise when
sending, only work 2ch via optical connection but no passthrough.
Did you already send a bug fix to alsa devel or something?
Thanks!
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2009/5/22 Dan Allongo gongo...@gmail.com
Hi all.
I just got this chip off of e-bay like the rest of you and was
disappointed to find that it's not working.
Well, it's now been a couple hours of reading the ALSA wiki and
figuring out where to look in the source code, but I've finally got this
chip working in .20 under Debian.
After sniffing USB data with Wireshark on a VirtualBox instance of
WinXP, I noticed that config data was being sent from the host shortly
after
device enumeration.
This makes sense since it didn't work in Windows either until I
installed the driver (so much for following USB audio standards?).
I can only assume that the drivers contain the default settings for the
device to be usable.
Why the registers don't look like this on reset is beyond me, but
whatever.
In usbaudio.c in the snd_usb_audio_probe function (somewhere in the
vicinity of line 3500) you need to enable the boot quirk for this chip:
/* C-Media CM6206 / CM106-Like Sound Device */
if (id == USB_ID(0x0d8c, 0x0102)) {
if (snd_usb_cm106_boot_quirk(dev) 0)
goto __err_val;
}
Looks like the chip needs some config parameters sent to it via HID
which are already there courtesy of the Turtle Beach hack.
The register setup is outlined in the datasheet (I found it here:
http://pdf1.alldatasheet.net/datasheet-pdf/view/158787/CMEDIA/CM106-L+.html)
on page 21.
The key is to set b15 in register 0x02 so that we can get the output.
Hope that helps,
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Re: [Alsa-user] USB audio adapters (CM6206 chip)
Dan!
You are the man! Just tested your patch here, and worked great! At
least the analog out! Later i'll test optical out to my receiver...
one question remains for me, if the optical out can send 5.1 dts/ac3
passthrough... on windows I cannot send it, I get pink noise when
sending, only work 2ch via optical connection but no passthrough.
Did you already send a bug fix to alsa devel or something?
Thanks!
___
Fabrício Nihues
2009/5/22 Dan Allongo gongo...@gmail.com
Hi all.
I just got this chip off of e-bay like the rest of you and was disappointed
to find that it's not working.
Well, it's now been a couple hours of reading the ALSA wiki and figuring out
where to look in the source code, but I've finally got this chip working in
.20 under Debian.
After sniffing USB data with Wireshark on a VirtualBox instance of WinXP, I
noticed that config data was being sent from the host shortly after device
enumeration.
This makes sense since it didn't work in Windows either until I installed the
driver (so much for following USB audio standards?).
I can only assume that the drivers contain the default settings for the
device to be usable.
Why the registers don't look like this on reset is beyond me, but whatever.
In usbaudio.c in the snd_usb_audio_probe function (somewhere in the vicinity
of line 3500) you need to enable the boot quirk for this chip:
/* C-Media CM6206 / CM106-Like Sound Device */
if (id == USB_ID(0x0d8c, 0x0102)) {
if (snd_usb_cm106_boot_quirk(dev) 0)
goto __err_val;
}
Looks like the chip needs some config parameters sent to it via HID which are
already there courtesy of the Turtle Beach hack.
The register setup is outlined in the datasheet (I found it here:
http://pdf1.alldatasheet.net/datasheet-pdf/view/158787/CMEDIA/CM106-L+.html)
on page 21.
The key is to set b15 in register 0x02 so that we can get the output.
Hope that helps,
---Dan
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Re: [Alsa-user] USB audio adapters (CM6206 chip)
Hello Dan,
I've tested the optical connection to my receiver and no sound
(exactly the same thing when optical is disabled on the windows
driver, maybe you can discover what the driver changes to allow sound
through optical out??), it appears to me as iec958 to my USB Audio
using aplay -L, with aplay -l only hw:1,0, no hw:1,1 etc etc (assuming
0,1 is onboard snd).
There is a key labelled PCM 2 and is checked too, dunno what means,
uncheking chenges nothing.
