Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-24 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 09:37 -0800, Bill Unruh wrote: It might be, but it in general is not. It is not possible for the average user to just recompile. He almost certainly did not install the development stuff when he installed Linux. He probably did not install the kernel source when he

Re: [Alsa-user] Re: SBlive using emu10k1x on DELL machines

2006-01-24 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 22:19 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: On Tuesday 24 January 2006 22:06, Lee Revell wrote: On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 21:41 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: Are there any particular problems using this preinstalled card on Dell machines. Putting aside the need to use a snd-emu10k1x

Re: [Alsa-user] Edirol UA25 not detected when Advanced mode on

2006-01-24 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 00:07 +0100, Christian Gagneraud wrote: Hi all, I'm getting another problem with my new edirol UA25. As describe in the subject, if i put the switch Advanced mode on my ua25, the card is not detected when i plug in the USB cable, with this switch off, it is detected

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-24 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 14:13 -0800, Bill Unruh wrote: AAgrhaheh. The claim from you was that it is easy for a user to update the drivers for a new kernel, or install new drivers which had been developed to a new kernel. Just three lines-- untar, configure and make. I point out that it is NOT

Re: [Alsa-user] Edirol UA25 not detected when Advanced mode on

2006-01-24 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 00:20 +0100, Christian Gagneraud wrote: Lee Revell wrote: On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 00:07 +0100, Christian Gagneraud wrote: Hi all, I'm getting another problem with my new edirol UA25. As describe in the subject, if i put the switch Advanced mode on my ua25, the card

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-24 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 14:13 -0800, Bill Unruh wrote: This discussion also began from the difficulties that sound card manufacturers have in supporting Linux. They cannot simply include a binary driver module which the user can install on his system. This is true whether they include source

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-24 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 14:51 -0800, Bill Unruh wrote: On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Lee Revell wrote: On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 14:13 -0800, Bill Unruh wrote: AAgrhaheh. The claim from you was that it is easy for a user to update the drivers for a new kernel, or install new drivers which had been

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-24 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 01:06 +0200, Sergei Steshenko wrote: Again, if I remember correctly, Peter Zubaj said that ALSA developers care more about themselves and the development process than about end users. I do not remember the exact words, but I believe that was the sense. Go away, troll.

Re: [Alsa-user] Midi support on ATIIXP

2006-01-23 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 21:38 +0100, Harold Aling wrote: Harold Aling wrote: I own a Asus P4R800-V Deluxe motherboard which has an on board ATI IXP sound card. I used to have this sound card disabled because I have also a Terratec EWS88 MT/D 10in 10out card. I bought myself a cheap

Re: [Alsa-user] Need Linux driver for Audigy 2 Platinum eX

2006-01-23 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 19:22 -0500, Jeremy Baker wrote: Please help this newbie find and install a Linux driver for the sound card: creative sound blaster Audigy 2 Platinum eX Any help would be great. Should work with the emu10k1 driver. Lee

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 02:59 +0200, Sergei Steshenko wrote: We have already discussed this, here's yet another opinion: http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/23/214258 - This is why we need a kernel api and abi (Score:2) by Billly Gates (198444) Alter Relationship on Tuesday

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 03:15 +0200, Sergei Steshenko wrote: The Linux developers DO NOT WANT to make it possible to write closed source drivers. Many consider it a violation of the GPL. - GPL allows to run commercial closed source programs under a GPL'ed OS. That is, it doesn't prohibit

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 03:15 +0200, Sergei Steshenko wrote: SYNOPSYS and Cadence VLSI-related tools are a few examples, though, as far as SYNOPSYS is concerned, only 2.4.* (and NOT 2.6.*) kernels are supported because the former are considered to have stable API. The API exported to userspace

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 03:33 +0200, Sergei Steshenko wrote: The programs are userspace. The argument of 2.4.* - 2.6.* was given by a sysadmin, I do not know to which extent the sysadmin was competent. However, he said it was the cause of not upgrading company RHEL-servers to 2.6.* kernel.

