Re: [Alsa-devel] Rawmidi bug or missed feature?

2002-03-02 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Peter Enderborg wrote: > I have a program that read's from a raw midi device. In midi there are > some simple compression. It is assumed that if the data flow is correct, > and the data should be interpreted as paramaters to previus command if > it's not a new command. But wh

[Alsa-devel] Re: PROBLEM: 2.5.5 with Alsa, kernel BUG at slab.c:1459

2002-03-02 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Reinhard Wolfgang Kreiner wrote: > Hello, > > I tested kernel 2.5.5, 2.5.5-pre1 with alsa-sound-drivers... > it runs great, but the system is freezing if i > shutdown the system and i get kernel BUG at slab.c:1459!!! > > i tried different combination, the problem only orr

Re: [Alsa-devel] Rawmidi bug or missed feature?

2002-03-02 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Peter Enderborg wrote: > Paul Davis wrote: > > > >Yes! And the device that is using running status is alsa rawmidi device. > > > > What makes you think that? AFAIK, the raw MIDI device code does no > > parsing of MIDI data at all ... > > Parsing? It sends raw midi on a strea

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Re: [Alsa-devel] Status of ALSA documentation?

2002-03-02 Thread Patrick Shirkey
I have had another go at cleaning up the page. Here's the latest. http://www.boosthardware.com/LAU/alsa/index5-pd.html This is just to get an impression of the layout. Obviously the link buttons need to be changed and resized correctly. -- Patrick Shirkey - Boost Hardware Ltd For the disce

Re: [Alsa-devel] Rawmidi bug or missed feature?

2002-03-02 Thread Peter Enderborg
Jaroslav Kysela wrote: > On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Peter Enderborg wrote: > > > Paul Davis wrote: > > > > > >Yes! And the device that is using running status is alsa rawmidi device. > > > > > > What makes you think that? AFAIK, the raw MIDI device code does no > > > parsing of MIDI data at all ... > >

[Alsa-devel] Problems with via686a and aplay

2002-03-02 Thread Michael Duelli
Hi I am using alsa 0.9beta12 and a via686a soundchip which works fine. But aplay seems to have a problem for me: Everytime I start aplay with a sound file, it gives a SEGFAULT! This is what gdb says: GNU gdb 4.18 Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by th

[Alsa-devel] Rawmidi question.

2002-03-02 Thread Peter Enderborg
I have a snd_rawmidi_t. And I want to know what client Id it will have in the other end. For example my first rawmidi is card 2 device 0. And that is client id 80:0 but how do I look that up in the rigth way? ___ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [Alsa-devel] Status of ALSA documentation?

2002-03-02 Thread Patrick Shirkey
I have just done some work on the alsa-howto wiki for the cmipci card. I intend to use this as the template for all the other cards. I appreciate any constructive criticism. http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=cmipci -- Patrick Shirkey - Boost Hardware Ltd For the discerning hardware connoi

Re: [Alsa-devel] Rawmidi bug or missed feature?

2002-03-02 Thread Paul Davis
>I don't know how to be more specific. I have a program that listen to >a raw midi stream generated by alsa. But I try. You have a program that uses the sequencer to read MIDI data. That's totally different from a program that uses the raw MIDI interface to read MIDI data. This is very, very impo

Re: [Alsa-devel] Status of ALSA documentation?

2002-03-02 Thread Paul Davis
>http://www.boosthardware.com/LAU/alsa/index5-pd.html there's a bug, because all the main text is invisible in netscape 4. i've tried to fix it, but i can't deal with automatically generated HTML. the indentation is unreadable - nested tables where inner tables are indented less than outer table

Re: [Alsa-devel] Rawmidi bug or missed feature?

2002-03-02 Thread Peter Enderborg
Paul Davis wrote: > >I don't know how to be more specific. I have a program that listen to > >a raw midi stream generated by alsa. But I try. > > You have a program that uses the sequencer to read MIDI data. That's > totally different from a program that uses the raw MIDI interface to > read MIDI

Re: [Alsa-devel] Rawmidi bug or missed feature?

2002-03-02 Thread Roger E Critchlow Jr
Peter Enderborg writes: > Jaroslav Kysela wrote: > > > On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Peter Enderborg wrote: > > > > > Paul Davis wrote: > > > > > > > >Yes! And the device that is using running status is alsa rawmidi device. > > > > > > > > What makes you think that? AFAIK, the raw MIDI device code

Re: [Alsa-devel] Rawmidi bug or missed feature?

2002-03-02 Thread Paul Davis
>It is the api for midi programming. I don't have to think about >active sensing, streaming or anything on the low level. And I get >tools for routing the data as I like. I thougth that you should know >the concept. Almost everything is in realtime. But some mappings i >done in the time domain as

Re: [Alsa-devel] Rawmidi bug or missed feature?

2002-03-02 Thread Peter Enderborg
Roger E Critchlow Jr wrote: > Peter Enderborg writes: > > Jaroslav Kysela wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Peter Enderborg wrote: > > > > > > > Paul Davis wrote: > > > > > > > > > >Yes! And the device that is using running status is alsa rawmidi device. > > > > > > > > > > What makes

Re: [Alsa-devel] Rawmidi bug or missed feature?

2002-03-02 Thread Peter Enderborg
Paul Davis wrote: > >It is the api for midi programming. I don't have to think about > >active sensing, streaming or anything on the low level. And I get > >tools for routing the data as I like. I thougth that you should know > >the concept. Almost everything is in realtime. But some mappings i >

Re: [Alsa-devel] Rawmidi bug or missed feature?

