Re: [Alsa-devel] PCM Params

2004-05-27 Thread Paul Davis
ok paul i had another look at the driver playback/capture tutorials. I have on e question.Do applications initialize and use a pcm_handle of the alsa driver when they begin interaction with it?Surely not surely yes. ALSA isn't structured the way windows seems to concieve of audio. We don't

Re: [Alsa-devel] PCM Params

2004-05-25 Thread Paul Davis
Hi , i'm trying to change the fragment size that the alsa driver is capturing/playing out. It's currently set at 32 msecs(256 bytes). They are set in the runtime structure... runtime-period_max ...etc Could anybody tell me which file these parameters are set in the alsa-driver directory? you

Re: [Alsa-devel] mixer device

2004-05-13 Thread Paul Davis
When using OSS you can just do mixer ioctl's on the opened PCM fd. When using OSS, you can't model a lot of the functionality present in contemporary audio interface hardware mixers. So there's a choice: a limited, simple API that fails to support card features, or a complex API that over time

Re: [Alsa-devel] Improving wine support for alsa.

2004-05-06 Thread Paul Davis
Kernel people: is poll() less effective than using SND_PCM_ASYNC and a signal handler for low-latency sound? I'm guessing it is, but there at the risk of endlessly repeating myself, SIGIO is basically useless. your handler executes in signal-handling context, and can do very, very little. not

Re: [Alsa-devel] Digi96 driver question

2004-05-04 Thread Paul Davis
in says under known bugs: - 96kHz and 88.2kHz not accessible via PCM interface What does that mean? The card and driver does work in 96 and 88.2 kHz, I know that since I wrote the driver... but if there is some sort of bug, I'd like to know. anders, i don't know, but it might mean that you

Re: [Alsa-devel] Driver request for M-Audio Firewire Audiophile

2004-04-27 Thread Paul Davis
Do you plan any driver for M-Audio Firewire Audiophile? I have contacted = M-Audio=20 French Support and post this request, they told me that M-Audio driver te= am=20 (USA) had request you for this card to have a driver under alsa. Can you = confirm=20 that? Please note: since NAMM this year,

Re: [Alsa-devel] Does ALSA offer built-in PLUG for JACK and non-interleaved cards?

2004-04-20 Thread Paul Davis
Does this mean that now one can channel ALSA-only aware apps directly to JACK Yes. and if so, are there any penalties of doing it this way as oposed to using JAC K-aware apps (i.e. Sample-sync?)? Yes, you lose sample-synchronous guarantees. Also, there *might* be glitches in the audio output

Re: [Alsa-devel] periods,packets and driver patterns not to mention patience!!!

2004-04-09 Thread Paul Davis
Given that the alsa driv interrupts at period boundaries(which are defined in bytes), the tests i have carried out prove otherwise..i.e that the driver operates in millisecond power-of-two based periods. on most PCI-based hardware, the audio interface interrupts every N audio frames, where N is

Re: [Alsa-devel] RE: [linux-audio-user] snd-hdsp+cardbus+M6807 notebook=distortion -- First good news!

2004-04-09 Thread Paul Davis
Well, if there is a way of monitoring these hex registers for various hardware in Linux I could try to compare their state upon initialization in Linux to that one in Windows (since in both situations they share the same IRQ, at least on my notebook) and forward this info to you guys. So my

Re: [Alsa-devel] Detecting runtime ALSA library version

2004-04-06 Thread Paul Davis
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[Alsa-devel] Re: [linux-audio-user] snd-hdsp+cardbus=distortion -- the sagacontinues (cardbus driver=culprit?) MORE UPDATE

2004-04-04 Thread Paul Davis
mainly the alsa guys who wrote the driver and know, how they access the bus system and the hardware, have to tell the pcmcia guys, who know, what's going on in the bus ... i CC'd this mail to the thomas charbonnel, paul davis and winfried ritsch, who wrote or maintain this driver and the alsa

[Alsa-devel] Re: [linux-audio-user] snd-hdsp+cardbus=distortion -- the sagacontinues (cardbus driver=culprit?) MORE UPDATE

2004-04-04 Thread Paul Davis
and it HAS do be a software issue, since at least on ico's and my machine, the hdsp works flawless with winxp ... agreed. but its much more likely to be something about the cardbus support under linux than the hdsp driver, and neither side (the cardbus people or us hdsp people) knows the other

Re: [Alsa-devel] No mixer elems found

2004-03-31 Thread Paul Davis
The problem is that I cannot get the mixer to have any elements (or=20 elems as the alsamixer calls them) which thus makes the card un-openable= =20 even with the alsamixer. thats correct. the hdsp has no mixer that can be represented using conventional mixer elements. there is nothing

Re: [Alsa-devel] problems using select() on alsa pcm.

