RE: [Alsa-devel] Re: [Alsa-user] C-Media 8738 SPDIF problem

2002-01-27 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
If you read posts from the alsa-devel list, you would see lots of advice on how to get it to work, apart from just RTFM. The most important part is the correct feedback from yourself. I am only saying this as an impartial observer. I have found that the developers on this list give very good

[Alsa-user] RE: [Alsa-devel] ALSA vs OSS/free

2002-03-07 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
As a programmer, alsa is just much easier to use. alsa provides a consistent api interface for all sound cards thanks to the alsa-lib. (shared user space code) So, if I write an app for my sound card, I can be pretty sure the app will work on all other sound cards. With OSS/Free, hardly any of

Re: [Alsa-user] snd-intel8x0 only works over headphones (82801DB ICH4)

2004-05-24 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Frederik Kunz wrote: ALSA starts without any error, but I can only hear something when I plug headphones into the first headphones port. Under Windows I can choose between three profiles: headphones only, 2 speakers and surround (using speakers and second headphones output). I guess the device is

Re: [Alsa-user] Audigy 2zs AC3 passtrough

2004-05-26 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Peter Zubaj wrote: Hmm, Something like this aplay -D spdif some.wav works ??? If yes Front shouldn't have effect to volume. If not make sure that Audigy Analog/Digital Output Jack and IEC958 Optical Raw Playback Switch are unmuted If it is working. I hope Audigy 2 ZS still uses emu10k2 rev.4,

Re: [Alsa-user] Audigy 2zs AC3 passtrough

2004-05-28 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
czarnyckm wrote: Hi, I tried it all, but still no success. Maybe should I make some others debug. Piotr This: aplay -D spdif some.wav works (with both conf file Audigy.conf and Audigy2.conf). Front has no control on the volume. IEC958 too. I changed Audigy.conf(I had to replace Audigy to

Re: [Alsa-user] Re: Still no sound with raw AC3 and intel8x0

2004-05-28 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Clemens Ladisch wrote: Dominique Dumont wrote: Clemens Ladisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dominique Dumont wrote: Unfortunately, I still have no ac3 stream recognized by my amplifier... :-( Does it work if you play a stereo PCM stream to hw:0,2? Yes. A DTS stream also works (although my

Re: [Alsa-user] Re: Still no sound with raw AC3 and intel8x0

2004-05-28 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Dominique Dumont wrote: Clemens Ladisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does it work if you play a stereo PCM stream to hw:0,2? Yes. A DTS stream also works (although my amplifier recognizes it as a DTS stream from a CD audio, not from a DVD). That's strange, there should be no difference between DTS

Re: [Alsa-user] Digital Sound (AC3/DD/DTS) / Yamaha DSP A1 / cs46xx (Hercules Digifire 7.1)

2004-06-01 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Philipp Morger wrote: I get the red, I also switched the optical in to the dvd input (thought it mattered, because I use the LD input), but it doesn't make a difference. I read that's because the audio bit is set, but when I manualy override the bit with the iecset command it still shows as red

Re: [Alsa-user] Digital Sound (AC3/DD/DTS) / Yamaha DSP A1 / cs46xx (Hercules Digifire 7.1)

2004-06-01 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Dominique Dumont wrote: James Courtier-Dutton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For basic Stereo PCM over SPDIF, you should get sound out. Yes. It works. Weird thing is that I cannot mute it with muting IEC958 control... The only switch that might do anything is: IEC958 Output Switch. So, can you

Re: [Alsa-user] Digital Sound (AC3/DD/DTS) / Yamaha DSP A1 / cs46xx (Hercules Digifire 7.1)

2004-06-01 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Dominique Dumont wrote: I still don't understand why currently DTS *is* working and AC3 is *not* working... Cheers The answer to that is simple. DTS does things differently from AC3. DTS does not do CRC checks, AC3 does. DTS does not need any special spdif bits set, AC3 does. AC3 needs the

Re: [Alsa-user] Digital Sound (AC3/DD/DTS) / Yamaha DSP A1 / cs46xx (Hercules Digifire 7.1)

2004-06-01 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Thanks for all the output, but it does not help me much. I guess I cannot help you much further. I used xine as an example, because I wrote some of the AC3 code in it, so I know exactly what it is doing when in passthru mode etc. I don't know what mplayer is doing with the AC3 stream. The

