[Alsa-user] Native Instruments Komplete Audio 6 SPDIF-out issue

2017-08-09 Thread Philip
Hi all,

I just got a Native Instruments Komplete Audio 6 USB Audio Interface
which is connected to my AV-receiver via the SPDI-out as otherwise I
get lots of static noise.

While this works flawlessly in Windows 10, ALSA in Linux Mint 18.1
does not set up the SPDIF by default. Only an analog output with the
respective profiles are shown in the end in the Pulse Audio controls.

"aplay -l"  lists the card as follows:

Card 1: K6 [Komplete Audio 6], Device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
  Sub-Devices: 1/1
  Sub-Device #0: subdevice #0

"aplay -L" includes also the SPDIF-out I want to use:

iec958:CARD=K6,DEV=0
Komplete Audio 6, USB Audio
IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output

But the attempt to play a wave file ends like this:

"aplay -D iec958:CARD=K6,DEV=0 test.wav"
Playback: WAVE 'test.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate: 44100 Hz, stereo
aplay: set_params:1233: Sample-Format not supported
Available formats:
- S32_LE

Now my only attempt to define the device via /etc/asound.conf looks like this:

pcm.SPDIF {
type iec958
card 1
device 0
}

but does not work. I understand that I maybe have to define some
format conversion...

Can anyone give me hint if this is possible at all and if yes, how I
can set up ALSA for that?

Help is much appreciated!

Thanks and cheers,
Philip

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[Alsa-user] Native Instruments Komplete Audio 6 SPDIF-out issue

2017-08-09 Thread Philip
Hi all,

I just got a Native Instruments Komplete Audio 6 USB Audio Interface
which is connected to my AV-receiver via the SPDI-out as otherwise I
get lots of static noise.

While this works flawlessly in Windows 10, ALSA in Linux Mint 18.1
does not set up the SPDIF by default. Only an analog output with the
respective profiles are shown in the end in the Pulse Audio controls.

"aplay -l"  lists the card as follows:

Card 1: K6 [Komplete Audio 6], Device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
  Sub-Devices: 1/1
  Sub-Device #0: subdevice #0

"aplay -L" includes also the SPDIF-out I want to use:

iec958:CARD=K6,DEV=0
Komplete Audio 6, USB Audio
IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output

But the attempt to play a wave file ends like this:

"aplay -D iec958:CARD=K6,DEV=0 test.wav"
Playback: WAVE 'test.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate: 44100 Hz, stereo
aplay: set_params:1233: Sample-Format not supported
Available formats:
- S32_LE

Now my only attempt to define the device via /etc/asound.conf looks like this:

pcm.SPDIF {
type iec958
card 1
device 0
}

but does not work. I understand that I maybe have to define some
format conversion...

Can anyone give me hint if this is possible at all and if yes, how I
can set up ALSA for that?

Help is much appreciated!

Thanks and cheers,
Philip

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Re: [Alsa-user] Native Instruments Komplete Audio 6 SPDIF-out issue

2017-08-10 Thread Philip
Hi Ralf,

thanks for the hints and forum-link! I am now reading some
documentation on how to define a profile set for pulseaudio which
hopefully will add the digital out to the selection.
The command
speaker-test -D iec958:CARD=K6,DEV=0 -F S32_LE -c 6
works and I get sound on channels 5 an 6 so I am confident.

As I actually only need sound from Spotify and the browser in Linux
I'll try this way first before switching to another sound server.
The alternative to the Komplete Audio would have been the Focusrite
Scarlett 6i6 but I couldn't find a reliable source that this one works
better in Linux. Even a PCIe interface would do the job as I really
only need a good ASIO driver (and the digital out)... well, I can
still exchange the device if it won't work.

Static noise might have been the wrong term; I meant a ground loop
which I can't get rid of except using the digital out. This might well
be related to the power lines in my appartment being fishy (using a
specific light switch will cause audio drops at the AV-receiver...).

