Re: [Alsa-user] Ensoniq Soundscape S-2000 non-PnP

2006-06-21 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 02:22 +0100, Christian Brandt wrote: Lee Revell schrieb: These messages mean that you compiled new ALSA modules and are trying to load them but you did not unload all the old ones first. Thats been the first thing I looked for. Before modprobe I did lsmod | grep

Re: [Alsa-user] dmix diagnostics

2006-06-23 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 18:13 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if I can issue two aplay's simultaneously, and hear both sounds playing, does that mean dmix is working correctly? system has cheap motherboard sound (nforce2), and thus no hardware mixer. Yes. Lee Using Tomcat but need to

Re: [Alsa-user] jackd and artsd questions

2006-06-23 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 21:48 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I try to start jackd (jackd -d alsa), I get: loading driver .. creating alsa driver ... hw:0|hw:0|1024|2|48000|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit control device hw:0 the playback device hw:0 is already in use. Please stop the

Re: [Alsa-user] jackd and artsd questions

2006-06-24 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 05:32 -0400, Andrew K. Bressen wrote: Thanks for the answers! Unfortunately, the magic -P default:0 incantation did not do it; jackd still fails five of six tests I tried. I have three apps I'm using to test jackd: ecasound, xmms' jack driver, and xmms' libjackasyn

Re: [Alsa-user] oss emulation

2006-06-24 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 06:16 -0400, Andrew K. Bressen wrote: Hi-- I have an app that when run via aoss just produces white noise, but when run under artsdsp works fine. Am I likely to be able to make it work with aoss if I echo various incantations into /proc/asound files, or is artsdsp

Re: [Alsa-user] dmix diagnostics

2006-06-24 Thread Lee Revell
(added alsa-user back to the cc: - please don't email me privately for tech support) On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 23:41 -0400, Brian Keener wrote: On 6/23/06, Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 18:13 -0400, akb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [Alsa-user] jackd and artsd questions

2006-06-24 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 05:32 -0400, Andrew K. Bressen wrote: Thanks for the answers! Unfortunately, the magic -P default:0 incantation did not do it; jackd still fails five of six tests I tried. I have three apps I'm using to test jackd: ecasound, xmms' jack driver, and xmms' libjackasyn

Re: [Alsa-user] jackd and artsd questions

2006-06-24 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 18:53 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 11:06:17 -0400 Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No there is no good user level ALSA documentation. Feel free to write some. This one of the most outrageous things I hear from FOSS developers. It's

Re: [Alsa-user] dmix diagnostics

2006-06-24 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 12:09 -0400, Brian Keener wrote: Anyway, the alsa soundcard matrix doesn't reflect my Yamaha YMF724 having a hardware mixer. http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/index.php?vendor=vendor-Yamaha#matrix Please file a bug report in the ALSA bug tracker. Perhaps that

Re: [Alsa-user] hda-intel error creating card?

2006-06-24 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 11:26 -0700, Ken Yee wrote: I have an nVidia 6150 system (Asus A8N CSM) and can't seem to get the hda-intel driver loaded any more..worked in kernel 2.6.15 but haven't been able to get it to work in 2.6.16 or 2.6.17. When I tell it to modprobe snd_hda_intel, I see this

Re: [Alsa-user] snd-cmi8738 and Trust no working 5.1 sound

2006-06-24 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 18:28 +0200, EmIScA wrote: I have a Trust SC-5100 soundcard (http://www.trust.com/products/product.aspx?artnr=14319) based on a cmi-8738-mc6 chip. I have problems with surround output. I have no sound from rear speakers (I've tried to switch all the mixer commands in

Re: [Alsa-user] hda-intel error creating card?

