Re: [Alsa-devel] EMU10K1 and the extra voice

2004-06-07 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
On Sun, 6 Jun 2004, Glenn Maynard wrote: On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 12:40:31PM +0200, Jaroslav Kysela wrote: Any relationship to the fact that I can only allocate 21 subdevices with ALSA, but 31 with DirectSound? Yes, 64 / 3 = 21 . That stinks (but if it's necessary for decent

Re: [Alsa-devel] An driver error when I using aplay!

2004-06-07 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Roc Wu wrote: # ./aplay -t wav -f U8 -r 22050 alarm.wav Playing WAVE 'alarm.wav' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 22050 Hz, Mono ALSA lib pcm_plug.c:727:(snd_pcm_plug_hw_refine_schange) Unable to find an usable access for 'default' aplay: set_params:832: Sample format non available And the

Re: [Alsa-devel] limits

2004-06-07 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Florin Andrei wrote: What's the max number of cards in a system that can be used by ALSA simultaneously? 8 What's the max number of MIDI ports that's supported by ALSA? There can be up to 8 rawmidi devices per card, but each device can have an unlimited number of subdevices. OSS emulation

Re: [Alsa-devel] limits

2004-06-07 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Clemens Ladisch wrote: Florin Andrei wrote: What's the max number of cards in a system that can be used by ALSA simultaneously? The answers to the questions above - are they in the docs? Use the Source, Luke! :-) Note that applications shouldn't rely on these

Re: [Alsa-devel] An driver error when I using aplay!

2004-06-07 Thread Roc Wu
--- Clemens Ladisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Roc Wu wrote: # ./aplay -t wav -f U8 -r 22050 alarm.wav Playing WAVE 'alarm.wav' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 22050 Hz, Mono ALSA lib pcm_plug.c:727:(snd_pcm_plug_hw_refine_schange) Unable to find an usable access for 'default' aplay:

Re: [Alsa-devel] An driver error when I using aplay!

2004-06-07 Thread Russell King
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 05:25:22PM +0800, Roc Wu wrote: --- Clemens Ladisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] µÄÕýÎÄ£º Roc Wu wrote: # ./aplay -t wav -f U8 -r 22050 alarm.wav Playing WAVE 'alarm.wav' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 22050 Hz, Mono ALSA lib pcm_plug.c:727:(snd_pcm_plug_hw_refine_schange)

Re: [Alsa-devel] An driver error when I using aplay!

2004-06-07 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Russell King wrote: Actually, I disagree. It's an ALSA bug. The warning is created if the AACI close method is called while the DMA or IO is still running. If DMA is still running here, we've already freed the DMA buffer, so we're either reading from or writing to memory

[Alsa-devel] Developer docs missing from ALSA web server - was:Re: [Alsa-devel] An driver error when I using aplay!

2004-06-07 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Roc Wu wrote: Unable to find an usable access for 'default' aplay: set_params:832: Sample format non available Yes. Thanks for your replay. Maybe I should send the mail to arm-linux mailist. PS. Could you recommend some docs about the ALSA internals and Low level drivers? There are too many docs

Re: [Alsa-devel] An driver error when I using aplay!

2004-06-07 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Mon, 7 Jun 2004 12:43:01 +0200 (CEST), Jaroslav wrote: On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Russell King wrote: Actually, I disagree. It's an ALSA bug. The warning is created if the AACI close method is called while the DMA or IO is still running. If DMA is still running here, we've already freed

Re: [Alsa-devel] An driver error when I using aplay!

2004-06-07 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Mon, 7 Jun 2004 14:08:17 +0100, Russell King wrote: On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 02:45:20PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: i guess so, too. as you can see in the original post, the error returned from hw_params callback (sample not available), thus it doesn't call trigger(START) callback yet

Re: [Alsa-devel] An driver error when I using aplay!

2004-06-07 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Mon, 7 Jun 2004 14:51:13 +0100, Russell King wrote: On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 03:40:23PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: At Mon, 7 Jun 2004 14:08:17 +0100, Russell King wrote: On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 02:45:20PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: i guess so, too. as you can see in the

Re: [Alsa-devel] An driver error when I using aplay!

2004-06-07 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Russell King wrote: But unfortunately I don't have the driver code myself to be able to comment, so its probably been fscked. If the code was posted publically, the author of the code would get a lot more useful help from more eyes. --- This

[Alsa-devel] Problems Writing a Driver for an AMD Au1000 MIPS Processor

2004-06-07 Thread Charles Eidsness
I've been trying to write an ALSA driver for the AC97 port on an embedded AMD au1000 MIPS processor but am having some difficulties. The processor's DMA controller has two buffers which automatically toggle back and forth once the buffer is full. My problem is that when I playback a wave file

Re: [Alsa-devel] An driver error when I using aplay!

