Re: [Alsa-user] Fedora core 11. No sound

2009-07-24 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Dave Pawson wrote: 2009/7/24 Clemens Ladisch cladi...@googlemail.com: Does the onboard HDA controller show up in the output of lspci? # lspci | grep Audio 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller 01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc R700

Re: [Alsa-user] Fedora core 11. No sound

2009-07-24 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Dave Pawson wrote: 2009/7/24 Clemens Ladisch cladi...@googlemail.com: Dave Pawson wrote: # lspci | grep Audio 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller 01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc R700 Audio Device [Radeon HD 4000 Series] Both

Re: [Alsa-user] Fedora core 11. No sound

2009-07-24 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Dave Pawson wrote: 2009/7/24 Clemens Ladisch cladi...@googlemail.com: Is there any error message in the system log when you do this: rmmod snd-hda-intel $ rmmod snd-hda-intel ERROR: Module snd_hda_intel is in use Please kill all applications that use it, then try again. (I guess

Re: [Alsa-user] Strange knocking while playing sound

2009-07-21 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Dennis Borgmann wrote: I am working with snd_pcm_mmap_begin and snd_pcm_mmap_commit - just the way it is done in the pcm.c under the test-directory of the alsa-lib. While working with snd_pcm_writei(), those problems did not occur, but I want to test this using the mmap technology. This

Re: [Alsa-user] Terratec Phase28

2009-07-21 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Christoph Köditz wrote: is the driver in work or do you need some more informations about this soundcard? According to the driver's source, this card has been supported since 2005. HTH Clemens -- Enter the

Re: [Alsa-user] mmap_readi or mmap_begin

2009-07-14 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Marek Michalak wrote: Is there any difference if I write in my code: while (size 0) { frames = size; err = snd_pcm_mmap_begin(handle, my_areas, offset, frames); record_buffor(my_areas, offset, frames, data-phase);

Re: [Alsa-user] Fwd: KnoppMyth/LinHES Linux - Analog audio out to ear phones works but not to TV. Ubuntu 9-i386 LiveCD everything works fine!

2009-07-13 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Matt Snow wrote: On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 2:20 AM, Clemens Ladischcladi...@googlemail.com wrote: So the headphones or speakers in the front jack work, and the to-RCA cable in the *same* jack does not? This is obviously a broken cable (or TV). You might think that, but its fine. I take

Re: [Alsa-user] Fwd: KnoppMyth/LinHES Linux - Analog audio out to ear phones works but not to TV. Ubuntu 9-i386 LiveCD everything works fine!

2009-07-10 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Matt Snow wrote: On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 12:05 AM, Clemens Ladischcladi...@googlemail.com wrote: Matt Snow wrote: After upgrading to KnoppMyth/LinHES R6(ArchLinux), the analog out plays audio perfectly through head phones or powered speakers, but the 3.5mm stereo-to-RCA cable going to

Re: [Alsa-user] KnoppMyth/LinHES Linux - Analog audio out to ear phones works but not to TV. Ubuntu 9-i386 LiveCD everything works fine!

2009-07-09 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Matt Snow wrote: I have a Asus Xonar DX sound card that was working perfectly in KnoppMyth/LinHES R5.5(Knoppix/debian based) after manually compiling alsa-driver 1.0.18b and 1.0.18 libs/utils/etc. After upgrading to KnoppMyth/LinHES R6(ArchLinux), the analog out plays audio perfectly through

Re: [Alsa-user] Mic not working with arecord on RedHat el5

2009-07-08 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Saleem Hasan wrote: I found that although aplay was working on my computer, arecord was not. I played back the wav files provided with the linux distribution for various system beeps and sounds. I am able to navigate through the alsamixer screen using tab, space, etc in order to select the

Re: [Alsa-user] Edirol UA-101: Does record work?