Front analog out works, could not play any dts/ac3 to analog outs
because was getting garbled sound, noticed that 48khz music is bad,
ressampling to 44.1khz made normal. Maybe garbled sound that comes is
a 96Khz sound, but mplayer say it's 44khz weird got no more
time or ideas to test now, maybe some ideas to try analog 5.1 out? And
the optical out?
Thanks
___
Fabrício Nihues
2009/5/22 Fabrício Nihues fabricio.nih...@gmail.com:
Dan!
You are the man! Just tested your patch here, and worked great! At
least the analog out! Later i'll test optical out to my receiver...
one question remains for me, if the optical out can send 5.1 dts/ac3
passthrough... on windows I cannot send it, I get pink noise when
sending, only work 2ch via optical connection but no passthrough.
Did you already send a bug fix to alsa devel or something?
Thanks!
___
Fabrício Nihues
2009/5/22 Dan Allongo gongo...@gmail.com
Hi all.
I just got this chip off of e-bay like the rest of you and was disappointed
to find that it's not working.
Well, it's now been a couple hours of reading the ALSA wiki and figuring out
where to look in the source code, but I've finally got this chip working in
.20 under Debian.
After sniffing USB data with Wireshark on a VirtualBox instance of WinXP, I
noticed that config data was being sent from the host shortly after device
enumeration.
This makes sense since it didn't work in Windows either until I installed
the driver (so much for following USB audio standards?).
I can only assume that the drivers contain the default settings for the
device to be usable.
Why the registers don't look like this on reset is beyond me, but whatever.
In usbaudio.c in the snd_usb_audio_probe function (somewhere in the vicinity
of line 3500) you need to enable the boot quirk for this chip:
/* C-Media CM6206 / CM106-Like Sound Device */
if (id == USB_ID(0x0d8c, 0x0102)) {
if (snd_usb_cm106_boot_quirk(dev) 0)
goto __err_val;
}
Looks like the chip needs some config parameters sent to it via HID which
are already there courtesy of the Turtle Beach hack.
The register setup is outlined in the datasheet (I found it here:
http://pdf1.alldatasheet.net/datasheet-pdf/view/158787/CMEDIA/CM106-L+.html)
on page 21.
The key is to set b15 in register 0x02 so that we can get the output.
Hope that helps,
---Dan
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Re: [Alsa-user] USB audio adapters (CM6206 chip)
Hello, I don't think it's a prblem here, I'm using Fedora now and tried a lot of Live CDs and none worked. I've reinstalled Fedora on my laptop and got the same silence. ___ Fabrício Nihues 2009/4/8 Dominique Michel dominique.mic...@vtxnet.ch Le Tue, 7 Apr 2009 14:05:38 -0300, Fabrício Nihues fabricio.nih...@gmail.com a écrit : Sorry Bill, here are the infos... Fabrício Nihues wrote: I'm looking for a solution to the USB 6 Channel 5.1 PCI External Sound Card PC Laptop A14 from ebay, i've bought one too, it show up as usb-audio like cm106, I can play but can't hear anything... The chip is a C-media 6206 and inside the .ini of the win drivers it says CM106 as driver... so it should work but something is missing or need to be changed for this card. Example: http://cgi.ebay.com/USB-6-Channel-5-1-PCI-External-Sound-Card-PC-Laptop-A14_W0QQitemZ160284015210QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item160284015210_trksid=p3286.c0.m14_trkparms=72%3A1205|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A1318|301%3A1|293%3A1|294%3A50http://cgi.ebay.com/USB-6-Channel-5-1-PCI-External-Sound-Card-PC-Laptop-A14_W0QQitemZ160284015210QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item160284015210_trksid=p3286.c0.m14_trkparms=72%3A1205%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A1%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A50 I've selected the sound card to play already, i'm a 4 years user of gentoo so it's not a problem, right now using fedora 10 without pulseaudio and alsa-driver 1.0.19. Already tried using audacious playing hw:1,0 (or 0.0 if card goes to 1st device) with alsa output trying too hear but nothing aplay with various combinations don't get sound too the funny thing is when