[Alsa-devel] hdsp driver status

2003-07-03 Thread Thomas Charbonnel
Hi, I've been off the net and busy for a long time. I apologize to anyone whose mail I didn't answer during this period. I'm slowly catching up with the huge activity that has been going on this list, focusing on the hdsp driver issues. I'd like to summarize the driver status : Fixed : * Marcus,

Re: [Alsa-devel] Question about control names.

2003-07-03 Thread Takashi Iwai
At 02 Jul 2003 21:24:57 -0400, Manuel Jander wrote: Hello, I wrote support for the Hardware Equalizer (10 band stereo = 20 controls) for the Aureal Vortex cards. For testing purposes i used the controls as MIXER type controls, so they are visible from any mixer. The question: How should

Re: [Alsa-devel] cs4248 / thinkpad 755 / 755c , patch suggestions

2003-07-03 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 2 Jul 2003 15:29:55 -0500, Ryan Underwood wrote: 1) What is ALSA's policy on module options? For example, would it be okay to add an option like thinkpad to the ad1848 module, so that inserting it with thinkpad=1 would cause the necessary ports to be prodded? this looks like a

Re: [Alsa-devel] cs4248 / thinkpad 755 / 755c , patch suggestions

2003-07-03 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 2 Jul 2003 13:50:07 -0500, Ryan Underwood wrote: So, my question to alsa-devel is, what should be the proper way to do this fix? I could just do something like the following: ... try init ... else { /* if the chip remained busy, let's see if we have a Thinkpad that needs

RE: [Alsa-devel] hdsp driver status

2003-07-03 Thread Mark Knecht
Thomas, Great to have you back! Looking forward to the matrix mixer actually working one of these days. I hope you can work it into your design somewhere. Thanks, Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Thomas Charbonnel Sent: Thursday,

Re: [Alsa-devel] Question about control names.

2003-07-03 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Thu, 03 Jul 2003 22:17:37 +0900, Patrick Shirkey wrote: Takashi Iwai wrote: And at last, could someone please with suggar on the top update the ALSA support matrix ???!! The Aureal Vortex cards -YES THEY ARE- supported. (http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/openvortex/) please

Re: [Alsa-devel] future ALSA development

2003-07-03 Thread Kai Vehmanen
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Kai Vehmanen wrote: * making alsa-conf the primary tool for setting up ALSA user-space Ugh, that should primary tool for setting up ALSA (kernel) drivers. Hmm, I guess we could have two tools, one for drivers (current alsa-conf) and one for user-space (asoundrc editor). --

Re: [Alsa-devel] future ALSA development

2003-07-03 Thread Kai Vehmanen
Ok, this is a bit late, but hopefully not too late. :) On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Joern Nettingsmeier wrote: other people might propose XML. then it becomes to a question whether I think that XML is too overkill for our purposes. otoh, the embedded guys will probably not like it, but then memory is

Re: [Alsa-devel] hdsp driver status

2003-07-03 Thread Patrick Shirkey
Thomas Charbonnel wrote: Remaining: * HDSP9652: the matrix mixer isn't yet handled right. * Rev11 + Multiface: either the firmware file is wrong or the io-box firmware upload scenario has changed for this card revision. Has anyone ever had success with this combination (or rev11 + Digiface) ? I am

Re: [Alsa-devel] cs4248 / thinkpad 755 / 755c , patch suggestions

2003-07-03 Thread Ryan Underwood
Hi Takashi, On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 02:29:01PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: At Wed, 2 Jul 2003 15:29:55 -0500, Ryan Underwood wrote: 1) What is ALSA's policy on module options? For example, would it be okay to add an option like thinkpad to the ad1848 module, so that inserting it with

Re: [Alsa-devel] hdsp driver status

2003-07-03 Thread Patrick Shirkey
Patrick Shirkey wrote: I'll also try with amixer just incase. Yep. Things changed again. This time Jeds rich and I'm happy. The line outs are still kaput but the outputs are working. I got a nice clear clean signal from output 1 and 2 after running: amixer -c 1 cset numid=23 0,0,4000; amixer -c

Re: [Alsa-devel] hdsp driver status

2003-07-03 Thread Patrick Shirkey
Patrick Shirkey wrote: Patrick Shirkey wrote: I'll also try with amixer just incase. Yep. Things changed again. This time Jeds rich and I'm happy. The line outs are still kaput but the outputs are working. I got a nice clear clean signal from output 1 and 2 after running: One more addition.