2009-07-01 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Phil wrote: I'm trying to find a way to get audio in over USB for a project, and I think that the UA-101 might be about the only Linux device that supports 6 or more channels of audio over USB. Indeed. There are other multichannel USB devices, but there are none that have even rudimentary

Re: [Alsa-user] can't independently adjust Mic levels

2009-06-29 Thread Clemens Ladisch
scar wrote: Clemens Ladisch @ 06/26/2009 03:30 AM: The hardware does not have any mechanism to change the line input's level. You have to adjust the volume after recording. shown in section 6.3.2 of the xonar dx manual is a picture of the levels for recording, indicating

Re: [Alsa-user] can't independently adjust Mic levels

2009-06-26 Thread Clemens Ladisch
scar wrote: i have been experimenting, and what appears to be happening is this: while recording using the line, if the microphone levels are adjusted, the driver/card automatically jumps to recording from the mic. Neither the driver nor the card do this; I'd guess this is a feature of your

Re: [Alsa-user] can't independently adjust Mic levels

2009-06-25 Thread Clemens Ladisch
scar wrote: Clemens Ladisch @ 06/24/2009 12:53 AM: The microphone input is mono. There are no left/right levels; the driver pretending that they exist is a driver bug. I'll fix that. but that port is also the line-in, so i need stereo When used as line in, that port is stereo

Re: [Alsa-user] can't independently adjust Mic levels

2009-06-24 Thread Clemens Ladisch
scar wrote: so, i got my asus xonar dx ... the problem i am running into is i cannot independently adjust the left and right levels of the Mic capture. well, i can, kind of, but it doesn't have any effect. The microphone input is mono. There are no left/right levels; the driver pretending

Re: [Alsa-user] Known C-Media 8738 issues?

2009-06-23 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Malte Gell wrote: Clemens Ladisch cladi...@googlemail.com wrote Malte Gell wrote: Do you think I could get rid of this Skype issue when I upgrade to a CMedia 8768 chip? That's exactly the the same hardware interface (and driver), so I'd guess you'd get the same error. Ok, same

Re: [Alsa-user] Known C-Media 8738 issues?

2009-06-22 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Malte Gell wrote: when I use Skype 2.0.0.72 on Linux I get an error: RtApiAlsa: callback thread error (RtApiAlsa: audio write error for device (C- Media CMI8738 (hw:CMI8738,0)): unknown error 405.) ... closing stream. Unknown error isn't quite helpful. I did not have problems before when I

Re: [Alsa-user] dmix oddities

2009-06-18 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Grant wrote: Are you sure the hardware actually supports S24_3LE? Most 24 bit soundcards require 24 bit audio to be packed into 32 bit words. See if you can output S24_3LE directly to the hw device. I don't think a USB DAC could do 24-in-32 because of the USB 24-bit limitation.

Re: [Alsa-user] VIA8237 and no sound

2009-06-18 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Mike Knichel wrote: I have recently set up a computer for my daughter from old parts. It uses the VIA 8237 chip. I can get no sound from speakers. I even ran the alsa script and the results are here... Your mixer settings seem to be correct. However, some mainboards use another than the

Re: [Alsa-user] VIA8237 and no sound

2009-06-18 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Mike Knichel wrote: I do not have front mounted speaker jacks. Only the ones in the back. I meant front as opposed to surround or center/LFE. If you have only one jack intended for speakers, then your description looks as if that jack is connected to the surround output of the codec. Please

Re: [Alsa-user] alsa-utils-1.0.20.12.g730e compile problem

2009-06-11 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Raena wrote: Clemens Ladisch wrote: Raena wrote: checking for ncursesw5-config... yes This indicates that ncursesw is installed ... checking for new_panel in -lpanelw... no configure: error: panelw library not found ... but actually it isn't. What is the output of the following

Re: [Alsa-user] record vinyl at 24-bit 96khz

2009-06-09 Thread Clemens Ladisch
scar wrote: i was basically just looking for verification that the m-audio 2496 card would suit my needs. Yes, it certainly would. gary wrote: I often wonder has VIA came out of nowhere with a DSP audio chip (Envy24). Oversampled ADCs are not exactly rocket science, but to make one

Re: [Alsa-user] alsa-utils-1.0.20.12.g730e compile problem

2009-06-03 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Raena Lea-Shannon wrote: Is there another ncurses-devel I have missed? libncursesw5-dev? HTH Clemens -- OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises looking to deploy the next generation of

Re: [Alsa-user] ymfpci drive capability - help needed with setup

2009-06-03 Thread Clemens Ladisch
robert crowther wrote: Can ymfpci access the WF-192XG wavetable? No. While documentation for basic DS-XG wavetable functionality exists, nobody has as yet added support for this to the driver. Best regards, Clemens

Re: [Alsa-user] MOTU micro lite (USB, 5in, 5out)

2009-06-03 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Aidan Dixon wrote: I have a MOTU micro lite (USB, 5x MIDI IN and 5x MIDI OUT, Vendor ID 0x07fd, product ID 0x0001). According to the kernel usb-audio device driver source code, this device should be supported as its USB vendor and product ID are listed in a table in linux/sound/usb/usbmidi.c.