2006-06-24 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 12:15 -0700, Ken Yee wrote: --- Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are the contents of grep snd /etc/modules.conf? This is a Debian distro (Kanotix), so it's in the same place :-) The odd part is I've run alsaconf a few times and it *does* find the MCP51

Re: [Alsa-user] snd-cmi8738 and Trust no working 5.1 sound

2006-06-24 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 22:11 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 15:07:59 -0400 Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's not useful to determine that it broke between 1.0.9 and 1.0.10 - the search space is too big. Lee Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need

Re: [Alsa-user] hda-intel error creating card?

2006-06-24 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 13:36 -0700, Ken Yee wrote: --- Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try removing all ALSA modules manually and run modprobe snd-hda-intel by hand, do you get the same error? Hmmm..this looks ok (had to modprobe-r cx88_alsa and then the rest of the modules

Re: [Alsa-user] hda-intel error creating card?

2006-06-26 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 19:43 -0700, Ken Yee wrote: --- Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can blacklist cx88_alsa to prevent it from being loaded. That does work. Putting this set of commands into a script you run w/ sudo also works: modprobe -r cx88_alsa modprobe -r snd-hda-intel

Re: [Alsa-user] ac3 only through oss emulation ?!

2006-06-27 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 21:29 +0200, ord wrote: nothing else is using the device and I removed all asoundrc. Any advice on how I could debug that ? I guess you verified this with (as root): fuser /dev/dsp fuser /dev/mixer fuser /dev/snd/* ? Lee Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to

Re: [Alsa-user] Crackles on PCI Audigy2 ZS

2006-06-27 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 06:51 +1000, Nick Urbanik wrote: Dear Folks, On this P4 machine running FC5, I had great sound from this Audigy2 ZS soundcard until a few months ago, when a constant popping/crackling sound appeared, even when no sound source is playing. Sounds like the hardware is

Re: [Alsa-user] [a-users] VSTi ...it could be possible to build a free software vst sdk?

2006-06-27 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 20:51 +0200, Marcos Guglielmetti wrote: El Lunes, 26 de Junio de 2006 23:11, oz escribió: Steinberg vst_sdk2_3.zip (free download with license agreement Some people think that it could be possible to build a free software vst sdk (steinberg headers, etc.), what do you

Re: [Alsa-user] [a-users] VSTi ...it could be possible to build a free software vst sdk?

2006-06-27 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 03:09 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: Haven't heard of them yet. Search for LV2 in http://www.ladspa.org/ brings nothing. It's the successor to LADSPA. It's still being defined. See the linux-audio-dev archive for the past month or so. Lee Using Tomcat but need

Re: [Alsa-user] Cant get started -II

2006-06-29 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 16:21 -0500, Robert Rappaport wrote: I have a new Gateway Desktop that has an intel motherboard with an integrated Realtek ALC880 sound card. I followed Realtek links and downloaded realtek-linux-audiopack-3.5-6b.tar.bz2. I had Slackware Linux 10.2 installed with the

Re: [Alsa-user] MIDI pb with Terratec Phase 26

2006-06-30 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 21:54 +0200, Jacques Bon wrote: Hello, I've a problem using MIDI IN connector of the Terratec Phase 26 (USB). I need to use it to connect a non-USB midi keyboard. The card works fine for the sound, is detected as a MIDI device by aconnect, but when I connect the

Re: [Alsa-user] Integrated Realtek ALC880 Sound Card

2006-07-01 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-07-01 at 12:53 -0500, Robert Rappaport wrote: Hi: Am still trying to set up my new Gateway Desktop for Linux. I have Sackware 10.2 with 2.4.31 and 2.6.13 kernels. Gateway says the sound card is an Integrated Realtek ALC880. I followed Realtek links and downloaded a 1.0.9

Re: [Alsa-user] need mic-in, line-in, line out, hardware MIDI, have SB Live! 5.1 0220 (EMU10K1)

2006-07-03 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 12:00 +0200, Dominique Michel wrote: Here is your problem. The emu10k1 share the same IRQ as the usb, and it is very bad. The emu10k1 must be on its own IRQ. You must check in the bios if you can assign the IRQ and/or move the card in another slot. You can also try to use

Re: [Alsa-user] play midi on this hp lappy?

