Re: [Alsa-user] Audigy 2 ZS [SB0350] - asfxload doesn't work until a few minutes after reboot

2014-06-14 Thread Arthur Marsh
Arthur Marsh wrote, on 28/05/14 04:09: Clemens Ladisch wrote, on 27/05/14 16:09: Arthur Marsh wrote: I've been a bit mystified that when I wanted to re-use the sound card on my old machine, a Creative Labs Audiology 2 Z [S0350] that case-load would not work for the first few minutes after

Re: [Alsa-user] Audigy 2 ZS [SB0350] - asfxload doesn't work until a few minutes after reboot

2014-05-27 Thread Arthur Marsh
Clemens Ladisch wrote, on 27/05/14 16:09: Arthur Marsh wrote: I've been a bit mystified that when I wanted to re-use the sound card on my old machine, a Creative Labs Audiology 2 Z [S0350] that case-load would not work for the first few minutes after booting, reporting that no Emu devices

Re: [Alsa-user] Audigy 2 ZS [SB0350] - asfxload doesn't work until a few minutes after reboot

2014-05-27 Thread Arthur Marsh
Clemens Ladisch wrote, on 27/05/14 16:09: Arthur Marsh wrote: I've been a bit mystified that when I wanted to re-use the sound card on my old machine, a Creative Labs Audiology 2 Z [S0350] that case-load would not work for the first few minutes after booting, reporting that no Emu devices

[Alsa-user] Audigy 2 ZS [SB0350] - asfxload doesn't work until a few minutes after reboot

2014-05-26 Thread Arthur Marsh
I've been a bit mystified that when I wanted to re-use the sound card on my old machine, a Creative Labs Audiology 2 Z [S0350] that case-load would not work for the first few minutes after booting, reporting that no Emu devices were found. # lspci -s 00:09 -v 00:09.0 Multimedia audio

Re: [Alsa-user] Audigy 2 ZS [SB0350] - asfxload doesn't work until a few minutes after reboot

2014-05-26 Thread Arthur Marsh
Arthur Marsh wrote, on 27/05/14 00:34: I've been a bit mystified that when I wanted to re-use the sound card on my old machine, a Creative Labs Audiology 2 Z [S0350] that case-load would not work for the first few minutes after booting, reporting that no Emu devices were found. that should

Re: [Alsa-user] Problems w/mia sound (again); after Debian Squeeze upgrade

2011-03-13 Thread Arthur Marsh
Henry W. Peters wrote, on 11/03/11 14:50: On 03/10/2011 06:09 PM, Giuliano Pochini wrote: The bug I told you was about volume control. This is a completely different thing. And this is strange because the listed hw params are fine. Did the kernel write anything interesting in the logs ?

Re: [Alsa-user] Problems w/mia sound (again); after Debian Squeeze upgrade

2011-03-13 Thread Arthur Marsh
Henry W. Peters wrote, on 11/03/11 14:50: On 03/10/2011 06:09 PM, Giuliano Pochini wrote: The bug I told you was about volume control. This is a completely different thing. And this is strange because the listed hw params are fine. Did the kernel write anything interesting in the logs ?

Re: [Alsa-user] new source of MIDI playback slow-down identified - 5a03b051ed87e72b959f32a86054e1142ac4cf55 thp: use compaction in kswapd for GFP_ATOMIC order 0

2011-02-27 Thread Arthur Marsh
Andrea Arcangeli wrote, on 26/02/11 17:13: On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 02:54:05AM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: Ok so tomorrow I'll get all results on these 3 kernels ( compaction-kswapd-3+compaction_alloc_lowlat-2 vs compaction-no-kswapd-3+compaction_alloc_lowlat-2 vs

Re: [Alsa-user] new source of MIDI playback slow-down identified - 5a03b051ed87e72b959f32a86054e1142ac4cf55 thp: use compaction in kswapd for GFP_ATOMIC order 0

2011-02-23 Thread Arthur Marsh
Mel Gorman wrote, on 23/02/11 19:45: On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 08:43:25PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 04:17:44AM +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote: OK, these patches applied together against upstream didn't cause a crash but I did observe: significant slowdowns of MIDI

Re: [Alsa-user] new source of MIDI playback slow-down identified - 5a03b051ed87e72b959f32a86054e1142ac4cf55 thp: use compaction in kswapd for GFP_ATOMIC order 0

2011-02-23 Thread Arthur Marsh
Andrea Arcangeli wrote, on 24/02/11 03:25: On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 05:24:32PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 04:17:44AM +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote: OK, these patches applied together against upstream didn't cause a crash but I did observe: significant slowdowns

Re: [Alsa-user] new source of MIDI playback slow-down identified - 5a03b051ed87e72b959f32a86054e1142ac4cf55 thp: use compaction in kswapd for GFP_ATOMIC order 0

2011-02-23 Thread Arthur Marsh
Andrea Arcangeli wrote, on 24/02/11 07:55: On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 06:37:58AM +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote: kswapd-high_wmark + compaction-kswapd-2 - kswapd0 CPU up to 11 percent and slightly less pronounced slowdowns of MIDI playback compared to previous patches. kswapd-high_wmark