Re: [Alsa-user] Digital Sound (AC3/DD/DTS) / Yamaha DSP A1 / cs46xx (Hercules Digifire 7.1)

2004-06-01 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Philipp Morger wrote: On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 19:35:48 +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote: James Courtier-Dutton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In addition, could you possibly look at your sound card, and note down the exact model numbers on each chip. I will see if I can get hold of the datasheets. Well

Re: [Alsa-user] Digital Sound (AC3/DD/DTS) / Yamaha DSP A1 / cs46xx (Hercules Digifire 7.1)

2004-06-02 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Philipp Morger wrote: On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 01:16:07 +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: Looks like you have the same chips as on this url. http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/hercules-fortissimo71/ IIRC the Fortissimo uses the same Crystal Chip... Regards Philipp Just for your info, I have

[Alsa-user] Need some people to test Creative Audigy LS support.

2004-06-05 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
I have created an ALSA driver for the Creative Audigy LS. I would like reports back as to how well, or not it works for you. The driver and instructions for installing it are on http://www.superbug.demon.co.uk/alsa Read the install.txt file to find out which other files you need from that web

[Alsa-user] Re: iecset -x output does not match -Diec958:AES0=... ??

2004-06-05 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Dominique Dumont wrote: Dominique Dumont [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: James Courtier-Dutton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Try a new test. It will not give any sound, but might get the receiver to think there is AC3 present. ./speaker-test -Diec958:AES0=0x6,AES1=0x82,AES2=0x0,AES3=0x2 -c2 I get

Re: [Alsa-user] Re: getting optical spdif input into a pvr-250

2005-12-31 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 31/12/05, Tony Lill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Craig Tinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: this must be possible somehow - I have a pvr-250 capture card that dumps video *and* audio (via a 3.5m jack line-in) to an mpeg stream. I have a cmedia card with optical input - and I want the resulting mpeg

Re: [Alsa-user] Creative Labs SB Audigy SE

2006-01-02 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But it is impossible to download 1.0.11rc2. How so? It was placed on the web site today. James --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the

Re: [Alsa-user] Soundblaster X-Fi: can I get sound from it?

2006-01-02 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Richard Wild wrote: Hi all, I have been given a Soundblaster X-Fi XtremeMusic as a christmas present. I understand that the X-Fi boards have a wholly new chipset and are not supported at all, but I did hear that one can get basic functions by using the emu10k1 driver. Is this true? Or is

Re: [Alsa-user] Alsa problems

2006-01-06 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Lee Revell wrote: Ok, I'll try. And what about the .asoundrc file? You said it isn't correct, is it? Could you post me a correct file? Thanx You don't need one at all. The docs on that page are out of date. Lee Which docs are you refering to. If they are on the ALSA web site, I

Re: [Alsa-user] alsa problems

2006-01-06 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
kunt1z wrote: Hi guys, I remember you my main problem with alsa: when I try to play a sound with aplay, it doesn't work. $ aplay test.wav ALSA lib confmisc.c:560:(snd_determine_driver) could not open control for card 1 ALSA lib conf.c:2699:(snd_config_hooks_call) function

Re: [Alsa-user] alsa-problem

2006-01-09 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
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 a sound with aplay. Here's what happens: $ aplay test.wav ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:852:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave aplay:

Re: [Alsa-user] SB Audigy 2 Value

2006-01-11 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Gene Heskett wrote: I've been staring at this till its all a blur. And for the time being, the old sblive is going back in in a few seconds. But any help will be gladly appreciated. Please decribe the problem you are having. You just dump loads of config, without describing your problem.