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 17:34 -0800, Bill Unruh wrote: He is also incorrect about wireless, there are plenty of wireless chipsets with open drivers. Then why all the closed source firmware? I also recall reading that the FCC demanded closed source setting of the frequencies to prevent

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 17:34 -0800, Bill Unruh wrote: Well, I also think that is a mistake. A Write once would also be far more stable as far as Linux itself is concerned. If every time the kernel changes you have to worry whether or not your driver is broken, it makes for highly unstable

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 17:52 -0800, Bill Unruh wrote: On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Lee Revell wrote: On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 17:34 -0800, Bill Unruh wrote: Well, I also think that is a mistake. A Write once would also be far more stable as far as Linux itself is concerned. If every time the kernel

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 03:03 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: btw, where are suddenly all this 'we need a fix binary abi' people are coming from? Until ca 2 month ago they never spoke up, and suddenly in every forum or mailing lists are popping up people, most of them posting for the

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 03:03 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: Newsflash: the userland abiapi is fix. There is nothing to whine about. Yes. No one is trying to tell Nvidia co you must open your libGL implementation if you want your hardware supported. The way forward is, as Arjan van de

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 04:39 +0200, Sergei Steshenko wrote: Regarding kernel developers made it clear that the days of them tolerating proprietary drivers are numbered. I am sorry I do not have time at the moment to try XEN (I've already expressed this idea). The idea is: 1) in

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 04:49 +0200, Sergei Steshenko wrote: Regarding firmwares are not drivers. Firmwares are an entity of their own. Please inform yourself about firmwares and what they do and where they live and compare them to drivers. And there are many firmware hacks or open

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 05:12 +0200, Sergei Steshenko wrote: 1) we have an IDE drive separated from the CPU by IDE bus. The IDE drive runs closed-source firmware, which is in terms of the controller inside the drive still software. There is no fuss about it; 2) we have a WiFi

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 05:28 +0200, Sergei Steshenko wrote: The difference is that the driver code is executed by the host CPU, while the firmware code is executed by the device - kinda funny :-). OK, I propose to run a dual core or dual CPU computer. One CPU would be for opens

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 06:02 +0200, Sergei Steshenko wrote: I was trying to show that if we at all agree to live with closed source software, i.e. if agree to put extreme ideology aside, then we should think about finding a well defined place for closed source SW, so end users will benefit

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 06:02 +0200, Sergei Steshenko wrote: I was talking about the moral/ideological issue. My point is that from moral/ideological point of view it doesn't make sense to insist on OSS only in one case. It's not a moral or ideological issue, it's a technical one - there's no

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 22:27 -0800, Bill Unruh wrote: On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Lee Revell wrote: On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 06:02 +0200, Sergei Steshenko wrote: I was talking about the moral/ideological issue. My point is that from moral/ideological point of view it doesn't make sense to insist

Re: [Alsa-user] emu10k1 woes... only mono capture from aux

2006-01-23 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 23:52 -0600, Brian Dunn wrote: I'm running alsa 1.0.10 on my SB Live! Value and i need some help with capture settings. my shoe-string budget studio features a soundcard with a blown line in. I need stereo input so i can capture two live channels at the same time in

RE: [Alsa-user] Two sound sources and one sound card

2006-01-22 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 10:30 +, HEDGER, Tim, FM wrote: Thanks Lee My alsa-lib and alsa-driver are both 1.10. How do I configure arts to use alsa? I haven't done anything with arts - I'm not starting it myself or anything, but artsd is running when I use sound devices. I have

Re: [Alsa-user] Getting Alsa to work

2006-01-22 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 23:31 -0800, Rich E wrote: Hello everyone, I recently got a Linux box running with a RME hdsp card (thanks to Fernando's help at PlanetCCRMA), so I'm almost ready to leave the world of Windows. I can't seem to get the Alsaplayer to work, with or without Jack. Does

Re: [Alsa-user] How to change the default timer used?