2006-07-03 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 10:35 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: I guess the subject says it all. The lappy is an HP dv5120us, with FC5 installed, and an ATI-IXP (connexant 30) chipset. Howto links appreciated. Just install a soft synth like Timidity or Fluidsynth and run aplaymidi -p synth_port.

Re: [Alsa-user] need mic-in, line-in, line out, hardware MIDI, have SB Live! 5.1 0220 (EMU10K1)

2006-07-03 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 15:37 +0200, Clemens Ladisch wrote: Arthur Marsh wrote: While all the above functions work, MIDI playback whilst there is significant hard disk activity causes a complete system lock-up )-: (see https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=952 ). Can

Re: [Alsa-user] [linux-audio-user] some ALSA questions

2006-07-04 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 09:05 -0400, Dave Phillips wrote: Greetings: I'm preparing a final draft of an article re: ALSA and I started wondering about whatever happened to modules.conf. In my old RH9 (2.4 kernel) I was able to freely manipulate the ALSA modules (designate for loading,

Re: [Alsa-user] Alsa and Firefox...

2006-07-04 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 07:12 -0500, Michael Stempf wrote: All, Twice now I have loaded Alsa drivers on my Suse 10 (64bit) server. After both installations, Firefox begins crashing...continuelsly. It gets to the point that it is totally unuseable. I have uninstalled Firefox and reinstalled

Re: [Alsa-user] Ekiga full-duplex arecord problems [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2006-07-04 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 21:12 +1200, Adam Bogacki wrote: Hi, having discovered a full-duplex problem with ekiga (echo test does not work) I've been trying to get arecord working with the following error message. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~08:53:20$ arecord -f dat -d 20 -D hw:0,0 test.wav Recording

Re: [Alsa-user] Switching audio devices on the fly?

2006-07-04 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 12:09 +0200, Michael wrote: Hi is there a possibility to switch audio devices on the fly. That is, while the program that will use (but does not do this at the moment!) the device is running? No, it's not possible. Lee Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to

Re: [Alsa-user] Alsa and Firefox...

2006-07-04 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 18:11 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 11:01:54 -0400 Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 07:12 -0500, Michael Stempf wrote: All, Twice now I have loaded Alsa drivers on my Suse 10 (64bit) server. After both

Re: [Alsa-user] Soundblaster live 5.1 24 bits: problem with microphone.

2006-07-04 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 17:23 +0200, Chris Dams wrote: I have alsa 1.0.9a that came with my SuSe distribution. Too old. This driver is still under development. Try ALSA 1.0.12-rc1. Lee Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with

Re: [Alsa-user] Alsa and Firefox...

2006-07-04 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 18:05 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: The case of the original poster is a bit complicated. He's using x86-64, and firefox is likely i386 binary. And, it's possible that firefox is started via aoss automatically for flash plugin, depending on the system. It could also be

Re: [Alsa-user] Soundblaster live 5.1 24 bits: problem with microphone.

2006-07-05 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 16:48 +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote: With my SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 model SB0220 I saved the following: Completely different device. You have a regular SBLive! 5.1, the OP has the new, crippled 24 bit version. They have nothing in common but the name. Lee Using Tomcat

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

2006-07-05 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 20:04 +0200, [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

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

2006-07-05 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 23:48 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: If you have a powerful enough machine you might consider using QEMU in which you'll run older versions of kernel + ALSA + Skype. It does work, though my machine (Athlon XP1900+) is not powerful enough, rather, I didn't try to do all

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

2006-07-05 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 00:35 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 17:10:19 -0400 Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 00:03 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: I have a life to live, and ALSA QA and regression testing is not a part of it. Why

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

2006-07-05 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 00:42 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: I suggested what I personally checked and what aprtially worked - what is irresponsible in my suggestion ? It does not help to fix the problem, so is not useful to the community - at best, you're helping one user. And your workaround

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

2006-07-05 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 00:44 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: Because I STRONGLY believe people who know the code should write the documentation. Or, responding you in the STFU manner - everybody has to wipe his/her own shit - I wouldn't dare to ask you to write documentation for my project.