Re: [Alsa-user] Problem about emu10k1x datasheet

2006-01-19 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
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 my card. Can anyone give some hints how

Re: [Alsa-user] Noise when switching from PCM to AC3 streams

2006-01-20 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Marcus Agehall wrote: Hi! I'm trying to use the optical S/PDIF out on my Abit KN8-Ultra motherboard (nForce4 based). I've managed to set things up so that I can play PCM data and AC3 data using my Sony STR-925 receiver. The only problem left, is that when I start playing an AC3 stream, after

Re: [Alsa-user] alsa usb audio on arm platform

2006-01-23 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Jonas Norberg wrote: Hello, I am trying to get a usb audio compatible sound card to work on the kwikbyte kb9202 (www.kwikbyte.com) development board. It is a board based on the at91rm9200 circuit which has an arm920t core. I am running kernel 2.6.13 and I have the alsa usb audio device drivers

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

2006-01-23 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
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. -- Jeremy Baker SBN 634 337 College Hill Johnson, VT 05656 The ALSA snd-emu10k1 kernel module should work fine. James

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-24 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
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 January 24, @02:03AM (#14544582)

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-24 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Sergei Steshenko wrote: This has ZERO to do with ALSA, so why did you post it here? James Because: 1) the thread is about stable ABI, among other things; 2) because people complain HERE that older version of ALSA with older kernel version used to work and after the upgrade ALSA stops

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-24 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
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 on OSS only in one case. It's not a

Re: [Alsa-user] Blaster Value SE support

2006-01-24 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Indra Polak wrote: Hi there, I tried yesterday to get my new card working, a Creative Audigy SE. I followed instructions as per http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php?company=Creative+Labscard=Sound+Blaster+Audigy+SE.chip=CA0106module=ca0106 Which says: -- Card

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-24 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Sergei Steshenko wrote: Takashi, as end user I want to know nothing about alsa-lib and kernel. I want to have a website with driver per card, i.e. I want to perform only intellectualy primitive lookup operation: read the file names in repository, find the file which matches my card name and

Re: [Alsa-user] subsequent call to snd_pcm_hw_params() fails

2006-01-27 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
satish wrote: Hi All, I got ALSA driver version 1.0.6 installed on my computer. I used the API to write very simple recording and playing programs. But I can't seem to get both recording and playing to work at the same time. I can open the audio device for both recording and playing,

Re: [Alsa-user] subsequent call to snd_pcm_hw_params() fails

2006-01-27 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
satish wrote: Thanx for the response James, but still the problem persists. As an alternative, i tried using capture and playback in different time intervals, instead of full duplex eventhough in my 2nd call to snd_pcm_hw_params() i'm getting this error message unable to set hw parameters:

Re: [Alsa-user] Sound cards that can hold their sampling clock well?

2006-02-09 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 09/02/06, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have issues with some software I use with my onboard sound card get errors like fixing audio drift by... and xrun errors caused by the sound card sampling clock being not kept properly? I use only SPDIF out both in PCM and Dolby digital out, and

[Alsa-user] Old OSS applications.

2006-02-12 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Hi, I am an ALSA developer. I would like users to report which Linux sound applications do not work well with sound in Linux. For example, sound stutters in doom3. I am only really interested with applications that use the old OSS api. I have thought of a different way to do oss sound

Re: [Alsa-user] Sound Blaster Live 7.1; SB Audigy SE

2006-03-01 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Mikhail Ramendik wrote: Hello, I am thinking of getting a cheap sound card with SPDIF out and a built-in synth. The SB Live 7.1 and SB Audigy SE have attracted my attention. How good is ALSA support for these two at present? In particular, is the synth well supported, effects and all? And

Re: [Alsa-user] MP#, anyone?

2006-03-12 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Stephen Mollett wrote: Hi, --- Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody have a clue as to where a copy of the ONE FILE libmp3lame.so can be downloaded? It's part of the LAME MP3 encoder, so if you install that (I'm sure there must be a package included with your distribution -

Re: [Alsa-user] Fwd: Is 6.1 surround on Audigy 2 possible?

2006-04-06 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Audigy 2 user wrote: Still no one who know how to enable 6.1 surround sound on an Audigy 2? Currently the application has to choose. So, if there is no surround61 option in the application, then the answer is no. Some applications have surround71 options, which might be suitable. James

Re: [Alsa-user] Fwd: Is 6.1 surround on Audigy 2 possible?

2006-04-06 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Audigy 2 user wrote: Still no one who know how to enable 6.1 surround sound on an Audigy 2? Currently the application has to choose. So, if there is no surround61 option in the application, then the answer is no. Some applications have surround71 options, which might be suitable. James

Re: New Card (was Re: [Alsa-user] static)

2006-04-07 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Jason Greene wrote: OK, I put in the SB Live card. It has the emu10k1 chip on it alsaconf still won't see the card. Slackware 10.2 standard install alsa-driver-1.0.9b Any Ideas what could be going on? You need to upgrade to a newer kernel. You are currently using kernel 2.4.x Once you

Re: [Alsa-user] Recommendation for Linux OS and Multiple Soundcards?

