Re: [Alsa-user] cmi8330

2006-04-17 Thread robert w hall
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rene Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes robert w hall wrote: Is this module now considered mended (it is in the docs as 'broken') It still seems to be reporting errors similar to those documented in 2002 linux-kernel post. I recently dug an ISA-PnP CMI8330A up

Re: [Alsa-user] Proper updating of alsa-driver

2006-04-17 Thread Clemens Ladisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If directly updating the kernel tree with a newer alsa-kernel, should /usr/include/sound also be updated with the newer alsa-kernel/include files? No. If compiling alsa-driver seperate from the kernel, what is the proper way to handle the kernel's core/ directory

Re: [Alsa-user] Which Jack-USB converter?

2006-04-17 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Fabiano Sidler wrote: Since the female line-in jack in my labtop doesn't work anymore, I would like to purchase a Jack-USB converter. Which of these work under Linux (with the standard usb-sound module)? All that work in Windows with the standard driver. Have a look at

Re: [Alsa-user] cmi8330

2006-04-17 Thread Rene Herman
robert w hall wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I recently dug an ISA-PnP CMI8330A up somewhere and tested it -- it seemed to work fine. What problems are you experiencing with the driver? from dmesg after alsaconf (but first insertion is similar) ALSA ../alsa-kernel/isa/cmi8330.c:338:

Re: [Alsa-user] cmi8330

2006-04-17 Thread robert w hall
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rene Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Thirdly; I've seen no end to trouble with 2.4 ISA-PnP. 2.6 behaves much better. So trying a 2.6 distribution would also be good. 2.4 is really quite obsolete. In any case, this problem is not ALSA... Rene. OK, I'll review this

Re: [Alsa-user] cmi8330

2006-04-17 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 15:00 +0100, robert w hall wrote: 2) I only 'moved up' to ALSA to try to avoid the buffer over-runs in SKYPE. Skype only supports OSS so switching to ALSA is unlikely to help, you're just adding another layer of emulation. The Skype Linux client seems to be a piece of

Re: [Alsa-user] cmi8330

2006-04-17 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 15:00 +0100, robert w hall wrote: 3) I had thought that 'alsaconf' was meant to circumvent these hours of headscratching over dma etc :-) It tries to but ISA is just a mess no matter what. The fix is PCI. ;-) Lee

Re: [Alsa-user] alsa always muting masterpcm by startup

2006-04-17 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 16 April 2006 20:08, Julien Claassen wrote: Hi! I have a soundblaster live 1024. And when I reboot the system and have a look in alsamixer the master and pcm are muted. What can I do against this? Info: System is suse 9.3 original. Thanks for any help! Kindest regards

Re: [Alsa-user] cmi8330

2006-04-17 Thread Rene Herman
robert w hall wrote: OK, I'll review this at leisure. Some points for the time being:- 1) It works after a fashion under the old wss modules, (but with a rather horrid resources list for modprobe) Yes, it would work. The WSS part of the chip is also enabled correctly through the ALSA

[Alsa-user] cmi8330 skype

2006-04-17 Thread robert w hall
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Skype only supports OSS so switching to ALSA is unlikely to help, you're just adding another layer of emulation. The Skype Linux client seems to be a piece of garbage. I gave up on getting it to work with my Audigy2 ZS we're

Re: [Alsa-user] Unwanted Monitoring with SoundBlaster Live! (emu10k1)

2006-04-17 Thread David Dasenbrook
fons adriaensen wrote: On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 01:40:51PM +0200, David Dasenbrook wrote: Hello, I am trying to do some recording with my SoundBlaster Live, using the ALSA emu10k1 module. However, it turns out that I am unable to control recording (capture) and playback volumes of the

Re: [Alsa-user] Unwanted Monitoring with SoundBlaster Live! (emu10k1)

2006-04-17 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 17:19 +0200, David Dasenbrook wrote: The key to success is the AC97 item both in the playback and in the capture section of alsamixer. This shows up only once in the KDE Mixer, which makes kmix useless for this solution. However, in alsamixer, you can control the levels

[Alsa-user] digital a/v-receivers and alsa

2006-04-17 Thread Dennis Heuer
I have a huge problem with analog sound as posted in: 5.1 not working well with via82xx and sblive 5.1 I don't know how to solve this problem but I would generally like to switch to digital output. Can somebody tell me if the low-end digital a/v-receivers (about 150 to 200$) generally produce

[Alsa-user] Re: What's an AC97? [was: Unwanted Monitoring with SoundBlaster Live! (emu10k1)]

2006-04-17 Thread Steve Wahl
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 12:28:46PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 09:14 -0700, Bill Unruh wrote: On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Lee Revell wrote: AC97 is the codec that delivers line and mic signals to the card. I am a bit confused with this description. I would think that the

[Alsa-user] Re: What's an AC97? [was: Unwanted Monitoring with SoundBlaster Live! (emu10k1)]

2006-04-17 Thread Bill Unruh
Yes, thanks for the reference and explanation. On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Steve Wahl wrote: On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 12:28:46PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 09:14 -0700, Bill Unruh wrote: On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Lee Revell wrote: AC97 is the codec that delivers line and mic

Re: [Alsa-user] Proper updating of alsa-driver

2006-04-17 Thread Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 14:14 +0200, Clemens Ladisch wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If directly updating the kernel tree with a newer alsa-kernel, should /usr/include/sound also be updated with the newer alsa-kernel/include files? No. If compiling alsa-driver seperate from the kernel,