2004-06-07 Thread Russell King
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 04:18:55PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: You're right. The error was not txcr, but in another WARN_ON() for checking chan-tx_substream (line 404)! (Russell, you mislead this, too ;) Well I don't have the exact source which this guy is using, so I can only guess. The

Re: [Alsa-devel] An driver error when I using aplay!

2004-06-07 Thread Russell King
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 03:24:46PM +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: Russell King wrote: But unfortunately I don't have the driver code myself to be able to comment, so its probably been fscked. If the code was posted publically, the author of the code would get a lot more useful

[Alsa-devel] limits

2004-06-06 Thread Florin Andrei
What's the max number of cards in a system that can be used by ALSA simultaneously? What's the max number of MIDI ports that's supported by ALSA? What are other similar limits? The answers to the questions above - are they in the docs? If yes, where? (i couldn't find anything related) -- Florin

Re: [Alsa-devel] EMU10K1 and the extra voice

2004-06-06 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
On Sat, 5 Jun 2004, Chris Purnell wrote: For PCM playback the EMU10K1 driver is allocating an extra voice. This is somewhat wastefull and I kind of need all 64 voices. Is appears to be using it to generate the period interrupts. Does anyone know what it would take to rewrite the driver to

Re: [Alsa-devel] EMU10K1 and the extra voice

2004-06-06 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
On Sun, 6 Jun 2004, Glenn Maynard wrote: On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 12:59:36PM +, Chris Purnell wrote: For PCM playback the EMU10K1 driver is allocating an extra voice. This is somewhat wastefull and I kind of need all 64 voices. Is appears to be using it to generate the period

Re: [Alsa-devel] Mixer sanity

2004-06-06 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
On Sat, 5 Jun 2004, Owen Fraser-Green wrote: Hi, After some tinkering around with ALSA's mixer with a couple of different cards it's become apparent to me that there's not too much standardization when it comes to track naming. It's work in progress. We need to create an abstract layer on

Re: [Alsa-devel] EMU10K1 and the extra voice

2004-06-06 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 12:40:31PM +0200, Jaroslav Kysela wrote: Any relationship to the fact that I can only allocate 21 subdevices with ALSA, but 31 with DirectSound? Yes, 64 / 3 = 21 . That stinks (but if it's necessary for decent latency, which it doesn't get in Windows, oh well).

Re: [Alsa-devel] An driver error when I using aplay!

2004-06-06 Thread Roc Wu
Hi folks: I don't want to post my question again. But there is not any response about my question. Maybe I did some thing wrong about asking question, please let me know. I will change my method, Thanks a lot. Please give me some help. Best Regards --- Roc Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi folks:

[Alsa-devel] Mixer sanity

2004-06-05 Thread Owen Fraser-Green
Hi, After some tinkering around with ALSA's mixer with a couple of different cards it's become apparent to me that there's not too much standardization when it comes to track naming. What I'd like to be able to do is adjust the different levels on different channels and to adjust the mast mixer

[Alsa-devel] Broken links in alsa docs page

2004-06-05 Thread Giuliano Pochini
I found these broken links in the page http://www.alsa-project.org/documentation.php3 : http://www.alsa-project.org/~iwai/* http://www.alsa-project.org/~frank/alsa-sequencer/ http://www.alsa-project.org/~valentyn/* http://www.alsa-project.org/~jfulmer/alsa-faq.html -- Giuliano.

Re: [Alsa-devel] Mixer sanity

2004-06-05 Thread Fred Gleason
On Saturday 05 June 2004 09:51, Owen Fraser-Green wrote: Now, I know an envy24mixer exists to make life easier for me but surely it would be a bit nicer if the mixer interface provided a more consistent abstraction. In my situation, I want my software to be useful without a screen so the

Re: [Alsa-devel] EMU10K1 and the extra voice

2004-06-05 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 12:59:36PM +, Chris Purnell wrote: For PCM playback the EMU10K1 driver is allocating an extra voice. This is somewhat wastefull and I kind of need all 64 voices. Is appears to be using it to generate the period interrupts. Does anyone know what it would take to

Re: [Alsa-devel] weird xrun problem

2004-06-01 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
On Sun, 30 May 2004, Giuliano Pochini wrote: On Wed, 26 May 2004 09:52:06 +0200 (CEST) Jaroslav Kysela [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ALSA does not know about this. All period sizes must be equal. I thought about this again. Are you sure all periods must be aqual ? When I record or

Re: [Alsa-devel] ALSA 1.0.5

2004-06-01 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Mon, 31 May 2004 12:58:53 +0200, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote: On Monday 31 May 2004 03:07, I wrote: My Gigabyte motherboard's integrated sound interface used to work with this driver, but it doesn't with 1.0.5 Any program (amixer info, alsactl restore, alsamixer ...) trying to use