2006-04-10 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Mo wrote: Greetings. I would like to construct a dedicated system for recording five discrete audio feeds (voice-quality) via the line-in jacks each of five sound cards. Spent the weekend tinkering, but was never able to get any Linux configuration to work fully with more than one card at a

Re: [Alsa-user] Will my creative card work under Linux?

2006-04-14 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
David Bell wrote: Garin I have been attempting for the last 2 weeks to get a Sound Blaster Audigy 7.1 24bit card to work. After investigating/researching online i came to the conclusion that the CA0106 driver is the right one for the card. The card is marked SB0570 and has the CA0106 chip

Re: [Alsa-user] I dont understand this

2006-04-24 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Marcos Guglielmetti Gmail wrote: Me and other people are affected by a joystick port problem: MIDI hardware does not work under 2.6.15.x kernels, using SB Live soundboards and others. Here it works with 2.6.13... and I think that it's something related to the alsa-modules into the new

Re: [Alsa-user] just an idea

2006-05-22 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Lee Revell wrote: On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 00:33 +0200, Ron Smits wrote: Evening all A few weeks ago my trusty emul10k1 card died. I loved that card. I especially loved the fact that whatever I threw at it, all my speakers from my 5.1 set would work. Now I have a soundblaster live! 24bits the

Re: [Alsa-user] just an idea

2006-05-22 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Ron Smits wrote: Speaking as a (rather purist) sound engineer, I'd say that's sort of a contradiction. If the material you listen to was produced for two speakers, then using more than two will in general not deliver great sound. It will either completely blurr the sound image you would have

Re: [Alsa-user] just an idea

2006-05-22 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Lee Revell wrote: On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 14:15 +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: The ca0106 is perfectly well supported in Linux. I have the datasheets for it. The problem is that the card is so basic. It has no DSP or hardware mixing. Yeah, sorry, I should have been clearer. What I

Re: [Alsa-user] multiple record (streaming)

2006-05-26 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Lee Revell wrote: Dmix should not even be needed with this card - it has hardware mixing. Lee Not for recording, only for playback. I.e. For recording, one can only capture the sound in one app at a time. ___ Alsa-user mailing list

Re: [Alsa-user] multiple record (streaming)

2006-05-26 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Csillag Tamas wrote: On 05/26, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: Lee Revell wrote: Dmix should not even be needed with this card - it has hardware mixing. Lee Not for recording, only for playback. I.e. For recording, one can only capture the sound in one app at a time

Re: [Alsa-user] unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] please

2006-06-18 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I still received lots of emails coming to me. Pls unsubscribe me thanks. Regards, Claude Yu ___ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Alsa-user] Audigy PCMCIA, not recording

2006-06-20 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Lee Revell wrote: On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 15:31 +0200, Marcos Guglielmetti wrote: Hey, Using a Musix distro with 2.6.16-beyond4.1, ALSA 1.0.11 Audigy PCMCIA, not recording, also we tried to change the settings into JACK Control qjackctl, choosing 0,0 for the interface... what

Re: [Alsa-user] monaural ALSA mixes

2006-07-04 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Chris Fisichella wrote: I am sort of working with the compile instructions printed on the alsa-project website for the ca0106 driver. It says to start with: ./configure --with-cards=snd-ca0106 --with-sequencer=yes If you are using the tree from hg. Download the following trees. 1)

Re: [Alsa-user] Problems with oss pcm emulation on sbawe64 pnp since 1.0.11-rc3

2006-07-05 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: Hi! After upgrading to 2.6.17 skype on my Creative SB AWE64 PnP started to sound with really metallic voices, the speed and the tone seems similar to real but the voice is really metallic. I have tracked that down a bit, but don't really know what the problem

Re: [Alsa-user] How to record from /dev/snd/pcmCxD0c devices created with udev ?