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

2006-07-05 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 00:55 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 17:48:19 -0400 Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 00:42 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: I suggested what I personally checked and what aprtially worked - what is irresponsible in my

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

2006-07-05 Thread Lee Revell
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 is really metallic. I

Re: [Alsa-user] Which Card for direct Audio-Recording

2006-07-10 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 20:34 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the meantime a record for my WinTV PCI-Card is shown at /proc/asound/cards but trying to access /dev/snd/pcmC1D1c with sox sox -V -r 48000 -w -t alsa /dev/snd/pcmC1D1c -t cdr test.wav gives this error: ALSA lib

Re: [Alsa-user] Which Card for direct Audio-Recording

2006-07-10 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 21:02 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please read the sox documentation for how to use it with ALSA. I would love to read it! Can you tell me where I find it? The only documentation I know is the man-page and there current example on how to use sox on ALSA there is

Re: [Alsa-user] Which Card for direct Audio-Recording

2006-07-10 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 12:25 -0700, Bill Unruh wrote: Example: sox infile -t alsa -w -s /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p That's really from the sox man page? It's totally wrong. So is the page: Yup that is the man page. .alsa ALSA /dev/snd/pcmCxDxp device driver

Re: [Alsa-user] Which Card for direct Audio-Recording

2006-07-10 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 12:25 -0700, Bill Unruh wrote: When this driver is used it allows you to open up the ALSA /dev/snd/pcmCxDxp file and configure it to use the same data format as passed in to SoX. It works for both playing and recording sound samples. That's also wrong - how

Re: [Alsa-user] Which Card for direct Audio-Recording

2006-07-10 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 21:37 +0200, Jaroslav Kysela wrote: On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Lee Revell wrote: No it does not. However sox pluck/p6.wav -t alsa /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p DOES work. (or with the -w -s option as well) So it seems that sox does directly access the sound files. Why does

Re: [Alsa-user] Which Card for direct Audio-Recording

2006-07-10 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 13:02 -0700, Bill Unruh wrote: On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Lee Revell wrote: Why does sox abuse the ALSA API this way? Why can't it use the alsa-lib interface like everyone else? I guess you need to ask Chris Bagwell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) that one, but the lack of ALSA

Re: [Alsa-user] Hangup with snd-hda-intel Realtek ALC880

2006-07-12 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 17:45 -0500, Robert Rappaport wrote: Hi, I have some kind of conflict with my Realtek ALC880 Sound Card, my Realtek 8139 Network Card and my acpi system with 2.6.13 kernel. I can get the sound working ( Slackware Package alsa-driver-1.0.9b_2.6.13-i486.1.tgz from

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA sound mixer - recording using USB headphone with microphone

2006-07-22 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 17:09 -0500, Ananda Krishnan wrote: Hello, I am using a USB headphone (with the microphone) and the device is Micronas UAC3556B. I am using the (LinuxOS) RHEL4.0-U3 on my desktop (xSeries box). I am not able to record eventhogh (xmms-1.2.x.x) sound mixer is

Re: [Alsa-user] Hangup with snd-hda-intel Realtek ALC880

2006-07-22 Thread Lee Revell
[please retain alsa-user in the cc: list] On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 18:37 -0500, Robert Rappaport wrote: Using the 2.6.17.4 kernel and alsa-driver-1.0.11 or alsa-driver 1.0.12rc1 I am able to compile and install the drivers with the same disappointing result. When I try to unmute with amixer

Re: [Alsa-user] Copying sound

2006-07-22 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 18:31 +0200, Luis Fernando Llana Díaz wrote: El Viernes, 21 de Julio de 2006 00:32, escribió: Can jack handle this? I have look the web page and it might fit my needs. Thank you. Yes, JACK can do it. You run one jackd for each sound card and use jack_diplomat to

Re: [Alsa-user] alsa well supported Core 2 Duo/Extreme Motherboard sound?