Cheers,
Philip

2017-08-09 21:51 GMT+02:00 Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net>:
> On Wed, 9 Aug 2017 20:42:30 +0200, Philip wrote:
>>ALSA in Linux Mint 18.1 does not set up the SPDIF by default. Only an
>>analog output with the respective profiles are shown in the end in the
>>Pulse Audio controls.
>
> Hi,
>
> perhaps not an ALSA issue, but a pulseaudio issue?
>
> Seemingly the device should work OOTB:
>
> https://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?t=12161#p50901
>
> Consider to subscribe to this forum and ask there.
>
> FWIW I'm not using the same device as you, but among PCIe and PCI audio
> interfaces, I'm using one USB class compliant device, too. It's a
> Focusrite Scarlett 18i20 2nd gen and S/PDIF works OOTB.
>
> I'm using ALSA and jackd 2 (not jackdbus) only. For packages with a hard
> dependency on pulseaudio I build an empty dummy package
> "pulseaudio". This works for at least Ubuntu and Arch Linux without
> issues.
>
> On Arch Linux I'm using https://github.com/i-rinat/apulse for Firefox,
> on Ubuntu I don't have Firefox installed and nothing else I'm using
> requires pulseaudio.
>
> AFAIK you could disable pulseaudio temporarily, so for testing purpose
> consider to at least disable pulseaudio, remove your asound.conf entry
> and try again using plain alsa and/or jackd 1 or 2.
>
> Btw. neither my consumer, pro-sumer, nor my professional audio devices
> cause static noise when using balanced as well as unbalanced analog IOs.
> For some unknown reason the headphone output of my RME PCIe card had
> unbearable computer noise in the audio signal, some day it occurred,
> stayed for months and then disappeared. I suspect a cable issue, but
> can't say for sure. However, I'm using a new headphone cable, as well
> as a new computer, since my old computer anyway was fishy and outdated.
>
> Even if cheapest consumer gear does cause static noise, something is
> fishy.
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
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[Alsa-user] (no subject)

2002-08-21 Thread Philip Balinov

Hello,

i am trying to get the terratec DMX 6Fire 24/96 card to work on linux using 
alsa. the playback seems alright, but the Microphone In input doesn't work. 
Is that because i misconfigured something, or are there problems with the 
inputs on the DMX 6Fire? do the other analog inputs work?

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[Alsa-user] xrun error messages

2002-09-19 Thread Philip Clark


Hi Folks, 

I have managed to successfully run the most uptodate alsa9 driver on a
DELL latitude cpiA366XT with the Neomagic 256AV sound chip. 

However, I have a teething problem. When I run a dvd the flow is
continually interrupted by:-

alsa-space: xrun of at least 2.120 msecs. resetting stream  0.0% 0 0 0%
alsa-play: xrun of at least 0.247 msecs. resetting stream% 10.1% 0 0 0%
alsa-space: xrun of at least 106.110 msecs. resetting stream4.0% 0 0 0%
alsa-space: xrun of at least 82.396 msecs. resetting stream14.1% 0 0 0%
alsa-space: xrun of at least 154.871 msecs. resetting stream1.3% 0 0 0%

This resetting of the stream upsets the video and sound output. Note I
think the Neomagic chip is a combination of audio and video. Any ideas
on how to stop this happening? 

Cheers

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[Alsa-user] xrun messages

2002-09-19 Thread Philip Clark


Hi Folks, 

I have managed to successfully run the most uptodate alsa9 driver on a
DELL latitude cpiA366XT with the Neomagic 256AV sound chip. 

However, I have a teething problem. When I run a dvd the flow is
continually interrupted by:-

alsa-space: xrun of at least 2.120 msecs. resetting stream  0.0% 0 0 0%
alsa-play: xrun of at least 0.247 msecs. resetting stream% 10.1% 0 0 0%
alsa-space: xrun of at least 106.110 msecs. resetting stream4.0% 0 0 0%
alsa-space: xrun of at least 82.396 msecs. resetting stream14.1% 0 0 0%
alsa-space: xrun of at least 154.871 msecs. resetting stream1.3% 0 0 0%

This resetting of the stream upsets the video and sound output. Note I
think the Neomagic chip is a combination of audio and video. Any ideas
on how to stop this happening? 

Cheers

-Phil
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[Alsa-user] YMF744 and OPL3 FM Synthesis.(Long)

2002-10-02 Thread Philip Thiem

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I have been working on and off for sometime trying to get OPL3 FM
Synth (NOT the WaveTable Synth) to work under ALSA with a AOpen
(I'm fairly sure) Ymf744B Card. I have even gone as far as writing
some simple code to communicate directly with the /dev/dmfm
(/dev/sound/dmfm) device and thus at least verify that the OPL3 was
reachable.