2006-07-05 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, *** description : I want to record wav files from several *identical* (except for serial number) usb audio soundcard. My sound cards must appear in the right order. For example, physical card called n°1 must always correspond to the same name

Re: [Alsa-user] Problems with oss pcm emulation on sbawe64 pnp since 1.0.11-rc3

2006-07-06 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Lee Revell wrote: On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 23:14 +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: Hi! After upgrading to 2.6.17 skype on my Creative SB AWE64 PnP started to sound with really metallic voices, the speed and the tone seems similar to real but the voice

Re: [Alsa-user] Audigy2 ZS no Center/LFE

2006-07-20 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Nathan Caldwell wrote: Anyone got even an idea on what I could try? -Nathan On 7/12/06, Nathan Caldwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an Audigy2 ZS, and can't get the Center or LFE channels to work. If I run speaker-test -c6 -Dsurround51 I get output from the front and back speakers

Re: [Alsa-user] Aliasing due to resampling?

2006-07-26 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Thomas Hood wrote: I'm using a Realtek ALC850 http://www.realtek.com.tw/products/products1-2.aspx?modelid=2003101 on an http://www.asrock.com/PRODUCT/775Twins-HDTV.htm, so I guess it's not the STAC9708/11 issue. Incidently noise levels on this thing are appalling -- you can hear noise just

Re: [Alsa-user] Aliasing due to resampling?

2006-07-26 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Thomas Hood wrote: On 7/26/06, Alfons Adriaensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It could, even if the digital form of the signal is OK. Your card may apply digital gain at the max setting (i.e. to allow you to boost very weak signals). Ah.. that's interesting. I take it that this is

Re: [Alsa-user] Aliasing due to resampling?

2006-07-26 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Bill Unruh wrote: On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Thomas Hood wrote: I'm using a Realtek ALC850 http://www.realtek.com.tw/products/products1-2.aspx?modelid=2003101 on an http://www.asrock.com/PRODUCT/775Twins-HDTV.htm, so I guess it's not the STAC9708/11 issue. Incidently noise levels on this

Re: [Alsa-user] Aliasing due to resampling?

2006-07-27 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Alfons Adriaensen wrote: To summarize, aliasing is the result of the _sampled_ nature of a digital signal, not of its numerical (digital) form. That is true for your particular example, but aliasing artifacts can be introduced during digital signal processing. Most noticeably, when

Re: [Alsa-user] Aliasing due to resampling?

2006-07-27 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Thomas Hood wrote: On 7/26/06, Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/26/06, James Courtier-Dutton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Take a look at the alc850 datasheet, it will tell you the dB gain range each control has. Hmm.. As far as I can tell from the datasheet ( ftp

Re: [Alsa-user] Sound delay problem

2006-08-05 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Colin Kern wrote: Hi, I have just installed Ubuntu 6.06 and I've having a small problem with the ALSA drivers. All the sound seems delayed about a second from events that trigger them, and when watching video, the audio is not synchronized with the video. Any ideas how to fix this?

Re: [Alsa-user] Audigy2 ZS no Center/LFE

2006-08-09 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 25/07/06, Nathan Caldwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/20/06, James Courtier-Dutton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nathan Caldwell wrote: Anyone got even an idea on what I could try? -Nathan On 7/12/06, Nathan Caldwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an Audigy2 ZS, and can't

Re: [Alsa-user] Audigy2 ZS no Center/LFE

2006-08-09 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Nathan Caldwell wrote: On 8/9/06, James Courtier-Dutton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 25/07/06, Nathan Caldwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/20/06, James Courtier-Dutton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nathan Caldwell wrote: Anyone got even an idea on what I could try? -Nathan On 7/12/06, Nathan

Re: [Alsa-user] Audigy2 ZS no Center/LFE

2006-08-12 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Thank you for the list of chips. This confirms what I thought regarding the chips of the card. The current alsa driver should work fine with your sound card. Please attach the output of amixer contents There must be a mixer control out of place. James

Re: [Alsa-user] Audigy2 ZS no Center/LFE

2006-08-13 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Nathan Caldwell wrote: On 8/12/06, James Courtier-Dutton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for the list of chips. This confirms what I thought regarding the chips of the card. The current alsa driver should work fine with your sound card. Please attach the output of amixer contents

Re: [Alsa-user] Audigy2 ZS no Center/LFE [Solved]