2006-01-22 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 13:29 +, Jeroen Nijhof wrote: How can I change the timer that alsa uses (including for the OSS drivers)? I think I found the source of my problem: it seems that the kernel has turned the sound card IRQ off!! - dmesg says ... 'irq 3: nobody cared!'

Re: [Alsa-user] How to change the default timer used?

2006-01-22 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 16:33 +, Jeroen Nijhof wrote: Lee, How can I change the timer that alsa uses (including for the OSS drivers)? I think I found the source of my problem: it seems that the kernel has turned the sound card IRQ off!! - dmesg says ...

Re: [Alsa-user] debugging no-sound with alsa + jackd + timidity (rosegarden4)

2006-01-22 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 17:45 -0500, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote: rosegarden gives a status of MIDI OK and shows creating devices for the Timidity playback and uses the following jackd command line /usr/bin/jackd -d alsa -d hw -r 44100 -p 2048 -n 2 That seems to be incorrect, it should be

Re: [Alsa-user] HELP Sound Blaster 0410 only one channel out

2006-01-22 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 21:08 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, Im a nubie to Alsa, so this is probably a simple/stupid question. I Just added a Sound Blaster Live! (24 bit) 0410, to a running Fedora 4 System (2.6.11 Kernel,- but later available). It correctly(?) uses the snd-ca106 kernel

Re: [Alsa-user] Vivanco 6C PCI and Midi?

2006-01-21 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 10:31 +0100, Lorenz Hopfmüller wrote: I bought this Vivanco-card, because the hompage tells me about a onboard wavetable synth. So I don't trust descriptions any more. The description was correct, but just because a card has a feature, you can't assume that ALSA supports

Re: [Alsa-user] Vivanco 6C PCI and Midi?

2006-01-21 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 10:31 +0100, Lorenz Hopfmüller wrote: Would be very very nice, if somebody simply told me the name/a link of a card, wich plays midi without a software synth. The only such cards are the ones supported by the snd-emu10k1 driver. Lee

Re: [Alsa-user] Ice1712 FC4 Kernel upgrade - dmix not working

2006-01-20 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 19:52 -0500, Rich Rosa wrote: OK. I have a solution and a working asound.conf file. The setup below allows me to use two seperate stereo channels to output MPD streams. This is working well now. My only remaining problem is how to use XMMS with this config file.

Re: [Alsa-user] problem with USB latency (emi 6|2m)

2006-01-20 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 13:21 +0100, Alexander Carôt wrote: Hi to all, I have a Fedora Core 3 2,66 GHz-machine with low-latency kernel (Planet CCRMA). P.S.: Similar behavior I experience with a cheap soundblaster MP3+. Is this a laptop? You may be experiencing the ACPI/SMM bug. You are

Re: [Alsa-user] alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: Permission denied

2006-01-20 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 17:00 +, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote: Hi alsa users, I am trying to get a mentioned card to work. unable to find the error. So I downloaded the alsa-driver-1.0.9.tar.bz2 archive to have the latest drivers. That is NOT the latest version!

Re: [Alsa-user] snd_cmipci + optical input

2006-01-20 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 21:52 +0100, Patrick Plattes wrote: Hello, i'm new to the list and i have (maybe a stupid) problem. I'm using a terratec 5.1 soundcard and everything works fine until now :). But since i try to use the optical input i see an issue. I don't know how to record the input.

Re: [Alsa-user] Vivanco 6C PCI and Midi?

2006-01-20 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 22:45 +0100, Lorenz Hopfmüller wrote: I need a card which costs less than 25 €(Euro), plays MIDI without problems and in a good qualiti and is complitliy compatible with alsa. Which one should I choose? I don't want to buy a wrong again, you understand? This describes

Re: [Alsa-user] Ice1712 FC4 Kernel upgrade - dmix not working

2006-01-20 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 20:44 -0500, Rich Rosa wrote: My XMMS settings are: audio device: pcm:channel12 Mixer Card: M-Audio Delta 1010LT Mixer Device: PCM I have absolutely no idea why this won't work. If aplay works then XMMS should. Try stracing it. Lee