2006-07-22 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 09:20 +0100, Andrew Lyon wrote: spdif output and hardware mixing including spdif is a must, I have purchased a couple of systems in the past year which appeared (from reading the alsa soundcard matrix) to be fully supported by alsa, but I had problems with broken spdif

Re: [Alsa-user] Windows driver are louder than Alsa driver?

2006-07-22 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 01:22 +0200, Dominique Michel wrote: I am pretty confident at the Alsa guys have done a good job to get the most of the sound card and at it is no problem with the sound level inside the box. If it is the case, it will be a bug with the driver for your sound card, and you

Re: [Alsa-user] snd-dummy sound driver

2006-07-24 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 07:47 -0700, csarid wrote: Hello, I need some help in getting the snd-dummy drivers installed on my linux box. Can anyone point me to the location where I can get the snd-dummy sound driver for my linux system and possibly some instructions on how to install or setup.

Re: [Alsa-user] snd-dummy sound driver

2006-07-24 Thread Lee Revell
alsa. ALSA is included in the kernel, but your distro must have disabled it. Recompile the kernel and enable the dummy driver. Lee Thank you Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 07:47 -0700, csarid wrote: Hello, I need some help

Re: [Alsa-user] snd-dummy sound driver

2006-07-24 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 08:54 -0700, csarid wrote: Is there a particular entry to look for and enable once in the kernel config? I see M Sound card support which seems to be the closest, but no designation for a dummy selection to enable. Thenk you CONFIG_SND=m and CONFIG_SND_DUMMY=m Lee

Re: [Alsa-user] snd-dummy sound driver

2006-07-24 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 09:01 -0700, Bill Unruh wrote: The kernel setup does NOT control the details of alsa. Um, if the ALSA shipped with the kernel is installed then yes, it does. If alsa is enabled then all of the modules are compiled and installed. The only way snd-dummy would not be there

Re: [Alsa-user] Fwd: ALSA sound mixer - recording using USB headphone with microphone

2006-07-24 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 13:07 -0500, V. Ananda Krishnan wrote: Does aplay -D hw:0,0 file.wav play the file? NO. I am not able to make progress in debugging the cofig info. OK, well that won't work as the USB audio is device 1. What exactly happens when you try aplay -D hw:1,0 file.wav? Lee

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-24 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 20:30 +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: Hello, I try to make my 5.1 speaker set work properly on an SB Live! Player with Alsa from kernel 2.6.17. Most things work well, but there is something that feels like a bug or inconsistency in user interface: The volume for rear

Re: [Alsa-user] Fwd: ALSA sound mixer - recording using USB headphone with microphone

2006-07-24 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 14:53 -0500, V. Ananda Krishnan wrote: Lee Revell wrote: On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 14:37 -0500, V. Ananda Krishnan wrote: Lee Revell wrote: On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 13:07 -0500, V. Ananda Krishnan wrote: Does aplay -D hw:0,0 file.wav play the file? NO. I am not able

Re: [Alsa-user] Fwd: ALSA sound mixer - recording using USB headphone with microphone

2006-07-24 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 15:15 -0500, V. Ananda Krishnan wrote: None of the function keys (F1 thru F9) seems to function for the alsamixer display. Only the left/right/up/down arrow keys work. Also the space bar doesn't work either. You must have a very old alsamixer then. Use m to unmute

Re: [Alsa-user] Fwd: ALSA sound mixer - recording using USB headphone with microphone

2006-07-24 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 15:40 -0500, V. Ananda Krishnan wrote: Lee Revell wrote: On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 15:15 -0500, V. Ananda Krishnan wrote: None of the function keys (F1 thru F9) seems to function for the alsamixer display. Only the left/right/up/down arrow keys work. Also the space