My basic setup is the default asound startup script, modified to
modprobe oss modules and snd-opl3-synth.  The kernel driver is the
latest CVS as of The End of August, and the sbiload is the latest
cvs version.  When I am trying to get the OPL3 FM Synth to work,
I use a simple script to run sbiload with the std and drum patches
as follows:

/usr/bin/sbiload -p65:0 -v $1 --opl3 \
 /usr/share/alsa/banks/opl3/drums.o3 \
 /usr/share/alsa/banks/opl3/std.o3

Once the Patches are loaded, then I try to run pmidi and playmidi
to see if ALSA and OSS midi is now working.
pmidi -p 65:0 W2Humans.mid
and
playmidi [-r] W2Humans.mid
Both seem to hang for 3 minutes(the length of the clip) and
playmidi -r seems to indicate that indeed the player thinks
the midi file is playing.  No sound. :(

It seemed like the midi channel might be muted.  So I have double
checked to make sure all the mixer controls were turned on and up,
just in case.  I recall some previous post mentioning a synth, midi,
or a FM mixer control;  none of which I can manage to find, and the
ones I have found (master*,wave,pcm,external,cd,etc) are unmuted and
have been tested turned all the way up.

If anyone can help/share experiences it would be appreciated.
It seems that there is at least one person out there on this list
with a similar problem with the same card(first appearing in April),
and I was curious how far he had managed to get with the OPL3.

I have tried to include text/links of various pieces of information,
which might help in a diagnosis.  And a Test program for accessing
the direct FM device, in a last ditch attempt to make sure I could
talk to the OPL3 at least.  The error output I get is included.

Thanks

Philip Thiem

Loaded Modules
--
snd-seq-midi
snd-seq-oss
snd-seq-midi-event
snd-pcm-oss
snd-mixer-oss
snd-opl3-synth
snd-seq-instr
snd-seq-midi-emul
snd-seq
snd-ainstr-fm
snd-ymfpci
snd-pcm
snd-mpu401-uart
snd-rawmidi
snd-opl3-lib
snd-hwdep
snd-seq-device
snd-timer
snd-ac97-codec
snd
soundcore

/etc/modutils.conf(relavent)
--
###
#ALSA Core
###
# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
options snd snd_cards_limit=1 snd_device_mode=660 snd_device_gid=29
# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore

###
#ALSA Drivers
###
# ALSA portion
alias snd-card-0 snd-ymfpci

# OSS/Free portion
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss

pmidi -l gives
--
 Port Client name   Port name
 64:0 External MIDI 0   MIDI 0-0
 65:0 OPL3 FM synth OPL3 Port

/proc/pci and /proc/ioports output
--
Bus  0, device   9, function  0:
  Multimedia audio controller: Yamaha Corporation YMF-744B [DS-1S Audio 
Controller] (rev 2).
IRQ 5.
Master Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=5.Max Lat=25.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xdb00 [0xdb007fff].
I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdc3f].
I/O at 0xe000 [0xe003].

dc00-dc3f : Yamaha Corporation YMF-744B [DS-1S Audio Controller]
dc00-dc01 : OPL2/3 (left)
dc02-dc03 : OPL2/3 (right)
dc20-dc21 : MPU401 UART
e000-e003 : Yamaha Corporation YMF-744B [DS-1S Audio Controller]
e400-e43f : 3Com Corporation 3c905 100BaseTX [Boomerang]
e400-e43f : 00:0a.0

/proc/asound/version
--
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 0.9.0rc3.
Compiled on Sep  4 2002 for kernel 2.4.19-xfs with versioned symbols.

/prov/asound/seq/clients
--
Client info
  cur  clients : 4
  peak clients : 5
  max  clients : 192

Client   0 : System [Kernel]
  Port   0 : Timer (Rwe-)
  Port   1 : Announce (R-e-)
Connecting To: 63:0
Client  63 : OSS sequencer [Kernel]
  Port   0 : Receiver (-we-)
Connected From: 0:1
Client  64 : External MIDI 0 [Kernel]
  Port   0 : MIDI 0-0 (RWeX)
Client  65 : OPL3 FM synth [Kernel]
  Port   0 : OPL3 Port (-We-)
  Port   1 : OPL3 OSS Port (-we

[Alsa-user] alsa, ice1712 and aumix

2002-10-11 Thread Philip Balinov
Hi, i'm trying to get the Terratec DMX6Fire 24/96 to record via alsa oss 
compatibilty mode. For some reason aumix and oss can't find any recording 
source, i get:


[me@leenawx]# aumix
aumix:  no device found

and record says:

[me@leenawx]# record
mixer: havn't found device 'line'
mixer: available:

my modules.conf entries look like this:

# ALSA portion
alias sound snd-ice1712
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-ice1712
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0

alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L /dev/null 
21 || :
pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S /dev/null 
21 || :
post-install snd /usr/sbin/alsactl restore 0



playback via oss, and recordig and playback via alsa work fine, though, its 
only recording via oss that won't function. I think the reason it won't is 
that i've messed up my modules.conf entries. Can anyone help?

thank you,

philip

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[Alsa-user] alsa and mpeg4ip

2002-10-31 Thread Philip Balinov
 Hi, i'm trying to get the Terratec DMX6Fire 24/96 to record via alsa oss
 compatibilty mode. For some reason aumix and oss can't find any 
recording
 source, i get:

ice1712 has unconventional (as meaning of oss) mixer controls, and
cannot be mapped well to oss mixer elements as default.
try alsactl to save/restore the current state instead.

you can modify the mapping by writing back the entry of
/proc/asound/card0/oss_mixers.  it would be not perfect but you can
control some volumes at least.


 [me@leenawx]# aumix
 aumix:  no device found

 and record says:

 [me@leenawx]# record
 mixer: havn't found device 'line'
 mixer: available:

not sure what record program does.
perhaps checking an appropriate mixer device?
the other oss program, for example, rec included in sox should work.


ciao,

Takashi



Hi again,

thanks for  the advice, oss compatibility is working quite well now. but 
when i try to record sound using mpeg4ip (mpeg4ip.sourceforge.net), the 
computer locks up. it seems to be an compatibility issue between mpeg4ip and 
alsa, as when i try to run mpeg4ip on another box with soundblaster awe64 
value the same thing happens. the sb card works fine with mpeg4ip when i use 
OSS/Free, though. has anyone else had a similar problem with the computer 
locking up? any ideas what the reason could be?

philip balinov

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[Alsa-user] Fix For all those YMF744 and OPL3 people

2002-11-20 Thread Philip Thiem
It was just brought to my attention that the OPL3 bug fix
dicussed on alsa-devel has been added to cvs, so if you
are interest in the OPL3 FM in the YMF7XX you might give
the CVS tree a try.  Remember this is NOT XG Sythnesis.
It is the FM synthesis from the good old (MS/PC/DR)DOS days.

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[Alsa-user] FC6 and SPDIF issues on EPIA SP-13000

2007-03-27 Thread Philip Prindeville
I have an EPIA SP-13000 running FC6 (updated), but I
can't get SPDIF working to save my life.

I've got the following rpms:

alsa-lib-1.0.14-0.1.rc1.fc6
alsa-utils-1.0.14-0.1.rc1.fc6
alsa-lib-devel-1.0.14-0.1.rc1.fc6

and the default /etc/asound.conf.  Plus I set my
.asoundrc to be:

# As suggested on 
http://mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Configuring_Digital_Sound_with_AC3_and_SPDIF :
pcm.!default {
 type plug
 slave {
  pcm spdif
  rate 48000
  format S16_LE
 }
}



What am I missing?

Thanks,

-Philip





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[Alsa-user] Staticky built-in mike on Gateway Product Name: LT30

2010-05-09 Thread Philip Rhoades
People,

I have uninstalled pulseaudio and am using:

Linux 2.6.33.3-79.fc13.i686

The built in mike is working but with very bad sound and I can't get the
external mikes working.  alsa-info output is at:

http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=822b709ba5cbc783a762d5229613cd81d5c53b43

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks,

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[Alsa-user] MB with long-standing problem but I really just want to understand what is going on . .