Re: [Alsa-user] Ice1712 FC4 Kernel upgrade - dmix not working

2006-01-20 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 20:44 -0500, Rich Rosa wrote: My XMMS settings are: audio device: pcm:channel12 Mixer Card: M-Audio Delta 1010LT Mixer Device: PCM Also your Bindings syntax is still completely wrong, see my previous email. Lee

Re: [Alsa-user] Ice1712 FC4 Kernel upgrade - dmix not working

2006-01-20 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 20:44 -0500, Rich Rosa wrote: My XMMS settings are: audio device: pcm:channel12 Mixer Card: M-Audio Delta 1010LT Mixer Device: PCM What is the output of: $ grep pcm ~/.xmms/config pcm_device=default It should say: pcm_device=channel12 Lee

Re: [Alsa-user] Ice1712 FC4 Kernel upgrade - dmix not working

2006-01-20 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 21:06 -0500, Rich Rosa wrote: If I use software mixer control it works!! Thanks for all your help. That's very strange, where exactly is the configuration item in XMMS to do this and what exactly did you change? Lee

Re: [Alsa-user] HDA Intel alsamixer controls strange.

2006-01-20 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 18:11 -0800, Bill Unruh wrote: I am running alsa (mandrake 10.1 alsa version 1.0.6-- so maybe this is fixed later). If I run alsamixer, I get controls Headphone, PCM, FronMic, Surround, Center, LFE, Line, CD, Mic,PCSpeaker, Capture, Capture, Channel, InputSo, Input So.

Re: [Alsa-user] HDA Intel alsamixer controls strange.

2006-01-20 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 23:30 -0800, Bill Unruh wrote: On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Lee Revell wrote: On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 18:11 -0800, Bill Unruh wrote: I am running alsa (mandrake 10.1 alsa version 1.0.6-- so maybe this is fixed later). If I run alsamixer, I get controls Headphone, PCM

Re: [Alsa-user] HDA Intel alsamixer controls strange.

2006-01-20 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 23:30 -0800, Bill Unruh wrote: The question of course is NOT why aumix has a volume control which works but why the alsa mixer (which surely is part of alsa) has no volume control, and as a result I could not turn up the output volume using alsamixer. Surely the

Re: [Alsa-user] what is emu10k1_gp

2006-01-18 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 21:04 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: On Tuesday 17 January 2006 22:33, Lee Revell wrote: On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 22:16 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: Hi Lee. If this was loaded, would it have any adverse affects on playing midi files with Kmid, aplaymidi. Also is there any info

Re: [Alsa-user] Impossible to configure Intel HDA

2006-01-18 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 00:32 +0100, Mauro Sacchetto wrote: I use Slackware 10.2. With kernel 2.6.14.6 and 2.5 I'm not more able to configure my audio card, Intel HDA based on RealTeckALC882, nor with the latest official release of alsa, nor with the actual rc version. Alsaconf finds the

Re: [Alsa-user] Impossible to configure Intel HDA

2006-01-18 Thread Lee Revell
(please use reply-to-all) On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 06:04 +0100, Mauro Sacchetto wrote: Alle 00:49, giovedì 19 gennaio 2006, hai scritto: I use Slackware 10.2. With kernel 2.6.14.6 and 2.5 I'm not more able to configure my audio card, Intel HDA based on RealTeckALC882, nor with the

Re: [Alsa-user] Problem about emu10k1x datasheet

2006-01-18 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 13:01 +0800, Kun Niu wrote: Dear all, I've got a sound card SB! Live 5.1 Dell OEM. It worked well on my ubuntu, gentoo,sarge. But I can't find a driver for my card on FreeBSD 6.0 release. And I'll have try to write one by myself. But I can't find any datasheet for

Re: [Alsa-user] Problem about emu10k1x datasheet

2006-01-18 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 13:01 +0800, Kun Niu wrote: Dear all, I've got a sound card SB! Live 5.1 Dell OEM. It worked well on my ubuntu, gentoo,sarge. But I can't find a driver for my card on FreeBSD 6.0 release. And I'll have try to write one by myself. But I can't find any datasheet for