Re: [Alsa-user] Capture w/ M-Audio Fast Track USB?

2009-06-02 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Michael B Allen wrote: Does capture work with the M-Audio Fast Track USB? Maybe. Does some capture device show up in the output of arecord -l? Can someone give me some advice or a pointer to some documentation that explains how the whole ALSA tool chain works wrt external USB sound

Re: [Alsa-user] alsa-utils-1.0.20.12.g730e compile problem

2009-06-02 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Raena wrote: I also installed the snapshot alsa-lib and that was fine but alsa-utils would not configure. configure: error: panelw library not found I have not been able to find out what package has this library. Here is my configure output; ... checking for ncursesw5-config... yes This

Re: [Alsa-user] emu10k firmware

2009-04-24 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Ari Moisio wrote: Thanks:-) I downloaded the relevant firmware package from alsa-project site, configured, compled and installed. Everthing is working again:) I only wonder if the driver itself loaded the firmware earlier because there were no such issues with 2.4 kernels? In older

Re: [Alsa-user] DELL SP2309W Monitor with Integrated microphone

2009-04-20 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 2:27 AM, Clemens Ladisch cladi...@googlemail.com wrote: Phil Gorbett wrote: I am having difficulty getting the microphone(s) going with this monitor, and get the get the following results when I disable pulseaudio and run arecord

Re: [Alsa-user] pcm_min.c trouble with modification

2009-04-20 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Michał Kowalczyk wrote: SND_PCM_FORMAT_U8, //changing this type for any other gives an error in the output: segmentation fault. U8 has one byte per sample; if you try to use a bigger sample format, you have to enlarge the buffer accordingly. 1, //argument responsible for

Re: [Alsa-user] pcm_min.c trouble with modification

2009-04-17 Thread Clemens Ladisch
MK wrote: I want to write a simple ALSA application. I have downloaded pcm_min.c from ALSA documentation and try to do some modifications in code like change channels to stereo or sampling rate to 44100Hz. But every time program fails. Can anybody explain me why this is happening? Please show

Re: [Alsa-user] AMT8

2009-04-17 Thread Clemens Ladisch
immanuel litzroth wrote: Apr 13 12:08:39 voodochile kernel: [ 169.622067] usb 2-10: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 5 Apr 13 12:08:39 voodochile kernel: [ 169.844566] usb 2-10: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice Apr 13 12:08:39 voodochile kernel: [ 169.847594]

Re: [Alsa-user] DELL SP2309W Monitor with Integrated microphone

2009-04-17 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Phil Gorbett wrote: I am having difficulty getting the microphone(s) going with this monitor, and get the get the following results when I disable pulseaudio and run arecord: arecord -v -f cd -D plughw:0 file.wav Recording WAVE 'file.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo

Re: [Alsa-user] query alsa for supported sample rates and formats?

2009-04-17 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Matt Garman wrote: Is there a way to query alsa to see what sample rates and formats the sound hardware natively supports? Try the attached program. HTH Clemens /* * hw_params.c - print hardware capabilities * * compile with: gcc -o hw_params hw_params.c -lasound */ #include stdio.h

Re: [Alsa-user] alsamixer does not save settings

2009-04-17 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Geoffrey Leach wrote: I'm havind a problem with alsamixer. It appears not to save the changes. The man page does not mention this, so perhaps its doing what it is designed to do. It is only designed to change the sound card's mixer settings. In that case, can anyone point me to a tool that

Re: [Alsa-user] Problems with ALC650

2009-04-01 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Jonathan Black wrote: I've been struggling as of lately to get ANY sound through the lime green output on the back of my motherboard. lsmod | grep snd shows: snd_mpu401 6252 0 snd_cs4232 11380 0 snd_via82xx20920 2 Please show the output of

Re: [Alsa-user] building soc module drivers

2009-04-01 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Geiger Ho wrote: I would like to build the WM8510 SOC sound driver for my ARM platform. After downloading alsa-driver-1.0.19, ./configure --with-cross=arm-linux- --with-kernel=/home/source/linux-2.6.22.19 --with-build=/home/source/linux-2.6.22.19 --with-cards=all, and then make. I get