Re: [Alsa-user] new source of MIDI playback slow-down identified - 5a03b051ed87e72b959f32a86054e1142ac4cf55 thp: use compaction in kswapd for GFP_ATOMIC order 0

2011-02-22 Thread Arthur Marsh
Andrea Arcangeli wrote, on 23/02/11 02:45: On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 02:40:47PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: spin_lock_irq(zone-lru_lock); for (; low_pfn end_pfn; low_pfn++) { struct page *page; + +cond_resched(); + my bad, see the above spin_lock_irq

[Alsa-user] new source of MIDI playback slow-down identified - 5a03b051ed87e72b959f32a86054e1142ac4cf55 thp: use compaction in kswapd for GFP_ATOMIC order 0

2011-02-21 Thread Arthur Marsh
I've sent the following to Andrea Arcangeli. The problem only occurred when kswapd0 was active, so a previous attempt at git-bisecting where I didn't force swapping didn't work. In the following case I was aided by the release of ALSA 1.0.24, which I compiled against each git-bisect attempt

Re: [Alsa-user] MIDI playback not keeping steady time with recent kernels

2011-02-21 Thread Arthur Marsh
Arthur Marsh wrote, on 06/02/11 21:37: Arthur Marsh wrote, on 06/02/11 16:06: Arthur Marsh wrote, on 06/02/11 12:08: Arthur Marsh wrote, on 05/02/11 17:30: Hi, I've had problems lately with recent kernels 2.6.37 and later, but haven't been able to pinpoint a specific change with git-bisect

Re: [Alsa-user] new source of MIDI playback slow-down identified - 5a03b051ed87e72b959f32a86054e1142ac4cf55 thp: use compaction in kswapd for GFP_ATOMIC order 0

2011-02-21 Thread Arthur Marsh
Clemens Ladisch wrote, on 22/02/11 18:07: Arthur Marsh wrote: I'm experiencing MIDI playback slow-downs when I'm observing kswapd0 active (a few percent of cpu in top output) in recent kernels. I git-bisected the problem down to: commit 5a03b051ed87e72b959f32a86054e1142ac4cf55 Author

[Alsa-user] HDMI audio via DVI-D? (Radeon 3850HD, ALSA 1.0.24)

2011-02-11 Thread Arthur Marsh
Hi, I have a Radeon 3850HD video card with two DVI-D and one s-video output that reports an HDMI audio device: http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=4330b8d4a6425687a69773c4083068c7de02677c Is audio supported through the Radeon 3850HD card? Arthur.

Re: [Alsa-user] MIDI playback not keeping steady time with recent kernels

2011-02-06 Thread Arthur Marsh
Arthur Marsh wrote, on 06/02/11 16:06: Arthur Marsh wrote, on 06/02/11 12:08: Arthur Marsh wrote, on 05/02/11 17:30: Hi, I've had problems lately with recent kernels 2.6.37 and later, but haven't been able to pinpoint a specific change with git-bisect. MIDI playback either through xmms

Re: [Alsa-user] MIDI playback not keeping steady time with recent kernels

2011-02-05 Thread Arthur Marsh
Arthur Marsh wrote, on 05/02/11 17:30: Hi, I've had problems lately with recent kernels 2.6.37 and later, but haven't been able to pinpoint a specific change with git-bisect. MIDI playback either through xmms or aplaymidi won't keep regular time, sounding weird going faster and slower under

Re: [Alsa-user] MIDI playback not keeping steady time with recent kernels

2011-02-05 Thread Arthur Marsh
Arthur Marsh wrote, on 06/02/11 12:08: Arthur Marsh wrote, on 05/02/11 17:30: Hi, I've had problems lately with recent kernels 2.6.37 and later, but haven't been able to pinpoint a specific change with git-bisect. MIDI playback either through xmms or aplaymidi won't keep regular time

Re: [Alsa-user] Install Infrasonic Amon Usb Interface on Ubuntu 10.04

2010-08-17 Thread Arthur Marsh
Alberto Keane wrote, on 18/08/10 01:57: Hello. I need help, beacuse I can't install my usb audio interface Infrasonic Amon.Anyone knows of any Alsa driver or other who can make my audio interfacework? This is the link of the Amon description: http://www.infra-sonic.com/site/p_USB_amon.php

Re: [Alsa-user] looking for pci sound card with wavetable

2010-07-15 Thread Arthur Marsh
James Courtier-Dutton wrote, on 14/07/10 18:29: On 14 July 2010 09:24, Arthur Marsharthur.ma...@internode.on.net wrote: Hi, I picked up a Soundblaster Audigy SB0570 card, hoping that it would have a wavetable synth like some of the EMU10K1/EMU10K2 based cards, however it identifies as:

Re: [Alsa-user] emu10k1 (Audigy, Rev. 03): No Sound using AC3 Passthrough and Wrong Channel-Routing