Re: [Alsa-user] Fwd: ALSA sound mixer - recording using USB headphone with microphone

2006-07-24 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 14:37 -0500, V. Ananda Krishnan wrote: Lee Revell wrote: On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 13:07 -0500, V. Ananda Krishnan wrote: Does aplay -D hw:0,0 file.wav play the file? NO. I am not able to make progress in debugging the cofig info. OK, well that won't work as the USB

Re: [Alsa-user] Need help setting up .asoundrc

2006-07-26 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 16:13 -0700, Phil wrote: The poor configuration above is what I came up with after reading the .asoundrc guide. Which .asoundrc guide? I wouldn't be attempting to create said file if it worked automatically. Given that sound is reaching the computer from the device,

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

2006-07-26 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 16:08 +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: From what I can tell, the cost of improving the mic input on motherboards would be a zero cost item in hardware terms, but manufacturers just don't seem to care, and therefore don't spend any time even trying to improve it.

Re: [Alsa-user] Need help setting up .asoundrc

2006-07-26 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 16:46 -0700, Phil wrote: Lee Revell wrote: On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 16:13 -0700, Phil wrote: The poor configuration above is what I came up with after reading the .asoundrc guide. Which .asoundrc guide? http://alsa.opensrc.org/.asoundrc I wouldn't

Re: [Alsa-user] Need help setting up .asoundrc

2006-07-26 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 15:01 -0700, Phil wrote: I have verified that the capture device works under Windows. When running under MythTV, I can get some relevant audio (mono, 8000Hz) via $ aplay /dev/audio1. That is not how ALSA works. You use device names like hw:0 or hw:1, not /dev nodes.

Re: [Alsa-user] Need help setting up .asoundrc

2006-07-27 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 16:46 -0700, Phil wrote: Lee Revell wrote: On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 16:13 -0700, Phil wrote: The poor configuration above is what I came up with after reading the .asoundrc guide. Which .asoundrc guide? http://alsa.opensrc.org/.asoundrc I've updated that page

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 12:47 +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: Yes, I talk about useability which just sucks. I imagine a more clear frontend/backend infrastructure, an ultimate solution: - access to all backend settings is exported with consistent, fixed names (keywords) - a wrapper in the

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 12:47 +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: Could I get a copy of that patch? Check the alsa-devel archive. Honnestly, the current set of mixer controls is cumbersome. $user can hardly understand what all the controls are good for, and mixer software is not user-friendly either.

Re: [Alsa-user] How to change channel names on Audigy?

2006-07-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 20:21 +0200, Lukas Zapletal wrote: Hello, I would like to change my channel names. My mixers (gnome-mixer, alsamixergui) doesnt separate input and output channels and I have to guess which Microphone is the recording channel and which Microphone is the recording

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 21:48 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: If you, the developers, have already written the driver and know how it works, what hardware specs do you need ? It's the documentation issue and/or HAL issue. The guy expresses my thoughts very well. I'm glad yet another end user

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 23:38 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: What I know, is that when I bought M-Audio Revoluion 7.1 - fully supported by ALSA, I couldn't make capture loopback work - documentation said nothing on it. Blah blah blah, same old inflammatory complaints, no offer to help...

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 00:03 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: Did you help the guy with M-Audio Revolution 5.1 ? I DID tell him everything I knew based on my M-Audio Revolution 7.1, but, apparently, the cards are different. Are you satisfied that yet another ALSA end user stepped on the same

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 23:38 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: My logic is simple: * if you are saying that a feature is supported, this means you've tested it - otherwise you are simply irresponsible. You're assuming that ALSA developers have access to every sound card that ALSA supports which

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 00:38 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: Do you, the developers, test the card before announcing it as supported ? No, the ALSA developers rely on feedback from users to determine what is supported. The ALSA developers only have access to a small fraction of the supported

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 00:47 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: It should be 'why', not 'what' in what the controls for each tested feature You don't seem to understand that vendors can customize the hardware such that the same mixer controls do different things on different devices. The only

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 00:54 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: Then what was exactly the report claiming that M-Audio Revolution 5.1 indeed worked ? Where can end users find in order to read it ans assess its credibility ? That is, to see whether the end user indeed checked the featured

Re: [Alsa-user] M-Audio Revolution 5.1 support

2006-08-01 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 03:55 -0400, Andrew K. Bressen wrote: Jochen Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: in response to the recent thread about (the absence of) capture support for the M-Audio Revolution 5.1 sound card, I started a web page with information about what works and what doesn't.