2004-03-25 Thread Paul Davis
open pcm, and get a handle. snd_pcm_poll_descriptors(handle, pfd, err); Get a poll file scriptor in pfd. select(nfds, rfds, wfds, efds, tvp); Is it possible to use this call with alsa ? select is generally deprecated in linux (linus says so!). but you can use the same pfds in

Re: [Alsa-devel] problems using select() on alsa pcm.

2004-03-25 Thread Paul Davis
select is generally deprecated in linux (linus says so!). but you can use the same pfds in select as in poll (select is implemented in the kernel using the poll code). the problem is interpreting the results you get back (as noted recently for the dmix plugin). Nope, the application must give

Re: [Alsa-devel] problems using select() on alsa pcm.

2004-03-24 Thread Paul Davis
open pcm, and get a handle. snd_pcm_poll_descriptors(handle, pfd, err); Get a poll file scriptor in pfd. select(nfds, rfds, wfds, efds, tvp); Is it possible to use this call with alsa ? select is generally deprecated in linux (linus says so!). but you can use the same pfds in select as in

Re: [Alsa-devel] Problems running latencytest: error setting freq 1024

2004-03-23 Thread Paul Davis
$ measure -p ./out/x11.png -o ./out/x11.out -c 0 -f 1024 -n 2 -t 2 I get this error message: error setting freq 1024 probably a permissions problem. try it as root. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial

Re: [Alsa-devel] List of control parameters needed

2004-03-22 Thread Paul Davis
Where can I get the complete list of controls which an audio codec has to support. there is no such list. and lets get the terminology straightened out here before this goes any further. codec comes (in this context) from coder/decoder. that maps roughly to what is more properly referred to

Re: [Alsa-devel] RE: Major problem with RME HDSP/Multiface and a 64-bit AMD laptop -- SOLVED!!! (partially)

2004-03-20 Thread Paul Davis
What I basically did is investigated the current driver in Windoze for the carbus and it came up as a generic cardbus interface. I was by now aware that the exact cardbus chipset is/was ENE C1410. So I did some searching on the Google for the driver and came up with HP's driver download page for

Re: [Alsa-devel] PCM hw mixing with volume

2004-03-10 Thread Paul Davis
In any case, most of this can all be handled by software. The only stuff the hardware really need is the volume, frequency, direction to sound source, and any additional effects (such as reverb). Application software can deal with the rest. i can certainly see the utility of such an API. however,

Re: [Alsa-devel] PCM hw mixing with volume

2004-03-09 Thread Paul Davis
And by that time, games will be even more demanding than before, and still want to use those cycles for itself rather than software sound processing, so just sitting idle waiting for the ultimate infinite-megahertz cpu, that can do everything in no time, gains nobody anything... at least our

Re: [Alsa-devel] PCM hw mixing with volume

2004-03-08 Thread Paul Davis
Are you planning to standardize such features or design a device-independent API for it? (And my manager wants to know which ALSA release this might get implemented in...) Just a thought on your overall issues with ALSA over the last week. The kinds of features you seem to expect from hardware

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: [alsa-cvslog] CVS: alsa-lib/src/pcm pcm.c,1.271,1.272

2004-03-01 Thread Paul Davis
Taken for granted that configuration space on entry of function is not empty can this be taken for granted? --- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps Web services for Linux with a free DVD

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: The obsolence of OSS, Was: big smile

2004-02-25 Thread Paul Davis
I don't think so. If an sound app is swapped out or another app is doing intensive disk IO we could observe - hear - the difference. and how can OSS help with that? ok, so we know that non-SCHED_FIFO apps (and occasionally, even them) can be delayed by kernel-side issues. but not keeping up with

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: The obsolence of OSS, Was: big smiley

2004-02-25 Thread Paul Davis
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 09:17:54AM -0500, Paul Davis wrote: There are only 2 differences associated with running the code you are talking about in the kernel: a) it runs deterministically in interrupt context b) it avoids a context switch back into user space It could be more

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: The obsolence of OSS, Was: big smiley

2004-02-25 Thread Paul Davis
The ideal scheduler for realtime apps would be one that has an api that allows for a call like schedule me at exactly 10ms intervals+-1ms. no, thats not true. the system clock does not run in sync with the sample clock. the drift in this would become noticeable in a few minutes. the only time

Re: [Alsa-devel] Creamware Noah, snd-usb-audio capable?