2010-01-04 Thread Arthur Marsh
Christian Nolte wrote, on 2010-01-05 07:24: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have a Soundblaster Audigy (rev 03) card which I have connected via a coaxial S/PDIF to my AV Receiver. The stereo S/PDIF connection is working perfectly and I can hear sound and the receiver

Re: [Alsa-user] emu10k1 (Audigy, Rev. 03): No Sound using AC3 Passthrough and Wrong Channel-Routing

2010-01-04 Thread Arthur Marsh
Christian Nolte wrote, on 2010-01-05 07:24: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have a Soundblaster Audigy (rev 03) card which I have connected via a coaxial S/PDIF to my AV Receiver. The stereo S/PDIF connection is working perfectly and I can hear sound and the receiver

Re: [Alsa-user] no headphone volume

2010-01-03 Thread Arthur Marsh
RobertHoltzman wrote, on 03/01/10 12:14: On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 12:00:04AM +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote: Nothing leapt out at me but I did notice that you were running: Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS Kernel release:2.6.24-25-generic Driver version: 1.0.16 Library version:1.0.15

Re: [Alsa-user] no headphone volume

2010-01-02 Thread Arthur Marsh
Robert Holtzman wrote, on 2010-01-02 16:09: On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 05:27:21PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 09:32:40PM +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote: Robert Holtzman wrote, on 28/12/09 18:14: One thing I forgot to include in my post is that when I got the computer

Re: [Alsa-user] no headphone volume

2009-12-28 Thread Arthur Marsh
Robert Holtzman wrote, on 28/12/09 18:14: On Sun, 27 Dec 2009, Arthur Marsh wrote: Robert Holtzman wrote, on 2009-12-27 14:01: I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 and Debian 5.0.3 both fully updated on my desktop box. Can get almost no headphone volume on either distribution. Speaker volume is O.K

Re: [Alsa-user] no headphone volume

2009-12-26 Thread Arthur Marsh
Robert Holtzman wrote, on 2009-12-27 14:01: I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 and Debian 5.0.3 both fully updated on my desktop box. Can get almost no headphone volume on either distribution. Speaker volume is O.K. Can't increase volume with alsamixer as the vertical column indicating volume is

Re: [Alsa-user] SB X-Fi doesnt work with openSUSE 11.2 - sound stutters

2009-12-21 Thread Arthur Marsh
kleinerw...@gmail.com wrote, on 21/12/09 15:40: Dear all, sorry, if this isn't the proper way to use the mailing list, please excuse, I didn't join to one before... My problem is my soundcard - a Creative X-Fi gamer. I spent the whole weekend to get it work, but the only I figured out is

Re: [Alsa-user] Fw: Aplay underrun with kernel 2.6.30.1

2009-07-08 Thread Arthur Marsh
Peter Hanzel wrote, on 2009-07-08 20:31: Hello, again, I have written to linux forum and verified that with Ensoniq 5880B [AudioPCI] on real computer with 2.6.30 it works correctly. I am using it in LinuxFromScratch in VMWare. So maybe this is the problem. - Original Message -

Re: [Alsa-user] MEDION MIM2260 quirks need to be added

2009-06-30 Thread Arthur Marsh
Alejandro Fernandez wrote, on 01/07/09 11:45: hi, i have a MEDION MIM2260. I am aware there are quirks that need to be added for this model. I finally got sound running after months.I need to know how to report the details. I offer my time and dedication. my config isnt perfect, but ive learn

Re: [Alsa-user] problem with USB microphone

2009-06-15 Thread Arthur Marsh
Eric S. Johansson wrote, on 16/06/09 00:55: 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel HDA Intel at 0xb000 irq 22 1 [V050531]: USB-Audio - VXI TRANSLATOR USB7 050531 Micronas VXI TRANSLATOR USB7 050531 at usb-:00:1d.0-1, full

Re: [Alsa-user] Do must Linux users just live without sound?

2009-06-05 Thread Arthur Marsh
Daren Krive wrote, on 2009-06-05 08:59: Dear list, I have been using Ubuntu for about a year now and prior to that I was an big Suse fan (it still holds a soft spot in my heart). Overall I am VERY impressed with the quality of open source software. Ubuntu in particular impresses me with

Re: [Alsa-user] No sound on LG-S1 QB01A9

2009-05-11 Thread Arthur Marsh
Daren Krive wrote, on 11/05/09 22:29: Dear fellow list members, In over three months I have never received a single response to my question (below). Perhaps I am violating some list rule or perhaps I am not providing the right kind of information. I am really just a fellow Linux user who

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSAmixer with Creative Extigy Card -how to select it?

