[Alsa-devel] hdsp multiface pci.

2003-01-19 Thread Patrick Shirkey
Using latest cvs, I have been trying to get this device working for my friend. We have had some success but it is unreliable. We could get sound out of the lineout port after using this command amixer -D hw:0 cset numid=5 0,0,16384 numid=5,iface=PCM,name='Mixer' ;

Re: [Alsa-devel] hdsp multiface pci.

2003-01-19 Thread Thomas Charbonnel
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 13:08, Patrick Shirkey wrote: Using latest cvs, I have been trying to get this device working for my friend. We have had some success but it is unreliable. We could get sound out of the lineout port after using this command amixer -D hw:0 cset numid=5 0,0,16384

[alsa-devel] Audigy card digital out

2003-01-19 Thread Arnaud Patard
Hi, I own an audigy card (Class 0401: 1102:0004 (rev 03),Subsystem: 1102:0051) and the DTT3500 speakers. I tried to use the digital out of the card but it works only with the creative oss/free drivers. But not with alsa. In the docs from creative oss drivers I found that : IOCFG Register (fn0 -

Re: [Alsa-devel] hdsp multiface pci.

2003-01-19 Thread Patrick Shirkey
Thomas Charbonnel wrote: On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 13:08, Patrick Shirkey wrote: Using latest cvs, I have been trying to get this device working for my friend. We have had some success but it is unreliable. We could get sound out of the lineout port after using this command amixer -D hw:0 cset

Re: [Alsa-devel] hdsp multiface pci.

2003-01-19 Thread Patrick Shirkey
Another question. What are each of these? IEC958 Playback Con Mask IEC958 Playback Pro Mask Chn IEC958 Input Connector IEC958 Output also on ADAT1 IEC958 Playback Default Input Peak Input RMS Line Out Mixer Output Peak Passthru Playback Peak Playback RMS Preferred Sync

Re: [Alsa-devel] hdsp multiface pci.

2003-01-19 Thread Thomas Charbonnel
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 16:29, Patrick Shirkey wrote: Sorry I'm not fully grasping this. Why are 26 and 27 directly related to alsa_pcm:playback_1 and _2? I thought from reading the notes on the hdsp page that pcm1 and pcm2 would be numbers 0 and 1 not 26 and 27. eg. == Since the

Re: [Alsa-devel] hdsp multiface pci.

2003-01-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 16:07, Thomas Charbonnel wrote: So the numid=5 26,26,16384 line says: connect software output 1 (called playback in the above table) to line out left, as the syntax of the call is input_source,output_source,value. Thomas, I have possibly more than a passing interest

Re: [Alsa-devel] hdsp multiface pci.

2003-01-19 Thread Patrick Shirkey
Thomas Charbonnel wrote: You have to understand that software outputs are not directly related to physical outputs. On simpler hardware, software and physical outputs can be considered the same. On the hdsp system, thanks to the internal matrix mixer, software outputs are totally abstracted

Re: [Alsa-devel] hdsp multiface pci.

2003-01-19 Thread Roger Williams
Patrick Shirkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can we route multiple software outputs to the same hardware output? Yes. For instance, when recording 8 tracks, I'll generate a monitor mix (for JACK's outputs) to outputs 1 2 like this: amixer cset numid=5 26,26,16384 amixer cset numid=5

Re: [Alsa-devel] hdsp multiface pci.

2003-01-19 Thread Patrick Shirkey
Patrick Shirkey wrote: Thomas Charbonnel wrote: You have to understand that software outputs are not directly related to physical outputs. On simpler hardware, software and physical outputs can be considered the same. On the hdsp system, thanks to the internal matrix mixer, software outputs

Re: [Alsa-devel] hdsp multiface pci.

2003-01-19 Thread Thomas Charbonnel
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 17:33, Patrick Shirkey wrote: I have added it as an editors note on the hdsp page. Thanks. so it's default is a fifo? i.e software output 26 - analog output 1 software output 27 - analog output 2 Strangely said, but yes. Therefore can I do this?