2004-02-06 Thread Paul Davis
Interface Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 4 bInterfaceNumber0 bAlternateSetting 0 bNumEndpoints 6 bInterfaceClass 255 Vendor Specific Class ^ i

Re: [Alsa-devel] HDSP 9632 driver and expansion cards

2004-01-21 Thread Paul Davis
Anyone using the latest RME HDSP 9632 driver in ALSA, while also using the expansion cards? I mean, the newer AI4S-192 and/or AO4S-192 which are required to get the 192kHz sampling on all analogs. Do the latest expansion cards (192kHz) work with the latest ALSA driver? i doubt it. RME have not

Re: [Alsa-devel] HDSP 9632 driver and expansion cards

2004-01-21 Thread Paul Davis
I have a few usability comments with regards to the drivers that I would like to share, will draft a fuller email later, but basically I am using it as a hifi input for music, nothing else, but I'm frequently getting very jittery broken up audio (guessing that the default alsa buffer/latency size

Re: [Alsa-devel] hdsp problem

2004-01-15 Thread Paul Davis
it's not working on my system (i tried 64, 128, 256) ... but playing then i guess there is more than one problem. i would also recommend checking into whatever is sharing the interrupt that the hdsp is on. on my laptop, way too many things are on IRQ10 (USB, CardBus, Wifi, HDSP). this seems hard

Re: [Alsa-devel] Moving from OSS to ALSA

2004-01-11 Thread Paul Davis
I am currently looking into rewriting our current OSS sound routines to nat ive ALSA, as it seems OSS will invariably be phased out now that the ALSA driv er is distrubuted with the Linux kernel, plus ALSA seems to have a great numbe r of benefits for us. Our current sound routines perform

Re: [Alsa-devel] Jack-Alsa plugin - problems

2004-01-05 Thread Paul Davis
However, trying to use either xmms, mplayer or mythtv with the same alsa device just seems to leave the app hanging and not doing anything, and attempts to fastforward in mplayer and mythtv (which presumably causes the alsa layer in each app to try and pause then reopen the sound layer) causes the

Re: [Alsa-devel] HDSP as normal user.

2004-01-05 Thread Paul Davis
Using latest cvs I am unable to run the hdsp as a normal user. It works as root user however. Any ideas for fixing this? more specifics about what doesn't work would be helpful. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials.

Re: [Alsa-devel] DMIX and capture stream

2004-01-05 Thread Paul Davis
I have application A that needs to open payback and capture streams because it's a two-way communications program. Application B is a game that uses playback only. I want to use these both at the same time. but i don't think you can do this with OSS. why should ALSA's OSS emulation make it

Re: [Alsa-devel] DMIX and capture stream

2004-01-05 Thread Paul Davis
I have application A that needs to open payback and capture streams because it's a two-way communications program. Application B is a game that uses playback only. I want to use these both at the same time. but i don't think you can do this with OSS. why should ALSA's OSS emulation make

Re: [Alsa-devel] DMIX and capture stream

2004-01-03 Thread Paul Davis
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? --p --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: (Fwd) ALSA related comments - please correct [wulfram-26284]

2003-12-29 Thread Paul Davis
We have been unable to find a way to tell ALSA, through snd_pcm_mmap_begin(), where we want to write data when using the mmap api. OSS doesn't have this restriction and this is the only documented way we can see to support sound engines which mix in new sounds using looping buffers and

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: (Fwd) ALSA related comments - please correct [wulfram-26284]

2003-12-29 Thread Paul Davis
although i agree that from a pragmatic perspective, it would be good to understand how to use ALSA to do this. however, this model of audio programming is not portable, and has gotten people into trouble before, not just under Linux. making the assumption that direct access at all times to the

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: (Fwd) ALSA related comments - please correct [wulfram-26284]

2003-12-29 Thread Paul Davis
That kind of argument would just corroborate the TransGaming report that ALSA is no good overhead-wise, which is probably not what the ALSA developers wish to do here. i wasn't talking about ALSA. i was talking about audio hardware and programming models in general. ALSA will allow pretty much