2009-04-16 Thread Arthur Marsh
MG wrote, on 17/04/09 03:17: I can play mp3s throught my Extigy However the sound from web pages plays through the onboard sound Please help!!! I think that sound from browser-based applications is going through the default sound card. You appear to have 2 sound cards, the internal

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA/Creative Extigy Card

2009-04-16 Thread Arthur Marsh
MG wrote, on 17/04/09 06:32: Firefox is still playin thru the onboard sound agh must b a way to tell it to use the Extigy Please help!!! Hi, you haven't told us what the output of the command: cat /proc/asound/modules is on your computer. Can you run the above command and copy its

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA with Creative Extigy Card

2009-04-15 Thread Arthur Marsh
MG wrote, on 15/04/09 22:08: Please someone tell me why I can select Extigy in alsamixer and hear the sound test but the music will only play through my onboard sound!!! Do I need to add entries into an audio file or something? Thx Nooby Please run the script

Re: [Alsa-user] Fwd: ALSA with Creative Extigy Card

2009-04-15 Thread Arthur Marsh
MG wrote, on 15/04/09 23:47: -- Forwarded message -- From: MG m.s0128...@gmail.com Date: 2009/4/15 Subject: Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA with Creative Extigy Card To: Arthur Marsh arthur.ma...@internode.on.net File enc. Thx! Hi, I received a file from you by private email

Re: [Alsa-user] very quiet sound with ASUS M3A78 PRO

2009-04-05 Thread Arthur Marsh
Arthur Marsh wrote, on 2009-04-05 03:29: Hi, I'm trying to use the built-in sound on the above board and am stumped. I've turned up all controls and played music on the pc but heard only a very quiet sound Alsa-info.sh is at http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f

[Alsa-user] SOLVED Re: very quiet sound with ASUS M3A78 PRO

2009-04-05 Thread Arthur Marsh
Arthur Marsh wrote, on 2009-04-05 15:53: Arthur Marsh wrote, on 2009-04-05 03:29: Hi, I'm trying to use the built-in sound on the above board and am stumped. I've turned up all controls and played music on the pc but heard only a very quiet sound Alsa-info.sh is at http://www.alsa

[Alsa-user] very quiet sound with ASUS M3A78 PRO

2009-04-04 Thread Arthur Marsh
Hi, I'm trying to use the built-in sound on the above board and am stumped. I've turned up all controls and played music on the pc but heard only a very quiet sound Alsa-info.sh is at http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=7d4e085a57dea4efc84899c95661bb3775eaf7f7 Any suggestions gratefully

Re: [Alsa-user] snd: Unknown symbol

2009-03-15 Thread Arthur Marsh
Philipp Reuters wrote, on 2009-03-16 02:09: Hey folks, I tried to get ALSA 1.0.19 up running on my 64bit Debian squeeze/sid machine. So I fetched the linux-source-2.6.28 kernel sourcecode from the Debian repositories, configured the soundcore as module and left out the ALSA modules. After

Re: [Alsa-user] Problems getting more than 2 channels on ALC861

2009-01-04 Thread Arthur Marsh
L wrote, on 2009-01-04 19:13: Hello, Before I start spewing out system details, what I've tried and not, what's almost working and not, let me just say that my question basically boils down to this: does anyone here know how to enable 6-channel audio from an Asus M2V (VT1708/A [Azalia

Re: [Alsa-user] Problems getting more than 2 channels on ALC861

2009-01-04 Thread Arthur Marsh
Maybe off-topic for ALSA, but X.org 7.4 lists: xf86-video-ati 6.9.x: Support for r5xx/r6xx/r7xx (RadeonHD 1xxx/2xxx/3xxx) devices added, including textured video for r5xx. Full RandR 1.2 support for all chipsets. Are the sound capabilities of the Radeon HD cards supported by ALSA? Arthur.

Re: [Alsa-user] build ALSA debian way?

2008-10-08 Thread Arthur Marsh
Jaromír Mikeš wrote, on 08/10/08 08:42: In response to my bug report it was confirmed: What kernel versions should the alsa-source 1.0.17.dfsg-4 package build against successfully? The LennyKernel. Arthur. Actually what does it mean lennykernel? I am running

Re: [Alsa-user] build ALSA debian way?

2008-10-07 Thread Arthur Marsh
Jaromír Mikeš wrote, on 2008-10-07 15:13: Hi, I've compiled new kernel for me 2.6.24.7-rt20 which seems to have a bug in builded alsa modules (RME Digiface,Multiface). http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=fmv935%24cls%241%40ger.gmane.org I

Re: [Alsa-user] build ALSA debian way?

2008-10-07 Thread Arthur Marsh
Jaromír Mikeš wrote, on 2008-10-07 21:27: I've filed a bug report using Debian's reportbug: Bug#501417: Acknowledgement (alsa-source: FTBFS acore/info.c) You can see this bug at http://bugs.debian.org by entering bug number 501417 or by the direct URL:

Re: [Alsa-user] build ALSA debian way?

2008-10-06 Thread Arthur Marsh
Jaromír Mikeš wrote, on 2008-10-07 10:44: Hi, I've compiled new kernel for me 2.6.24.7-rt20 which seems to have a bug in builded alsa modules (RME Digiface,Multiface). http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=fmv935%24cls%241%40ger.gmane.org I would like to upgrade alsa

Re: [Alsa-user] How to set default MIDI port?

