Re: [Alsa-devel] au88x0 problems with kernel 2.6.0

2004-01-04 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: Hi, The normal way I patch the 2.6.x kernel, is i download alsa-kernel from CVS. and then delete the ./alsa-kernel/oss dir, then just copy all the contents of alsa-kernel over the top of /usr/src/linux/sound I then copy the include

[Alsa-devel] Generating LFE-channel from Stereo Sound?

2004-01-04 Thread Thorsten Guenther
Hi all! First i would like to thank you for your great work. Yesterday i watched DVD and really enjoied doing so with 5.1 sound on my nforce2 Linux system. :-))) After some hassle with the right settings for the DVD player software, anything works great and there is only one feature i'm

[Alsa-devel] Terratec aureon space : strange behaviour

2004-01-04 Thread Zébulon
Hi, I have a problem with a new sound card based on Envy24HT, a Terratec Aureon Sky, on both Mandrake 9.2/kernel 2.4 and cooker/kernel 2.6 (dev version). I don't know if the problem is a Mandrake configuration issue or an alsa issue, so I post on that list because it may interests you. This card

Re: [Alsa-devel] Which API to use for simple clients?

2004-01-04 Thread Nick Ing-Simmons
Arve Knudsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Nick Since you're looking into different alternatives, have you considered PortAudio (www.portaudio.com)? Had not heard of it before. Looks interesting. The ALSA implementation of v19 (development branch) is well developed, and fairly stable from

Re: [Alsa-devel] DMIX and capture stream

2004-01-04 Thread Joern Nettingsmeier
Paul Davis wrote: I'm working on changing DMIX to allow clients to open the capture stream. i don't get it. dmix is for playback, not capture. what would be the semantics of this? haven't tried yet, but isn't dsnoop the dmix equivalent for capture ? -- In this house, we obey the laws of

Re: [Alsa-devel] Generating LFE-channel from Stereo Sound?

2004-01-04 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Thorsten Guenther wrote: Hi all! First i would like to thank you for your great work. Yesterday i watched DVD and really enjoied doing so with 5.1 sound on my nforce2 Linux system. :-))) After some hassle with the right settings for the DVD player software, anything works great and there is

Re: [Alsa-devel] Which API to use for simple clients?

2004-01-04 Thread Arve Knudsen
On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 12:00:57 +, Nick Ing-Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The ALSA implementation of v19 (development branch) is well developed, and fairly stable from what I can see (being one of the developers). There hasn't been a lot of feedback, but my own testing hasn't turned up any

[Alsa-devel] ALSA API

2004-01-04 Thread Alex Lau
I been doing some reading on using the alsa API, however, I cannot find much information on it. It also look like that the different versions have different argument for the same API. For example, the snd_pcm_open( ) some use snd_pcm_open( handle, card, device, stream, mode) some use

[Alsa-devel] Channels jumping with snd_intel8x0, nforce2 and 5.1 output

2004-01-04 Thread Gorka Olaizola
Hello, I've been experimenting with a Nforce2 mobo during last month and the only thing I couldn't fix is this sound problem with 5.1 surround sound. I have read all the messages in this and other lists refering this problem and I have tried 3 different versions of alsa drivers (0.9.8, 1.0.0rc2

[Alsa-devel] quake3 and alsa trouble: resampler probably doesn't work properly?

2004-01-04 Thread Prakash K. Cheemplavam
Hi all, I am using nforce2 with intel8x0 compiled into 2.6.1-rc1-mm1 based kernel. if you just start quake3 then you will have no sound. If you apply the famous cat bla direct /bla/pcm/bla (and the other disable for capture), then sound reappears. Ok. But as soon as I load a map (except the

[Alsa-devel] Unique card identifier ?

2004-01-04 Thread Giuliano Pochini
I have to save the settings of the mixer and I need a unique name for each card. Does snd_ctl_card_info_get_id() return different ids if there are two identical cards ? -- Giuliano. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials.

Re: [Alsa-devel] ALSA API

2004-01-04 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 09:19:16AM -0800, Alex Lau wrote: I try to run the minimal playback program from the tutorial found in the alsa web site, snd_pcm_t *handle; char *device = hw:0,0; Shouldn't the tutorial be using default, if that's what programs that don't care should be using?

[Alsa-devel] What about removing Config.help and Config.in

2004-01-04 Thread Martin Langer
Hi, what about removing Config.in and Config.help ? I saw them in alsa-driver/isa/msnd/ --- Aren't they obsolete since Kconfig? martin --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your

Re: [Alsa-devel] DMIX and capture stream

2004-01-04 Thread David Lloyd
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Florian Schmidt wrote: On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 00:07:26 -0500 Paul Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm working on changing DMIX to allow clients to open the capture stream. i don't get it. dmix is for playback, not capture. what would be the semantics of this?

Re: [Alsa-devel] DMIX and capture stream

2004-01-04 Thread Florian Schmidt
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 18:02:11 -0600 (CST) David Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is exacly my point. The fact that dmix and dsnoop are half-duplex is where I have a problem. There seems to be no way to allow more than one OSS-compatibility client to share audio in a satisfactory way.

[Alsa-devel] pcm LADSPA plugin controls

2004-01-04 Thread Florian Schmidt
Hi, i was playing around with alsa-lib's LADSPA plugin and found no way of controlling the plugins' parameters at runtime.. So, i wonder if alsa-lib has hooks to alter the configuration of pcm plugins in general at runtime? Flo -- music: http://www.soundclick.com/bands/9/florianschmidt.htm

Re: [Alsa-devel] ALSA API

2004-01-04 Thread Alex Lau
The sample in the tutorial use command line argument, so I try to follow the sine wave generation code in this url http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-lib/_2test_2pcm_8c-example.html it use char *device = hw:0,0; I try to pass the string default to the function, but still get an

Re: [Alsa-devel] ALSA API

2004-01-04 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 05:44:38PM -0800, Alex Lau wrote: I try to pass the string default to the function, but still get an error -2 (No such file or directory) Are you sure you've tested an existing ALSA application, to make sure your installation even works? (That tends to happen if

Re: [Alsa-devel] ALSA API

2004-01-04 Thread Alex Lau
Are you sure you've tested an existing ALSA application, to make sure your installation even works? (That tends to happen if /dev/snd/* doesn't exist.) Thanks for your help, I think I need to go back and check my alsa installation. Strange enough though, my xine palyer works fine and I have

Re: [Alsa-devel] DMIX and capture stream

2004-01-04 Thread Patrick Shirkey
David Lloyd wrote: On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Florian Schmidt wrote: On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 00:07:26 -0500 Paul Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm working on changing DMIX to allow clients to open the capture stream. i don't get it. dmix is for playback, not capture. what would be the semantics of