2006-08-14 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Nathan Caldwell wrote: Well isn't that just strange, I reboot into windows to test, and now I have 5.1 from ALSA as well...hmmm Thanks for taking the time to try to figure this out James, I'm really not sure what was going on because I didn't do anything different than when I normally

Re: [Alsa-user] Suitable PCMCIA sound card working with ALSA

2006-08-16 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Zbynek Houska wrote: Is there any PCMCIA card known to be fully supported in ALSA? I have on my laptop HDA Intel card, but it is so unstable and crappy so I would like to bypass it. I saw king of Audigy2 PCMCIA card, but was unsure if it works with ALSA. Zbynek See the sound card matrix

Re: [Alsa-user] Suitable PCMCIA sound card working with ALSA

2006-08-16 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Zbynek Houska wrote: James Courtier-Dutton wrote: Zbynek Houska wrote: Is there any PCMCIA card known to be fully supported in ALSA? I have on my laptop HDA Intel card, but it is so unstable and crappy so I would like to bypass it. I saw king of Audigy2 PCMCIA card, but was unsure

Re: [Alsa-user] Suitable PCMCIA sound card working with ALSA

2006-08-16 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Sergei Steshenko wrote: Also, there was a recent thread in which a user was asked about chips on the card, and the developer confirmed that the card should be supported - which means another card with the same name, but different chips, may be not supported. Please stop this FUD. That

Re: [Alsa-user] Suitable PCMCIA sound card working with ALSA

2006-08-16 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Sergei Steshenko wrote: Also, there was a recent thread in which a user was asked about chips on the card, and the developer confirmed that the card should be supported - which means another card with the same name, but different chips, may be not supported. Please stop this FUD. That

Re: [Alsa-user] Suitable PCMCIA sound card working with ALSA

2006-08-16 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Zbynek Houska wrote: James Courtier-Dutton wrote: Zbynek Houska wrote: James Courtier-Dutton wrote: Zbynek Houska wrote: Is there any PCMCIA card known to be fully supported in ALSA? I have on my laptop HDA Intel card, but it is so unstable and crappy so I would like to bypass

Re: [Alsa-user] BUFFER SIZE HELP! SoundBlaster Audigy SE SB0570 alsa-driver-1.0 .11 snd-ca0106

2006-08-22 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Laborde Ludovic wrote: Hello, I have Sound Blaster Audigy SE and when a launch this code, my buffer is 2046. Can you test this for me and you return your SizeBuffer ? Because i think that my buffer it's too small. Regards File SizeBuffer.c -

Re: [Alsa-user] BUFFER SIZE HELP! SoundBlaster Audigy SE SB0570 alsa-driver-1.0 .11 snd-ca0106

2006-08-22 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Laborde Ludovic wrote: Hello, Just for my information, it's very important for me, to understand if it's possible to increase the buffer size up to 65536. And understand, if the limitation is due to the driver or hardware sound card. Sometime, depend which computer is used, i have 65536

Re: [Alsa-user] Creating 4 mono virtual devices

2006-09-16 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Marcin Lewandowski wrote: Hi, I have 3 devices in my notebook. hw:0,0 - internal soundcard hw:1,0 - usb soundcard hw:2,0 - pcmcia soundcard I need to create something like 4 virtual soundcards from hw:1 and hw:2 but with only 1 channel per each of them. Something like: virtual1

Re: [Alsa-user] Best card for recording?

2006-09-19 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 18/09/06, aluizio-neto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, I`ve recently realised (with your help) that the sound card I work with is not fully supported by ALSA and I`m about to buy a new one. The thing I need the most is the Analog Capture in. I use Fedora Core 5 and I would like to

Re: [Alsa-user] switch between two soundcards

2006-09-19 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Jürgen Herrmann wrote: hi! i have a laptop with an intel8x0 based audio chip and from time to time i want to use my usb soundcard. is there a way to unload the intel8x0 driver and insert the snd-usb-audio instead of it? my goal is that applications can always use alsa hw:0:0 without

Re: [Alsa-user] Audigy2 ZS PCMCIA - no mic?