Re: [Alsa-devel] [ANN] Open Source US-X2Y firmware

2004-06-01 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Thu, 27 May 2004 21:26:22 +0200, Martin Langer wrote: Hi, if someone is interested in a free (I mean GPL) firmware for the Tascam US-X2Y devices I can offer an open source replacement for the second stage loader alsa-firmware/usx2yloader/tascam_loader.ihx. All three US-X2Y devices

Re: [Alsa-devel] Question regarding substreams or voices

2004-06-01 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Sat, 29 May 2004 16:05:05 +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: Hi, I am trying to do work on the Audigy LS driver. I have now discovered that I can send sound to the Front, Rear and Center/LFE. I have not found out how to set the amount of interleaved channels that the sound card

[Alsa-devel] [PATCH] Audigy LS driver ready for inclusion into alsa-driver.

2004-06-01 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Audigy LS driver is now ready for inclusion into alsa-driver. Get it from http://www.superbug.demon.co.uk/alsa The install.txt tells one how to patch the current alsa-driver 1.0.5a with it, and also explains where some other files should be put. The indentation might need correcting before

[Alsa-devel] [PATCH] Audigy LS driver ready for inclusion into alsa-driver.

2004-06-01 Thread William
James Courtier-Dutton wrote: Audigy LS driver is now ready for inclusion into alsa-driver. Get it from http://www.superbug.demon.co.uk/alsa Are you going to work on any other Audigy-series drivers, e.g. Audigy 2 ZS? I'm finding the emu10k1 driver in alsa-driver-1.0.5a has serious problems with

Re: [Alsa-devel] Question regarding substreams or voices

2004-06-01 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Tue, 1 Jun 2004 13:18:26 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: both are ok for ALSA native apps. you can specify the substream index in the configuration. the latter would be easier for OSS compatible layer, though. Do you have a preference? I can change the emu10k1x driver to do (2) as

Re: [Alsa-devel] [PATCH] Audigy LS driver ready for inclusion into alsa-driver.

2004-06-01 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
William wrote: James Courtier-Dutton wrote: Audigy LS driver is now ready for inclusion into alsa-driver. Get it from http://www.superbug.demon.co.uk/alsa Are you going to work on any other Audigy-series drivers, e.g. Audigy 2 ZS? I'm finding the emu10k1 driver in alsa-driver-1.0.5a has serious

Re: [Alsa-devel] [PATCH] Audigy LS driver ready for inclusion into alsa-driver.

2004-06-01 Thread William
James Courtier-Dutton wrote: William wrote: James Courtier-Dutton wrote: Audigy LS driver is now ready for inclusion into alsa-driver. Get it from http://www.superbug.demon.co.uk/alsa Are you going to work on any other Audigy-series drivers, e.g. Audigy 2 ZS? I'm finding the emu10k1 driver

Re: [Alsa-devel] latencytest 0.5.3 and recent kernels?

2004-06-01 Thread Takashi Iwai
At 31 May 2004 20:24:26 -0700, Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote: I'm trying to build Takashi's version of latencytest (0.5.3) and apparently something has changed in the kernel (or I have something that I need to turn on in the config options?). This is what I get: known problem... i'll

Re: [Alsa-devel] What lower cost 7+1 cards can be used as reliable 4xstereo device under Alsa ?

2004-06-01 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Mon, 31 May 2004 16:59:47 +0200, Robert Rozman wrote: Hi, I'd like to have device with 4 independent stereo channels. I wonder what card is lower cost, 7+1 channel, widely known, that could be also used for 4 independent stereo devices under Alsa - it's important to work flawlessly in

Re: [Alsa-devel] Yet another problem running latencytest

2004-06-01 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Sun, 30 May 2004 13:29:23 -0400, Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote: Hi all, I've recompiled my 2.6.5 kernel with rtc compiled in and was able to install latency-test module. However, now when I run the run_tests the program goes through initial 2 draw 500x500 square tests and then every following

Re: [Alsa-devel] [PATCH] Audigy LS driver ready for inclusion into alsa-driver.

2004-06-01 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
William wrote: James Courtier-Dutton wrote: William wrote: James Courtier-Dutton wrote: Audigy LS driver is now ready for inclusion into alsa-driver. Get it from http://www.superbug.demon.co.uk/alsa Are you going to work on any other Audigy-series drivers, e.g. Audigy 2 ZS? I'm finding the

Re: [Alsa-devel] [PATCH] Audigy LS driver ready for inclusion into alsa-driver.