2008-09-24 Thread Arthur Marsh
Tomek Lorek wrote, on 2008-09-21 22:05: Hi there, Whare can I set the default MIDI port which in my case should be Emu10k1 WaveTable? I have the following ports: $ pmidi -l Port Client name Port name 14:0 Midi Through Midi Through Port-0

Re: [Alsa-user] OT: multimedia repositories for Debian...

2008-08-27 Thread Arthur Marsh
Paolo Saggese wrote, on 28/08/08 04:11: On Friday 22 August 2008 23:44, James Shatto wrote: mplayer -dumpaudio -dumpfile sound_track.wav ./source.vob Granted that my default distro supplied version of mplayer didn't work for this. I had to compile a custom version of mplayer from

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA vs M-Audio fast track ULTRA

2008-08-19 Thread Arthur Marsh
V Gabriele De Palo wrote, on 19/08/08 11:08: James Shatto ha scritto: On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:28:46 +0200 V Gabriele De Palo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has someone got the Fast Track Ultra from M-Audio working with linux? I have an M-Audio Mobile Pre working. I just used it

Re: [Alsa-user] ESS AudioDrive ES1869

2008-07-10 Thread Arthur Marsh
Rene Herman wrote, on 10/07/08 09:56: Attached are a working and non-working configurations from alsa-info.sh The difference would seem to be that your working configuration uses two 8-bit DMA channels (dma1=0, dma2=1) while the non-working one uses a 16-bit channel for dma2 (the playback

[Alsa-user] ESS AudioDrive ES1869

2008-07-09 Thread Arthur Marsh
Hi, I am having trouble getting sound working in an old Compaq Armada 1750 with an ESS AudioDrive ES1869. Even when it's working (verified by aplay some-sound.wav), KDE 3.5.9 sound doesn't always work )-:. By running alsaconf, I get: es18xx-pnpbios 00:0c: disabled followed by

Re: [Alsa-user] ESS AudioDrive ES1869

2008-07-09 Thread Arthur Marsh
stan wrote, on 10/07/08 09:07: Arthur Marsh wrote: Hi, I am having trouble getting sound working in an old Compaq Armada 1750 with an ESS AudioDrive ES1869. Even when it's working (verified by aplay some-sound.wav), KDE 3.5.9 sound doesn't always work )-:. By running alsaconf, I get

Re: [Alsa-user] ESS AudioDrive ES1869

2008-07-09 Thread Arthur Marsh
Rene Herman wrote, on 10/07/08 09:56: On 10-07-08 01:24, Arthur Marsh wrote: Hi, I am having trouble getting sound working in an old Compaq Armada 1750 with an ESS AudioDrive ES1869. Even when it's working (verified by aplay some-sound.wav), KDE 3.5.9 sound doesn't always work

Re: [Alsa-user] seg fault in program on debian

2008-06-25 Thread Arthur Marsh
Jerry Geis wrote, on 26/06/08 00:23: I just tried 1.0.17rc2 and it does it also. Jerry I'm no expert but I recall that Debian hasn't supported running on i386 with floating point emulation in a while - have you tried recompiling libc6 for i386? Arthur.

Re: [Alsa-user] more on snd-pcsp

2008-06-10 Thread Arthur Marsh
Hi, firstly my apologies for the multiple messages to alsa-user. The mailing list hosting on sourceforge was having problems at the time. stan wrote, on 2008-06-10 07:38: Arthur Marsh wrote: Hi, I finally installed a Debian snapshot kernel that uses ALSA 1.0.16 rather than a 1.0.16 release

[Alsa-user] more on snd-pcsp

2008-06-09 Thread Arthur Marsh
Hi, I finally installed a Debian snapshot kernel that uses ALSA 1.0.16 rather than a 1.0.16 release candidate version, and had the pcsp (PC speaker) driver block the loading of an nForce2 sound card driver until I blacklisted pcsp. There has been some discussion on this before in this list but

[Alsa-user] repost: more on snd-pcsp

2008-06-09 Thread Arthur Marsh
[repost due to original not appearing] Hi, I finally installed a Debian snapshot kernel that uses ALSA 1.0.16 rather than a 1.0.16 release candidate version, and had the pcsp (PC speaker) driver block the loading of an nForce2 sound card driver until I blacklisted pcsp. There has been some

[Alsa-user] repost: snd-pcsp

2008-06-09 Thread Arthur Marsh
Hi, I finally installed a Debian snapshot kernel that uses ALSA 1.0.16 rather than a 1.0.16 release candidate version, and had the pcsp (PC speaker) driver block the loading of an nForce2 sound card driver until I blacklisted pcsp. There has been some discussion on this before in this list but

[Alsa-user] test

2008-06-09 Thread Arthur Marsh
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[Alsa-user] ALSA 1.0.16 (release) and snd-pcsp

2008-06-09 Thread Arthur Marsh
Hi, I finally installed a Debian snapshot kernel that uses ALSA 1.0.16 rather than a 1.0.16 release candidate version, and had the pcsp (PC speaker) driver block the loading of an nForce2 sound card driver until I blacklisted pcsp. There has been some discussion on this before in this list but