Re: [Alsa-user] Can't open Asus Xonar D1 PCM output 6-channel in non-interleaved mode

2009-04-01 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Oliver Stephenson wrote: Now though, I'm trying to open the PCM output in 6-channel mode non-interleaved, and it all falls over here: if ((err = snd_pcm_hw_params_set_access(playback_handle, hw_params, SND_PCM_ACCESS_RW_NONINTERLEAVED)) 0) { fprintf(stderr, cannot set access type

Re: [Alsa-user] Trying to use two sound cards at the same time

2009-04-01 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Poulet Fou wrote: I have two sound cards, one attached to pc speakers and one attached to a sound system in another room. Following instructions on the alsa project wiki, I am trying to use two sound cards (V8237 and CA0106). I configure my ~/.asoundc but I still can't manage to send a sound

Re: [Alsa-user] How to set USB-Headset volume with udev and amixer

2009-03-20 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Jens Rutschmann wrote: I have a C-Media USB Headphone Set which is working well. One issue though is that when plugging it in the mixer levels are initialized to bad values. The Speaker level is set to 100% (*very* loud, like in ouch !!!) while the Mic Capture level is set to 0%.

Re: [Alsa-user] Problem with SoundBlaster Live

2009-03-20 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Matias D'Ambrosio wrote: I have been using this system for months, no problem (and many distros before), but a few days ago sound stopped working, probably after an update. I have an SB Live, I'm running Debian testing AMD64 kernel 2.6.26-1-amd64 #1 SMP. lspci shows the card:

Re: [Alsa-user] Analog line in output via IEC958?

2009-03-18 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Antony Gelberg wrote: I have an onboard NVidia sound card using snd_hda_intel. Full info about my setup is at http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=f407c7aceb5abe36b68731ff50fd1d21f272fb98 I can output everything to a HT amp via the IEC958 optical out by means of the .asoundrc that you see in

Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to configure ASUS A7V sound card with Alsa

2009-03-17 Thread Clemens Ladisch
(please don't top-post) sto...@safe-mail.net wrote: Any suggestions with this output? The AC'97 controller does not show up. Please make sure that SB emulation is disabled. Best regards, Clemens -- Apps built with

Re: [Alsa-user] modprobe snd-virtuoso error

2009-03-16 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Ron Pitts wrote: Analogue Output is working fine now however no luck with the HDMI audio. But HDMI video does work? Does your HDMI display show if any audio is sent, or in which format? What sample format did you try to play? I've rebuilt the alsa lib with full debugging turned on: No sound

Re: [Alsa-user] Diamond Xtreme XS51 ALSA support? (was ALSA Support for old ISA Soundcard)

2009-03-13 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Landis McGauhey wrote: I've decided to replace the old ISA card with a PCI card (several PCI slots are available). Can anyone happen to tell me if you have any ALSA experience with the Diamond Xtreme XS51? According to the driver's .inf file, that card uses a CMI8738/8768 chipset, which is

Re: [Alsa-user] modprobe snd-virtuoso error

2009-03-13 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Ron Pitts wrote: [ 653.504508] snd_mpu401_uart: Unknown symbol snd_rawmidi_receive ... The sound modules cannot be loaded because other sound modules they depend on cannot be loaded. Please show the first few of these messages (for module snd). Best regards, Clemens

Re: [Alsa-user] modprobe snd-virtuoso error

2009-03-12 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Ron Pitts wrote: Its loading now without error however doesnt report its found my ASUS HDAV1.3 .. It doesn't report anything when there is no error. Does it appear in /proc/asound/cards? Anyway, I've fixed a bug after 1.0.19 was released; please try

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA support for old ISA card?

2009-03-11 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Landis McGauhey wrote: ALSACONF recognizes the soundcard as SBAWE Creative SB AWE64 PnP and completes its work without errors. ... Command ALSAMIXER results in the error message function snd_ctl_open failed for default: no such device. In theory, all those old ISA cards are still supported.