[Alsa-devel] intel ICH sample rate

2003-12-27 Thread Paul Davis
i've been getting my laptop with an ICH soundchip up to speed, and i just noticed for the first time yesterday that ALSA fails to get the speed to the rate that JACK requests. a quick google reveals that the OSS drivers only support 1 h/w rate, but there are suggestions that the ALSA driver works

Re: [Alsa-devel] intel ICH sample rate

2003-12-27 Thread Paul Davis
i've been getting my laptop with an ICH soundchip up to speed, and i just noticed for the first time yesterday that ALSA fails to get the speed to the rate that JACK requests. a quick google reveals that the OSS drivers only support 1 h/w rate, but there are suggestions that the ALSA driver works

Re: [Alsa-devel] intel ICH sample rate

2003-12-27 Thread Paul Davis
yOn Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Paul Davis wrote: i've been getting my laptop with an ICH soundchip up to speed, and i just noticed for the first time yesterday that ALSA fails to get the speed to the rate that JACK requests. a quick google reveals that the OSS drivers only support 1 h/w rate

Re: [Alsa-devel] intel ICH sample rate

2003-12-27 Thread Paul Davis
meanwhile, i have found that the plughw layer doesn't work with JACK anymore. it appears that any attempt to set the period size fails. any ideas about that? to clarify: any attempt to set the period size if the SR is not 48kHz will fail. --p

Re: [Alsa-devel] snd-rme9652 fails

2003-12-22 Thread Paul Davis
i'm a bit late to the party, but ... --- rme9652.c.ORIGINAL Thu Dec 18 23:43:36 2003 +++ rme9652.c Thu Dec 18 23:45:12 2003 @@ -1618,7 +1618,6 @@ RME9652_SPDIF_RATE(IEC958 Sample Rate, 0), RME9652_ADAT_SYNC(ADAT1 Sync Check, 0, 0), RME9652_ADAT_SYNC(ADAT2 Sync Check, 0,

Re: [Alsa-devel] Why does Alsa sometimes not find the HDSP 9652?

2003-12-22 Thread Paul Davis
Justin, I'm running Alsa-1.0.0rc2. How much more up to date could I be? Also, this is an HDSP 9652 which has the firmware on the board. Why is a firmware loader required at all? its not. jaroslav used that phrase because the bug manifested itself most clearly when loading firmware. it was

Re: [Alsa-devel] Query devices in a non-blocking fashion

2003-12-14 Thread Paul Davis
My opinion is that a simple function could be included in alsactl which scans for available devices, makes a list of their abilities. Everyone uses post-insert alsactl restore in the modules.conf file so it would be essentially a non issue from a user perspective. i think it needs to be

Re: [Alsa-devel] OpenAL - ALSA interface proposal. I request for comments...

2003-12-14 Thread Paul Davis
Since there is almost nothing else to do to support the Aureal Vortex 3D processor on Linux, just as i announced some time ago i started designing a OpenAL interface for ALSA. The design is meant to be applicable to other hardware too. I made a preliminary description, from what i have done so

Re: [Alsa-devel] Which API for MIDI?

2003-12-10 Thread Paul Davis
Tim Goetze wrote: * what kind(s) of sync-to-external will you need? * do you want to receive/send MIDI sysex data? last time i checked, the latter was impossible to do via the sequencer API (please correct if things have changed). Sending/receiving sysex has always been possible AFAIK. It's

[Alsa-devel] Re: [Jackit-devel] One drop-out per xrun?

2003-12-10 Thread Paul Davis
I wanted to check my knowledge of something: does an xrun necessarily correspond to a drop-out in the audio stream? In other words, could you have a drop-out WITHOUT an xrun, or an xrun WITHOUT a drop-out? Is there a strict one-to-one correspondence between the two? a dropout occurs when the

Re: [Alsa-devel] Hello guys!

2003-12-09 Thread Paul Davis
I hope ALSA supports hardware features in certain sound cards (like hardware mixing, sound buffer memory, and so on) like DirectSound does in Windows... all that and a lot more. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program.