2004-06-01 Thread William
James Courtier-Dutton wrote: I have played some .mid files now, but I have not noticed any problems with my Audigy 2. When I downloaded the fonts file, mine had a different name to yours. Yours: WST25FStein_00Aug14.SF2 Mine: WST25FStein_00Sep22.SF2 It makes no difference which of these

Re: [Alsa-devel] [PATCH] Audigy LS driver ready for inclusion into alsa-driver.

2004-06-01 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Tue, 1 Jun 2004 14:58:38 +0100, William wrote: James Courtier-Dutton wrote: William wrote: James Courtier-Dutton wrote: Audigy LS driver is now ready for inclusion into alsa-driver. Get it from http://www.superbug.demon.co.uk/alsa Are you going to work on any other

Re: [Alsa-devel] [PATCH] Audigy LS driver ready for inclusion into alsa-driver.

2004-06-01 Thread William
Takashi Iwai wrote: William wrote: Random intermittent distortion means, e.g. the sound during MIDI playback becomes muffled for a minute or two and then returns to normal sound quality, or the sound wrongly becomes mono for a few seconds, and then returns to stereo. Also, it seems emu10k1

Re: [Alsa-devel] [PATCH] Audigy LS driver ready for inclusion into alsa-driver.

2004-06-01 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Tue, 1 Jun 2004 16:46:45 +0100, William wrote: Experiment 2: - Load the manufacturer's Standard GM Midi file: $ asfxload /etc/synthgm.sbk $ cat /proc/asound/card0/wavetableD* Device: Emu10k1 Ports: 4 Addresses: 65:0 65:1 65:2 65:3 Use Counter: 0 Max Voices: 64

Re: [Alsa-devel] [PATCH] Audigy LS driver ready for inclusion into alsa-driver.

2004-06-01 Thread William
Takashi Iwai wrote: William wrote: Experiment 2: - Load the manufacturer's Standard GM Midi file: $ asfxload /etc/synthgm.sbk $ cat /proc/asound/card0/wavetableD* Device: Emu10k1 Ports: 4 Addresses: 65:0 65:1 65:2 65:3 Use Counter: 0 Max Voices: 64 Allocated Voices:

Re: [Alsa-devel] [PATCH] Audigy LS driver ready for inclusion into alsa-driver.

2004-06-01 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Tue, 1 Jun 2004 17:43:08 +0100, William wrote: Takashi Iwai wrote: William wrote: Experiment 2: - Load the manufacturer's Standard GM Midi file: $ asfxload /etc/synthgm.sbk $ cat /proc/asound/card0/wavetableD* Device: Emu10k1 Ports: 4 Addresses: 65:0

Re: [Alsa-devel] [PATCH] Audigy LS driver ready for inclusion into alsa-driver.

2004-06-01 Thread William
Takashi Iwai wrote: William wrote: Takashi Iwai wrote: only 4096 bytes (= 1 page) allocated. i guess this file is for ROM soundfonts on SB AWE boards, not for SB Live/Audigy? That's odd because the file is 34832 bytes long (see http://christian.datzko.ch/computer/synthgm.sbk) a

Re: [Alsa-devel] [ANN] Open Source US-X2Y firmware

2004-06-01 Thread Martin Langer
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 10:39:38AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: At Thu, 27 May 2004 21:26:22 +0200, Martin Langer wrote: Hi, if someone is interested in a free (I mean GPL) firmware for the Tascam US-X2Y devices I can offer an open source replacement for the second stage loader

Re: [Alsa-devel] us-122 firwareloader

2004-06-01 Thread Martin Langer
On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 11:26:21PM +0200, JoDaY wrote: Martin Langer wrote: On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 05:45:24PM +0200, JoDaY wrote: Hi all, I've 2 install of linux, the first one is the oldest where hotplug is able to load firmware when I plug a Tascam us-122. But if I use snd-usb-usx2y.o

Re: [Alsa-devel] ALSA 1.0.5

2004-06-01 Thread Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas
On Tuesday 01 June 2004 10:40, Takashi Iwai wrote: Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote: Anybody using the same hardware should avoid the 1.0.5 driver, IMO. Relevant sources are ac97_codec.c and ac97_patch.c. The problem was related to a mutex deadlock. yep, sorry, my bad. the bug hits AC97

[Alsa-devel] Inverted switche(s) on VIA 8235/VT1616i

2004-06-01 Thread Tom Watson
When I attempt to do a 4 channel output using the aboce chip set, and I control it with 'alsamixer' I note that when Alternate Level to Surround Out is [Off] it is really on. I really don't know if this is a fault in 'alsamixer', or the driver. It appears that these are reversed in sense. I

Re: [Alsa-devel] how to cross compile the alsa util?

2004-05-31 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
On Mon, 31 May 2004, Roc Wu wrote: Hello alls: Sorry for post the mail again. I posted it several days ago, but no response. Anybody can give me some hints? I cross compiled the alsa-lib-1.04 to arm platform. The 2.6.6 kernel including alsa driver is ok on our ARM board, so I want to

[Alsa-devel] Audigy LS, help wanted.