2015-05-12 Thread Philip Rhoades
People,

I have been using this MotherBoard for years (it is probably the most 
reliable one I have ever had):

   http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/highlights/dsktpboards/dg45id

but from the beginning I had trouble with ALSA and the Line In port - 
documented here:

   
http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2009-February/014825.html

Mostly this has not been a problem since I only use the Line In port on 
infrequent occasions but it is annoying that when I do need to use it, 
sometimes, the method I have found to activate the port does not work 
and now using it seems to have permanently messed up the configuration 
for Back Mic for normal use somehow.  I have installed Fedora 22 on a 
new drive (currently using 21) and booting on the new disk cures the 
introduced problem so it appears not to be permanent sound card damage 
at all and just some sort of caching or other issue.  My procedure for 
getting the Line In port used to be this (although it didn't work this 
time and just caused a problem with the Back Mic):

- uninstall PulseAudio (or rename /usr/bin/pulseaudio)

- stop all apps auto starting that use ALSA

- reboot

- systemctl stop alsa-state.service

- echo 0x0c 0x01813021  /sys/class/sound/hwC0D2/user_pin_configs

- echo 1  /sys/class/sound/hwC0D2/reconfig

- chmod -R 777 /dev/snd

- systemctl start alsa-state.service

Going through this procedure showed up new controls in xfce4-mixer and 
everything worked fine for what I wanted to do - a reboot restored the 
original setup (it could also be done with echoing the original values). 
  It has been some years since I used this technique but now I can't get 
it to work and some of the new controls that show up in xfce4-mixer 
(Capture 1, Input Source 1)
don't disappear with a reboot - even if I:

   rm .config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-mixer.xml

!?  Also, from Audacity I can now no longer select Default for the 
microphone and I can't get any of the other options to record . .

Is anybody able to tell me what is going on?  I can just starting using 
F22 on the new drive and forget about using this procedure in the future 
but I don't like not knowing why things don't work reliably . .

Any useful information would be appreciated!

Regards,

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Re: [Alsa-user] Fedora 23 x86_64; Pulseaudio removed; playing from multiple sources serially

2015-10-06 Thread Philip Rhoades
Paolo,


On 2015-10-06 22:12, Paolo Bolzoni wrote:
> Sorry, my bad. I understood you needed to use a program that needed
> pulse audio without it; in this case apulse could help
> 
> However, if your problem is allowing to use the sound output to
> multiple programs at the same time. I had a similar problem and I
> solved it using dmix.
> 
> In my .asoundrc I had this pcm:
> pcm.PCH {
>   type asym
>   playback.pcm {
> type plug
> slave {
>   pcm {
> type dmix
> ipc_key 9175930
> ipc_key_add_uid true
> slave {
>   pcm "hw:PCH"
> }
>   }
>   }
>   }
>   capture.pcm "hw:PCH"
> }


I replaced my simple .asoundrc:

pcm.!default {
 type hw
 card 1
 device 0
}


with yours but with no improvement (I even rebooted to be sure - I have 
had so much problem with audio in the past):

- mplayer works fine in isolation

- YouTube works in isolation

- Mumble works in isolation

- If I have Mumble open, mplayer does not work

- If I have YT running, mplayer does not work

etc

It would be nice to pause whatever I am using ie NOT have to exit the 
program, and use another audio app and then come back to where I left 
off with the first app . .

Thanks,

Phil.


> On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Philip Rhoades <p...@pricom.com.au> 
> wrote:
>> Paolo,
>> 
>> 
>> On 2015-10-06 21:34, Paolo Bolzoni wrote:
>>> 
>>> It is meant to use skype without pulse audio, but it might help you?
>>> https://github.com/i-rinat/apulse
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I am not sure how Skype came into the discussion - I don't use it . .
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Phil.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 12:28 PM, Philip Rhoades <p...@pricom.com.au>
>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Chris,
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 2015-09-27 00:23, chris hermansen Sat wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Phil and list,
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Sep 26, 2015 03:21, "Philip Rhoades" <p...@pricom.com.au> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> People,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Years ago when I needed to simplify things to solve audio hardware
>>>>>> problems, I had to remove PA - and for every new version ever 
>>>>>> since I
>>>>>> have automatically uninstalled it to continue to keep things as 
>>>>>> simple
>>>>>> as possible - which generally works well for me.  Mostly I play 
>>>>>> audio
>>>>>> and video stuff from the CLI with mplayer but on odd occasions, 
>>>>>> like
>>>>>> when I want to listen to a long audio book, it is more convenient 
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> use
>>>>>> QuodLibet which remembers where I am up to on the MP3.  However I 
>>>>>> have
>>>>>> found that if I forget to exit QL, then mplayer does not work . . 
>>>>>> I
>>>>>> guess there is no solution to having multiple players open at the 
>>>>>> same
>>>>>> time - but not playing at the same time - and being able to switch
>>>>>> between them without reinstalling PA?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I also quite frequently have problems with audio on Chrome...
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Phil, my environment and use of it is somewhat different than 
>>>>> yours.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I use Ubuntu; leave Pulse in place; use the standard video 
>>>>> application
>>>>> (totem, I think) for video and Guayadeque for audio rather than 
>>>>> mplayer
>>>>> and
>>>>> QuodLibet, talking directly to Alsa and to an external DAC;
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> But I prefer the CLI . .
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> use Firefox for
>>>>> the web in general and for YouTube and Vimeo (though not much) and 
>>>>> use
>>>>> Chrome only for Netflix.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> That doesn't really suit me . .
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> Given those differences, my experience with Pulse in the last 
>>>>> several
>>>>> releases has been problem-free. In particular, no problems of the 
>>>&