Re: [Alsa-user] No /proc/asound/card0/pcm0c/oss (mmap'ing OSS app)

2006-08-01 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 18:11 +0200, Matthias Czapla wrote: Have to try that one, but I wished it would work without these ugly dsp-wrappers. Furthermore I would be interested if the non-existence of the /proc/asound/card?/pcm?c directories is intentional with the ALSA drivers included with

Re: [Alsa-user] No /proc/asound/card0/pcm0c/oss (mmap'ing OSS app)

2006-08-01 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 18:57 +0200, Matthias Czapla wrote: On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 12:23:11PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 18:11 +0200, Matthias Czapla wrote: Have to try that one, but I wished it would work without these ugly dsp-wrappers. Furthermore I would

Re: [Alsa-user] skype and other sound player

2006-08-02 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 19:07 +0530, François Patte wrote: Bonjour, I try to have both xmms and skype at the same time: I would like to hear people calling me while I am listening some music with xmms. Skype and xmms use both ALSA, but when I want to use skype while xmms is playing, I get

Re: [Alsa-user] snd-hda-intel no master control in alsamixer

2006-08-03 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 22:25 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: Hi Lee, if your there. I've seen a couple of guys having problems with no master control in alsamixer using snd-hda-intel driver. One posted to this list, but in HTML, and probably was ignored (quite rightly), and is using a Hasee Q310N

Re: [Alsa-user] snd-hda-intel no master control in alsamixer

2006-08-03 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 22:25 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: --- amixer Simple mixer control 'PCM',0 Capabilities: pvolume Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 255 Mono: Front Left: Playback 255 [100%] Front Right: Playback 255 [100%] Simple

Re: [Alsa-user] snd-hda-intel no master control in alsamixer

2006-08-03 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 22:41 +0200, Jaroslaw Gorny wrote: And I'm the one another with the same problem. My e-mail was ignored here too ;) SigmaTel STAC9200 (at least system-config-sound on FC5 says that). The number of channels in alsamixer differs between reboots. On some reboots I've

Re: [Alsa-user] snd-hda-intel no master control in alsamixer

2006-08-03 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 21:07 +, 雷 致强 wrote: Hi,Lee. I'm the one who use Hasee Q310N laptop and Gentoo. I don't know if these information can help to solve problems. The ALC861 I have tried 3stack, 3stack-dig, 6stack-dig, and auto model options. No matter which one I use, I will get these

Re: [Alsa-user] snd-hda-intel no master control in alsamixer

2006-08-03 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 08:29 +1000, Keith Owens wrote: Lee Revell (on Thu, 03 Aug 2006 16:32:14 -0400) wrote: There's really no telling. It's misleading to say snd-hda-intel is supported because every single laptop and motherboard with snd-hda-intel is slightly different and there's absolutely

Re: [Alsa-user] snd-hda-intel no master control in alsamixer

2006-08-04 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 23:56 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: Thanks for your replies Lee. I've relayed them to the 2 guys, and suggested that an alternative is to go for a USB one, if they are serious about needing audio. USB audio has its own set of issues with mixer control naming - also dmix is

Re: [Alsa-user] Apple opens kernel source - can Linux audio be improved in the light of this ?