2004-05-31 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Hi, I have an Audigy2 el cheepo edition, and an Audigy LS. The Audigy2 luckily has a separate digital output jack, so I can easily connect a mono or stereo jack into the Audigy2, have an RCA plug on the other end, and plug it into an external AC3 decoder, and AC3 passthru works. The Audigy LS

Re: [Alsa-devel] ALSA 1.0.5

2004-05-31 Thread Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas
On Monday 31 May 2004 03:07, I wrote: My Gigabyte motherboard's integrated sound interface used to work with this driver, but it doesn't with 1.0.5 Any program (amixer info, alsactl restore, alsamixer ...) trying to use the control interface hardly hangs, and it is impossible to kill it at

Re: [Alsa-devel] ALSA 1.0.5

2004-05-31 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
On Mon, 31 May 2004, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote: Mobo: Gigabyte 7VT600 with chipset VIA KT600 Sound: Integrated Realtek ALC655 AC97 codec http://tw.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard/Products/Products_Spec_GA-7VT600.htm Anybody using the same hardware should avoid the 1.0.5 driver, IMO.

[Alsa-devel] What lower cost 7+1 cards can be used as reliable 4xstereo device under Alsa ?

2004-05-31 Thread Robert Rozman
Hi, I'd like to have device with 4 independent stereo channels. I wonder what card is lower cost, 7+1 channel, widely known, that could be also used for 4 independent stereo devices under Alsa - it's important to work flawlessly in this mode (I'm running alc650 as 3 stereo channels but do get

Re: [Alsa-devel] writing user program for alsa under fedora core 1

2004-05-31 Thread Frank W. Miller
With regard to my soundcard problems. I actually have two cards in my system. The first is an AC97 thing on an Intel motherboard, judging by this dmesg output I'd say its an Intel 8xx chip... Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 0.24, 15:50:18 Oct 29 2003 PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:1f.5 PCI:

Re: [Alsa-devel] weird xrun problem

2004-05-31 Thread Giuliano Pochini
On Wed, 26 May 2004 09:52:06 +0200 (CEST) Jaroslav Kysela [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ALSA does not know about this. All period sizes must be equal. I thought about this again. Are you sure all periods must be aqual ? When I record or play something using unequal periods, sound is

[Alsa-devel] snd_pcm_open fails

2004-05-31 Thread Frank W. Miller
Hi, I've got my header file installed now. I had to install two rpms alsa-lib-1.0.4-12.rhfc1.at.i386.rpm alsa-lib-devel-1.0.4-12.rhfc1.at.i386.rpm on my default Fedora Core 1 install. I restarted and my cdplayer is still working so thats good. I can also do my compiles with alsa/asoundlib.h

Re: [Alsa-devel] us-122 firwareloader

2004-05-31 Thread JoDaY
Martin Langer wrote: On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 05:45:24PM +0200, JoDaY wrote: Hi all, I've 2 install of linux, the first one is the oldest where hotplug is able to load firmware when I plug a Tascam us-122. But if I use snd-usb-usx2y.o (seen in depmod), hotplug is not able to load the right

Re: [Alsa-devel] question about possible support acquisition

2004-05-31 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Zack Borschuk wrote: I was wondering if a petition asking Creative Labs to release the needed information to create efficient support for the Audigy LS would be plausible or not. Please let me know, so that if it is plausible, I could start working on getting the petition signed by enough

[Alsa-devel] latencytest 0.5.3 and recent kernels?

2004-05-31 Thread Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano
I'm trying to build Takashi's version of latencytest (0.5.3) and apparently something has changed in the kernel (or I have something that I need to turn on in the config options?). This is what I get: # make -f Makefile.module make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build SUBDIRS=`pwd` modules make[1]:

[Alsa-devel] USB 48K 24 bit recording

2004-05-30 Thread Matt Flax
Hello, I would like to report that I have successfully now recorded @ 48KHz and 24 bit using arecord. This previously didn't work with the alsa 0.9 version on a usb device. Works fantasticly now ! Full duplex is also working well. Matt -- http://flatmax.org WSOLA TimeScale Audio Mod :

Re: [Alsa-devel] Xruns with Audiophile 2496 M-audio

2004-05-30 Thread Remi Bernhard
Hi Tim and all, On Sat, 29 May 2004 16:34:49 +0200 (CEST) Tim Goetze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Remi Bernhard] I tried with kernel 2.4.25 + lowlatency patch. I have the same xruns :-/ Any other idea ? checklist: * running jackd as root? with -R option? Tried - failed. * tried