Re: [Alsa-devel] Query devices in a non-blocking fashion

2003-12-08 Thread Paul Davis
I don't agree. The control API (usually) is for things that don't affect the way data is transferred between the card the the computer. it is *now*. i was just imagining a different conception of what it could be used for. Sample

Re: [Alsa-devel] Query devices in a non-blocking fashion

2003-12-07 Thread Paul Davis
I'd like to be able to query the capabilities (number of channels,=20 buffer size etc.) of ALSA devices in the system, even if they should be in us= e=20 by some other process. The only current way to probe device capabilities = is to open a pcm, and use snd_pcm_hw_params, correct? At least

Re: [Alsa-devel] Query devices in a non-blocking fashion

2003-12-07 Thread Paul Davis
We all think in the same way, but there's no simple solution for this problem. I prefer to have such configuration information in an user-space database accessed via an alsa-lib API. It's nothing for the kernel space. i'm not sure i agree with that. a user-space config DB could be used to

Re: [Alsa-devel] Can't set 88.2/96kHz samplerate with Hammerfall

2003-12-05 Thread Paul Davis
be overjoyed that was if and when it finally does. Don't expect anythin= g soon, unless you're willing to be that developer. Actually, I'm not completely opposed to the idea. But I am totally=20 clueless when it comes to writing device drivers, and would have no idea=20 where to start. Do you

Re: [Alsa-devel] Can't set 88.2/96kHz samplerate with Hammerfall

2003-12-05 Thread Paul Davis
Actually, I'm not completely opposed to the idea. But I am totally clueless when it comes to writing device drivers, and would have no idea where to start. Start here: http://www.alsa-project.org/documentation.php3#Driver You don't have to start writing the driver from scratch. You only have

Re: [Alsa-devel] Can't set 88.2/96kHz samplerate with Hammerfall

2003-12-04 Thread Paul Davis
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 06:41:56 -0800, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED]=20 wrote: Whenever I try to activate double speed (88.2/96kHz) mode with my RME Hammerfall Lite (DIGI 9636), snd_pcm_hw_params fails with a 'Device or resource busy' message. This is with the number of channels set to 10, since

Re: [Alsa-devel] Fwd: [was Re: [linux-audio-user] Multiple (three) RME Hammerfalls... any experience]

2003-11-29 Thread Paul Davis
I can't help you much, however, unless JACK has recently been worked on I think there's a 32 track limitation. It's known to be technically trivial. still in place at this time. there is a simple 1-2 line solution; i'm not sure if its the right one, since it simply substitutes a 64 channel

Re: [Alsa-devel] error return codes from alsa-lib

2003-11-26 Thread Paul Davis
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Paul Davis wrote: at what point, if any, did alsa-lib start returning positive EFOO values (e.g. EBUSY) rather than -EBUSY? I'm not aware. Which functions? none. its OK, i was checking errno rather than the returned value. my mistake. sorry for the distraction. --p

Re: [Alsa-devel] Bug in rme9652 or snd_pcm_hw_params_set_rate_near()? (slave clock stuff)

2003-11-25 Thread Paul Davis
If my hammerfall (rme9652) sound card is locked slave to 48 kHz, and I put 44.1 kHz into snd_pcm_hw_params_set_rate_near for playback it accepts it, should it really be that way? I expected that it would set the rate to 48kHz, since the card does not change the sample rate to 44.1 kHz (looking

[Alsa-devel] error return codes from alsa-lib

2003-11-25 Thread Paul Davis
at what point, if any, did alsa-lib start returning positive EFOO values (e.g. EBUSY) rather than -EBUSY? --p --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you

Re: [Alsa-devel] smart and automatic use of dmix and dsnoop - feature suggestion.

2003-11-18 Thread Paul Davis
5) I think that this sound mixing problem might be better served by sound servers like jack. Hmmm, actualy I did have a very close look at jack, but the problem that I saw=20 (correct me if Im wrong here), is the fact that jack only works well if the= =20 applications are specificaly geard to

Re: [Alsa-devel] smart and automatic use of dmix and dsnoop - feature suggestion.

2003-11-17 Thread Paul Davis
what you say seems to be valid to me, but not if you implement smart dmix the way I said =). The way I suggested *every* application would connect to smart dmix, and none directly to alsa lib (except those that use devices like hw: - and those should never be mixed). Since every stream is

Re: [Alsa-devel] smart and automatic use of dmix and dsnoop - feature suggestion.

2003-11-17 Thread Paul Davis
well, my concern is that with the high-end cards, people tend to stick with the quality of sounds. that means, any reason to reduce the quality wouldn't be acceptable for some people. since dmix will do it silently (if needed), it might be unacceptable. what ? are you suggesting there are

Re: [Alsa-devel] smart and automatic use of dmix and dsnoop - feature suggestion.

2003-11-17 Thread Paul Davis
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Paul Davis wrote: what you say seems to be valid to me, but not if you implement smart dmix t he way I said =). The way I suggested *every* application would connect to sma rt dmix, and none directly to alsa lib (except those that use devices like hw: - and those should

Re: [Alsa-devel] smart and automatic use of dmix and dsnoop - feature suggestion.