Re: [Alsa-user] modprobe snd-virtuoso error

2009-03-11 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Ron Pitts wrote: ... FATAL: Error inserting snd_virtuoso (/lib/modules/2.6.27-11-generic/kernel/sound/pci/oxygen/snd-virtuoso.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) The most likely cause of this problem is that you are trying to load a module of a new driver version

Re: [Alsa-user] (no subject)

2009-03-11 Thread Clemens Ladisch
dennism...@gmx.net wrote: Can please a admin have a look at my mail? There is no moderator; all such mails go into a black hole. the message was over the max size Compress it, ot put it somewhere on the web. HTH Clemens

Re: [Alsa-user] Need help connecting spdif input

2009-02-23 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Mårten Gustafsson wrote: mor...@linux-hyfd:~ arecord -D spdif:0 -f dat -t raw | ac3dec -D hw:0 -6 Recording raw data 'stdin' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Stereo 2.0 Mode 48.0 KHz 32 kbps Complete Main Audio Service unsupported 1/1 channels 6 Apparently, the recorded Dolby

Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to configure ASUS A7V sound card with Alsa

2009-02-16 Thread Clemens Ladisch
sto...@safe-mail.net wrote: The card is enabled in the BIOS, Is the entry Enabled or Auto? The latter means the BIOS automatically disables it when it finds another sound card, because, apparently, it doesn't expect anybody would want to use it when there is a _real_ sound card. This is common

Re: [Alsa-user] Need help connecting spdif input

2009-02-13 Thread Clemens Ladisch
rek...@holisticode.se wrote: I have been searching the web for an example of how to get sourround sound from my toslink input [...] I realise that an a52 filter should be used, The a52 plugin encodes PCM data into Dolby data, and as a plugin, it is only used when an application uses the

Re: [Alsa-user] xonar essence stx

2009-02-13 Thread Clemens Ladisch
jed wrote: Damn, that's a substantial amt of stuff that won't be available don't u reckon? Yes. Best regards, Clemens -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the

Re: [Alsa-user] Split stereo input?

2009-02-13 Thread Clemens Ladisch
deadrabbit wrote: I'm new to using ALSA, or at least to the internals of it. I'm trying to create a Icecast stream encoding computer for two audio streams. The computer as a single stereo line in, so I'm planning on feeding each mono stream through the single stereo input. I've looked at the

Re: [Alsa-user] anyone using the M-Audio Fast Track Ultra 8R (or any other 8in 8 out USB device)

2009-02-13 Thread Clemens Ladisch
sonof...@iinet.net.au wrote: I'm looking to move over to a device that I can use with both my linux desktop and a 2nd hand powerbook i bought recently. I have been more focussed on FFADO compatible as from what I understand I am more likely to get latency issues on a USB device...

Re: [Alsa-user] Griffin Imic

2009-02-13 Thread Clemens Ladisch
gary wrote: gary wrote: Now for the problem. I can't talk to the iMic. Using krecord -d /dev/dsp4 . I get the response ioctl SNDCTL_DSP_SETMFT: Input/output error There should be an error message in the system log (probably /var/log/messages, or at the end of the output of dmesg). I

Re: [Alsa-user] xonar essence stx

2009-02-09 Thread Clemens Ladisch
jed wrote: Is support for this coming soon? Yes. How does using ALSA compare to using drivers developed by the vender specifically for Windows? i.e. Will I not be getting most out of this card (hardware-wise) if I'm not using the drivers Asus developed, or is the difference negligible?

Re: [Alsa-user] xonar essence stx

2009-02-09 Thread Clemens Ladisch
jed wrote: Is support for this coming soon? Yes. Awesome, is it likely to be within the next 6-months? Actually, it looks like this week ... Please note that the Linux driver does not have the driver features, which are implemented in software (Dolby, SVN, Xear, etc.). Can you

Re: [Alsa-user] Surround over spdif

2009-01-28 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Floris wrote: Is there a way to encode a file on the fly? http://wiki.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/A52_plugin HTH Clemens -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your

Re: [Alsa-user] broken digital sound again

2009-01-28 Thread Clemens Ladisch
James wrote: $ speaker-test -D iec958 -c 6 ... Channels count (6) not available for playbacks: Invalid argument S/PDIF does not support uncompressed surround sound; you have to play stereo data (use -c 2) or AC-3/DTS-compressed data. Best regards, Clemens

Re: [Alsa-user] Device exists, PCM does not

2009-01-27 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Evan Leibovitch wrote: # arecord -D hw:1,0 /dev/null Recording WAVE 'test.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo arecord: set_params:932: Broken configuration for this PCM: no configurations available Try arecord -D default:1. HTH Clemens