Re: [Alsa-user] Problem about emu10k1x datasheet

2006-01-18 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 00:33 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 19 January 2006 00:16, Lee Revell wrote: On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 13:01 +0800, Kun Niu wrote: Dear all, I've got a sound card SB! Live 5.1 Dell OEM. It worked well on my ubuntu, gentoo,sarge. But I can't find a driver

Re: [Alsa-user] Problem about emu10k1x datasheet

2006-01-18 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 21:36 -0800, Bill Unruh wrote: On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Lee Revell wrote: On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 13:01 +0800, Kun Niu wrote: Dear all, I've got a sound card SB! Live 5.1 Dell OEM. It worked well on my ubuntu, gentoo,sarge. But I can't find a driver for my card

Re: [Alsa-user] Problem about emu10k1x datasheet

2006-01-18 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 21:48 -0800, Bill Unruh wrote: On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Lee Revell wrote: On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 21:36 -0800, Bill Unruh wrote: On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Lee Revell wrote: On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 13:01 +0800, Kun Niu wrote: Dear all, I've got a sound card SB! Live 5.1

Re: [Alsa-user] break of installation

2006-01-17 Thread Lee Revell
This has been reported before but I don't remember the solution, maybe someone on the list can answer... Lee On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 17:24 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Zitat von Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 19:04 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello alsa

Re: [Alsa-user] Creative X-Fi card.

2006-01-17 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 15:00 +0100, Stephen Reilly wrote: Sorry I could not be of more help. Was wondering if anybody else would mail the dude? Maybe try and put some friendly consumer pressur on the matter? Since this card just came out, I suspect he means that their engineers are working

Re: [Alsa-user] Ice1712 FC4 Kernel upgrade - dmix not working

2006-01-17 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 15:01 -0500, Rich Rosa wrote: What do you think of downgrading to make this work? It still does not work with the latest ALSA version? How exactly are you testing it, and what is the exact error you get? Lee --- This

Re: [Alsa-user] what is emu10k1_gp

2006-01-17 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 21:12 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: Hi. This module turned up on someones lsmod. It's obviously oss, and associated with the gameport, but I can't find any info about it. It was on the lsmod of someone I was trying to help, that had Alsa installed, and is using an Audigy

Re: [Alsa-user] what is emu10k1_gp

2006-01-17 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 22:16 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: On Tuesday 17 January 2006 21:18, Lee Revell wrote: On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 21:12 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: Hi. This module turned up on someones lsmod. It's obviously oss, and associated with the gameport, but I can't find any info

Re: [Alsa-user] what is emu10k1_gp

2006-01-17 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 22:16 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: Hi Lee. If this was loaded, would it have any adverse affects on playing midi files with Kmid, aplaymidi. Also is there any info for this module,as I've never seen it before. I think I have an idea what might be causing the silent SBLive!

Re: [Alsa-user] Ice1712 FC4 Kernel upgrade - dmix not working

2006-01-17 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 18:21 -0500, Rich Rosa wrote: I appreciate your help. I upgaded to 1.0.11rc2. It is patched with the ICE1712.conf changes. It looks like your .asoundrc is incorrect, it does not specify S32_LE format which is all the hardware supports. Why don't you just remove the

Re: [Alsa-user] Ice1712 FC4 Kernel upgrade - dmix not working

2006-01-17 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 18:21 -0500, Rich Rosa wrote: pcm.channel12 { type dmix ipc_key 1024 slave { pcm hw:0,0 period_time 0 period_size 1024 buffer_size 4096 rate 44100 } bindings { 0 2 1 3 } } Where did

Re: [Alsa-user] Ice1712 FC4 Kernel upgrade - dmix not working

2006-01-17 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 19:39 -0500, Rich Rosa wrote: Thanks again. My objective for purchasing this card is to use it to output several different stereo channels of sound to my home audio equiment concurrently. The configurations that were posted on this group all worked on prior versions