Re: [Alsa-user] Fedora 23 x86_64; Pulseaudio removed; playing from multiple sources serially - a little progress . .

2015-10-07 Thread Philip Rhoades
Paolo, Anders,


On 2015-10-07 02:44, Paolo Bolzoni wrote:
> I use this default. It allows to select any pcm via environment 
> variable
> pcm.!default {
>   type plug
>   slave.pcm {
> @func getenv
> vars [ ALSAPCM ]
> default "pcm.PCH"
>   }
> }
> 
> As you can see the default is pcm.PCH I told you before. But it is
> useful to be able to change the sound pcm with ease because some
> programs do not like speak with dmix and want to speak with the
> hardware directly. (e.g., wine)
> 
> So, for that programs I use ALSAPCM=hw:PCH.
> 
> But, once again, names are probably different on your system.


OK, once I saw your comments about dmix I started to try and get that to 
work - what I have found so far:

1. With NO .asoundrc file - only ONE mplayer instance works

2. Using this .asoundrc:

pcm.!default {
   type plug
   slave.pcm "dmixer"
}

pcm.dmixer  {
   type dmix
   ipc_key 1024
   slave {
   pcm "hw:1,0"
   period_time 0
   period_size 1024
   buffer_size 4096
   rate 44100
   }
   bindings {
   0 0
   1 1
   }
}

ctl.dmixer {
   type hw
# card 0
   card 1
   device 0
}

I can get TWO mplayers going at the same time.

3. Using the .asoundrc above prevents Mumble and YouTube in Chrome 
working

4. With NO .asoundrc file and xfce4-mixer and alsamixer settings for 
Front Mike, Front Mike Boost, Rear Mike and Rear Mike Boost ALL muted, 
Mumble still works fine! - it looks like it is bypassing ALSA and 
talking directly to the port or something?

5. It looks like dmix setups can get quite complex - more reading is 
required I think . .

6. I found this: "NOTE: For ALSA 1.0.9rc2 and higher you don't need to 
setup dmix for analogue output. Dmix is enabled by default for 
soundcards which don't support hardware mixing. You still need to set it 
up for digital outputs." here:

   http://alsa.opensrc.org/Dmix

- so I'm not sure what that means for me - I am only using analogue 
output . .

7. It looks like with some correct dmix parameters for custom pcms for 
Mumble and Chrome/YouTube, I should be able to get those to work?

8. There is stuff about snd-aloop and asym that also might be relevant 
but I am a bit lost now . .

9. It looks like these problems go back a while:

   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=130593

but my problems seems like they should be soluble by now at least - even 
if I have to set up a custom pcm for each input source . .

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Re: [Alsa-user] Fedora 23 x86_64; Pulseaudio removed; playing from multiple sources serially

2015-10-06 Thread Philip Rhoades
Chris,


On 2015-09-27 00:23, chris hermansen Sat wrote:
> Phil and list,
> 
> On Sep 26, 2015 03:21, "Philip Rhoades" <p...@pricom.com.au> wrote:
>> 
>> People,
>> 
>> Years ago when I needed to simplify things to solve audio hardware
>> problems, I had to remove PA - and for every new version ever since I
>> have automatically uninstalled it to continue to keep things as simple
>> as possible - which generally works well for me.  Mostly I play audio
>> and video stuff from the CLI with mplayer but on odd occasions, like
>> when I want to listen to a long audio book, it is more convenient to 
>> use
>> QuodLibet which remembers where I am up to on the MP3.  However I have
>> found that if I forget to exit QL, then mplayer does not work . . I
>> guess there is no solution to having multiple players open at the same
>> time - but not playing at the same time - and being able to switch
>> between them without reinstalling PA?
>> 
>> I also quite frequently have problems with audio on Chrome...
> 
> Phil, my environment and use of it is somewhat different than yours.
> 
> I use Ubuntu; leave Pulse in place; use the standard video application
> (totem, I think) for video and Guayadeque for audio rather than mplayer 
> and
> QuodLibet, talking directly to Alsa and to an external DAC;


But I prefer the CLI . .