2002-03-02 Thread Paul Davis
>How do you solve the problem with sharing hardware then? I don't. I intend to wait for (and contribute too, if I can) what I consider the correct solution: a) sequencer genuinely split into: 1) a router/multiplexer 2) a scheduler b) sequencer moves into user space As

Re: [Alsa-devel] Rawmidi bug or missed feature?

2002-03-02 Thread Peter Enderborg
Paul Davis wrote: >How do you solve the problem with sharing hardware then? I don't. I intend to wait for (and contribute too, if I can) what I consider the correct solution:   a) sequencer genuinely split into:   1) a router/multiplexer   2) a scheduler   b) sequencer moves into

Re: [Alsa-devel] Rawmidi bug or missed feature?

2002-03-02 Thread Paul Davis
>How can we get the same performance i userspace? For me it is the >processor/OS schedule that gives the limit for that, and in kernel we >get >the hardware as the limit. there are two things done by the sequencer: a) routing/multiplexing this is mostly a matter of code des

Re: [Alsa-devel] Rawmidi bug or missed feature?

2002-03-02 Thread Roger E Critchlow Jr
Peter Enderborg writes: > > Roger E Critchlow Jr wrote: [ ... ] > > Does this help? > > > > Well. I guess it do. I will give it a try. It should work. What about non midi > snd_seq_event_t. > The internal alsa stuff, like subscribe? > Hmm, hadn't thought about it. You can look at

Re: [Alsa-devel] Rawmidi bug or missed feature?

2002-03-02 Thread Peter Enderborg
Roger E Critchlow Jr wrote: > Peter Enderborg writes: > > > > Roger E Critchlow Jr wrote: > > [ ... ] > > > > Does this help? > > > > > > > Well. I guess it do. I will give it a try. It should work. What about non midi > > snd_seq_event_t. > > The internal alsa stuff, like subscribe? >

ALSA sequencer in user land (was: [Alsa-devel] Rawmidi bug or missed feature?)

2002-03-02 Thread Frank van de Pol
Paul, I must admit that looking at the current state of things a move or migration of the ALSA sequencer to user space (either fully or partially) would be a good thing. At the time I came up with the ALSA sequencer we were talking about alsa 0.0.12. It was 1998, yet only 4 years ago and my de

Re: ALSA sequencer in user land (was: [Alsa-devel] Rawmidi bug or missed feature?)

2002-03-02 Thread Paul Davis
Frank - thanks for writing. I don't want to suggest for one moment that there is any "blame" to be attached to the current sequencer design. None of us knew what we know now, and as you point out the hardware state of affairs has changed considerably. >Pentium 60 MHz (though faster iron was ava

Re: [Alsa-devel] Status of ALSA documentation?

2002-03-02 Thread Samuel S Chessman
I also can't see the tabled text in netscape 4.77, mozilla renders it fine. Could you consider using .png files instead of .gif for the various images? >From an aesthetic point, I would say the buttons are hard to read and a little cramped (1280x1024 resolution). Perhaps you could use some alter

[Alsa-devel] Max number of queues?

2002-03-02 Thread Peter Enderborg
I get in to allocation error when I try to start a alloc the 8' queue. Is there any parametes to tune for this ? Im need 17... ___ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel

Re: [Alsa-devel] Status of ALSA documentation?

2002-03-02 Thread Paul Davis
>I also can't see the tabled text in netscape 4.77, mozilla renders it fine. i used mozilla to take a look again. i had originally suggested making the font of the main "text" table larger. i still think is a good idea - this text is just as critical as everything else on the page, and at its cur

Re: ALSA sequencer in user land (was: [Alsa-devel] Rawmidi bug or missed feature?)

2002-03-02 Thread Frank van de Pol
On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 12:55:00PM -0500, Paul Davis wrote: > > >I believe it would be a good thing to reconcider the various > >functions/responsibilities of the ALSA sequecer, and move certain parts to > >user space (=alsa lib), leaving the IPC to device drivers in place. > > by device

Re: ALSA sequencer in user land (was: [Alsa-devel] Rawmidi bug or missed feature?)

2002-03-02 Thread Paul Davis
>ok, don't forget to put CAPs on the 2.5 wishlist :-) they are already implemented and maintained. its just that (almost) nobody turns them on. >> OTOH, JACK faces this too, and we "get around it" by providing >> adequate performance (more than adequate in some cases) without >> SCHED_FIFO, and

[Alsa-devel] CAPs

2002-03-02 Thread Bob Ham
On Sat, 2002-03-02 at 20:18, Paul Davis wrote: > >ok, don't forget to put CAPs on the 2.5 wishlist :-) > > they are already implemented and maintained. its just that (almost) > nobody turns them on. How do you do this now? This http://www.tml.hut.fi/~tilmonen/givertcap/ page tells me to do cha

[Alsa-devel] snd_pcm_format_value() patch in pcm.c

2002-03-02 Thread Samuel S Chessman
I have been trying to get S16_LE format sound out of my ice1712 with poor success, and noted the example in http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-lib/pcm_plugins.html for setting up slaves. I added a format line to ~/.asoundrc thus: pcm.rate44100Hz { type plug slave {

Re: [Alsa-devel] snd_pcm_format_value() patch in pcm.c

2002-03-02 Thread Jeremy Hall
You might try signed instead of unsigned. _J In the new year, Samuel S Chessman wrote: > I have been trying to get S16_LE format sound out of my ice1712 with > poor success, and noted the example in > http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-lib/pcm_plugins.html > for setting up slaves. I adde

Re: [Alsa-devel] snd_pcm_format_value() patch in pcm.c

2002-03-02 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Samuel S Chessman wrote: > I have been trying to get S16_LE format sound out of my ice1712 with > poor success, and noted the example in > http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-lib/pcm_plugins.html > for setting up slaves. I added a format line to ~/.asoundrc thus: > > p