Re: [Alsa-user] Ice1712 FC4 Kernel upgrade - dmix not working

2006-01-17 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 20:31 -0500, Rich Rosa wrote: yes, I tried that. I get this error. alsaplayer -d surround51 joe.mp3 What about plug:surround51? Lee --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files

Re: [Alsa-user] Ice1712 FC4 Kernel upgrade - dmix not working

2006-01-17 Thread Lee Revell
was close but throws those errors I showed you. I appreciate your efforts!! Try (with the custom config disabled): plug:rear plug:centerlfe Lee On 1/17/06, Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 20:31 -0500, Rich Rosa wrote: yes, I tried that. I get

Re: [Alsa-user] Ice1712 FC4 Kernel upgrade - dmix not working

2006-01-17 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 20:50 -0500, Rich Rosa wrote: I imagine my asound.conf was close but throws those errors I showed you. These cards are tricky to create a custom config for, due to unusual hardware restrictions (S32_LE format and a small audio buffer). This is why I recommend using the

Re: [Alsa-user] Ice1712 FC4 Kernel upgrade - dmix not working

2006-01-17 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 21:06 -0500, Rich Rosa wrote: I tried without the asound.conf file. I can send audio to any of the pre-defined channels, but not two at the same time. I feel we're getting closer here though. I am not sure this hardware supports using the outputs simultaneously as

Re: [Alsa-user] Ice1712 FC4 Kernel upgrade - dmix not working

2006-01-17 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 21:06 -0500, Rich Rosa wrote: I tried without the asound.conf file. I can send audio to any of the pre-defined channels, but not two at the same time. I feel we're getting closer here though. By at the same time do you mean two alsaplayer processes, or two stereo pairs?

Re: [Alsa-user] Sound Blaster Audigy LS support

2006-01-16 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 12:52 -0500, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: Hello, I am trying to determine what kind of support that ALSA has on Sound Blaster Audigy LS. I tried to search the chipset of the card but couldn't find any info on it. Here's the one I am looking at:

Re: [Alsa-user] Sound Blaster Audigy LS support

2006-01-16 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 14:07 -0500, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: On Monday 16 January 2006 13:18, Lee Revell wrote: On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 12:52 -0500, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: Hello, I am trying to determine what kind of support that ALSA has on Sound Blaster Audigy LS. snip I have

Re: [Alsa-user] Ice1712 FC4 Kernel upgrade - dmix not working

2006-01-16 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 21:38 -0500, Rich Rosa wrote: Greetings All, I have read the prior postings about this problem. I am running FC4 with kernel 2.6.14-1.1656_FC4. I recently upgraded ALSA to 1.0.10rc3. Since the upgrade I have lost all ability to use dmix. I am seeing strange

Re: [Alsa-user] Ice1712 FC4 Kernel upgrade - dmix not working

2006-01-16 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 21:59 -0500, Rich Rosa wrote: Thank you Lee for the quick response. I am running alsa-lib-1.0.10-26.rhfc4.at alsa-driver-1.0.10-43.rhfc4.at I am at slightly differnt patch levels. Should that matter? That should be fine. On 1/16/06, Lee Revell [EMAIL

Re: [Alsa-user] Ice1712 FC4 Kernel upgrade - dmix not working

2006-01-16 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 05:03 +0200, Sergei Steshenko wrote: On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 21:45:59 -0500 Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also make sure alsa-lib and alsa-driver are the same version. Can't you developers implement a cross version checking and issue a HUGE warning in case

Re: [Alsa-user] Epia SP1300 (VIA 8237 with VIA1617A) 5.1 from jacks

2006-01-15 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 18:11 +, Ron Simpkin wrote: Hi I've been trying for days now to get this to work, but it seems that no matter what I try I only get sound from the front L/R speakers. I can mix the other channels into the front L/R using .asoundrc but this isn't what I