Re: [Alsa-user] textual tool for pause/resume

2009-01-20 Thread Clemens Ladisch
davide.bonfa...@bticino.it wrote: I'm searching for a textual tool in order to play, pause and resume the streaming on a certain device. Try mplayer. HTH Clemens -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge

Re: [Alsa-user] How to order multiple usb devices

2009-01-13 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Ari Moisio wrote: # Usb-headset options snd-usb-audio index=2 vid=0x046d,0x0a02 # M-audio fasttrack options snd-usb-audio index=3 vid=0x0763,0x2012 This does not work because the second 'options' line overrides the first, and the product ID must be put into the 'pid' parameter. Use this:

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

2008-12-15 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Bill Unruh wrote: On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, Paulo Moura Guedes wrote: [...] The ASRC, as the name implies, is not syncronized to the clock of the incoming digital signal. Therefore, its performance is independant of the This makes no sense at all. If the incoming signal is a digital signal,

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

2008-12-14 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Paulo Moura Guedes wrote: On Thursday 11 December 2008 07:35:25 Clemens Ladisch wrote: The default device (named default) uses automatic resampling, but the spdif device does not. So, I have to manually set the sample-rate, depending on the files I will play? No, ALSA automatically

Re: [Alsa-user] Audio on ECS A780GM-A motherboard

2008-12-10 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Laurent E wrote: - According to the command cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#0, the chip is a SigmaTel ID 7645. [...] 1/ Is it possible that the chip is incorrectly detected? Your driver doesn't know about your chip. Support for this chip was added in May:

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

2008-12-10 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Paulo Moura Guedes wrote: - does Linux/ALSA features dynamic sample rates? The default device (named default) uses automatic resampling, but the spdif device does not. - is it possible to set the bit-depth? (in my case to 24 bit) Yes, if the hardware supports it. - what other variables do i

Re: [Alsa-user] ICH7/ALC662 card won't initialise

2008-11-27 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Lindsay Roberts wrote: I have a board Which one? This is an Intel 945GC chipset (ICH7) with a Realtek ALC662 on it, both of which seem to be supported in alsa. Leaving the dist to its own devices sees it load snd_intel8x0, and error out as follows: codec_ready: codec is not

Re: [Alsa-user] setting ALSA_CARD from /etc/bashrc

2008-11-26 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Yan Seiner wrote: I've added a line to /etc/bash.bashrc that sets ALSA_CARD depending on the value of $DISPLAY. Now this works fine if I open a terminal window and run my apps. But apps started from the menu don't have ALSA_CARD set. You could set ALSA_CARD when X is started (in .xinitrc or

Re: [Alsa-user] AC-3 Passthrough doesn't works

2008-11-17 Thread Clemens Ladisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But when I try to replay a DVD with AC-3 data xine only tells me that the audio device is not available. What happens when you try a command like this: aplay -D spdif something.wav Best regards, Clemens

Re: [Alsa-user] Definition of a frame

2008-10-29 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Bankim Bhavsar wrote: For a stereo DAC channel with 16-bit samples, number of bytes per frame = 4 bytes, correct? Yes. HTH Clemens - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the

Re: [Alsa-user] choice of a new soundcard

2008-10-28 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Vedran Miletić wrote: http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/audio/controllers/envy24/ Claims that it has 20-channel, 26-bit wide built in mixer. What does that mean? The chip plays 10 channels in parallel (8 analog, 2 digital) and records 12 channels in parallel (8 analog, 2 digital, 2

Re: [Alsa-user] choice of a new soundcard

2008-10-27 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Vedran Miletić wrote: Drivers that support hardware mixing: * snd_emu10k1 - ... * snd_cs46xx - ... * snd_au88x0 - ... * snd_ymfpci - for YMF7xx chips. Like most of the others, has been discontinued and must be bought used. Used on several cards, e.g., Hoontech SoundTrack Digital XG

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA timer interface and accuracy

2008-10-23 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Julien Claassen wrote: If I'd like to use the PCM slave timer, how do I access that? Or were the instructions you gave me at the end of your mail already for that prupose? Yes. For the values of the CARE/DEV/SUBDEV parameters, see /proc/asound/timers. HTH Clemens

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA timer interface and accuracy

2008-10-22 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Julien Claassen wrote: Does the ALSA timter interface take its timing info from the soundcard (sample clock) or from the system's timer (RTC)? ALSA's timer interface can use 1) the system timer (which is not the RTC timer), 2) the RTC timer (if it is available), 3) a sound card timer, if the