not playing; cat /proc/asound/card1/pcm0p/sub0/status closed cat /proc/asound/card1/stream0 USB Sound Device at usb-:00:02.0-2, full speed : USB Audio Playback: Status: Stop Interface 1 Altset 1 Format: 0x2 Channels: 8 Endpoint: 6 OUT (ADAPTIVE) Rates: 44100, 48000 (there are more outputs but for example the 1st only) playing: cat /proc/asound/card1/pcm0p/sub0/status state: RUNNING trigger_time: 1134.777225355 tstamp : 1377.123626528 delay : 21696 avail : 354 avail_max : 4411 - hw_ptr : 10690194 appl_ptr: 10711890 cat /proc/asound/card1/pcm0p/sub0/hw_params access: RW_INTERLEAVED format: S16_LE subformat: STD channels: 2 rate: 44100 (44100/1) period_size: 4410 buffer_size: 22050 cat /proc/asound/card1/stream0 USB Sound Device at usb-:00:02.0-2, full speed : USB Audio Playback: Status: Running Interface = 1 Altset = 2 URBs = 8 [ 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 ] Packet Size = 196 Momentary freq = 44100 Hz (0x2c.199a) but no sound at all DMESG: usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3 usb 3-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice input: USB Sound Device as /devices/pci:00/:00:02.0/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.3/input/input15 input,hidraw2: USB HID v1.00 Device [USB Sound Device] on usb-:00:02.0-2 usb 3-2: New USB device found, idVendor=0d8c, idProduct=0102 usb 3-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 usb 3-2: Product: USB Sound Device usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio LSUSB: Bus 001 Device 020: ID 0d8c:0102 C-Media Electronics, Inc. CM106 Like Sound Device ls -l /dev/snd total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 280 Abr 7 13:23 ./ drwxr-xr-x 14 root root4720 Abr 7 13:48 ../ crw-rw+ 1 root root 116, 0 Abr 7 13:22 controlC0 crw-rw+ 1 root root 116, 32 Abr 7 13:23 controlC1 crw-rw+ 1 root root 116, 4 Abr 7 13:22 hwC0D0 crw-rw+ 1 root root 116, 7 Abr 7 13:22 hwC0D3 crw-rw+ 1 root root 116, 24 Abr 7 13:22 pcmC0D0c crw-rw+ 1 root root 116, 16 Abr 7 13:38 pcmC0D0p crw-rw+ 1 root root 116, 17 Abr 7 13:22 pcmC0D1p crw-rw+ 1 root root 116, 19 Abr 7 13:22 pcmC0D3p crw-rw+ 1 root root 116, 56 Abr 7 13:23 pcmC1D0c crw-rw+ 1 root root 116, 48 Abr 7 13:48 pcmC1D0p crw-rw+ 1 root root 116, 1 Abr 7 13:22 seq crw-rw+ 1 root root 116, 33 Abr 7 13:22 timer cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [NVidia ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia HDA NVidia at 0xfbf78000 irq 10 1 [default]: USB-Audio - USB Sound Device USB Sound Device at usb-:00:02.0-2, full speed aplay -l (only usb card) card 1: default [USB Sound Device], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 aplay -L (only usb card) USB Sound Device, USB Audio Default Audio Device front:CARD=default,DEV=0 USB Sound Device, USB Audio Front speakers surround40:CARD=default,DEV=0
Re: [Alsa-user] USB audio adapters (CM6206 chip)
Never worked with .17 driver... didn't say that?! That was Dominique reply I think. ___ Fabrício Nihues 2009/4/8 Bill Unruh un...@physics.ubc.ca OK, nothing pops out to me at least. You say that .17 worked but .19 did not. Maybe you could try compiling the usb driver itself from 17 and install it OK, nothing pops out to me at least. You say that .17 worked but .19 did not. Maybe you could try compiling the usb driver itself from 17 and install it into your .19 and see if that works (Not sure that it even should, but if it does and the .19 does not, then you know the problem is with the .19 usb driver. If it does not, then either the .17 is incompatible with the .19 driver, or the problem lies elsewhere. Also look at dmesg to see if there are any clues just after you do a modprobe on the usb driver. -- ie do a rmmod to remove the usb driver and then do modprobe. On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Fabrício Nihues wrote: Hello, I don't think it's a prblem here, I'm using Fedora now and tried a lot of Live CDs and none worked. I've reinstalled Fedora on my laptop and got the same silence. ___ Fabrício Nihues 2009/4/8 Dominique Michel dominique.mic...@vtxnet.ch Le Tue, 7 Apr 2009 14:05:38 -0300, Fabrício Nihues fabricio.nih...