[Alsa-devel] 2.6.6-rc2 build warnings

2004-05-30 Thread Russell King
Someone may wish to look into the cause of this... CONFIG_PCI is unselected in this case. CC [M] sound/core/oss/mixer_oss.o In file included from sound/core/oss/mixer_oss.c:26: include/sound/core.h:215: warning: `struct pci_dev' declared inside parameter list include/sound/core.h:215: warning:

Re: [Alsa-devel] [ANN] Open Source US-X2Y firmware

2004-05-30 Thread Karsten Wiese
Am Donnerstag 27 Mai 2004 21:26 schrieb Martin Langer: Hi, if someone is interested in a free (I mean GPL) firmware for the Tascam US-X2Y devices I can offer an open source replacement for the second stage loader alsa-firmware/usx2yloader/tascam_loader.ihx. All three US-X2Y devices need this

RE: [Alsa-devel] writing user program for alsa under fedora core 1

2004-05-30 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
On Sat, 29 May 2004, Frank W. Miller wrote: using ALSA. When I try to run my existing binary that makes OSS calls on top of Fedora that is using an ALSA driver for my soundcard, I get some strange behaviour, some of the calls don't work the same. For example, the card supports full-duplex

Re: [Alsa-devel] Xruns with Audiophile 2496 M-audio

2004-05-30 Thread Jan Depner
On Sun, 2004-05-30 at 04:09, Remi Bernhard wrote: Hi Tim and all, On Sat, 29 May 2004 16:34:49 +0200 (CEST) Tim Goetze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Remi Bernhard] I tried with kernel 2.4.25 + lowlatency patch. I have the same xruns :-/ Any other idea ? checklist: *

[Alsa-devel] Documentation on writing ALSA plugins?

2004-05-30 Thread Dan Mills
Hi everyone, Is there any documentation on writing alsa plugins? I could not find anything really helpful om the web site. I have a system which I am working on where it would be very helpful to do some specialised processing below the level of jackd, and it seems that an alsa plugin may well

[Alsa-devel] alsa 1.0.5 does not start modules

2004-05-30 Thread Mario Loritz
Hello list, after compiling the new 1.0.5 packages, the sound modules do nor start correctly, resulting in an unbootable system, or more correctly an unrebootable system. The system hangs after, in my case, both sound card modules loaded (loading snd-intel8x0 done loading snd-ice1712 done).

[Alsa-devel] Status of Audigy LS ALSA driver.

2004-05-30 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
ALSA driver available from: http://www.superbug.demon.co.uk/alsa/ * FEATURES currently supported: *Front, Rear and Center/LFE. *Surround40 and Surround51. *Capture from MIC input. * * BUGS: *-- * * TODO: *Need to add a way to select capture source. *4 Capture channels,

[Alsa-devel] Yet another problem running latencytest

2004-05-30 Thread Ivica Ico Bukvic
Hi all, I've recompiled my 2.6.5 kernel with rtc compiled in and was able to install latency-test module. However, now when I run the run_tests the program goes through initial 2 draw 500x500 square tests and then every following test simply does something like this: starting diskread (or

[Alsa-devel] how to cross compile the alsa util?

2004-05-30 Thread Roc Wu
Hello alls: Sorry for post the mail again. I posted it several days ago, but no response. Anybody can give me some hints? I cross compiled the alsa-lib-1.04 to arm platform. The 2.6.6 kernel including alsa driver is ok on our ARM board, so I want to test the driver. how to do it? I think maybe

[Alsa-devel] ALSA 1.0.5

2004-05-29 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
Hello all, ALSA 1.0.5 release is available for download. Jaroslav Changes: * alsa-driver - use the new module_param*() functions - clean up of power-management codes - removed superfluous warning messages after pci_module_init() - fixed the

[Alsa-devel] Xruns with Audiophile 2496 M-audio

2004-05-29 Thread Remi Bernhard
Hello, I read a lot a great thing about the audiophile 24/96 on the net, and i decided to buy it to get better latency than my old sblive! I just received the audiophile 24/96 and unfortunatly, i have a lot of XRuns with when i run jackd. I already tried the following : - i changed irq (several

[Alsa-devel] [alsa-announce] ALSA 1.0.5

2004-05-29 Thread William
Jaroslav Kysela wrote: ALSA 1.0.5 release is available for download. URL from http://www.alsa-project.org/: a href=ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/firmware/alsa-firmware-1.0.5.tar.bz2;1.0.5/a $ wget ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/firmware/alsa-firmware-1.0.5.tar.bz2 No such file

Re: [Alsa-devel] Xruns with Audiophile 2496 M-audio

2004-05-29 Thread Tim Goetze
[Remi Bernhard] I read a lot a great thing about the audiophile 24/96 on the net, and i decided to buy it to get better latency than my old sblive! I just received the audiophile 24/96 and unfortunatly, i have a lot of XRuns with when i run jackd. my old system had various 2.4.x-ll kernels, asus

