Re: [Alsa-user] alsa clearifications

2013-12-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 01:33 -0500, Henry W. Peters wrote: I tried Ubuntu Studio... sadly, they use Gnome 3 They come with Xfce by default. However, you could install any *buntu and then the Ubuntu Studio meta packages. This package is now obsolete, as kernel.org is now taking updates to the

[Alsa-user] snd-usb-audio - USB DAC can't set sample frequency

2013-12-18 Thread Michal Šmucr
Hello to all, yesterday i had a chance to try new Zodiac Platinum DAC (http://www.antelopeaudio.com/en/products/Zodiac-Platinum-DSD-DAC-DA-Converter) at my friend's studio. I was really excited to check it out with Linux and MPD, because it supports DoP (DSD over PCM), which i never tried before.

Re: [Alsa-user] snd-usb-audio - USB DAC can't set sample frequency

2013-12-18 Thread Michal Šmucr
I'm sorry, i forgot to attach aplay output with hw and sw params during playback. Thanks, Michal zodiac_platinum_aplay Description: Binary data -- Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT

Re: [Alsa-user] snd-usb-audio - USB DAC can't set sample frequency

2013-12-18 Thread Daniel Mack
Hi, On 12/18/2013 10:52 AM, Michal Šmucr wrote: yesterday i had a chance to try new Zodiac Platinum DAC (http://www.antelopeaudio.com/en/products/Zodiac-Platinum-DSD-DAC-DA-Converter) at my friend's studio. I was really excited to check it out with Linux and MPD, because it supports DoP (DSD

Re: [Alsa-user] snd-usb-audio - USB DAC can't set sample frequency

2013-12-18 Thread Daniel Mack
On 12/18/2013 10:58 AM, Michal Šmucr wrote: I'm sorry, i forgot to attach aplay output with hw and sw params during playback. Ah, missed that. So you interrupted aplay with ^C? So it was running, but you didn't hear anything? Daniel

[Alsa-user] Fwd: snd-usb-audio - USB DAC can't set sample frequency

2013-12-18 Thread Michal Šmucr
Sorry, i made mistake and didn't send my reply to mailing list. Hi Daniel, Not that DSD support is currently only proven to work with DACs from Playback Designs. That was the only device I could test this with, so there might be issues with other vendor's implementations. If you can help

Re: [Alsa-user] snd-usb-audio - USB DAC can't set sample frequency

2013-12-18 Thread Bill Unruh
On Wed, 18 Dec 2013, Daniel Mack wrote: What's the exact error that you get? What does 'aplay -Dhw:X -f cd /dev/urandom' do (you should hear pink noise @0dB, so beware!). White noise, not pink (equal power per delta f in Hz, not equal power per octave). But yes, it could be extremely loud

Re: [Alsa-user] snd-usb-audio - USB DAC can't set sample frequency

2013-12-18 Thread Daniel Mack
On 12/18/2013 06:42 PM, Bill Unruh wrote: On Wed, 18 Dec 2013, Daniel Mack wrote: What's the exact error that you get? What does 'aplay -Dhw:X -f cd /dev/urandom' do (you should hear pink noise @0dB, so beware!). White noise, not pink (equal power per delta f in Hz, not equal power

Re: [Alsa-user] Fwd: snd-usb-audio - USB DAC can't set sample frequency

2013-12-18 Thread Daniel Mack
On 12/18/2013 03:19 PM, Michal Šmucr wrote: If i ran aplay, it seemed to be playing, it probably passed frames to interface, but there were no sound and indication of samplerate on DAC's display.. (when working under Windows, it always shows samplerate number or DSD rate). I was about to

[Alsa-user] Terratec DMX 6Fire - how to configure in OpenSUSE 13.1?

2013-12-18 Thread renedrive
Hello to all ALSA friends. I just bought the USB audio sound card Terratec DMX 6Fire. I tried to install it on my OpenSUSE 13.1 without success (kernel version 3.11.6-4-desktop). In the YAST control panel if i try to add it an error is generated. (translated from Italian) the snd-ice1712 kernel

Re: [Alsa-user] Terratec DMX 6Fire - how to configure in OpenSUSE 13.1?

2013-12-18 Thread Daniel Mack
On 12/18/2013 08:25 PM, renedrive wrote: I just bought the USB audio sound card Terratec DMX 6Fire. I tried to install it on my OpenSUSE 13.1 without success (kernel version 3.11.6-4-desktop). [...] the snd-ice1712 kernel module can not be loaded This is unrelated. dmesg | grep 6fire [

[Alsa-user] Apogee One (version 2)

2013-12-18 Thread N Z
Dear Alsa users, i am trying to get my new Apogee One usb audio device to run under linux on a raspberry pi. I have to apologise for not being so knowledgable in the linux environment, but i am determined to get this thing working if there is a possibility. Could someone point me in the right

Re: [Alsa-user] Fwd: snd-usb-audio - USB DAC can't set sample frequency

2013-12-18 Thread Michal Šmucr
I was about to recommend you look at the mixer values in case there are any, but the display detail actually let's me assume that there's something wrong in the setup sequence. There were no controls in mixer. At first i also missed some typical audiocontrol device descriptors like typical