2003-11-17 Thread Paul Davis
the RME hardware has 16-26+ channels, but only one stream. Ok, here we come to my ignorance on sound drivers/hardware/terminology. If I ta= lk=20 about a stream I mean one application -- soundcard link. What would a=20 channel be ? And what a stream if not what I defined a line up?=20 Maybe

Re: [Alsa-devel] smart and automatic use of dmix and dsnoop - feature suggestion.

2003-11-14 Thread Paul Davis
So, these are two numbers - and basicly all is fine as long as you dont wan= t=20 to excede them, but if you do, you need to use dmix or dsnoop. Why not use= =20 dmix and dsnoop automaticly when necessary ? Wouldnt it be possible to have= because it would be catastrophic, or, well, at least very

Re: [Alsa-devel] problems with 0.9.8 drivers and rme9652

2003-11-12 Thread Paul Davis
Hi, it seems to me that with alsa 0.9.8 drivers it's not possible to load snd-rme9652. With 0.9.7c there is no problem. The snd-hdsp driver works in both versions (i tried both cards with both alsa versions). error message: modprobe snd-rme9652

Re: [Alsa-devel] problems with 0.9.8 drivers and rme9652

2003-11-12 Thread Paul Davis
1) just a quick note to point out that whether you know it or not, the email program you are using is sending out copies of your mail in both plain text and HTML formats. increasingly on the net, there are filters being put in place that silently dump HTML-formatted email. some mailing lists will

Re: [Alsa-devel] Interrupt-driven (or callback/handler?), Full-duplex (simultaneous capture/playback) without using JACK

2003-11-10 Thread Paul Davis
Many thanks for the info.! just keep in mind what jaroslav noted about signal handling context. please don't build a serious application around this mechanism. sooner or later, you may want to make a system call from the handler that violates the POSIX guarantees about what can be done. at that

Re: [Alsa-devel] Interrupt-driven (or callback/handler?), Full-duplex (simultaneous capture/playback) without using JACK

2003-11-08 Thread Paul Davis
I am trying to write an application that uses ALSA interrupt-driven (which I guess is obtained by adding PCM handler(s) in ALSA?), full-duplex (simultaneous capture/playback) using the ALSA PCM API directly (i.e. not using JACK). My question: do I only need to register one callback/handler

Re: [Alsa-devel] sequencer buffer

2003-11-07 Thread Paul Davis
again I've got a question regarding the ALSA midi sequencer. I tried to generate Midi time code. you cannot send 100% valid MIDI time code on a Linux system without the high resolution timers patch or some other interrupt source that provides a suitable timing resolution. MIDI time code is not

Re: [Alsa-devel] Occasional metallic sound when recording (cs46xx)

2003-11-07 Thread Paul Davis
anyway, it'd be helpful for debugging if someone can reproduce this certainly under a fixed condition... Well, about 3 times out of 7 I get the problem, so it's not hard to reproduce at all. What I'd have to know is where to place the debugging printk()'s or something like that :( just wanted

Re: [Alsa-devel] alsa-driver-0.9.8, jack, cmipci

2003-11-04 Thread Paul Davis
At Mon, 03 Nov 2003 14:41:51 -0500, Jonathan Kraut wrote: Hello again. Further research: I tried an earlier version of jack (0.71.0) with alsa-driver-0.9.8, accessin g hw:0,2 via my .asoundrc. I get the same result as before, but in addition th is particular version of jackd tells me:

Re: [Alsa-devel] Occasional metallic sound when recording (cs46xx)

2003-10-23 Thread Paul Davis
This problem happens randomly but is very annoying, specially if I program my PVR (MythTV) to automatically record a show - the show can get recorded with metallic sound, which makes it very hard to understand during playback. This is not MythTV-specific since I have been able to reproduce the

Re: [Alsa-devel] start_threshold having no effect

2003-10-21 Thread Paul Davis
My second idea was to have a rather big hw buffer (500ms), and then set the start_threshold to a low value (32 frames for instance). But whatever my parameters were, I always got a playout delay of about the hw buffer size. the output latency is always roughly the size of the hardware buffer.