Re: [Alsa-devel] CVS

2003-01-19 Thread Roger Williams
m@iriXx writes: do these require following the same instructions for compilation as ordinary CVS? http://www.tux.org/pub/sites/ftp.alsa-project.org/cvsexport/2003-01-14.tar.bz2 Yes, the archives in cvsexport are checked-out development trees, so you'll want to run 'cvscompile' in each

[Alsa-devel] amixer question - numid=2

2003-01-19 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, On my HDSP 9652 system executing the command amixer controls yields a list that appears to be 166 items long, starting with numid=1 and ending with numid=166. However, closer study shows numid=2 seems to be missing. Is this an issue with amixer or my card? What function might normally

Re: [Alsa-devel] hdsp multiface pci.

2003-01-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 17:00, Roger Williams wrote: Patrick Shirkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can we route multiple software outputs to the same hardware output? Yes. For instance, when recording 8 tracks, I'll generate a monitor mix (for JACK's outputs) to outputs 1 2 like this:

Re: [Alsa-devel] hdsp multiface pci.

2003-01-19 Thread Roger Williams
Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: amixer cset numid=5 26,26,16384 amixer cset numid=5 28,26,16384 amixer cset numid=5 30,26,16384 amixer cset numid=5 32,26,16384 amixer cset numid=5 27,27,16384 amixer cset numid=5 29,27,16384 amixer cset numid=5 31,27,16384 amixer

Re: [Alsa-devel] General Guidelines? (MIDI)

2003-01-19 Thread Frank van de Pol
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 05:37:35PM -0500, Brian Victor wrote: Likewise, I was under the impression that queues handled sequencing events by timestamp if they arrived in non-sequential order. Is that so? Yes, the sequencer's priority queues automatically order the events enqueued by

Re: [Alsa-devel] hdsp multiface pci.

2003-01-19 Thread Mark Knecht
Roger, This is very, very helpful. Thanks for sharing this info. I am trying to do similar things with the HDSP 9652, which is similar but a bit different, I'd like to address a couple more things. (Darn...Tennessee just scored!) :-((( 7-7 I just want to clearly understand the physical I/O

Re: [Alsa-devel] hdsp multiface pci.

2003-01-19 Thread Roger Williams
Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is very, very helpful. What will be very, very helpful will be Thomas's TotalMix clone! :) ... it appears that the MultiFace has a slightly different numbering system for your analog channels, starting with 0-7 instead of what I think I

Re: [Alsa-devel] hdsp multiface pci.

2003-01-19 Thread Mark Knecht
Roger, I think the light is just starting to turn on, or at least I can only hope... ;-) See if you can help me improve the following description. I can think of my HDSP mixer as a device with 52 inputs and 26 outputs. The inputs look like: 1) 26 mixer inputs come from the HDSP's physical

Re: [Alsa-devel] terratec dmx xfire 1024 ac3

2003-01-19 Thread Guido Bakker
On Thursday 16 January 2003 11:19, Takashi Iwai wrote: At Thu, 16 Jan 2003 10:55:37 +0100, Guido Bakker wrote: i'm trying to use the optical out of my terratec dmx xfire 1024 with an ac3 stream. root@thebox:~/alsa/alsa-tools-0.9.0rc6/ac3dec# ./ac3dec -C test.ac3

Re: [Alsa-devel] hdsp multiface pci.

2003-01-19 Thread Roger Williams
Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can think of my HDSP mixer as a device with 52 inputs and 26 outputs. In the case of the 9652, you don't have headphone outputs, so you don't have the Digiface's 27th and 28th outputs. 1) 26 mixer inputs come from the HDSP's physical inputs

Re: [Alsa-devel] hdsp multiface pci.

2003-01-19 Thread Roger Williams
Mark, have you looked at the block diagrams of the HDSP mixer in the HDSP manuals, or read the technical overview of the HDSP mixer hardware at http://www.rme-audio.de/english/techinfo/hdsp_tmhard.htm ? They provide a fairly clear picture of what the hardware can do; but it doesn't map exactly to