[Alsa-devel] Lockups with emu10k1 on mandrake 8.2

2002-03-22 Thread Dave Andruczyk
After managing to get alsa 0.9beta 12 compiled and install on a fresh install of mandrake 8.2, loading worked fine. running alsamixer in an xterm and trying to unmute the channels, alsamixer locked hard, couldn't move, couldn't quit, hard lock for that APP ONLY. Tried loading gmix (it worke

[Alsa-devel] Alsa MIDI device description extension proposal.

2002-03-22 Thread Juan Linietsky
I have a proposal in mind, which should make much easier for programs to use the devices in a less-blind way, and standarize patch naming and device descriptions. I think it would be great if authors of existing apps have the chance to modify their programs to take advantage of this, saving us

[Alsa-devel] 0.9beta 12 won't build on Mandrake 8.2 (SMP)

2002-03-22 Thread Dave Andruczyk
./configure fails in alsa driver 0.9beta12 output from configure: checking for current directory... /home/dave/sound/alsa-driver-0.9.0beta12 checking for directory with kernel source... /lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdksmp/build checking for kernel version... expr: syntax error expr: syntax error expr: s

[Alsa-devel] www.alsa-project.org htsearch broken

2002-03-22 Thread Samuel S Chessman
It looks like htdig htsearch is broken on alsa-project.org. When you search the answer is: Not Found The requested URL /cgi-bin/htsearch was not found on this server. Apache/1.3.19 Server at www.alsa-project.org Port 80 Thanks for your attention to this! Sam -- Sam Chessman

Re: [Alsa-devel] initial (incomplete) version of ALSA Audio API tutorial

2002-03-22 Thread markrages
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 04:31:06PM -0500, Paul Davis wrote: > prompted by phil kerr this morning, i started writing a tutorial on > using the ALSA Audio API (the term "PCM" is OK once you get into this > stuff, but ...). The following document represents it current state. I > would like to ask for

Re: [Alsa-devel] powermac 0.9beta12 on tibook not working

2002-03-22 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
matt yee-king wrote: > > Hello > > sorry for posting on devel cos i'm not a developer, but no one on > alsa-user seemed to be able to help me > > Could somebody tell me the state of the alsa 0.9beta12 powermac driver? > > i tried to build it on a benh 2.4.19 kernel as well as a yellowdog >

[Alsa-devel] Hello!

2002-03-22 Thread Juan Linietsky
Hello! My name in Juan Linietsky, I have quite some years of experience in audio programming (from the bad old days of making your own soundcard drivers in DOS). I'm the author of some audio apps such as CheeseTracker, ShakeTracker, and rx_saturno (a yamaha dx7 emulator). I've been following th

Re: [Alsa-devel] Meaning of "pointer" operations

2002-03-22 Thread Takashi Iwai
Hi, At Fri, 22 Mar 2002 11:09:20 +0100 (CET), Kasparek Tomas wrote: > > Hi all, > > I would like to ask you , ALSA gurus for some help. > > What is exact meaning if "pointer" operations. > > I know, that it should return offset in DMA buffer. What I'm not sure > about is unit - should the off

Re: [Alsa-devel] Where to find constants for snd_magic_cast()

2002-03-22 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Fri, 22 Mar 2002 15:51:31 +0100 (CET), Kasparek Tomas wrote: > > Hi all, > > Please, I tried to enable debugging for alsa-driver. For this I need to > add my own constants for snd_magic_cast(). How are these constants > construct and how this magic function works? you can define the constan

[Alsa-devel] Where to find constants for snd_magic_cast()

2002-03-22 Thread Kasparek Tomas
Hi all, Please, I tried to enable debugging for alsa-driver. For this I need to add my own constants for snd_magic_cast(). How are these constants construct and how this magic function works? What is actual status of kernel API documentation. Sources are commented poorly and there's no notice ab

[Alsa-devel] Meaning of "pointer" operations

2002-03-22 Thread Kasparek Tomas
Hi all, I would like to ask you , ALSA gurus for some help. What is exact meaning if "pointer" operations. I know, that it should return offset in DMA buffer. What I'm not sure about is unit - should the offset be in frames or in bytes. And should it be offset against begin of DMA buffer (runti

Re: [Alsa-devel] Question about underruns in 0.9

2002-03-22 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Ken McMillan wrote: > I have an application that is running a capture and playback > simultaneously, with a fixed latency between them. In case of an > underrun on the playback channel, I'd like the driver to keep running, > without a short gap in the sound, but without losin