Re: [Alsa-user] Epia SP1300 (VIA 8237 with VIA1617A) 5.1 from jacks

2006-01-15 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 18:58 +, Ron Simpkin wrote: On Sunday 15 January 2006 18:32, Lee Revell wrote: How are you testing it? Does speaker-test -D surround51 -c 6 produce sound in all channels? Lee Yes that's the exact command line I'm using and it only produces sound from

Re: [Alsa-user] S/PDIF Input with VIA8237 / RealtecALC658

2006-01-15 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 20:59 +0100, Franz Schenk wrote: Hello, I want to use the S/PDIF input-connector on my Abit AV8. The chipset in use is an VIA 8237, the codec is Realtek ALC658. I use a 2.6.15 kernel with alsa-support compiled in plus debian-packages alsa-base and alsa-utils version

Re: [Alsa-user] Alsa doesn't work!!!

2006-01-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 18:43 +0100, kunt1z wrote: Hi guys, my Alsa system doesn't work! Here's what happens if I try to play a sound file with aplay: $ aplay test.wav ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:852:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave aplay: main:547: audio open error: No such file or

Re: [Alsa-user] Alsa doesn't work!!!

2006-01-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 19:16 +0100, Rene Herman wrote: kunt1z wrote: my Alsa system doesn't work! Here's what happens if I try to play a sound file with aplay: $ aplay test.wav ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:852:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave aplay: main:547: audio open error: No

Re: [Alsa-user] Alsa doesn't work!!!

2006-01-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 19:20 +0100, kunt1z wrote: Lee Revell ha scritto: On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 18:43 +0100, kunt1z wrote: Hi guys, my Alsa system doesn't work! Here's what happens if I try to play a sound file with aplay: $ aplay test.wav ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:852:(snd_pcm_dmix_open

Re: [Alsa-user] Alsa doesn't work!!!

2006-01-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 19:28 +0100, kunt1z wrote: Lee Revell ha scritto: On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 19:20 +0100, kunt1z wrote: Lee Revell ha scritto: On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 18:43 +0100, kunt1z wrote: Hi guys, my Alsa system doesn't work! Here's what happens if I try

Re: [Alsa-user] Two little problems

2006-01-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 20:03 +0100, kunt1z wrote: Ok, now that Alsa works greatly here's two little problems for you (sorry, I don't want to abuse this mailing list...): 1) I cannot hear sound in web pages (e.g.: I open an internet location with FireFox, in the main page there's a sound and

Re: [Alsa-user] Two little problems

2006-01-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 20:12 +0100, kunt1z wrote: Not true, because if I turn off aRts daemon I'm able to hear sounds in web pages. Sounds like artsd is blocking /dev/dsp, which Firefox also wants to use. Can you configure artsd to use ALSA rather than OSS? Are you referring to sounds

Re: [Alsa-user] Two little problems

2006-01-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 20:23 +0100, kunt1z wrote: I mean Flash applets. How can I configure my browser the way you told me? Sorry, I'm not sure where you would change this - I use a soundcard with hardware mixing so it's not needed on my system. Maybe you can Google for it or someone else on

Re: [Alsa-user] Two little problems

2006-01-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 20:12 +0100, kunt1z wrote: Lee Revell ha scritto: On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 20:03 +0100, kunt1z wrote: Ok, now that Alsa works greatly here's two little problems for you (sorry, I don't want to abuse this mailing list...): 1) I cannot hear sound in web pages (e.g

Re: [Alsa-user] alsa-problem

2006-01-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 20:31 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote: At Mon, 09 Jan 2006 12:24:21 +, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: kunt1z wrote: Something happens... I run alsaconf, a script that modify /etc/modules.conf file, then I restart /etc/init.d/alsasound service and I try to play

Re: [Alsa-user] Two little problems

2006-01-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 21:54 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote: flush player Bwahahahahha, that's a good one. I wish we could flush the damn thing. Lee --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems?