2006-09-22 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 21/09/06, Marcin Lewandowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have Audigy2 ZS PCMCIA card. I use emu10k1 driver from gentoo alsa-driver-1.0.13_rc2. I can play sound but I have problems with capture. I turned all things in mixer to 100% level and I can't record anything. In Windows it works

Re: [Alsa-user] Few questions regarding emu10k + p16v

2006-09-30 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Vladimir Mosgalin wrote: Hi everybody. I have Audigy 2 ZS card and alsa driver 1.0.11 (from fc 2.6.16 kernel). I was trying to experiment with p16v, and noticed a few things. I'm using analog output. 1) Distiortion / clipping. Regular playback sound fine at master/pcm @ 100%. However,

Re: [Alsa-user] configuring ALSA driver to avoid invertion

2006-10-04 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 03/10/06, Andrew Gaydenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use ICE1724 ALSA driver for Terratec Aureon 7.1 Space card. Almost all is fine, big thanks to developers! Nevertheless, I have noticed both default (line out) and plug:spdif devices'es outputs are inverted. Is it possible to configure

Re: [Alsa-user] Trying to get sound from FC5 + Audigy

2006-10-12 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Jack Orenstein wrote: I have a Linux box with a Creative Labs Audigy sound card. Running RH9 and FC4, sound worked fine. With FC5 it does not. Googling reveals that this is a common problem, and identified many different fixes involving alsa. I've been unable to get any of these to work.

Re: [Alsa-user] E-mu 1212m support in HG

2006-10-15 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Matt Bucknall wrote: Hello, Apparently, James has committed initial support for the E-mu 1212m into the HG repository. I am unable to find it in there. Can someone please direct me to it? I assume I'm looking for emu10k1-fpga? Thanks, Matt. Just use the snd-emu10k1 module. It

Re: [Alsa-user] E-mu 1212m support in HG

2006-10-16 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Matt Bucknall wrote: Sorry for being dim, I've not installed ALSA before. I've downloaded the latest HG snapshot (http://suse.inode.at/projects/alsa/snapshot/driver/alsa-driver-hg20061014.tar.bz2) and tried to configure with --use-cards=emu=emu10k1, but the script complains saying 'error:

Re: [Alsa-user] SB Audigy SE (ca0106): no sound and no /dev/dsp

2006-10-16 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Matteo Dargor Modesti wrote: The strange thing is that if i launch alsamixer i have these controls: IEC958 IEC958 Center/LFE IEC958 Front IEC958 Rear IEC958 Unknown Analog Center/LFE Analog Front Analog Rear Analog Side CAPTURE feedback Digital Capture Source Shared Mic/Line in

Re: [Alsa-user] no sound on fedora 5 - creative soundblaster sb0410

2006-10-18 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Dirk Kämmerer wrote: with a kernel update to 2.6.18-1.2200.fc5 no sound available ? what's going wrong ? any hints or help ? Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0 Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Mono Mono: Playback [on] That means it is trying to use the digital

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA CA0106 regression: no sound with SB Audigy LS and kernel 2.6.18

2006-10-21 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Gunter Ohrner wrote: Hi! With all previous kernels I used (up to 2.6.17.11) this card worked fine. With 2.6.18 it stops working, it's still correctly recognized but doesn't output any sound, no matter what mixer settings I choose. BTW, the mixer settings / available channels differ

Re: [Alsa-user] Still trying to get Creative Audigy card working under FC5

2006-10-21 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Jack Orenstein wrote: I'm getting no sound from my Creative Labs SB Audigy LS card, on an FC5 machine (kernel 2.6.15-1). The same card produced sounds under FC4. I've written to this mailing list about this problem, and based on a response from James Courtier-Dutton, I've consulted the alsa

Re: [Alsa-user] Still trying to get Creative Audigy card working under FC5

2006-10-21 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Jack Orenstein wrote: James Courtier-Dutton wrote: Jack Orenstein wrote: I'm getting no sound from my Creative Labs SB Audigy LS card, on an FC5 machine (kernel 2.6.15-1). ... /proc/asound/cards says: 0 [CA0106 ]: CA0106 - CA0106 Live! 7.1 24bit [SB0410

Re: [Alsa-user] Understanding ALSA Mixer

2006-10-23 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Mr. Shawn H. Corey wrote: Lee Revell wrote: No, it's not. Master is the main output volume control. PCM controls the level of sound output from applications (as opposed to mic/line in, cd, etc). Windows calls it Wave. OK, why, if it's turn up too loud, does it produce crappy sound? If it

Re: [Alsa-user] CA0106 - no sound

2006-10-28 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Gary Dawes wrote: Write error: -5,Input/output error xrun_recovery failed: -5,Input/output error Transfer failed: Operation not permitted Which user are you using to test with? Try running speaker-test as root. - Using

Re: [Alsa-user] Driver status of the Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live 24-bit external 7.1 USB?

