Re: [Alsa-user] AC3 pass-through possible with SB Audigy 2NX (USB) ?

2008-01-18 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Nils Rennebarth wrote: I have a creative sound blaster Audigy 2 NX USB sound card because the internal sound card of my laptop isn't that great. The card is connected to my Denon ADV 500SC amplifier by optical S/PDIF. This works very well for stereo output. The amplifier however does support

Re: [Alsa-user] Sound card recognized differently sometimes after reboot

2008-01-18 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Thomas Börkel wrote: My Soundblaster 5.1 is sometimes recognized differently after boot. Sometimes it has 223 controls, sometimes 224 controls. ... I have saved the 2 different configurations that are being recognized with alsactl: http://www.boerkel.de/asound.state.1

Re: [Alsa-user] AC3 pass-through possible with SB Audigy 2NX (USB) ?

2008-01-18 Thread Nils Rennebarth
Clemens Ladisch wrote: If not, is that a driver limitation or a hardware limitation? I think it is possible, but I don't know how to program this device for non-audio data. As this is an USB device, and I also have the card working under windows, is there anything I can do, to help with this

Re: [Alsa-user] stacking usb sound cards

2008-01-18 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:01:38 + (UTC) Tim Blechmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all, i came across the site on the alsa wiki about accessing multiple sound cards via an .asoundrc file ... for an installation, i need to set up a computer with as many output channels as possible. the

Re: [Alsa-user] Intel HDA driver

2008-01-18 Thread Luka Napotnik
Have the same chip on my fujitsu-siemens laptop but my headphones jack works. I only can't mute the front speakers. Greets, Luka Dne 18.01.2008 (pet) ob 18:43 +0100 je Bernardi Andrea zapisal(a): Hello all, I have a laptop with a intel hda soundcard. The output of lspci is the following:

Re: [Alsa-user] Sound card recognized differently sometimes after reboot

2008-01-18 Thread Thomas Börkel
HI! Clemens Ladisch wrote: Sometimes it has 223 controls, sometimes 224 controls. The CD Playback Switch control is missing. Do you know, how that could happen? Is my alsa-lib too old for the kernel perhaps? Because I could upgrade to 1.0.15 (it's in the repo, but masked). So, when alsa

[Alsa-user] stacking usb sound cards

2008-01-18 Thread Tim Blechmann
hi all, i came across the site on the alsa wiki about accessing multiple sound cards via an .asoundrc file ... for an installation, i need to set up a computer with as many output channels as possible. the sound quality won't need to be that good, as the speakers aren't, latency doesn't

Re: [Alsa-user] I/O possible

2008-01-18 Thread Jamie Lokier
Erik Slagter wrote: So I guess it's up to you to ignore signals in threads that do not have a signal handler installed by alsa. I guess you need to make a piece of code that queries the current signal handler for SIGIO and if it's non-null, leave it, otherwise have SIGIO ignored and do this

Re: [Alsa-user] Intel HDA driver

2008-01-18 Thread J M Needham
What make is your laptop? I found this for mine. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HdaIntelSoundHowto (may help) If you still have problems, let me know as I'll be at my laptop later. On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Bernardi Andrea wrote: Hello all, I have a laptop with a intel hda soundcard. The output

Re: [Alsa-user] Sound card recognized differently sometimes after reboot

2008-01-18 Thread Thomas Börkel
HI! Clemens Ladisch wrote: http://www.boerkel.de/asound.state.1 http://www.boerkel.de/asound.state.2 The CD Playback Switch control is missing. It just happened again. But this time it complained that control #58 is missing and that is the Video Playback Switch:

Re: [Alsa-user] Intel HDA driver

2008-01-18 Thread Bernardi Andrea
The problem is that the laptop is of an Italian company called Santech (model X3620) but I think that it isn't very known outside my country. Many thanks for the link but I the hint for the mic is for a Intel-Sigmatel. From the soundcard list of the alsa-project site seems that the intel hd on

[Alsa-user] Intel HDA driver

2008-01-18 Thread Bernardi Andrea
Hello all, I have a laptop with a intel hda soundcard. The output of lspci is the following: 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03) After a little of probes, I've installed the alsa-driver-1.0.15 and with the driver snd-hda-intel and option