@gmail.com a écrit : Sorry Bill, here are the infos... Fabrício Nihues wrote: I'm looking for a solution to the USB 6 Channel 5.1 PCI External Sound Card PC Laptop A14 from ebay, i've bought one too, it show up as usb-audio like cm106, I can play but can't hear anything... The chip is a C-media 6206 and inside the .ini of the win drivers it says CM106 as driver... so it should work but something is missing or need to be changed for this card. Example: http://cgi.ebay.com/USB-6-Channel-5-1-PCI-External-Sound-Card-PC-Laptop-A14_W0QQitemZ160284015210QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item160284015210_trksid=p3286.c0.m14_trkparms=72%3A1205|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A1318|301%3A1|293%3A1|294%3A50http://cgi.ebay.com/USB-6-Channel-5-1-PCI-External-Sound-Card-PC-Laptop-A14_W0QQitemZ160284015210QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item160284015210_trksid=p3286.c0.m14_trkparms=72%3A1205%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A1%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A50 http://cgi.ebay.com/USB-6-Channel-5-1-PCI-External-Sound-Card-PC-Laptop-A14_W0QQitemZ160284015210QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item160284015210_trksid=p3286.c0.m14_trkparms=72%3A1205%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A1%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A50 I've selected the sound card to play already, i'm a 4 years user of gentoo so it's not a problem, right now using fedora 10 without pulseaudio and alsa-driver 1.0.19. Already tried using audacious playing hw:1,0 (or 0.0 if card goes to 1st device) with alsa output trying too hear but nothing aplay with various combinations don't get sound too the funny thing is when not playing; cat /proc/asound/card1/pcm0p/sub0/status closed cat /proc/asound/card1/stream0 USB Sound Device at usb-:00:02.0-2, full speed : USB Audio Playback: Status: Stop Interface 1 Altset 1 Format: 0x2 Channels: 8 Endpoint: 6 OUT (ADAPTIVE) Rates: 44100, 48000 (there are more outputs but for example the 1st only) playing: cat /proc/asound/card1/pcm0p/sub0/status state: RUNNING trigger_time: 1134.777225355 tstamp : 1377.123626528 delay : 21696 avail : 354 avail_max : 4411 - hw_ptr : 10690194 appl_ptr: 10711890 cat /proc/asound/card1/pcm0p/sub0/hw_params access: RW_INTERLEAVED format: S16_LE subformat: STD channels: 2 rate: 44100 (44100/1) period_size: 4410 buffer_size: 22050 cat /proc/asound/card1/stream0 USB Sound Device at usb-:00:02.0-2, full speed : USB Audio Playback: Status: Running Interface = 1 Altset = 2 URBs = 8 [ 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 ] Packet Size = 196 Momentary freq = 44100 Hz (0x2c.199a) but no sound at all DMESG: usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3 usb 3-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice input: USB Sound Device as /devices/pci:00/:00:02.0/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.3/input/input15 input,hidraw2: USB HID v1.00 Device [USB Sound Device] on usb-:00:02.0-2 usb 3-2: New USB device found, idVendor=0d8c, idProduct=0102 usb 3-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 usb 3-2: Product: USB Sound Device usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio LSUSB: Bus 001 Device 020: ID 0d8c:0102 C-Media Electronics, Inc. CM106 Like Sound Device ls -l /dev/snd total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 280 Abr 7 13:23 ./ drwxr-xr-x 14 root root4720 Abr 7 13:48 ../ crw-rw+ 1 root root 116, 0 Abr 7 13:22 controlC0 crw-rw+ 1 root root 116, 32 Abr 7 13:23 controlC1 crw-rw+ 1 root root 116, 4 Abr 7 13:22 hwC0D0 crw-rw+ 1 root root 116, 7 Abr 7 13:22
Re: [Alsa-user] USB audio adapters (CM6206 chip)