2006-11-15 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Jan Ries wrote: Hello, I'd like to purchase a (good) usb soundcard for a laptop. The technical specs the 'Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live 24-bit external 7.1 USB' fit my needs. Yet there is the Problem with the driver support. The alsa-soundcard-matrix

Re: [Alsa-user] Two sound card, want to play Line from A to speakers on B

2006-12-04 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
darfy wrote: Hello, I've got two soundcard properly configured (A and B). I've connected something to Line of A, and I want it to hear it on speakers connected to B. I've searched for a solution all the day, playing with .asoundrc, but I didn't manage... Can you help me finding a

Re: [Alsa-user] analog and digital out

2006-12-06 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
wouter lists wrote: Hi all, I would like my soundcard to play to the analog and digital out at the same time. The reason is that my PC is connected via analog to my TV and the digital out is connected to my surround receiver. So I don't have to turn my receiver on when I want to watch

Re: [Alsa-user] Creative Audigy 2 PCMCIA and onboard Speakers?

2006-12-17 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Q wrote: Hi, does anyone know if it is possible to get my laptop onboard speakers working with my Audigy 2 PCMCIA sound card? If so, how can I do this? Currently everything else works as as expected - however it is impractical to always have to carry a set of external speakers around with

Re: [Alsa-user] spdif output and mono audio

2006-12-30 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 30/12/06, Andrew Lyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am using iec958 spdif output on gigabyte ga-965-ds3 motherboard with onboard hda-intel, kernel 2.6.18.6 alsa 1.0.13, I dont have a asound.conf or asoundrc. Most of my sound is coming from mythtv (ac3 and dts passthru enabled), this

Re: [Alsa-user] E-MU 1212m ADC capture

2007-01-01 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
nick thomas wrote: Hi! I'm using an E-MU 1212m card with ALSA. I'm using Linux 2.6.19.1 (vanilla), and alsa-driver 1.0.14rc1. The DAC and MIDI ports work. However, I can't seem to get the ADC to work; it just records silence. All volume levels are unmuted and turned up. Is this expected

Re: [Alsa-user] currently available ALSA-supported Soundblasterwith HW mixing and synth?

2007-01-02 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Sebastian Schäfer wrote: Unfortunately the Audigy 4 is no longer available (at least not in Germany). The only currently available soundcard from Creative is the X-Fi, but there are no drivers available for it. Best regards, Sebastian On Di, 2007-01-02 at 12:26 +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote:

Re: [Alsa-user] currently available ALSA-supported Soundblasterwith HW mixing and synth?

2007-01-02 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Arthur Marsh wrote: As someone who bought a SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 model SB 0220 purely to get MIDI playback via on-board hardware synth working on this PII-266 machine, I appreciate all the efforts of people such as yourself to make it work. If there are any alternatives to the Sound

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA can only use default - Not hw:0,0 hw1,0 etc.

2007-01-13 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Johan Spee wrote: Hi, I have Debian Etch on an ASUS P5B system with an onboard sound-card (hda-intel) and a Terratec Phase 22 card in a PCI slot (ice1724). I have added the following lines to /etc/modprobe.d/sound : alias snd-card-0 snd-ice1724 options snd-ice1724 index=0 alias snd-card-1

Re: [Alsa-user] No sound on digital (spdif) output

2007-01-15 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Peter Andersson wrote: Hi, I'm probably making a stupid newbe mistake but i can't get my digital sound working. I'm using the alsa drivers included in the 2.6.19.1 kernel and the sound works with the regular analog out. This is the output of aplay -l Please refer to:

Re: [Alsa-user] Trying to improve my alsa/pulseaudio/mythtv setup

2007-02-02 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 02/02/07, Andy Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suppose I could have just asked here or on pulseaudio list first off will using pulseaudio allow me to have 2.0/5.1 audio with a software mixer that myth will be able to control, and still output via the S/PDIF but where would the fun be in

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