Re: [Alsa-devel] Xruns with Audiophile 2496 M-audio

2004-05-29 Thread Jan Depner
On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 06:16, Remi Bernhard wrote: So i have 2.6.5 kernel, and not 2.4.x. Do you think i should install 2.4.25 instead ? (i gather that 2.4 is still the better choice for low-latency operations.) I read the alsa-* archives, and i saw a thread with two people who

[Alsa-devel] [Donations] Audigy LS

2004-05-29 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
A linux user, Greg Turpin (from Colorado, USA), kindly donated an Audigy LS to me, so that I could try to provide an Audigy LS driver to the ALSA project. As you all know, I have already been relatively successful and now have sound coming from the Front Speakers, and hope to improve support

Re: [Alsa-devel] Xruns with Audiophile 2496 M-audio

2004-05-29 Thread Tim Goetze
[Remi Bernhard] So i have 2.6.5 kernel, and not 2.4.x. Do you think i should install 2.4.25 instead ? i do think so because i never saw any hard facts about latency posted for the 2.6 series, while 2.4.x-ll is well documented and proven to work quite well here and elsewhere. it _could_ also be

Re: [Alsa-devel] Xruns with Audiophile 2496 M-audio

2004-05-29 Thread Remi Bernhard
Hi, As far as minimizing buffer size is concerned - if you are doing live audio or you want to monitor recording with inboard effects turned on you need to have a small buffer size. With the envy24 chipset cards you can use hardware monitoring so you can set the buffer size to 2048 and

Re: [Alsa-devel] Xruns with Audiophile 2496 M-audio

2004-05-29 Thread Tim Goetze
[Remi Bernhard] To be more sharp, i need to reduce latency because i use softsynth (zynaddsubfx, fluidsynth, etc.) that needs a low latency when playing from midi keyboard, and if not, there is a lag time, that man can hear, between the time when you hit the key, and the time it is played. I

Re: [Alsa-devel] Xruns with Audiophile 2496 M-audio

2004-05-29 Thread Remi Bernhard
On Sat, 29 May 2004 13:44:40 +0200 (CEST) Tim Goetze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Remi Bernhard] So i have 2.6.5 kernel, and not 2.4.x. Do you think i should install 2.4.25 instead ? i do think so because i never saw any hard facts about latency posted for the 2.6 series, while 2.4.x-ll is

Re: [Alsa-devel] Xruns with Audiophile 2496 M-audio

2004-05-29 Thread Jan Depner
On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 07:13, Tim Goetze wrote: [Remi Bernhard] To be more sharp, i need to reduce latency because i use softsynth (zynaddsubfx, fluidsynth, etc.) that needs a low latency when playing from midi keyboard, and if not, there is a lag time, that man can hear, between the time when

[ot] Re: [Alsa-devel] Xruns with Audiophile 2496 M-audio

2004-05-29 Thread Tim Goetze
[Jan Depner] On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 07:13, Tim Goetze wrote: [Remi Bernhard] To be more sharp, i need to reduce latency because i use softsynth (zynaddsubfx, fluidsynth, etc.) that needs a low latency when playing from midi keyboard, and if not, there is a lag time, that man can hear, between

Re: [Alsa-devel] Xruns with Audiophile 2496 M-audio

2004-05-29 Thread Tim Goetze
[Remi Bernhard] I tried with kernel 2.4.25 + lowlatency patch. I have the same xruns :-/ Any other idea ? checklist: * running jackd as root? with -R option? * tried running jackd without any clients? * IDE-DMA enabled? * ll-sysctl interface chosen at kernel build time? turned it on? * X

[Alsa-devel] Question regarding substreams or voices

2004-05-29 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Hi, I am trying to do work on the Audigy LS driver. I have now discovered that I can send sound to the Front, Rear and Center/LFE. I have not found out how to set the amount of interleaved channels that the sound card can do, so it is fixed at 2 channels per stream. The sound card has 4 voices

Re: [ot] Re: [Alsa-devel] Xruns with Audiophile 2496 M-audio

2004-05-29 Thread Jan Depner
On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 09:31, Tim Goetze wrote: depends on what 'system' we're talking about, which isn't really clear in the first place (nor is it too important, but here goes anyway ... :) you can see the whole setup as the system, then latency is the time from keypress to voltage change

Re: [ot] Re: [Alsa-devel] Xruns with Audiophile 2496 M-audio

2004-05-29 Thread Tim Goetze
[Jan Depner] Agreed. But the problem that keeps popping up on the lists is that people who are not doing live sound, have cards that do hardware monitoring, and don't need to use a tiny buffer size waste their time trying to get the minimum buffer size because they think they need to get