Re: [Alsa-devel] future ALSA development

2003-07-03 Thread Kai Vehmanen
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Jaroslav Kysela wrote: here are my next goals for the ALSA library development (short term). I invite all developers to comment these directions. [...] * create ordinary pcm mixer interfaces These are very welcome additions, especially the mixer part! Although

[Alsa-devel] snd-usb-audio hacking

2003-07-03 Thread Tim Small
Hi, I've got a USB device which nearly works with ALSA cvs-current. It's an Abit UA11, and is a pretty simple device, with one SPDIF optical in, and one optical out. I'm trying to use it with an offboard HiFi DAC. The particular problem with it is related to setting the sample rate, after

Re: [Alsa-devel] future ALSA development

2003-07-03 Thread Thomas Charbonnel
Hello all, here are my next goals for the ALSA library development (short term). I invite all developers to comment these directions. [...] * initiate a development of a graphical tool which will manage the alsa configuration files (~/.asoundrc) - we need a rapid development

Re: [Alsa-devel] hdsp driver status

2003-07-03 Thread Thomas Charbonnel
following the above I decided to check I was setting the correct params in the matrix and it turns out that line out has been moved to numid 22 (before it was 5). amixer -D hw:1 cset numid=22 0,0,16384 You're mixing things up. This is the syntax of the matrix mixer ctl. The line out value

RE: [Alsa-devel] hdsp driver status

2003-07-03 Thread Mark Knecht
The documentation is the driver code. Paul is in contact with people from RME. As of today I'm not, but I'll try to contact them. I'd be as happy as you to see the driver working smoothly in all possible configurations. Thomas Thomas, We RME users are very happy to have you on our side!

Re: [Alsa-devel] hdsp driver status

2003-07-03 Thread Thomas Charbonnel
Remaining: * HDSP9652: the matrix mixer isn't yet handled right. * Rev11 + Multiface: either the firmware file is wrong or the io-box firmware upload scenario has changed for this card revision. Has anyone ever had success with this combination (or rev11 + Digiface) ? you mean 0xb? I

Re: [Alsa-devel] hdsp driver status

2003-07-03 Thread Thomas Charbonnel
I have an 0xb Multiface. I haven't been able to load the firmware with 0.9.4, either with the PCI or the PCMCIA interface. I have not tried 0.9.0rc5, nor have I tried loading the firmware with windows and warm booting. Either route is a lot of work. I'd rather see the hardware documentation

[Alsa-devel] alsa opl3 api

2003-07-03 Thread Ryan Underwood
Hi, I'm curious, how the OPL3 userspace API in ALSA is operated. I see that in the Writing an ALSA driver: http://www.alsa-project.org/~iwai/writing-an-alsa-driver/c1207.htm Is the only OPL3 API presented through OSS /dev/dmfm in userspace, or is there an alsa-lib interface that I am

RE: [Alsa-devel] hdsp driver status

2003-07-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 18:20, Thomas Charbonnel wrote: I'm sort of concerned that after 6 months of no mixer on the HDSP 9652, the DF/MF mixer will get fixed, and then I'll find out it has nothing to do the HDSP 9652 and be let down again. The MF/DF mixer works, but firmware upload to

[Alsa-devel] assertion error for playback

2003-07-03 Thread mahendra sp
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[Alsa-devel] snd-hammerfall-mem is dropped

2003-07-03 Thread Takashi Iwai
Hi, it's for RME9652 and HDSP users: on the cvs, i dropped snd-hammerfall-mem module since it is now replaced with the standard memory allocator, snd-page-alloc module. if you load snd-hammerfall-mem module in your init script or anywhere else, please replace it with snd-page-alloc. it has