[Alsa-user] more on snd-pcsp

2008-06-09 Thread Arthur Marsh
Hi, I finally installed a Debian snapshot kernel that uses ALSA 1.0.16 rather than a 1.0.16 release candidate version, and had the pcsp (PC speaker) driver block the loading of an nForce2 sound card driver until I blacklisted pcsp. There has been some discussion on this before in this list but

Re: [Alsa-user] Pc Speaker

2008-05-22 Thread Arthur Marsh
Rene Herman wrote, on 2008-05-13 20:44: On 13-05-08 12:44, Armin ranjbar wrote: Device Drivers - Input device support - Miscelaneous devices With current mainline, it's: General setup - Configure standard kernel features (for small systems) Enable PC-Speaker support Thank

Re: [Alsa-user] vu meter?!#$!

2008-03-03 Thread Arthur Marsh
Lee Revell wrote, on 04/03/08 13:43: On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 8:37 PM, MK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i occasionally record thru the mic jack using sox or arecord. I would prefer to avoid using fat GUI apps like audacity (which is great, but) to perform this simple task; at the same time

[Alsa-user] soundcard for use with Logitech X-530 5.1 speakers

2007-12-01 Thread Arthur Marsh
Hi, can anyone recommend a good, ALSA-supported sound card that supports 5.1 channel output for a set of Logitech X-530 speakers ( http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/speakers_audio/home_pc_speakers/devices/211cl=au,en )? Failing that, anyone know how to get 5.1 speaker output from a

[Alsa-user] ALSA 1.0.15 now in Debian unstable

2007-10-25 Thread Arthur Marsh
Someone recently talked about compiling ALSA 1.0.15 under various distributions but not Debian. I've recently being compiling kernels on Debian using make-kpkg, which provides a version.h file in the /usr/src/linux tree which the alsa-driver needs. However compiling and making a .deb directly

Re: [Alsa-user] Addressing ALSA's Configuration Complexity

2007-10-21 Thread Arthur Marsh
Jaroslav Kysela wrote, on 2007-10-21 17:15: The system configuration complexity should be handled inside distribution, not subsystem itself (we have already clear soundcard/device naming, but it's true that users must learn about it). So ask distributions to add such possibility to their

Re: [Alsa-user] 3 small intel HDA (STAC9228) problems on dell m1330

2007-10-01 Thread Arthur Marsh
Bill Unruh wrote, on 2007-10-01 03:11: The HDA is very widely used and abused. Every manufacturer seems to feel that they have to munge it into incompatibility themselves. Otherwise their engineers do not have enough to do. Alsa writers can only rush after them and try to sweep up the worst

Re: [Alsa-user] Yamaha sound problem

2007-06-02 Thread Arthur Marsh
Liam2 wrote, on 03/06/07 01:49: [snip] I think I'm causing some confusion. I don't have a usb soundcard. There are no usb devices attached to this machine. I think the issue is the usb controller seems to be getting IRQ 11 rather than the soundcard. --- Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [Alsa-user] SB Live 5.1 experiment

2007-05-27 Thread Arthur Marsh
Mandar Mitra wrote, on 2007-05-25 03:46: Hello again, I decided to test every bit of the system and it did turn out to be a hardware (cabling) problem after all! My sincere apologies to all those who spent time trying to help me. A wrong capture source setting in my fedora 2 installation

Re: [Alsa-user] SB Live 5.1 experiment

2007-05-20 Thread Arthur Marsh
Mandar Mitra wrote, on 2007-05-21 01:29: On 5/18/07, Arthur Marsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After some tweaking with kmix for my SB0220 card, I found that I had to set on the INPUT tab: Capture red recording light ON, level didn't seem to matter OK, I installed kmix. Now I have Capture

Re: [Alsa-user] SB Live 5.1 experiment

2007-05-18 Thread Arthur Marsh
Mandar Mitra wrote, on 2007-05-17 04:00: cat /proc/asound/version (for the current setup that doesn't work) So I downloaded, compiled and installed alsa-driver, alsa-lib, alsa-utils, and now /proc/asound/version says: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.13. Compiled on

Re: [Alsa-user] SB Live 5.1 experiment

2007-05-15 Thread Arthur Marsh
Mandar Mitra wrote, on 2007-05-15 11:56: Hello all, If you have a SB Live 5.1 card, could you please do an experiment for me? Could you record something via line-in and see if you get both channels? When I do this, I get only the right channel. Left channel is muted, and tweaking various

Re: [Alsa-user] Cheap USB audio card with phantom

2007-05-03 Thread Arthur Marsh
John Haxby wrote, on 2007-05-02 21:40: Jean-Michel Pouré wrote: I am looking for a cheap two channels USB audio card, with two XLR entries and preamp. This is for an Internet Podcast. Of course, I need good Alsa support. I lost hours connecting on Websites to look for information. Can

Re: [Alsa-user] capturing sound card output

2007-05-02 Thread Arthur Marsh
Paul Fox wrote, on 2007-05-02 22:18: chris wrote: On 5/1/07, Paul Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... might not work in my particular case: make_a_sound; sleep 2; make_a_sound; sleep 3; make_another_sound; Read: man text2wav Then learn how

Re: [Alsa-user] Recommendation for high end hardware mixing PC soundcard?