Hello, I've searched the forums, i've found the existense of alsa-usbstream package... installed it but didn't resolve, I'm still without sound, Already tried every majos distro around, including Ubuntu and Fedora Beta/Alpha but still no sound, only a pop when the driver are loaded. Tried resampling but didn't worked. Tried the optical out too but no sound too or analog. ___ Fabrício Nihues 2009/3/20 li...@lazygranch.com: I searched the suse website and there is a post there regarding some things to do to get usb sound working. Sorry to be so vague, but I'm away from my desktop. Seach the opensuse forum. When I get back, I willtry yo find the post. . -Original Message- From: Fabrício Nihues fabricio.nih...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:50:22 To: alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Alsa-user] USB audio adapters (CM6206 chip) Hello! I've tried Opensuse 10.1, 10.2, and 11.0 and no sound... same as others distro, it show as usb Audio, I get all channels (one Left ad Right and another with 6 channels LF) in mixers, but no sound at all. The only sound is a pop when the module start first time... -- Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: High Quality Requirements in a Collaborative Environment. Download a free trial of Rational Requirements Composer Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-ibm-com ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
Re: [Alsa-user] USB audio adapters (CM6206 chip)
Sorry Bill, here are the infos... Fabrício Nihues wrote: I'm looking for a solution to the USB 6 Channel 5.1 PCI External Sound Card PC Laptop A14 from ebay, i've bought one too, it show up as usb-audio like cm106, I can play but can't hear anything... The chip is a C-media 6206 and inside the .ini of the win drivers it says CM106 as driver... so it should work but something is missing or need to be changed for this card. Example: http://cgi.ebay.com/USB-6-Channel-5-1-PCI-External-Sound-Card-PC-Laptop-A14_W0QQitemZ160284015210QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item160284015210_trksid=p3286.c0.m14_trkparms=72%3A1205|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A1318|301%3A1|293%3A1|294%3A50 I've selected the sound card to play already, i'm a 4 years user of gentoo so it's not a problem, right now using fedora 10 without pulseaudio and alsa-driver 1.0.19. Already tried using audacious playing hw:1,0 (or 0.0 if card goes to 1st device) with alsa output trying too hear but nothing aplay with various combinations don't get sound too the funny thing is when not playing; cat /proc/asound/card1/pcm0p/sub0/status closed cat /proc/asound/card1/stream0 USB Sound Device at usb-:00:02.0-2, full speed : USB Audio Playback: Status: Stop Interface 1 Altset 1 Format: 0x2 Channels: 8 Endpoint: 6 OUT (ADAPTIVE) Rates: 44100, 48000 (there are more outputs but for example the 1st only) playing: cat /proc/asound/card1/pcm0p/sub0/status state: RUNNING trigger_time: 1134.777225355 tstamp : 1377.123626528 delay : 21696 avail : 354 avail_max : 4411 - hw_ptr : 10690194 appl_ptr: 10711890 cat /proc/asound/card1/pcm0p/sub0/hw_params access: RW_INTERLEAVED format: S16_LE subformat: STD channels: 2 rate: 44100 (44100/1) period_size: 4410 buffer_size: 22050 cat /proc/asound/card1/stream0 USB Sound Device at usb-:00:02.0-2, full speed : USB Audio Playback: Status: Running Interface = 1 Altset = 2 URBs = 8 [ 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 ] Packet Size = 196 Momentary freq = 44100 Hz (0x2c.199a) but no sound at all DMESG: usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3 usb 3-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice input: USB Sound Device as /devices/pci:00/:00:02.0/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.3/input/input15 input,hidraw2: USB HID v1.00 Device [USB Sound Device] on usb-:00:02.0-2 usb 3-2: New USB device found, idVendor=0d8c, idProduct=0102 usb 3-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 usb 3-2: Product: USB Sound Device usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio LSUSB: Bus 001 Device 020: ID 0d8c:0102 C-Media Electronics, Inc. CM106 Like Sound Device ls -l /dev/snd total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 280 Abr 7 13:23 ./ drwxr-xr-x 14 root root4720 Abr 7 13:48 ../ crw-rw+ 1 root root 116, 0 Abr 7 13:22 controlC0 crw-rw+ 1 root root 116, 32 Abr 7 13:23 controlC1 crw-rw+ 1 root root 116, 4 Abr 7 13:22 hwC0D0 crw-rw+ 1 root root 116, 7 Abr 7 13:22 hwC0D3 crw-rw+ 1 root root 116, 24 Abr 7 13:22 pcmC0D0c crw-rw+ 1 root root 116, 16 Abr 7 