Re: [Alsa-devel] start_threshold having no effect

2003-10-21 Thread Paul Davis
I am working on a voice over IP application. We would like delays from the write to soundcard to the actual playout lower than 50ms. Do you think it is impossible with ALSA ? With OSS free the delay we got were quite good, without any tweaking. But ALSA is said to have better support for

Re: [Alsa-devel] nforce2 spdif and ogg123

2003-10-19 Thread Paul Davis
I followed the discussion: optical SPDIF output on Abit NF7 nforce2 main board. I am using a similar Epox Mainboard with SPDIF in/out. Currently i am using the todays cvs alsa version and have two questions: Using gqmgeg which uses ogg123 to play ogg files, ogg123 seems to have the samplerate

Re: [Alsa-devel] capture with non-interleaved mode

2003-10-16 Thread Paul Davis
I've not managed to fix this bug into my program... Do you see the error on my code (bad soundcard initialization or other) or have you got another way to propose me to capture the two channels of my soundcard separately ? try increasing BUF_SIZE to 4096 and see what happens. 128 frames/period

Re: [Alsa-devel] Build-in mixer

2003-10-15 Thread Paul Davis
Starting to open device Opening user device: --default-- Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x963)! your program uses threads, right? or it forks at some point? and your alsa_error() function involves calls to GUI functions? this error is from Xlib, it has nothing to

Re: [Alsa-devel] Build-in mixer

2003-10-15 Thread Paul Davis
Well, i am not author of this program actually. It is xmms plugin allowing to use ALSA for sound output (alsa-xmms-0.9). I only wanted to modify it, to be able to use dmix. I see, that it is out of my abilities :-( and, so i will have to conctact the author of it and ask him to correct it.

Re: [Alsa-devel] Build-in mixer

2003-10-15 Thread Paul Davis
it's not related with threads, but it invokes a fork for a server process (a main control only, doesn't do mixing stuffs). it looks like there is something wrong with this together with xmms. i've seen that Xlib got a spurious async. magically enough, the attached patch seems to fix. From

Re: [Alsa-devel] HDSP 9652: Input channel corruption

2003-10-15 Thread Paul Davis
It sounds to me that the problem Nick Arnold is describing is that in single-speed (48kS/s) mode, channels 0, 8, and 16 have a 1-sample delay with respect to all the other channels (using 0-based indexing for channel numbers here). This is irrelevant when recording uncorrelated signals, and

Re: [Alsa-devel] Build-in mixer

2003-10-14 Thread Paul Davis
I experimented with xmms ALSA output plugin and i forced default instead of hw:0:0 to the audio opening command: snd_pcm_open ( handle, default, SND_PCM_STREAM_PLAYBACK, SND_PCM_NONBLOCK ); but a error occured. I would like to ask you, if it is sufficient to perhaps you know this, but

Re: [Alsa-devel] capture with non-interleaved mode

2003-10-14 Thread Paul Davis
Hi. I'm developping a signal processing program which needs to compute data from each channel of soundcards separately. After searches I found that I must open the soundcard with the SND_PCM_ACCESS_RW_NONINTERLEAVED flag but it doesn't works well : for each readn operation i get the -32 error

Re: [Alsa-devel] I/O Error in mmapping ES 1969

2003-10-10 Thread Paul Davis
I mentioned my ham radio realtime program with mmap in a posting on 3. Oct and before. It works now with ALSA 0.9.7 with AC97 and maybe some other cards, thanks!!! With ESS ES1969 mmap(ibuf, isize, PROT_READ, MAP_FILE | MAP_SHARED | MAP_FIXED, fd_audio, 0) (and I tried also all other MAP_

Re: [Alsa-devel] Build-in mixer

2003-10-08 Thread Paul Davis
I don't know, if the term mixer is used correctly, because i am not expert on it. I have in mind to use ALSA by more than one programs at the same time (simultaneously), and ALSA itself should mix these audio streams to one and play it via soundcard. just so you know, although this

Re: [Alsa-devel] Questions: hw_param rules in rme9652, hdsp.c, also for hdspm.c ?