Re: [Alsa-user] Midi

2006-01-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 22:13 +0100, kunt1z wrote: Hey guys I found a complete howto about midi with alsa on linux, I hope will help newbie like me: http://www.tldp.org/linuxfocus/English/September2002/article259.shtml Could anyone tell me why I'm not able to load the soundfont: #

Re: [Alsa-user] Two little problems

2006-01-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 13:24 -0800, Bill Unruh wrote: $aoss firefox Thanks. That should be useful for others as well. Is another possibility to somehow have the plugin go through aoss when it plugs itself in? I don't think this is possible because aoss uses an LD_PRELOAD hack and that can

Re: Re[2]: [Alsa-user] Alsa problems

2006-01-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 07:06 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: The logical idea is that the one who wrote a piece of code also maintains documentation for it. The documentation for the code is already maintained. Maintaining the web site is a different issue. Lee

Re: [Alsa-user] break of installation

2006-01-11 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 19:04 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello alsa-utils-1.0.9a 'make install' make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/alsa-utils-1.0.9a/alsactl' Making install in alsaconf make[1]: Entering directory `/root/alsa-utils-1.0.9a/alsaconf' Making install in po make[2]:

Re: [Alsa-user] AC3 Passthru on YMF744 (fortissimo)

2006-01-11 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 14:30 -0500, Dave wrote: I have not been able to successfully get AC3 passthru to work on this card, Yamaha YMF744 driver, I cant find out directly if its simply not supported or if Im doing something wrong, I can get PCM sound out the optical port without issue. No

Re: [Alsa-user] Dolby Digital Live?

2006-01-11 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 23:52 -0500, hondaman wrote: I have a Bluegears Mystique 7.1 DDL card which, as the name implies, does dobly digital live. How do I enable that in linux? I know how to do s/pdif passthrough, but I prefer the card to do the encoding. The card is cmedia based: These cards

Re: [Alsa-user] Dolby Digital Live?

2006-01-11 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 23:52 -0500, hondaman wrote: Bluegears Mystique 7.1 DDL It's impossible to tell from the site whether the encoding is done by the hardware or the Windows driver. Either way, the ALSA driver does not support it, and we don't have the hardware specs that would be needed.

[Alsa-user] Re: soundblaster pnp ide won't pnp

2006-01-10 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 19:16 -0600, Fredrick O Jackson wrote: ok, so far Ive tried with and without isapnp support in the kernel, I've toggled the PNP OS, and ACPI switches in the bios, I've tried compiling the drivers into the kernel (hd, ide, ide-disk, isapnp, ide-pnp, and others) on

Re: [Alsa-user] SB Audigy 2 Value

2006-01-10 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 22:05 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; I just got back from civilisation, if you can call Clarksburg WV civilized, with an SB Audigy 2 Value card. IIRC this is the card recommmended. And according to a quick make xconfig in the 2.6.15 tree, it still uses

Re: [Alsa-user] start emi26

2006-01-10 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 03:49 +, krgn wrote: Hi, I want to set up a emi26 (again :-)) atm and got to realise its a bit tricky.. Sounds like you might be getting bit by this bug: https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=1585 USB audio has been broken since 2.6.14 and is

Re: [Alsa-user] SB Audigy 2 Value

2006-01-10 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 23:47 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 10 January 2006 22:09, Lee Revell wrote: On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 22:05 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; I just got back from civilisation, if you can call Clarksburg WV civilized, with an SB Audigy 2 Value card

Re: [Alsa-user] input/output latency

2006-01-09 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 17:37 +0100, Alexander Carôt wrote: Hi to all, again one question regarding latency : If my soundcard is configured with 48 kHz, 256 Samples/frame it blocks for 2,6 ms. Are these 2,6 ms valid for input AND output - thus does it take 2,6 ms for capturing + 2,6ms

Re: [Alsa-user] alsa problems

2006-01-08 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 15:17 +0100, kunt1z wrote: It doesn't work anyway! It says could not open control for card 1, but my card is card 0. How can I set card 0 as default card? Any suggestions? I post my /etc/modules.conf file: This is a real head scratcher, I don't know what's going on.

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