13:38 pcmC0D0p crw-rw+ 1 root root 116, 17 Abr 7 13:22 pcmC0D1p crw-rw+ 1 root root 116, 19 Abr 7 13:22 pcmC0D3p crw-rw+ 1 root root 116, 56 Abr 7 13:23 pcmC1D0c crw-rw+ 1 root root 116, 48 Abr 7 13:48 pcmC1D0p crw-rw+ 1 root root 116, 1 Abr 7 13:22 seq crw-rw+ 1 root root 116, 33 Abr 7 13:22 timer cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [NVidia ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia HDA NVidia at 0xfbf78000 irq 10 1 [default]: USB-Audio - USB Sound Device USB Sound Device at usb-:00:02.0-2, full speed aplay -l (only usb card) card 1: default [USB Sound Device], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 aplay -L (only usb card) USB Sound Device, USB Audio Default Audio Device front:CARD=default,DEV=0 USB Sound Device, USB Audio Front speakers surround40:CARD=default,DEV=0 USB Sound Device, USB Audio 4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers surround41:CARD=default,DEV=0 USB Sound Device, USB Audio 4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers surround50:CARD=default,DEV=0 USB Sound Device, USB Audio 5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers surround51:CARD=default,DEV=0 USB Sound Device, USB Audio 5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers surround71:CARD=default,DEV=0 USB Sound Device, USB Audio 7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers iec958:CARD=default,DEV=0 USB Sound Device, USB Audio IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output I've already tryed a patch but didn't worked too http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11899/ It's the same USB ID of my card
Re: [Alsa-user] USB audio adapters (CM6206 chip)
Hello! I've tried Opensuse 10.1, 10.2, and 11.0 and no sound... same as others distro, it show as usb Audio, I get all channels (one Left ad Right and another with 6 channels LF) in mixers, but no sound at all. The only sound is a pop when the module start first time... -- Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
Re: [Alsa-user] USB audio adapters (CM6206 chip)
I'm looking for a solution to the USB 6 Channel 5.1 PCI External Sound Card PC Laptop A14 from ebay, i've bought one too, it show up as usb-audio like cm106, I can play but can't hear anything... The chip is a C-media 6206 and inside the .ini of the drivers it says CM106 as driver... so it should work but something is missing or need to be changed for this card. I'm waiting for a optical cable came to test the spdif out too. Anything that I can help I'll send for the developers. PS: Works beautifull on windows, 5.1 analog is great sending to a receiver! Thx! -- Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
[Alsa-user] Via82xx, How to play Quake with this card!
There is a way to play Quake with this card? It´s a Via 8233, with Realtek 650 codec (ac97). When I run quake, I get an error about can´t acess or write mmap buffer or something! ___ Busca Yahoo! O serviço de busca mais completo da Internet. O que você pensar o Yahoo! encontra. http://br.busca.yahoo.com/ --- This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open! Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and the chance of winning an Apple iPod: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en ___ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
[Alsa-user] Via82xx error in quake...
My last email was read on windows, now i'm on linux and can't reply... this doesn't work: echo quake3 0 0 direct /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss Here is the error: --- sound initialization --- Could not mmap dma buffer PROT_WRITE|PROT_READ trying mmap PROT_WRITE (with associated better compatibility / less performance code) /dev/dsp: Input/output error Could not mmap /dev/dsp ___ Busca Yahoo! O serviço de busca mais completo da Internet. O que você pensar o Yahoo! encontra. http://br.busca.yahoo.com/ --- This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open! Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and the chance of winning an Apple iPod: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en ___ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