Re: [Alsa-user] How to interrupt a blocking call to snd_pcm_writei

2008-10-08 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Florian Winter wrote: I can't derive from the documentation when exactly my poll() call will wake up. It can wake up whenever the device generates an interrupt, i.e., at period boundaries. Is there a way to tell ALSA something like: I want to write at least N frames to the device without

Re: [Alsa-user] How to interrupt a blocking call to snd_pcm_writei

2008-10-02 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Florian Winter wrote: Suppose, an ALSA playback device is opened in blocking mode, and one thread calls snd_pcm_writei. If the snd_pcm_writei call blocks, because the internal buffer of the ALSA device is full, is there a way by which another thread can interrupt the call, so it returns

Re: [Alsa-user] em28xx_alsa: disagrees about version of symbol xxx after upgrading CentOS 5.2 ALSA .14 for ALSA .17

2008-10-02 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Robert Vincent Krakora wrote: em28xx_alsa: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_new This means that the em28xx_alsa module that you're trying to load and the currently loaded snd_pcm module have been compiled for different kernels. It is possible that the old ALSA modules are still loaded;

Re: [Alsa-user] SPDIF not working with AD1989B (Asus P5Q-E motherboard)

2008-09-25 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Jason Tackaberry wrote: I am testing with mplayer, and ensuring the digital device (as shown by aplay -l) is being used. In my case it's device 1, and I am specifying -ao alsa:device=hw=0.1 on the mplayer command line. Try spdif instead of hw:0,1. HTH Clemens

Re: [Alsa-user] Which process is using an ALSA driver.

2008-09-17 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Eliot Blennerhassett wrote: can anyone tell me how to find out which processes are using an ALSA driver and preventing it from being unloaded. I know that lsof /dev/snd will tell me who has these files open, but often this shows nothing and still the driver can't be unloaded. Where else

Re: [Alsa-user] SPDIF woes

2008-09-03 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Jason Gauthier wrote: I can't find many cards except for the Creative Labs X-Fi that seems to fit both.. and from what I read SPDIF passthrough doesn't work.I'm not 100% sure what that means. (Pretty new to this level of audio) SPDIF was designed to transport two channels of 16-bit

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA vs M-Audio fast track ULTRA

2008-09-01 Thread Clemens Ladisch
V Gabriele De Palo wrote: # cat /proc/asound/cards ... 1 [Ultra ]: USB-Audio - Fast Track Ultra M-Audio Fast Track Ultra at usb-:00:1d.7-3, high speed It seems the device is more or less class compliant, so, in theory, it could work. # speaker-test -c 2

Re: [Alsa-user] CMI8788.

2008-08-21 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Mark A Jenks wrote: I have a Bluegears b-Enspirer 7.1 Sound Card CMI8788 that I am looking for some help/advice for. I would like to seperate out the stereo outs to multiple outputs, so I can use it as a backend for my house with zones. The hardware cannot control the four analog outputs

Re: [Alsa-user] Record audio with Philips SPC520NC webcam

2008-08-06 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Artem Makhutov wrote: I have a Philips SPC520NC webcam, which works fine with the linux UVC driver. The only problem I have is to record audio using the build in microphone. (Under Windows the microphone works well.) After arround 5 seconds I am getting an read error: I/O Error message,

Re: [Alsa-user] dmixer

2008-08-06 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Stevens, Peter wrote: For alsa-lib-1.0.17rc2 the dmix plug-in is enabled by default (for the default stereo device). Would anybody know which setting I must override in /etc/asound.conf file to enable dmix for the surround51 device (among others)? I wish to be able to open any of the : stereo,

Re: [Alsa-user] Audio hardware with pause support

2008-06-12 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Florian Winter wrote: - What is the dmix plugin and what are the benefits of using it? - Is it possible to disable the dmix plugin? - What consequences does disabling the dmix plugin have? What essential features of ALSA will be missing without it? The dmix plugin allows multiple

Re: [Alsa-user] Output latency

2008-06-11 Thread Clemens Ladisch
stan wrote: Florian Faber wrote: You want hardware monitoring - there are sound cards that support hardware mixing. With good converters you have latencies down to 5 samples at 192kHz, that would be 0.026ms for each way, 0.052ms over all. I'm not the original poster, but I'm curious