[Alsa-devel] writing user program for alsa under fedora core 1

2004-05-29 Thread Frank W. Miller
Greetings, I'm writing a softphone for Linux under Fedora Core 1. I've had this client working well using OSS under Red Hat 9 for awhile now. I've run into some problems however when trying to use the OSS calls under Fedora. I thought I would try to just write an ALSA driver and went to the

Re: [Alsa-devel] writing user program for alsa under fedora core 1

2004-05-29 Thread Jan Depner
Your best bet is to download the sources and build the packages. That way you'll know exactly what you've got. Also, at some point you may have to go into the libraries and do some debugging. Jan On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 19:02, Frank W. Miller wrote: Greetings, I'm writing a softphone for

RE: [Alsa-devel] writing user program for alsa under fedora core 1

2004-05-29 Thread Frank W. Miller
Thanks for the reply... I probably need to be more specific here. I have a driver that works well with OSS under Red Hat 9. When I reinstalled my system using Fedora Core 1, I did not need OSS any more. I have nice sound coming from my speakers using ALSA. When I try to run my existing

RE: [Alsa-devel] writing user program for alsa under fedora core 1

2004-05-29 Thread Jan Depner
I would be willing to bet that the problem is that you don't have the development libraries. You can play via ALSA without having them. I don't think Fedora is very big on loading all of the development libraries. I run Fedora Core 1 on three systems at my house. When I load them I load

Re: [Alsa-devel] writing user program for alsa under fedora core 1

2004-05-29 Thread Apostolos Dimitromanolakis
The Fedora Core should have some RPM with the ALSA header files. Since it is not installed, try looking in the CDs with whatever tool Fedora provides for searching the RPMS. From a quick look at the names of the RPMS I cannot find where the ALSA header files are but since I do not run Fedora

[Alsa-devel] Re: [alsa-dev]Question regarding period/buffer and error handling

2004-05-28 Thread Måns Rullgård
Cournapeau David [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi there, For my research, I need to use audio with matlab under linux, and sound support of matlab is kind of... well, crappy (basically, it is opening the /dev/audio file and write to it; on my computer, it doesn't seem to work).

Re: [Alsa-devel] Question regarding period/buffer and error handling

2004-05-28 Thread Cournapeau David
Måns Rullgård wrote: If you are playing fairly short pieces of sound you might be able to use this function I wrote some time ago: function playsnd(y,fs,bits) wf = tempname; ws = warning; warning off wavwrite(y, fs, bits, wf); warning ws wf = [wf '.wav']; [s,o] = unix(sprintf('aplay %s', wf));

[Alsa-devel] Re: Question regarding period/buffer and error handling

2004-05-28 Thread Måns Rullgård
Cournapeau David [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Måns Rullgård wrote: If you are playing fairly short pieces of sound you might be able to use this function I wrote some time ago: function playsnd(y,fs,bits) wf = tempname; ws = warning; warning off wavwrite(y, fs, bits, wf); warning ws wf = [wf

[Alsa-devel] alsa-lib spamming terminal

2004-05-28 Thread Måns Rullgård
Is there a way to make alsa-lib stop spamming the terminal with error messages, for instance when a non-blocking open fails? -- Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest

Re: [Alsa-devel] RME 9632 Mixer...

2004-05-28 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Thu, 27 May 2004 16:54:38 +0200 (CEST), Thomas Charbonnel wrote: Thanks Thomas, I really appreciate the work you have done making this all work. I will try and add some notes on the alsa site for the RME 9632 on the mixer settings Ed W You're welcome. It would be indeed nice

[Alsa-devel] Re: 2.6.7-rc1 breaks ATI IXP sound...

2004-05-28 Thread Takashi Iwai
Hi, At Thu, 27 May 2004 22:43:06 -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: It appears to boil down to changeset [EMAIL PROTECTED]|ChangeSet|20040517133203|52763. More specifically to the line which adds the AC97_SCAP_SKIP_MODEM flag to the mixer probe. That flag causes the mixer probe to exit with an

Re: [Alsa-devel] [PATCH] Audigy LS support.

2004-05-28 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Takashi Iwai wrote: At Thu, 27 May 2004 20:17:17 +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: Here is my first go at Audigy LS support. It can play sound to the front speakers. great! /* hardware definition */ static snd_pcm_hardware_t snd_audigyls_playback_hw = { .info = (SNDRV_PCM_INFO_MMAP |

Re: [Alsa-devel] [PATCH] Audigy LS support.

2004-05-28 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Fri, 28 May 2004 12:16:09 +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: Takashi Iwai wrote: At Thu, 27 May 2004 20:17:17 +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: Here is my first go at Audigy LS support. It can play sound to the front speakers. great! /* hardware definition */

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