2003-10-08 Thread Paul Davis
(in hdsp double speed channels is 13 and ss speed are 26, in hdspm they are 32 and 64) Why ? Is there a reason to let channels min not to be 1 ? ALSA kernel drivers mirror hardware capabilities. its not possible to configure the hardware to use just 1 channel. user space (alsa-lib) allows use

Re: [Alsa-devel] HDSP 9652 sync problems cause loud noise in Alsa 0.9.6

2003-10-07 Thread Paul Davis
I agree that they may be related. Possibly my noise only happens continuously when trying to sync to an external 48K source, and possibly this is just a sign of it never syncing. When I set the Pref. Sync. Ref. to ADAT1 and use AutoSync I get the noise continuously and the Sync indicator just

Re: [Alsa-devel] HDSP 9652 sync problems cause loud noise in Alsa 0.9.6

2003-10-07 Thread Paul Davis
On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 06:01, Paul Davis wrote: I agree that they may be related. Possibly my noise only happens continuously when trying to sync to an external 48K source, and possibly this is just a sign of it never syncing. When I set the Pref. Sync. Ref. to ADAT1 and use AutoSync I get

Re: [Alsa-devel] Question regarding the alsa's audio latency benchmark

2003-10-06 Thread Paul Davis
Admittedly, it's quite old but that, if anything speaks only in Linux's favor in terms of its pro-audio readiness. At any rate, I was checking out the benchmark data and was wondering as to how did this person/software app get to the 0.73ms buffer fragment that is equal to 128bytes? In other

Re: [Alsa-devel] ham radio OSS duplex realtime mmap program.

2003-09-26 Thread Paul Davis
Hello I work at hfkernel by Tom Sailer, a program for pactor/rtty (soundcard = ham=20 radio digimodes). It seems complicated, because it uses realtime scheduli= ng,=20 select(), mmap(), and runs in 3 threads.=20 It was made in 1996 for OSS; I am trying to get it running with ALSA.=20 JACK already

Re: [Alsa-devel] ham radio OSS duplex realtime mmap program.

2003-09-26 Thread Paul Davis
By the way, does JACK still rely on the float samples internally? Then it is not a good solution for the soft-modem application (driver) where everything should be highly optimized. it does. on most modern CPUs, the FPU is as fast or faster than the integer unit for arithmetic. the optimized

Re: [Alsa-devel] ham radio OSS duplex realtime mmap program.

2003-09-26 Thread Paul Davis
Paul Davis ha scritto: By the way, does JACK still rely on the float samples internally? Then it is not a good solution for the soft-modem application (driver) where everything should be highly optimized. it does. on most modern CPUs, the FPU is as fast or faster than the integer unit

Re: [Alsa-devel] Sound Going Wrong

2003-09-20 Thread Paul Davis
I have written a sound server using ALSA drivers which samples stereo = sound at 16khz and writes each channel to a unix pipe. I am using a = [ ... ] Just wondered if anybody had any insight as to what could be happening = because I haven't. And it's difficult to de-bug as the problem

Re: [Alsa-devel] status pointer's problem with dmix.

2003-09-18 Thread Paul Davis
The problem is that my application relies on a correct delay value, so that it can use it to keep sound/video in sync. although i think that the dmix plugin should work correctly, i would be suprised, no, lets just say pleasantly suprised, if you could get perfect sound/video sync using it.

Re: [Alsa-devel] PCM format restrict dilema

2003-09-17 Thread Paul Davis
So, the application does the following: - 1) I want there to be 8 periods or less, with a minimum of 2. 2) I want the buffer to be about 500ms long or less, with a minimum or 100ms 3) I want the period size to have a min value of x, and a max value or y. 4) Now calculate the actual sizes based on

Re: [Alsa-devel] PCM format restrict dilema

2003-09-16 Thread Paul Davis
I want to try and aim at 8 periods per buffer. Common sense would tell me that one should be able to set the buffer size first, and then try to set the period size to buffer_size/8. But I why don't you set the sizes based on frame counts, not time? i suspect you're more likely to get better

Re: [Alsa-devel] PCM format restrict dilema

2003-09-16 Thread Paul Davis
why don't you set the sizes based on frame counts, not time? i suspect you're more likely to get better results. If the api for setting based on time it present, I would expect to be able to use it. you can use it. but the thing is that you are probably requesting times in msecs, whereas

Re: [Alsa-devel] Multiple Sound Streams out of a single card

2003-09-13 Thread Paul Davis
In Windows, I'm able to have WinAmp running in the background and still hear event sounds from other applications. In Linux, only one thing can play at a time, without the use of high-latency audio servers. not true. ALSA now offers the dmix plugin layer that allows multiple applications to

Re: [Alsa-devel] MIDI getting killed by Jack?

2003-09-12 Thread Paul Davis
When an interrupt for MIDI input occurs, the hdsp driver disables all further MIDI interrupts until the current input data has been read. I don't know why it does this, but you may try to remove/disable lines 3181, 3182, 3188, and 3189 in hdsp.c. the hdsp driver is one of the first alsa drivers

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