Re: [Alsa-devel] soundcard matrix: broken links etc.

2002-12-14 Thread John S. Denker
Patrick Shirkey wrote: > > http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/ > > contains almost as many broken links etc. > > Thanks for that. If you have the inclination to send in a patch that > would be very appreciated. Not a patch, but the whole thing fixed up: You can grab it from http://www.av8n

Re: [Alsa-devel] soundcard matrix: broken links etc.

2002-12-10 Thread John S. Denker
Patrick Shirkey wrote: > http://www.alsa-project.org/~goemon/ How did you get access to it? Google. This version is now deprecated. Point taken. However, the apparently non-deprecated version http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/ contains almost as many broken links etc. Here's the s

[Alsa-devel] soundcard matrix: broken links etc.

2002-12-10 Thread John S. Denker
Hi -- The soundcard matrix needs attention. http://www.alsa-project.org/~goemon/ I ran a basic link-checker on it. The error-log is so large that I hesitate to send the whole thing by email. Here's the summary: Code Occurrences What to do 200 1 There are broken fragments which must be fixed.

Re: [Alsa-devel] ALSA-drivers-writing howto updated

2002-12-10 Thread John S. Denker
Patrick Shirkey wrote: I have added a link to the documentation page now. I assume the page in question is: http://www.alsa-project.org/documentation.php3 That is a useful page. Suggestion: Include that page, verbatim, in the distribution, in -- lib/doc/ -- driver/alsa-kernel/Documentati

[Alsa-devel] documentation or lack thereof

2002-12-09 Thread John S. Denker
I wrote: >>From the keen-grasp-of-the-obvious department: >>This project would be a lot better off if there were >>better documentation, and (some) comments in the code. Then on Thu, 05 Dec 2002 10:23:08 -0500, Paul Davis wrote: > >actually, i have to note that this is not so obvious. there are *

[Alsa-devel] many utils fail for extigy (usb)

2002-12-06 Thread John S. Denker
; alsactl -f /tmp/foo.ctl store alsactl: get_control:202: Cannot read control '2,0,0,Digital In Playback Source,0': Invalid argument alsactl: get_control:202: Cannot read control '2,0,0,3D Stereo Extender Switch,0': Invalid argument alsactl: get_control:202: Cannot read control '2,0,0,Up Down Sw

Re: [Alsa-devel] sb16 gets wedged when doing overlapped i/o (fullduplex)

2002-12-06 Thread John S. Denker
Uros Bizjak wrote: Could you put a printk() in snd_sb16_*_pointer() functions (sb16_main.c souce)? This printk() should print dma channel and value of ptr, so we can see when/if DMA channels gets stuck. Done. The result put 2.6 megabytes into /var/log/messages. The head -10 and tail -50 of t

Re: [Alsa-devel] usbaudio won't do 24-bit or 32-bit i/o, and won'tdo 96000 frames per second

2002-12-06 Thread John S. Denker
Clemens Ladisch wrote: Now when I look at the specifications at it turns out that Creative isn't outright lying, only being _extremely_ misleading Whaaat?? Hype and deception from Creative Labs??? Apparently that only happens on days when the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. > To

[Alsa-devel] cs4239 errs on full duplex (provoked by overruns?)

2002-12-05 Thread John S. Denker
The same program that causes sb16 to become completely wedged causes milder errors in the cs4239 module. Reference: see thread starting at: http://www.mail-archive.com/alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg05525.html The program runs for a while (sometimes 8 minutes, sometimes less than one minute)

Re: [Alsa-devel] usbaudio won't do 24-bit or 32-bit i/o, and won'tdo 96000 frames per second

2002-12-05 Thread John S. Denker
Clemens Ladisch wrote: USB devices announce their capabilities in their descriptors. Please post the output of lsusb and the output of "od -t x1 /proc/bus/usb/001/xxx" (xxx is the device number; try all files there, the one I want to see has "1E 04" somewhere in the first line). As requested:

Re: [Alsa-devel] sb16 gets wedged when doing overlapped i/o (fullduplex)

2002-12-05 Thread John S. Denker
Uros Bizjak wrote: From the error message you posted about this bug, it looks that driver is trying to call prepare() operator on a substream that is still in SNDRV_PCM_STATE_RUNNING state. Perhaps Jaroslav could tell us if this can happen if hardware pointers are not updated anymore (because s

Re: [Alsa-devel] sb16 gets wedged when doing overlapped i/o (fullduplex)

2002-12-05 Thread John S. Denker
Uros Bizjak wrote: Did you try to set 16bit DMA allocation flag to Playback or Capture? I tried setting it to Capture. No joy. ALSA gets wedged just the same as before. By the way, is this DMA Allocation thingy documented anywhere? I had to do a huge find|grep to figure out what this s

[Alsa-devel] alsactl and alsamixer fail for extigy

2002-12-05 Thread John S. Denker
This is a slightly-updated clone of item #636948 on the sourceforge bug/patch reporting system. I'm moving it to here (the alsa-devel mailing list) at the request of Jaroslav. It is also a duplicate of something I sent a few minutes ago with the wrong Subject: li

[Alsa-devel] hard crash when snd-ice1712 loads

2002-12-05 Thread John S. Denker
This is a slightly-updated clone of item #648063 on the sourceforge bug/patch reporting system. I'm moving it to here (the alsa-devel mailing list) at the request of Jaroslav. hard crash when snd-ice1712 loads Using snd-ice1712 under rc6 (but not rc3) I observe: ini

Re: [Alsa-devel] sb16 gets wedged when doing overlapped i/o (fullduplex)

2002-12-05 Thread John S. Denker
This is a slightly-updated clone of item #636948 on the sourceforge bug/patch reporting system. I'm moving it to here (the alsa-devel mailing list) at the request of Jaroslav. When talking to Extigy on the USB bus: alsactl -f /tmp/foo store alsactl: get_control:202:

[Alsa-devel] usbaudio won't do 24-bit or 32-bit i/o, and won't do 96000 framesper second

2002-12-05 Thread John S. Denker
This is a slightly-updated clone of item #636946 on the sourceforge bug/patch reporting system. I'm moving it to here (the alsa-devel mailing list) at the request of Jaroslav. I bought an Extigy, which is capable of 24-bit i/o. It is also capable of digitizing 96000 fram

[Alsa-devel] sb16 gets wedged when doing overlapped i/o (full duplex)

2002-12-05 Thread John S. Denker
This is a slightly-updated clone of item #648232 on the sourceforge bug/patch reporting system. I'm moving it to here (the alsa-devel mailing list) at the request of Jaroslav. Things run OK for a few minutes (sometimes 30 seconds, sometimes 5+ minutes) then ALSA gets wedged. Every