2007-02-18 Thread Arthur Marsh
Vladimir Mosgalin wrote, On 18/02/07 09:52: Hi Peter! On 2007.02.17 at 22:45:32 +0100, Peter wrote next: 0) linux people don't care about hardware mixing [why? software mixing in linux is a big building site and was never capable to provide me the comforts and possibilities I got

Re: [Alsa-user] Cannot Run alsamixer: Slackware-11.0/2.6.16.36 Kernel

2007-01-05 Thread Arthur Marsh
Rich Shepard wrote, On 06/01/07 10:12: On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Lee Revell wrote: It's included with recent kernels - 2.4 is old... Lee, Further update: I built and installed 2.6.18.6; this has the snd-intel8x0.ko driver. Rebooted. So far so good. I can run alsamixer and bring the volume

Re: [Alsa-user] currently available ALSA-supported Soundblasterwith HW mixing and synth?

2007-01-02 Thread Arthur Marsh
, 2007-01-02 at 12:26 +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote: Hi, I have a Soundblaster Live! 5.1 model SB0220 which I am reasonably happy with under ALSA. What sound cards are currently available new and support hardware mixing and hardware synth? I can see: Sound Blaster® Audigy® 4 Pro http

[Alsa-user] currently available ALSA-supported Soundblaster with HW mixing and synth?

2007-01-01 Thread Arthur Marsh
Hi, I have a Soundblaster Live! 5.1 model SB0220 which I am reasonably happy with under ALSA. What sound cards are currently available new and support hardware mixing and hardware synth? I can see: Sound Blaster® Audigy® 4 Pro

Re: [Alsa-user] asfxload on 2.6.18.3

2006-11-25 Thread Arthur Marsh
ael wrote, On 26/11/06 02:36: I have a AWE64 card: kernel: isapnp: Card 'Creative SB AWE64 PnP' I am having problems getting it to play midi files using aplaymidi, playmidi and the like. It has worked happily in the past. Yesterday, after several hours of experimentation I mananaged to

Re: [Alsa-user] Auto probing pronlems

2006-11-24 Thread Arthur Marsh
Clemens Ladisch wrote, On 25/11/06 04:33: eli segal wrote: I have 3 so called sound cards : Onboard Intel ..IC .. something Midisport 4x4 (usb midi device) RME 9632 hdsp every time I load the computer alsa recondnize all or some of the device I can hear music on the onboard device and do

Re: [Alsa-user] alsa buffering

2006-10-18 Thread Arthur Marsh
Levente wrote, On 2006-10-18 08:44: Many applications allow you to change the buffer size. What applications are you using to play sounds? Ok, I am tweaking the period, and nperiods options of alsa API. Still, It is somehow bad. I've googled a bit more, and learned that there is something

Re: [Alsa-user] alsa buffering

2006-10-18 Thread Arthur Marsh
Lee Revell wrote, On 2006-10-18 23:07: On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 18:51 +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote: [Please note that I run Debian unstable Sid, so I don't know about the availability of packages realtime-lsm and realtime-lsm-source in stable] To enable realtime in your customised Debian 2.6.18

Re: [Alsa-user] MIDI (strange problem - Plays only one note)

2006-10-13 Thread Arthur Marsh
Evighetens Mørke wrote, On 2006-10-14 01:30: I have some strange problem with midi. I read all gentoo.org http://gentoo.org documentation, and all wiki.gentoo documentation, and no success. I have Sound Blaster Live 5.1, emu10k1. A have kernel 2.6.17-r8, and I (think) checked all midi

Re: [Alsa-user] Why is sound muted by default?

2006-10-01 Thread Arthur Marsh
Manuel Reimer wrote, On 01/10/06 21:08: Hello, could someone tell me why sound is muted by default? Especially for beginners this looks like the sound isn't working. As I started to use alsa, I didn't know I have to unmute my sound first and finally went back to OSS, as I knew that this

Re: [Alsa-user] Sound quality with SB Live 5.1

2006-09-13 Thread Arthur Marsh
aluizio-neto wrote, On 2006-09-14 11:26: No, guys, I use gnome, not KDE. And Im talking about alsamixer here. I just can`t find any input record controls, only the capture feedback witch doesn`t help me because it just doesn`t affect the way the recording sounds Thanks a lot, Aluizio

Re: [Alsa-user] Sound quality with SB Live 5.1

2006-09-12 Thread Arthur Marsh
aluizio-neto wrote, On 2006-09-12 22:25: I`m new here and I`m sorry if this topic has already been exposed, the problem is: I use my SB Live (live line in) to radio broadcasting and the live input audio is very distorced. I use the alsa drivers with Fedora Core 5. What can I do? I realy