2006-08-08 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 11:22 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: Hello All, according to http://lists.apple.com/archives/Darwin-dev/2006/Aug/msg00067.html Apple opens kernel source. A lot (if not all) of audio cards come with MacOS X drivers. Can Linux kernel implement Apple kernel audio

Re: [Alsa-user] Trouble with EMU10K1X and upgrading

2006-08-09 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 00:18 +1000, Geoff Shang wrote: First, the problems. We are experiencing two problems with the card: 1. It seems that we can play multiple audio sources if the sources use ALSA output directly. If OSS output is used, only one source can play at a time. Correct.

Re: [Alsa-user] Trouble with EMU10K1X and upgrading

2006-08-09 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 17:56 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: OSS apps can probably benefit from http://fort.xdas.com/~kor/oss2jack/ - I haven't tried it myself. I mean simultaneous playback by a number of OSS apps. I haven't tried this myself though. That requires you to run JACK which

Re: [Alsa-user] another in kernel alsa update that breaks backward compatibilty?

2006-08-09 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 18:46 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 11:40:02 -0400 Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings; The old fart is back again. :) I've just done a divide and conquer on kernel versions, and have found that while I DO have a kde audio

Re: [Alsa-user] another in kernel alsa update that breaks backward compatibilty?

2006-08-09 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 17:56 +0200, Benoit Fouet wrote: hi, Sergei Steshenko wrote: On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 11:40:02 -0400 Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings; The old fart is back again. :) I've just done a divide and conquer on kernel versions, and have found that

Re: [Alsa-user] another in kernel alsa update that breaks backward compatibilty?

2006-08-09 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 12:07 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: This walks and qwacks like the alsa interface has been diddled, again. But since it KNOWS what hardware its running, in this case an audigy 2, not Value, so why was apparently working code broken and then commited to the kernel tree?

Re: [Alsa-user] Alsa Devices Impossible to Address

2006-08-11 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 10:50 +0100, Cefn Hoile wrote: Now I have a way to address the cards, I need to implementing the virtualisation of these individual cards into a single mega-sound device! For anyone who's interested, the plan is to build this...

Re: [Alsa-user] hda-intel problems

2006-08-20 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 13:25 -0700, John Gruenenfelder wrote: Hello, I've got a Dell Inspiron E1405 laptop which uses the hda-intel ALSA driver. Try passing the model=ref option when loading snd-hda-intel. A much less pressing issue, is that there are almost no controls present via

Re: [Alsa-user] hda-intel problems

2006-08-20 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 08:28 +0530, Damodharan R wrote: Alsamixer doesnt show such controls in my case also. I see the following error when booting hda_codec.c: Unknown model for STAC9200. Using the BIOS defaults. The major problem I have is MIC doesnot work. Can anyone say how to fix that?

Re: [Alsa-user] alsa-driver-1.0.11rc5 on SuSE won't compile

2006-08-22 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 22:43 +0200, D.Tamm wrote: The distro is SuSE 8.3 and the kernel 2.6.7 I think. Run uname -r to know which kernel you are running and check at the kernel source version is exactly the same as the running kernel version or the kernel you want to compile alsa

Re: [Alsa-user] Stop and Start alsa in FC5

2006-08-22 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 23:39 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: Since FC1 I've installed planetccrma stuff, and have an alsasound shellscript for stopping and starting Alsa in /etc/rc.d/init.d. there have been queries on the Fedora list as how to stop and start Alsa on FC5. I have 2 FC5 installs,

Re: [Alsa-user] no sound with e-mu 1820

2006-08-22 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 00:06 +0200, Pille wrote: hi, i´m using ubuntu 6.06 lts. i have 2 soundcards installed. here the output of /proc/asound/cards: 0 [EMU1212m ]: Audigy2 - E-mu 1212m [4001] E-mu 1212m [4001] (rev.3, serial:0x40011102) at 0xec00, irq 201 1

Re: [Alsa-user] Stop and Start alsa in FC5

2006-08-22 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 00:22 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: Well thanks Lee. That's answered that. It might answer it - it's just a guess ;-) Lee - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security?

<    1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   >