Re: [Alsa-user] Output latency

2008-06-11 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Alexander Carôt wrote: 3.) Rather than using a double buffer for the playout wouldn't it be possible to choose only one physical playout buffer and parse the captured data in right at the interrupt. It's unlikely that any code could be fast enough to write the entire buffer before the hardware

Re: [Alsa-user] Audio hardware with pause support

2008-06-11 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Florian Winter wrote: Is there another way to determine whether a certain hardware supports snd_pcm_pause without having to test the hardware? $ grep -rl SNDRV_PCM_INFO_PAUSE sound sound/arm/pxa2xx-pcm.c sound/arm/sa11xx-uda1341.c sound/core/pcm_native.c sound/drivers/vx/vx_pcm.c

Re: [Alsa-user] Combined USB-Serial Serial-MIDI device

2008-05-28 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Rangel Reale wrote: modprobe snd-serialmidi sdev=/dev/ttyUSB0 Hmm the serialmidi driver seems to be broken with the kernel Ubuntu 8.04 uses (2.6.24-17-generic) (I had to enable CONFIG_BROKEN on configure to be allowed to compile it) /usr/src/alsa-driver-1.0.16/drivers/serialmidi.c:117:

Re: [Alsa-user] Info on edirol UA-101

2008-05-23 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Germano Carella wrote: I have an edirol UA-101 usb sound card. The UA-101 is not fully supported; capturing may work, but the driver does not correctly synchronize to the device's sample frequency when playing, and there are no mixer controls. Regards, Clemens

Re: [Alsa-user] Looking for firmware lists

2008-05-14 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Karl Schmidt wrote: The linux kernel is no longer accepting closed firmware blobs The kernel does contain sourceless firmware blobs. Some distributions (Debian and derivatives) remove such drivers from the kernel. A list of audio chip sets that require firmware that is not GPL friendly

Re: [Alsa-user] Alsa error with 2.6.24 kernel

2008-05-13 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Mr. Man wrote: Dmesg says: Maestro3: probe of :02:03.0 failed with error -2 -2 means no such file or directory. I'd guess that it did not find the firmware files. Either enable CONFIG_SND_MAESTRO3_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL when compiling the kernel, or install the alsa-firmware package. HTH

Re: [Alsa-user] random hang when using latest snd-oxygen driver

2008-04-29 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Peter A. Friend wrote: I have a bGears b-Enspirer card supported by the snd-oxygen driver of the latest ALSA release. Things work fine for a short time then the machine hangs and I am forced to reboot. ... Usually the system hangs when adjusting the volume or skipping tracks in Rhythmbox or

Re: [Alsa-user] snd_config_search_alias_hooks

2008-04-01 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Jerry Geis wrote: When compiling Mplayer rc1 I am getting a link error about undefined reference to snd_config_search_alias_hooks() That code was changed over a year ago. Use rc2. HTH Clemens - Check out the new

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA driver compile error (hg)

2008-04-01 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Stephen Stocker wrote: With a fresh checkout of the hg repository (alsa-driver and alsa-kernel), I'm getting a compile error. ../alsa-kernel/core/vmaster.c:258: error: parse error before this_object_must_be_defined_as_export_objs_in_the_Makefile Now fixed:

Re: [Alsa-user] Redirecting Mic Input in software (no arecord / aplay involved)

2008-03-19 Thread Clemens Ladisch
I wrote: However, an even better solution for your problem would be to enable the input monitoring function of your sound card. Okay, monitoring is now supported, with this patch: http://hg.alsa-project.org/alsa-kernel/rev/0fff88f7f05b To enable monitoring from a script, run amixer

Re: [Alsa-user] Trying to get arecord/aplay to work with M-Audio

2008-03-19 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Helge Fredriksen wrote: I just bought a couple of MAudio cards to test out (Revolution 5.1 and Audiophile 2496). I'm trying to test the sound using arecord and aplay, but no matter which format I choose I get the message: aplay: set_params:900: Sample format non available Use aplay -v

Re: [Alsa-user] S32_LE format

2008-03-14 Thread Clemens Ladisch
John Sigler wrote: format : S32_LE msbits : 24 ... The first sample is stored as 00 00 a5 f5. Does this represent the value 0xf5a5? Yes. For the majority of samples, the first two bytes are 00 00. Is this because the input stream was, in fact, a 16-bit stream?

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