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Arthur Marsh
Eduard Bloch wrote: ... Honnestly, the current set of mixer controls is cumbersome. $user can hardly understand what all the controls are good for, and mixer software is not user-friendly either. The Live! mixer from Creative gives you a joystick control where you can move the marker around

Re: [Alsa-user] OT? - Using a test tone to set correct signal levels

2006-07-22 Thread Arthur Marsh
Bill Unruh wrote: Sorry www.theory.physics.ubc.ca/soundcard/soundcard.html for the program xsndtest The synth is a different program whose purpose is to create sounds for my physics of music class ( in paticular to demonstrate that the phases of the fourier components are inaudible) The

Re: [Alsa-user] OT? - Using a test tone to set correct signal levels

2006-07-20 Thread Arthur Marsh
Bill Unruh wrote: On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Arthur Marsh wrote: I had some problems with *some* .wav files distorting badly when played in xmms. To check to see if sound levels were clipping, I downloaded the executable from http://sourceforge.net/projects/wavb then added a missing library

Re: [Alsa-user] FIXED Re: need mic-in, line-in, line out, hardware MIDI, have SB Live! 5.1 0220 (EMU10K1)

2006-07-06 Thread Arthur Marsh
Last post I hope! Arthur Marsh wrote: alsa-base_1.0.11-3_all.deb linux-sound-base_1.0.11-3_all.deb alsa-source_1.0.11-3_all.deb With linux-source-2.6.17 already installed, it was fairly straightforward to compile a new set of ALSA modules for the 2.6.17 by following

[Alsa-user] FIXED Re: need mic-in, line-in, line out, hardware MIDI, have SB Live! 5.1 0220 (EMU10K1)

2006-07-05 Thread Arthur Marsh
Arthur Marsh wrote: Arthur Marsh wrote: Lee Revell wrote: On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 15:37 +0200, Clemens Ladisch wrote: Arthur Marsh wrote: While all the above functions work, MIDI playback whilst there is significant hard disk activity causes a complete system lock-up )-: (see https

Re: [Alsa-user] Soundblaster live 5.1 24 bits: problem with microphone.

2006-07-05 Thread Arthur Marsh
Chris Dams wrote: Dear all, I have the Soundblaster live 5.1 24 bits and playing sounds using aplay some_random_wav_file.wav works great, but my microphone doesn't. I tried arecord test.wav and to then play this wav file, but I don't hear anything. Sometimes this

Re: [Alsa-user] FIXED Re: need mic-in, line-in, line out, hardware MIDI, have SB Live! 5.1 0220 (EMU10K1)

2006-07-05 Thread Arthur Marsh
Arthur Marsh wrote: What I have only just done is compile the ALSA modules from the 1.0.11-3 sources at http://www.lxtec.de/debarchiv that have had the alsa-timer-irqsave.patch applied. Even with module-assistant, it wasn't immediately straightforward to go from the alsa-source and linux

Re: [Alsa-user] need mic-in, line-in, line out, hardware MIDI, have SB Live! 5.1 0220 (EMU10K1)

2006-07-03 Thread Arthur Marsh
Dominique Michel wrote: While all the above functions work, MIDI playback whilst there is significant hard disk activity causes a complete system lock-up )-: (see https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=952 ). Can anyone suggest a known good sound card for hardware MIDI

Re: [Alsa-user] need mic-in, line-in, line out, hardware MIDI, have SB Live! 5.1 0220 (EMU10K1)

2006-07-03 Thread Arthur Marsh
Dominique Michel wrote: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7557598 2005-12-26 13:03 8mbgmsfx.sf2 Will be fine, the emu110k1 can use bigger soundfont, but you must first get it to work. The sound font loads onto the sound card, so isn't resident in main RAM. Wrong, the sound card use ram memory.

Re: [Alsa-user] need mic-in, line-in, line out, hardware MIDI, have SB Live! 5.1 0220 (EMU10K1)

2006-07-03 Thread Arthur Marsh
Lee Revell wrote: On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 15:37 +0200, Clemens Ladisch wrote: Arthur Marsh wrote: While all the above functions work, MIDI playback whilst there is significant hard disk activity causes a complete system lock-up )-: (see https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id

Re: [Alsa-user] need mic-in, line-in, line out, hardware MIDI, have SB Live! 5.1 0220 (EMU10K1)

2006-07-03 Thread Arthur Marsh
Arthur Marsh wrote: Lee Revell wrote: On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 15:37 +0200, Clemens Ladisch wrote: Arthur Marsh wrote: While all the above functions work, MIDI playback whilst there is significant hard disk activity causes a complete system lock-up )-: (see https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org

[Alsa-user] need mic-in, line-in, line out, hardware MIDI, have SB Live! 5.1 0220 (EMU10K1)

2006-07-02 Thread Arthur Marsh
I have a PII-266 with Intel 440LX chipset, 256 MiB RAM, and SB Live! 5.1 model 0220 sound card which has the EMU10K1 chipset. I'm running Debian Sid with 2.6.17-686 kernel. lspci reports: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440LX/EX - 82443LX/EX Host bridge (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: