Re: [Alsa-user] arecord: set_params:1239: Channels count non available

2014-03-17 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 17 March 2014 14:30, Roger rogerx@gmail.com wrote: I keep getting the following error whenever specifying -c 1 or --channels=1, or specifying any number of channels less than two channels when using an ASUS Essence STX soundcard and recording using the microphone line having a TRS

Re: [Alsa-user] Volume control range

2013-07-06 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 6 July 2013 07:04, Paul D. DeRocco pdero...@ix.netcom.com wrote: A few months ago, Clemens was kind enough to explain how to set a volume control, given its name, using the snd_ctl_elem_value_xxx functions. By experimenting on my Ubuntu system, it appeared that values from 0 to 0x ran

Re: [Alsa-user] [alsa-devel] Creative Sound Blaster Audigy SE Mic problem

2010-11-29 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 24 November 2010 13:38, Grega Fajdiga gregor.fajd...@guest.arnes.si wrote: Hello, I am using Ubuntu 10.10 with a Creative Sound Blaster Audigy SE. The snd_ca0106 module is loaded. What does this show? cat /proc/asound/cards It will tell me if the driver is recognised or not.

Re: [Alsa-user] Strange alsa behaviour

2010-09-05 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 2 September 2010 11:12, Cyril Russo stage.nexvis...@laposte.net wrote:  Hi,  I've an issue with my new Creative Audigy sound card. I'm using a Debian Squeeze (with official 2.6.32-5-amd64 kernel) system. I've done this step to ensure I'm using the latest version: sudo module-assistant

Re: [Alsa-user] How to downmix 5.1 to stereo?

2010-07-04 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 4 July 2010 16:51, Manuel Reimer manuel.s...@nurfuerspam.de wrote: James Courtier-Dutton wrote: Why would you need to downmix 5.1 to 2.0 ? Most Linux applications do the downmix for you. I.e. You tell it how many speakers you have, and it outputs the sound to them. e.g. The xine media

Re: [Alsa-user] no sound, audigy 2zs

2010-06-12 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 11 June 2010 18:31, Kristoffer Gustafsson k...@dreamwld.com wrote: Hi. Now I've gotten the audigy 2zs as first soundcard. I edited the /etc/modprobe.d/asound/alsa-base.conf file. there i set option snd-hda-intel index=-2 And alsactl init says that audigy is the card I'm using now, but no

Re: [Alsa-user] WAV offset with ALSA

2010-01-20 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
2010/1/20 Dean Montgomery dmo...@sd73.bc.ca: Why would the WAV be offset using ALSA but not OSS? See attached picture: * top = alsa * bottom = oss http://dean.sd73.bc.ca/mod/resource/view.php?id=21 It might be a bug in the driver. You do not give any information regarding which sound card

Re: [Alsa-user] emu 0404 usb problems

2009-01-26 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Clemens Ladisch wrote: Aleksander Kamenik wrote: Since the upgrade from Fedora 9 to Fedora 10, the EMU 0404 USB card does not work any more. Only in PulseAudio? The alsa version changed form .17 to 19. There have been no relevant changes in either the ALSA driver or alsa-lib. The

Re: [Alsa-user] Digital bit perfect ouptut with ALSA

2008-12-15 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Paulo Moura Guedes wrote: For my case where I connect to the Benchmark DAC1 via USB (which supports 24bit 96khz), does my sound card have any influence in the process? No. If the sound card does 24bit 96khz, and the original sound file is 24bit 96khz, ALSA will not touch/modify the samples.

Re: [Alsa-user] Digital bit perfect ouptut with ALSA

2008-12-12 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Paulo Moura Guedes wrote: I'm trying to get bit perfect output out of my linux box, but I can't find much info on the web. I'm using ALSA. Some questions: - does Linux/ALSA features dynamic sample rates? - is it possible to set the bit-depth? (in my case to 24 bit) - what other

Re: [Alsa-user] Audigy2 recording level much too low - an (one and half) year later

2008-12-01 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Zbigniew Baniewski wrote: Hallo, Over a year ago I've reported the problem with very low microphone input sensitivity, while recording using Audigy2, what is making this card unusable for VoIP. At that time, I've received a tip (thanks again), to fix it by introducing a line:

Re: [Alsa-user] Emu 1212M on Debian Lenny

2008-10-27 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Dominique Pautrel wrote: I'm nearly sure (but need to be prouved) that 1212M and 1820M use the same base : E-MU 1010 PCI card, with I/O ADAT and I/O SPDIF, so 10 inputs and 10 outputs, plus firewire port and a plug who look like an RJ45 port. The 1212M has a daughter board, E-MU 0202 I/O

Re: [Alsa-user] Any way to count samples written out to the ADC?

2008-05-29 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
2008/5/28 Paul Adolph [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 9:04 AM, James Courtier-Dutton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/5/28 Paul Adolph [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is there any way to divine a count of samples that leave the ALSA ring buffer during playback? My application requires that I send

Re: [Alsa-user] Any way to count samples written out to the ADC?

2008-05-28 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
2008/5/28 Paul Adolph [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is there any way to divine a count of samples that leave the ALSA ring buffer during playback? My application requires that I send a callback when a buffer-full of data is actually played for it to do A/V sync correctly. Right now I'm doing math to

Re: [Alsa-user] Distributing alsa-settings

2008-04-17 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 17/04/2008, Helge Fredriksen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why can't I just copy my tweaked file to the distributions /var/lib/alsa directory so that it is default after the system is installed? Would the alsa system somehow find out that it isn't the real one, and just overwrite it with it's

Re: [Alsa-user] Metallic recording in cs46xx on Thinkpad T22

2008-03-12 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 11/03/2008, Gadi Oron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I ran over a lot of Internet search and could not find any clue to this issue. I am trying to record sound on an old Thinkpad T22 that uses the cs46xx sound driver. Each time you start to record you have a 10% chance of having

Re: [Alsa-user] RME AES-32 questions

2008-03-04 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 04/03/2008, John Sigler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Courtier-Dutton wrote: John Sigler wrote: I have an RME AES-32 PCI board. http://www.rme-audio.de/en_products_hdsp_aes32.php When I boot, every channel has its volume set to 0. http://lxr.linux.no/linux/sound/pci

Re: [Alsa-user] RME AES-32 questions

2008-03-04 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Takashi Iwai wrote: At Tue, 4 Mar 2008 15:03:15 +, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: Now that we have these dB gain levels, we could potentially set all mixer controls to 0dB, i.e. not gain and not attenuation, with only the master output control being set to a lower value so as to avoid

Re: [Alsa-user] RME AES-32 questions

2008-03-03 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 03/03/2008, John Sigler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (I'll try answering some of my questions.) John Sigler wrote: I have an RME AES-32 PCI board. http://www.rme-audio.de/en_products_hdsp_aes32.php [...] When I boot, every channel has its volume set to 0. Is this done by

Re: [Alsa-user] EMU 0404 USB little problems

2008-02-14 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 13/02/2008, Stancu Adrian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I recently acquired this interface and compiled the latest stable versions (1.0.16) of alsa-driver, alsa-firmware, alsa-lib and alsa-utils. For the moment, I can achieve playback through this interface. However, I have two

Re: [Alsa-user] High-pitched squeal from audiophile card

2008-01-30 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 31/01/2008, Wade Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running the guitars into the 1/4 Line ins on the Xenyx mixer. The mixer does not have Hi-Z instrument inputs, but the line inputs have adjustable gain that lets me get a respectable sound without using a preamp or amp line-out. Sounds

Re: [Alsa-user] emu1212m

2008-01-24 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Christopher Aitken wrote: I'm having trouble initializing the emu1212m pci soundcard in alsa in ubuntu 7.1. I got help on another list but we have gone as far as we can there. Are there any known issues getting this card recognized in ubuntu? Chris Please send more details. e.g.

Re: [Alsa-user] Getting a driver to support alsa natively

2008-01-05 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Sergei Steshenko wrote: On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 22:13:59 + Adrian McMenamin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 05/01/2008, Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You also need to find some way to confirm or deny that alsa-lib is trying to open the right files. Given this is

Re: [Alsa-user] Getting a driver to support alsa natively

2008-01-05 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Adrian McMenamin wrote: On 05/01/2008, Sergei Steshenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 22:13:59 + Adrian McMenamin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 05/01/2008, Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You also need to find some way to confirm or deny that alsa-lib

Re: [Alsa-user] Audigy 1 - wired sounds, comp reboot and not working now

2007-12-08 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Lukas Zapletal wrote: Its dead after power off/on. Thanks for help. Have you tried: 1) power off the system. 2) Unplug power supply to system 3) open box and remove Audigy 1 card from its PCI slot 4) Insert the Audigy 1 card back into its PCI slot. (This is called reseating the card) 5)

Re: [Alsa-user] Audigy 1 - wired sounds, comp reboot and not working now

2007-12-06 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Lukas Zapletal wrote: Hello, I was listening some MP3 file and doing some CPU-intensive computations today and sudendly the music turned to stream of wired sounds. The computer was slow a bit, after some seconds my Ubuntu Linux rebooted. After the reboot I cannot see my Audigy 1 card in the

Re: [Alsa-user] E-MU 1010m, ESI Juli@, M-Audio Audiophile or ... ?

2007-11-27 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Paolo Saggese wrote: Hi everybody, after your kind suggestions, I have done some search in the pro and semi-pro sound card arena to find a suitable and affordable card for my needs. In the end, I have found a few possible candidates. According to the manufacturer specs, all of them are

Re: [Alsa-user] Bitperfect Ears

2007-11-26 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Rene Herman wrote: On 25-11-07 04:18, Mark Constable wrote: There are a few online hearing test sites around, here is one with 16/44.1 wavs. I can't hear 12kHz-0dB.wav :-( http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/music/dB/loudness.html Word of warning -- the outcome here will significantly vary with

Re: [Alsa-user] X-Fi Xtreme Audio SB0790

2007-11-07 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 07/11/2007, ICom D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I try this card on opensuse 9.3, no sound at all. It is possible to make it work? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ lspci 06:02.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy LS We should be able to get this working with the snd-ca0106 module.

Re: [Alsa-user] Re : Re : Problem with emu 0404 PCI, and alsa 1.0.15rc*

2007-11-05 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
fx wrote: Hi Despite your efforts, it still doesn't work for me (with the latest daily snapshot dated from 11/5) ... :( Compilation works fine, but I still have that message loading the module : [ 46.643271] ACPI: PCI Interrupt :01:08.0[A] - Link [APC1] - GSI 16 (level, low) -

Re: [Alsa-user] Re : Re : Problem with emu 0404 PCI, and alsa 1.0.15rc*

2007-11-04 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
fx wrote: Hi :) Any news about this bug ? Thanks :) -fx Update commited to hg repository today. Update will be in alsa-driver 1.0.16rc1 James - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping

Re: [Alsa-user] Re : Re : Problem with emu 0404 PCI, and alsa 1.0.15rc*

2007-10-12 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
fx wrote: Hi James Here is the result of lspci -vn | grep -1 0401 : 01:08.0 0401: 1102:0004 (rev 03) Subsystem: 1102:4002 My 0404 is one of the first marketed here in France, I can unplug it, and give you some info I can read on the card. Thanks for your help :) -fx Ok,

Re: [Alsa-user] Re : Re : Problem with emu 0404 PCI, and alsa 1.0.15rc*

2007-10-11 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
fx wrote: Hi No idea ? Still no succes, I don't even know where to begin :( Thanks -fx The driver is not recognizing your sound card. Maybe you have some new variant I don't know about. Please post the output of: lspci -vn | grep -1 0401 James

Re: [Alsa-user] Problem with emu 0404 PCI, and alsa 1.0.15rc*

2007-10-08 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
fx fxd wrote: Hi all I've a problem with my EMU 0404 PCI soundcard, my OS is an ubuntu festy, upgraded to gutsy. I tried with 1.0.15 from rc1 to rc3 (emu 0404 pci is officialy supported by this release) Compilation works fine, but when I try to launch alsamixer, I've this message :

Re: [Alsa-user] Re : Problem with emu 0404 PCI, and alsa 1.0.15rc*

2007-10-08 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
cat /proc/asound/version cat /proc/asound/cards and lsmod - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using

Re: [Alsa-user] emu 1212M PCI is sharp

2007-09-14 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 14/09/2007, Chris Aitken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My new emu 1212M PCI soundcard is playing music a semitone higher than it should. This is not a new problem - it's been that way since I installed the soundcard (which was only a couple of weeks ago). I just gave a bass guitar lesson and had

Re: [Alsa-user] emu 1212M PCI is sharp

2007-09-14 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 14/09/2007, Chris Aitken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks! Right when everything worked right I got a call from a charity. I just had to give them something - Instant Karma! No, No, give me the money ;-) Only joking. James

Re: [Alsa-user] Creative EMU-1616

2007-09-07 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Tim Ashman wrote: I've trying to find out if any drivers exist for this external audio processor/sound card. It is the PCMCIA card driven one made for a laptop. I see from alsa's website that some similar emu units show as covered but not this one. thanks. tim The emu1616 cardbus

Re: [Alsa-user] EMU 1212M PCI

2007-08-30 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Chris Aitken wrote: I installed fedora 7 so I'd have the kernel and alsa I need for the EMU 1212M PCI soundcard. I installed the card. I tried opening alsa mixer to see if the soundcard is recognized and got: alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device Please

Re: [Alsa-user] snd-emu20k1

2007-08-28 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Spike wrote: On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:23:29 +0100 James Courtier-Dutton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Spike wrote: I was wondering if any of the ALSA developers knew anything about a possibly existing snd-emu20k1 module. There is no such snd-emu20k1 module, there never has been. If anyone has

Re: [Alsa-user] snd-emu20k1

2007-08-27 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Spike wrote: I was wondering if any of the ALSA developers knew anything about a possibly existing snd-emu20k1 module. There is no such snd-emu20k1 module, there never has been. If anyone has one, please post it! - This

Re: [Alsa-user] ]Alsa-user] Sound card doesn't work (fwd)

2007-08-17 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
J M Needham wrote: I already posted on LAU, and they sent me here. The below illustrates the problem. I'm new to this list, so I would appreciate any help and I apologise in advance for any breaches of etiquette. Hi, anyone, Sorry if this is annoying, I just don't get what to do. $ cat

Re: [Alsa-user] SPDIF ac3/a52 pass through on Audigy 4, with Fedora 4 7

2007-08-11 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Arthur Yarwood wrote: I'm having a nightmare getting ac3 pass through to work. I had this problem originally with Fedora 4, then I upgraded (thinking it was down to old drivers etc) to Fedora 7 and I'm still getting the very same problem. Currently, AC3 pass through is not supported on

Re: [Alsa-user] Help configuring the E-MU 1820m

2007-07-23 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Hi, I'm the owner of a second-hand EMU-1820m card, now supported in alsa thanks to James Courtier-Dutton efforts. I've mostly used it for analog digital multi channel output so far. Today I've decided to use it for microphone recording. Unfortunately while

Re: [Alsa-user] Recommendation Sought - Linux Dist and Soundcards

2007-06-21 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Mo wrote: Greetings. I am once again, hoping to build a system that will support recording multiple input streams from two or more soundcards. Has anyone implemented more than one PCI soundcard, for recording purposes? If so, would you tell me what distro you are using, and what

Re: [Alsa-user] alsa diagnostic

2007-06-21 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Blue I wrote: hello everybody, I want to have some logs about a command aplay something not performing well. I am currently trying to help someone on a Debian forum, about sound issues, probably alsa related. I still wait from some answers from this user, but I already have some questions

Re: [Alsa-user] per host .asoundrc on shared $HOME

2007-06-07 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 06/06/07, Brian J. Murrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a shared home dir on multiple machines. I have a .asoundrc file for my local workstation but it contains stuff that is local to this machine. When I go to another machine the stuff that's in my ~/.asoundrc is not relevant. Is

Re: [Alsa-user] per host .asoundrc on shared $HOME

2007-06-07 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 07/06/07, Brian J. Murrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 14:36 +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: So, you can see, simply having a /etc/asound.conf file instead of a .asoundrc file will give you your host specific functionallity. But not user specific. I want user

Re: [Alsa-user] So what's up with the EMU 0404 Firmware (added in 1.0.14_rc4)

2007-05-23 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Lennart Melzer wrote: Hi there, I'd like to know what's the matter with this firmware. I own a EMU 0404 and have been waiting for support of this card since I changed to Linux *g*. I recently read, a firmware has been added to the latest RC of ALSA. I downloaded the dirver, firmware,

Re: [Alsa-user] Trying to get AC3 passthrough to work (nforce4)

2007-05-17 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Wesley Lemke wrote: Does AC3 passthrough work with this hardware? If so, what do I need to do to get it working? ac3 passthru does not work on this hardware under Linux. - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2

Re: [Alsa-user] Emu 1212m

2007-05-01 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
xavier larrode wrote: Hi all, It seems that the driver 1.4 from rc1 are now handling the Emu 1212m. So i tried to follow the instruction on this page : http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php?company=Creative+Labscard=E-MU+1212m.chip=CA0102%2C+FPGAmodule=emu10k1-fpga but

Re: [Alsa-user] E-MU 040 USB Soundcard supported?

2007-04-16 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Chris Stranex wrote: Hi I just wanted to check to see if the E-MU 040 USB Soundcard is supported by ALSA? I checked the soundcard matrix but it wasn't mentioned there and my google-fu seems to have failed me :) Thanks Neither the E-MU 0404 or 0202 USB sound cards are supported in Linux.

Re: [Alsa-user] E-MU 1212m connections

2007-04-09 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Branan Riley wrote: Hi, I've been trying to find a card that handles digitial I/O and works under linux. The E-MU 1212m looks promising, I just wanted to verify that ALSA will handle 5.1 input and output through the optical connections on the card. Thanks in advance, Branan The

Re: [Alsa-user] audigy2zs spdif_in + ac3 capture

2007-02-14 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Can I set spdif input on audigy2zs in bit accurate mode? Becouse, if i use arecord -D hw0,0 -f dat -t raw ac3 data lost... pcm wav recordings fine, ac3 wav have incorrect data... On Windows ac3 decode from spdif input works fine hardware, but on linux I can't

Re: [Alsa-user] RES: best alsa driver solution for kernel 2.4.26

2007-02-03 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 2/2/07, José Renato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got this error when compiling the alsa-driver-1.0.13 onto kernel 2.4.26 with gcc-2.96: Is there any chance that you could use a newer compiler? - Using Tomcat but

Re: [Alsa-user] Trying to improve my alsa/pulseaudio/mythtv setup

2007-02-02 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 02/02/07, Andy Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suppose I could have just asked here or on pulseaudio list first off will using pulseaudio allow me to have 2.0/5.1 audio with a software mixer that myth will be able to control, and still output via the S/PDIF but where would the fun be in

Re: [Alsa-user] No sound on digital (spdif) output

2007-01-15 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Peter Andersson wrote: Hi, I'm probably making a stupid newbe mistake but i can't get my digital sound working. I'm using the alsa drivers included in the 2.6.19.1 kernel and the sound works with the regular analog out. This is the output of aplay -l Please refer to:

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA can only use default - Not hw:0,0 hw1,0 etc.

2007-01-13 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Johan Spee wrote: Hi, I have Debian Etch on an ASUS P5B system with an onboard sound-card (hda-intel) and a Terratec Phase 22 card in a PCI slot (ice1724). I have added the following lines to /etc/modprobe.d/sound : alias snd-card-0 snd-ice1724 options snd-ice1724 index=0 alias snd-card-1

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

2007-01-02 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Sebastian Schäfer wrote: Unfortunately the Audigy 4 is no longer available (at least not in Germany). The only currently available soundcard from Creative is the X-Fi, but there are no drivers available for it. Best regards, Sebastian On Di, 2007-01-02 at 12:26 +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote:

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

2007-01-02 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Arthur Marsh wrote: As someone who bought a SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 model SB 0220 purely to get MIDI playback via on-board hardware synth working on this PII-266 machine, I appreciate all the efforts of people such as yourself to make it work. If there are any alternatives to the Sound

Re: [Alsa-user] E-MU 1212m ADC capture

2007-01-01 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
nick thomas wrote: Hi! I'm using an E-MU 1212m card with ALSA. I'm using Linux 2.6.19.1 (vanilla), and alsa-driver 1.0.14rc1. The DAC and MIDI ports work. However, I can't seem to get the ADC to work; it just records silence. All volume levels are unmuted and turned up. Is this expected

Re: [Alsa-user] spdif output and mono audio

2006-12-30 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 30/12/06, Andrew Lyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am using iec958 spdif output on gigabyte ga-965-ds3 motherboard with onboard hda-intel, kernel 2.6.18.6 alsa 1.0.13, I dont have a asound.conf or asoundrc. Most of my sound is coming from mythtv (ac3 and dts passthru enabled), this

Re: [Alsa-user] Creative Audigy 2 PCMCIA and onboard Speakers?

2006-12-17 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Q wrote: Hi, does anyone know if it is possible to get my laptop onboard speakers working with my Audigy 2 PCMCIA sound card? If so, how can I do this? Currently everything else works as as expected - however it is impractical to always have to carry a set of external speakers around with

Re: [Alsa-user] analog and digital out

2006-12-06 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
wouter lists wrote: Hi all, I would like my soundcard to play to the analog and digital out at the same time. The reason is that my PC is connected via analog to my TV and the digital out is connected to my surround receiver. So I don't have to turn my receiver on when I want to watch

Re: [Alsa-user] Two sound card, want to play Line from A to speakers on B

2006-12-04 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
darfy wrote: Hello, I've got two soundcard properly configured (A and B). I've connected something to Line of A, and I want it to hear it on speakers connected to B. I've searched for a solution all the day, playing with .asoundrc, but I didn't manage... Can you help me finding a

Re: [Alsa-user] Driver status of the Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live 24-bit external 7.1 USB?

2006-11-15 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Jan Ries wrote: Hello, I'd like to purchase a (good) usb soundcard for a laptop. The technical specs the 'Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live 24-bit external 7.1 USB' fit my needs. Yet there is the Problem with the driver support. The alsa-soundcard-matrix

Re: [Alsa-user] CA0106 - no sound

2006-10-28 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Gary Dawes wrote: Write error: -5,Input/output error xrun_recovery failed: -5,Input/output error Transfer failed: Operation not permitted Which user are you using to test with? Try running speaker-test as root. - Using

Re: [Alsa-user] Understanding ALSA Mixer

2006-10-23 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Mr. Shawn H. Corey wrote: Lee Revell wrote: No, it's not. Master is the main output volume control. PCM controls the level of sound output from applications (as opposed to mic/line in, cd, etc). Windows calls it Wave. OK, why, if it's turn up too loud, does it produce crappy sound? If it

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA CA0106 regression: no sound with SB Audigy LS and kernel 2.6.18

2006-10-21 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Gunter Ohrner wrote: Hi! With all previous kernels I used (up to 2.6.17.11) this card worked fine. With 2.6.18 it stops working, it's still correctly recognized but doesn't output any sound, no matter what mixer settings I choose. BTW, the mixer settings / available channels differ

Re: [Alsa-user] Still trying to get Creative Audigy card working under FC5

2006-10-21 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Jack Orenstein wrote: I'm getting no sound from my Creative Labs SB Audigy LS card, on an FC5 machine (kernel 2.6.15-1). The same card produced sounds under FC4. I've written to this mailing list about this problem, and based on a response from James Courtier-Dutton, I've consulted the alsa

Re: [Alsa-user] Still trying to get Creative Audigy card working under FC5

2006-10-21 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Jack Orenstein wrote: James Courtier-Dutton wrote: Jack Orenstein wrote: I'm getting no sound from my Creative Labs SB Audigy LS card, on an FC5 machine (kernel 2.6.15-1). ... /proc/asound/cards says: 0 [CA0106 ]: CA0106 - CA0106 Live! 7.1 24bit [SB0410

Re: [Alsa-user] no sound on fedora 5 - creative soundblaster sb0410

2006-10-18 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Dirk Kämmerer wrote: with a kernel update to 2.6.18-1.2200.fc5 no sound available ? what's going wrong ? any hints or help ? Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0 Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Mono Mono: Playback [on] That means it is trying to use the digital

Re: [Alsa-user] E-mu 1212m support in HG

2006-10-16 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Matt Bucknall wrote: Sorry for being dim, I've not installed ALSA before. I've downloaded the latest HG snapshot (http://suse.inode.at/projects/alsa/snapshot/driver/alsa-driver-hg20061014.tar.bz2) and tried to configure with --use-cards=emu=emu10k1, but the script complains saying 'error:

Re: [Alsa-user] SB Audigy SE (ca0106): no sound and no /dev/dsp

2006-10-16 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Matteo Dargor Modesti wrote: The strange thing is that if i launch alsamixer i have these controls: IEC958 IEC958 Center/LFE IEC958 Front IEC958 Rear IEC958 Unknown Analog Center/LFE Analog Front Analog Rear Analog Side CAPTURE feedback Digital Capture Source Shared Mic/Line in

Re: [Alsa-user] E-mu 1212m support in HG

2006-10-15 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Matt Bucknall wrote: Hello, Apparently, James has committed initial support for the E-mu 1212m into the HG repository. I am unable to find it in there. Can someone please direct me to it? I assume I'm looking for emu10k1-fpga? Thanks, Matt. Just use the snd-emu10k1 module. It

Re: [Alsa-user] Trying to get sound from FC5 + Audigy

2006-10-12 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Jack Orenstein wrote: I have a Linux box with a Creative Labs Audigy sound card. Running RH9 and FC4, sound worked fine. With FC5 it does not. Googling reveals that this is a common problem, and identified many different fixes involving alsa. I've been unable to get any of these to work.

Re: [Alsa-user] configuring ALSA driver to avoid invertion

2006-10-04 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 03/10/06, Andrew Gaydenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use ICE1724 ALSA driver for Terratec Aureon 7.1 Space card. Almost all is fine, big thanks to developers! Nevertheless, I have noticed both default (line out) and plug:spdif devices'es outputs are inverted. Is it possible to configure

Re: [Alsa-user] Few questions regarding emu10k + p16v

2006-09-30 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Vladimir Mosgalin wrote: Hi everybody. I have Audigy 2 ZS card and alsa driver 1.0.11 (from fc 2.6.16 kernel). I was trying to experiment with p16v, and noticed a few things. I'm using analog output. 1) Distiortion / clipping. Regular playback sound fine at master/pcm @ 100%. However,

Re: [Alsa-user] Audigy2 ZS PCMCIA - no mic?

2006-09-22 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 21/09/06, Marcin Lewandowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have Audigy2 ZS PCMCIA card. I use emu10k1 driver from gentoo alsa-driver-1.0.13_rc2. I can play sound but I have problems with capture. I turned all things in mixer to 100% level and I can't record anything. In Windows it works

Re: [Alsa-user] Best card for recording?

2006-09-19 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 18/09/06, aluizio-neto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, I`ve recently realised (with your help) that the sound card I work with is not fully supported by ALSA and I`m about to buy a new one. The thing I need the most is the Analog Capture in. I use Fedora Core 5 and I would like to

Re: [Alsa-user] switch between two soundcards

2006-09-19 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Jürgen Herrmann wrote: hi! i have a laptop with an intel8x0 based audio chip and from time to time i want to use my usb soundcard. is there a way to unload the intel8x0 driver and insert the snd-usb-audio instead of it? my goal is that applications can always use alsa hw:0:0 without

Re: [Alsa-user] Creating 4 mono virtual devices

2006-09-16 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Marcin Lewandowski wrote: Hi, I have 3 devices in my notebook. hw:0,0 - internal soundcard hw:1,0 - usb soundcard hw:2,0 - pcmcia soundcard I need to create something like 4 virtual soundcards from hw:1 and hw:2 but with only 1 channel per each of them. Something like: virtual1

Re: [Alsa-user] BUFFER SIZE HELP! SoundBlaster Audigy SE SB0570 alsa-driver-1.0 .11 snd-ca0106

2006-08-22 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Laborde Ludovic wrote: Hello, I have Sound Blaster Audigy SE and when a launch this code, my buffer is 2046. Can you test this for me and you return your SizeBuffer ? Because i think that my buffer it's too small. Regards File SizeBuffer.c -

Re: [Alsa-user] BUFFER SIZE HELP! SoundBlaster Audigy SE SB0570 alsa-driver-1.0 .11 snd-ca0106

2006-08-22 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Laborde Ludovic wrote: Hello, Just for my information, it's very important for me, to understand if it's possible to increase the buffer size up to 65536. And understand, if the limitation is due to the driver or hardware sound card. Sometime, depend which computer is used, i have 65536

Re: [Alsa-user] Suitable PCMCIA sound card working with ALSA

2006-08-16 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Zbynek Houska wrote: Is there any PCMCIA card known to be fully supported in ALSA? I have on my laptop HDA Intel card, but it is so unstable and crappy so I would like to bypass it. I saw king of Audigy2 PCMCIA card, but was unsure if it works with ALSA. Zbynek See the sound card matrix

Re: [Alsa-user] Suitable PCMCIA sound card working with ALSA

2006-08-16 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Zbynek Houska wrote: James Courtier-Dutton wrote: Zbynek Houska wrote: Is there any PCMCIA card known to be fully supported in ALSA? I have on my laptop HDA Intel card, but it is so unstable and crappy so I would like to bypass it. I saw king of Audigy2 PCMCIA card, but was unsure

Re: [Alsa-user] Suitable PCMCIA sound card working with ALSA

2006-08-16 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Sergei Steshenko wrote: Also, there was a recent thread in which a user was asked about chips on the card, and the developer confirmed that the card should be supported - which means another card with the same name, but different chips, may be not supported. Please stop this FUD. That

Re: [Alsa-user] Suitable PCMCIA sound card working with ALSA

2006-08-16 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Sergei Steshenko wrote: Also, there was a recent thread in which a user was asked about chips on the card, and the developer confirmed that the card should be supported - which means another card with the same name, but different chips, may be not supported. Please stop this FUD. That

Re: [Alsa-user] Suitable PCMCIA sound card working with ALSA

2006-08-16 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Zbynek Houska wrote: James Courtier-Dutton wrote: Zbynek Houska wrote: James Courtier-Dutton wrote: Zbynek Houska wrote: Is there any PCMCIA card known to be fully supported in ALSA? I have on my laptop HDA Intel card, but it is so unstable and crappy so I would like to bypass

Re: [Alsa-user] Audigy2 ZS no Center/LFE [Solved]

2006-08-14 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Nathan Caldwell wrote: Well isn't that just strange, I reboot into windows to test, and now I have 5.1 from ALSA as well...hmmm Thanks for taking the time to try to figure this out James, I'm really not sure what was going on because I didn't do anything different than when I normally

Re: [Alsa-user] Audigy2 ZS no Center/LFE

2006-08-13 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Nathan Caldwell wrote: On 8/12/06, James Courtier-Dutton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for the list of chips. This confirms what I thought regarding the chips of the card. The current alsa driver should work fine with your sound card. Please attach the output of amixer contents

Re: [Alsa-user] Audigy2 ZS no Center/LFE

2006-08-12 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Thank you for the list of chips. This confirms what I thought regarding the chips of the card. The current alsa driver should work fine with your sound card. Please attach the output of amixer contents There must be a mixer control out of place. James

Re: [Alsa-user] Audigy2 ZS no Center/LFE

2006-08-09 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 25/07/06, Nathan Caldwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/20/06, James Courtier-Dutton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nathan Caldwell wrote: Anyone got even an idea on what I could try? -Nathan On 7/12/06, Nathan Caldwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an Audigy2 ZS, and can't

Re: [Alsa-user] Audigy2 ZS no Center/LFE

2006-08-09 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Nathan Caldwell wrote: On 8/9/06, James Courtier-Dutton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 25/07/06, Nathan Caldwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/20/06, James Courtier-Dutton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nathan Caldwell wrote: Anyone got even an idea on what I could try? -Nathan On 7/12/06, Nathan

Re: [Alsa-user] Sound delay problem

2006-08-05 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Colin Kern wrote: Hi, I have just installed Ubuntu 6.06 and I've having a small problem with the ALSA drivers. All the sound seems delayed about a second from events that trigger them, and when watching video, the audio is not synchronized with the video. Any ideas how to fix this?

Re: [Alsa-user] Aliasing due to resampling?

2006-07-27 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Alfons Adriaensen wrote: To summarize, aliasing is the result of the _sampled_ nature of a digital signal, not of its numerical (digital) form. That is true for your particular example, but aliasing artifacts can be introduced during digital signal processing. Most noticeably, when

Re: [Alsa-user] Aliasing due to resampling?

2006-07-27 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Thomas Hood wrote: On 7/26/06, Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/26/06, James Courtier-Dutton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Take a look at the alc850 datasheet, it will tell you the dB gain range each control has. Hmm.. As far as I can tell from the datasheet ( ftp

Re: [Alsa-user] Aliasing due to resampling?

2006-07-26 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Thomas Hood wrote: I'm using a Realtek ALC850 http://www.realtek.com.tw/products/products1-2.aspx?modelid=2003101 on an http://www.asrock.com/PRODUCT/775Twins-HDTV.htm, so I guess it's not the STAC9708/11 issue. Incidently noise levels on this thing are appalling -- you can hear noise just

Re: [Alsa-user] Aliasing due to resampling?

2006-07-26 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Thomas Hood wrote: On 7/26/06, Alfons Adriaensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It could, even if the digital form of the signal is OK. Your card may apply digital gain at the max setting (i.e. to allow you to boost very weak signals). Ah.. that's interesting. I take it that this is

Re: [Alsa-user] Aliasing due to resampling?

2006-07-26 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Bill Unruh wrote: On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Thomas Hood wrote: I'm using a Realtek ALC850 http://www.realtek.com.tw/products/products1-2.aspx?modelid=2003101 on an http://www.asrock.com/PRODUCT/775Twins-HDTV.htm, so I guess it's not the STAC9708/11 issue. Incidently noise levels on this

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