Re: [Alsa-devel] Firewire 410

2004-03-09 Thread Steve Harris
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 07:44:59 +0100, Simon Schampijer wrote: I have tried to use the m-audio with the iec61883 jack driver. After doing some test, I have found that I can have some noise only after an hot reboot of my powerbook (Mac OS X to Yellowdog Linux) with the card plugged. After

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

2004-01-02 Thread Steve Harris
How about PortAudio? It currently supports OSS, and should support ALSA and JACK in the next release. - Steve --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's

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

2003-09-26 Thread Steve Harris
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 12:14:26 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: According to my measurement your belief is definitely false for add/sub, sometimes true for mul and very likely true for div. my belief is based on measurements done by tomshardware, arstechnica and others. that doesn't mean it can't

[Alsa-devel] M-Audio firewire device

2003-09-02 Thread Steve Harris
http://www.m-audio.com/products/m-audio/fw410.php Maybe the first supported firewire audio device for alsa? If M-Audio give up the details. Could be a better option for laptop use than USB. - Steve --- This sf.net email is sponsored

Re: [Alsa-devel] M-Audio firewire device

2003-09-02 Thread Steve Harris
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 05:42:01 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 01:54, Steve Harris wrote: http://www.m-audio.com/products/m-audio/fw410.php Maybe the first supported firewire audio device for alsa? If M-Audio give up the details. Could be a better option for laptop use

Re: [Alsa-devel] Firewire Audio Support

2003-08-28 Thread Steve Harris
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 06:26:24PM -0700, Ray Heasman wrote: Have you looked here? : http://www.linux1394.org/amdtp.html It looks like they are doing it the way I did - simple user-land access to an interface that gives you raw access to the bus. This is great. Theres a /dev/ node that you

Re: [Alsa-devel] anybody else OK with current CVS *and* SMP?

2003-08-14 Thread Steve Harris
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 02:30:52PM -0400, Paul Davis wrote: true, but JACK almost does this by itself. when run with -R, a highpri SCHED_FIFO task runs every 5 (?) seconds, and requires that the engine has checked in since the last time. this prevents loops within JACK from stalling the entire

[Alsa-devel] Re: [linux-audio-user] novation remote 25 usb midi controller

2003-07-31 Thread Steve Harris
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 10:33:38 -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: lsusb returns nothing and there is nothing in /proc/bus/usb/devices ( which I guess says the same thing. ) Do you mean absolutly nothing, or just no MIDI devices? I always see the system hubs and bridges and so on.

Re: [Alsa-devel] A couple of hardware problems

2003-01-15 Thread Steve Harris
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 05:23:04 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote: The other I dont know about: I bought an ESS Solo1 based card (Terratec 128i PCI) to use the MIDI port, but it doesn't appear to work for MIDI input. ... the last time i tried, i also couldn't get the midi-in working, and forgot

[Alsa-devel] A couple of hardware problems

2003-01-14 Thread Steve Harris
The first one is not a problem with alsa, but I haven't been able to find any mention of it online, so I wonrdered if anyone has any insight into it. I have a motherboard with a via82xx chipset [KT333] on it, the bios will only alow me to select auto or disabled for the sound device, and neither

Re: [Alsa-devel] A couple of hardware problems

2003-01-14 Thread Steve Harris
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 05:23:04PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote: yes, usually auto means to activate the chip on mobo only when no other soundcards exist. Thanks. I wonder why the mobo is not giveing me the enabled option it mentions in the docs. Oh well. The other I dont know about: I bought

[Alsa-devel] Re: [linux-audio-dev] dynamic linking

2002-05-03 Thread Steve Harris
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 02:26:33 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: I'm working on a library for accessing MIDI hardware, which uses plugins to communicate with the hardware. Now I'm not sure how to compile these shared libraries. Should I use -Bsymbolic? This makes the linker give a warning when the

Re: [Alsa-devel] question regarding latest CS4205 laptop soundcard driver

2002-02-28 Thread Steve Harris
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 02:11:18 -0500, Ivica Bukvic wrote: Well that's exactly where lies the problem. Most of the laptop soundcards have marginal Alsa (and for that matter OSS) support. The only ones that I am aware of so far of being able to do multiple hardware streams in Linux are es1969

Re: [Alsa-devel] audio via ethernet (was: dolby digital output)

2002-02-20 Thread Steve Harris
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 01:48:48 -0800, Dan Hollis wrote: From what I remeber of magic, it ensures the packets are sent synchronosly. No, it just tries very hard :-) by using fixed packet lengths, and strict inter-packet timings. ;) OK, but as long as the system is magic only they

Re: [Alsa-devel] rme9652 locks up my computer

2002-02-20 Thread Steve Harris
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 11:24:39 +0100, Robert Brückmann wrote: Hi! only thing I can do is a hard reset. When the computer starts afetr that, and did the ext2-fschk, the alsa-driver-initialzation claims about too less memory for a buffer of one of the cards. But I've 512MB ram in my

Re: [Alsa-devel] rme9652 locks up my computer

2002-02-20 Thread Steve Harris
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 10:36:27 +, Steve Harris wrote: can't allocate enough ram. You can fix it by adding an entry into /etc/rc.d/rc.local or equivalent, but I can't remeber the exact line offhand. Found it, it goes in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit, before the fsck part: # # Local mod: do

Re: [Alsa-devel] audio via ethernet (was: dolby digital output)

2002-02-19 Thread Steve Harris
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 03:11:11 -0800, Dan Hollis wrote: On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, stef wrote: Anyway, which software/protocol/service do you use for your clock synchronisation? _very_ interesting! Probably ntp. Works well, multicast mode should be excellent for this. It's not reasonable to

Re: [Alsa-devel] dolby digital output

2002-02-18 Thread Steve Harris
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 02:08:12 +, Steve Harris wrote: I'm a little dubious about that. It's possible to write a Free pro-logic compatible encoder (I have), as most of the technology predates dobly, but it can't, legally be 100% compatible for licencing reasons. AC3 is much more

Re: [Alsa-devel] dolby digital output

2002-02-18 Thread Steve Harris
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 03:00:56 +, Bob Ham wrote: AC3 is much more complicated, and you couldn't feasibly reproduce the encoded output without having followed the spec (unless I'm missing something). Assuming you haven't signed (or clicked yes on) any agreement in order to get the

Re: [Alsa-devel] Updating www.alsa-project.org?

2002-02-12 Thread Steve Harris
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 10:45:37 +0200, Juhana Sadeharju wrote: From:Kevin Conder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information is in wrong importantness order You're assuming that information should be sorted in order of importance [to you]. This is very subjective. Why not sort the

Re: [Alsa-devel] Question regarding current ESS Maestro 3M soundcard support

2002-02-12 Thread Steve Harris
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 09:28:53 -0500, Ivica Bukvic wrote: Hi all! I have an Dell Inspiron 8K and my question is whether the current Maestro M3 chip is fully supported or does it currently only furnish SB16 compatibility mode (I might be talking nonsense here, but this is I have an 8100

[Alsa-devel] Maestro 3

2002-02-05 Thread Steve Harris
Does anyone know what the state of the Maestro 3 driver is? My card is an ESS Technology ES1983S Maestro-3i PCI Audio Accelerator (rev 10), Class 0401: 125d:1998 (rev 10) according to lspci. I've been having some problems with it under cvs ALSA. Things have got better over the last few weeks

Re: [Alsa-devel] Writing a low level sound card driver for alsa.

2002-02-04 Thread Steve Harris
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 03:35:04 -, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: Hello I am thinking of writing a low level sound card driver for alsa. The card in question is the dxr3 hardware DVD player, which has analogue and SPDIF out. It currently works fine with OSS drivers. The card has no

[Alsa-devel] cvs lock on ali5451

2002-02-01 Thread Steve Harris
Hi, I'm trying to check out the current alsa cvs, but when I get to alsa-kernel/pci/ali5451 I get cvs server: [03:53:49] waiting for anoncvs_alsa's lock in /cvsroot/alsa/alsa-kernel/pci/ali5451 - Steve ___ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Alsa-devel] Lexicon Core2

2002-01-15 Thread Steve Harris
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 08:06:43 -0500, Wm. Josiah Erikson wrote: Shucks. I was afraid of that. I'll bug them some more, and if I get really ambitious (I know nothing about it), perhaps try and reverse engineer something. Is this technically possible? On another note, are there multitrack

Re: [Alsa-devel] Alsa and the future of sound on Linux

2002-01-14 Thread Steve Harris
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 07:29:57 -0800, Christopher Morgan wrote: I'm not at all sure why the callback mechanism is such an issue. Windows uses callbacks for their standard sound layer as well as with DirectSound. I'm not sure why the callback model is so difficult to incorporate into an

Re: [Alsa-devel] Alsa and the future of sound on Linux

2002-01-13 Thread Steve Harris
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 10:14:39 +0100, Abramo Bagnara wrote: I believe that it's your CoreAudio like approach fallen in love he find questionable (and I'm tempted to agree with him ;-). Are you playing devils advocate, or do you have specific objections? It seems like a very good approach

Re: [Alsa-devel] Problems with maestro3

2001-12-22 Thread Steve Harris
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 11:12:54 +, Steve Harris wrote: I have a maestro3 in a laptop which is behaving funnily. It works OK through oss emulation (eg. xmms), but if I try to use aplay, ecasound or jack I get big overruns. lspci shows: I dropped back to 0.9b9 and things seem much better

[Alsa-devel] Problems with maestro3

2001-12-21 Thread Steve Harris
I have a maestro3 in a laptop which is behaving funnily. It works OK through oss emulation (eg. xmms), but if I try to use aplay, ecasound or jack I get big overruns. lspci shows: 02:03.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1983S Maestro-3i PCI Audio Accelerator (rev 10)

Re: [Alsa-devel] Freeze on SMP with Alsa-0.9.0 CVS

2001-11-29 Thread Steve Harris
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 05:32:15PM +0100, Jaroslav Kysela wrote: It's very much better to use the alsa-driver/utils/insert script, and look to alsa-driver/snd.map file for the IP address, where driver crashed. We can determine easily the function. OK, done that now. I'm a bit lost now though.

Re: [Alsa-devel] Freeze on SMP with Alsa-0.9.0 CVS

2001-11-29 Thread Steve Harris
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 04:21:31PM +0100, Jaroslav Kysela wrote: Can you try the lasest CVS code or this patch? Nice one. Tried CVS, seems to have fixed it. I got a segfault from ardour, and my machine is still up. I'l stress it some more, and shout if I manage to make it lock up. Thanks,

Re: [Alsa-devel] Oops in ens1371 driver

2001-11-28 Thread Steve Harris
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 12:30:21PM -0800, Dan Hollis wrote: ardour. If ardour segfaults or is kill -9'd the kernel oopses inside the alsa 1371 driver. This seems to be a problem with current alsa. If i kill -9 return to castle wolfenstein, I reliably get an oops. If i ^C it, there is no

Re: [Alsa-devel] Freeze on SMP with Alsa-0.9.0 CVS

2001-11-28 Thread Steve Harris
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 01:12:17AM +0100, Emmanuel Fleury wrote: My BIG problem was that I really can't get any log from this problem. No ooops, no strace output (the file was existing but was empty), no syslog, nothing ! :-/ If you're hitting the same bug as me then the oops never gets

Re: [Alsa-devel] Restarting when in async mode

2001-11-23 Thread Steve Harris
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 09:07:44PM +0100, Abramo Bagnara wrote: The discussion on LAD was essentially between you and me and almost no other message pro/con your/my proposals was sent. ... Very little feedback has been given and nobody else has exited this discussion convinced for a model or

Re: [Alsa-devel] Mapping oss emulation /dev's to ttables?

2001-11-19 Thread Steve Harris
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 01:52:49PM +0100, Jaroslav Kysela wrote: On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Steve Harris wrote: Does anyone know if its possible to point the OSS /dev/dsp* devices to ALSA ttable aliases, so eg: It's not possible in the kernel space (because this configuration is for alsa-lib

Re: [Alsa-devel] Unresolved symbols in snd-mixer-oss.o

2001-11-16 Thread Steve Harris
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 12:59:11PM -, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: I have this exact same problem with a recent CVS. I never had it with previous CVS's, (about one month ago). I am using an emu10k1 SB Live. I don't understand why it has a problem with read_unlock, because other modules

[Alsa-devel] Unresolved symbols in snd-mixer-oss.o

2001-11-15 Thread Steve Harris
Using kernel 2.4.7 with ll patches, current CVS alsa. [root@inanna alsa-driver]# depmod -a depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.7/misc/snd-mixer-oss.o Also (could be related), I can't seem to get any sound out of my soundcard (ens1371) which used to be OK. - Steve

Re: [Alsa-devel] Unresolved symbols in snd-mixer-oss.o

2001-11-15 Thread Steve Harris
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 06:22:26PM +0100, Jaroslav Kysela wrote: Try 'depmod -ae' to report missing symbols, but I don't think that there is a problem with the CVS sources. [root@inanna alsa-driver]# depmod -ae depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.7/misc/snd-mixer-oss.o depmod:

Re: [Alsa-devel] korg 1212

2001-10-28 Thread Steve Harris
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 02:49:55PM +0100, René Moolenaar wrote: Hello, Is there already a driver for the korg 1212 soundcard? I believe that the information is available. It is possible that Iain Sandoe is working on one, but I don't know. - Steve