> use Firefox for
> the web in general and for YouTube and Vimeo (though not much) and use
> Chrome only for Netflix.


That doesn't really suit me . .


> Given those differences, my experience with Pulse in the last several
> releases has been problem-free. In particular, no problems of the type 
> you
> describe.
> 
> So my advice to you would be to try Pulse out again.


Maybe I should at least try reinstalling Pulse and see how it goes but I 
don't like that it introduces another layer of complexity when it might 
not be necessary . . I was hoping some ALSA guru here could tell me how 
to conveniently allow multiple sound sources without PA . .

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Re: [Alsa-user] Fedora 23 x86_64; Pulseaudio removed; playing from multiple sources serially

2015-10-06 Thread Philip Rhoades
Paolo,


On 2015-10-06 21:34, Paolo Bolzoni wrote:
> It is meant to use skype without pulse audio, but it might help you?
> https://github.com/i-rinat/apulse


I am not sure how Skype came into the discussion - I don't use it . .

Thanks,

Phil.



> On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 12:28 PM, Philip Rhoades <p...@pricom.com.au> 
> wrote:
>> Chris,
>> 
>> 
>> On 2015-09-27 00:23, chris hermansen Sat wrote:
>>> Phil and list,
>>> 
>>> On Sep 26, 2015 03:21, "Philip Rhoades" <p...@pricom.com.au> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> People,
>>>> 
>>>> Years ago when I needed to simplify things to solve audio hardware
>>>> problems, I had to remove PA - and for every new version ever since 
>>>> I
>>>> have automatically uninstalled it to continue to keep things as 
>>>> simple
>>>> as possible - which generally works well for me.  Mostly I play 
>>>> audio
>>>> and video stuff from the CLI with mplayer but on odd occasions, like
>>>> when I want to listen to a long audio book, it is more convenient to
>>>> use
>>>> QuodLibet which remembers where I am up to on the MP3.  However I 
>>>> have
>>>> found that if I forget to exit QL, then mplayer does not work . . I
>>>> guess there is no solution to having multiple players open at the 
>>>> same
>>>> time - but not playing at the same time - and being able to switch
>>>> between them without reinstalling PA?
>>>> 
>>>> I also quite frequently have problems with audio on Chrome...
>>> 
>>> Phil, my environment and use of it is somewhat different than yours.
>>> 
>>> I use Ubuntu; leave Pulse in place; use the standard video 
>>> application
>>> (totem, I think) for video and Guayadeque for audio rather than 
>>> mplayer
>>> and
>>> QuodLibet, talking directly to Alsa and to an external DAC;
>> 
>> 
>> But I prefer the CLI . .
>> 
>> 
>>> use Firefox for
>>> the web in general and for YouTube and Vimeo (though not much) and 
>>> use
>>> Chrome only for Netflix.
>> 
>> 
>> That doesn't really suit me . .
>> 
>> 
>>> Given those differences, my experience with Pulse in the last several
>>> releases has been problem-free. In particular, no problems of the 
>>> type
>>> you
>>> describe.
>>> 
>>> So my advice to you would be to try Pulse out again.
>> 
>> 
>> Maybe I should at least try reinstalling Pulse and see how it goes but 
>> I
>> don't like that it introduces another layer of complexity when it 
>> might
>> not be necessary . . I was hoping some ALSA guru here could tell me 
>> how
>> to conveniently allow multiple sound sources without PA . .
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Phil.
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[Alsa-user] Fedora 23 x86_64; Pulseaudio removed; playing from multiple sources serially

2015-09-26 Thread Philip Rhoades
People,

Years ago when I needed to simplify things to solve audio hardware 
problems, I had to remove PA - and for every new version ever since I 
have automatically uninstalled it to continue to keep things as simple 
as possible - which generally works well for me.  Mostly I play audio 
and video stuff from the CLI with mplayer but on odd occasions, like 
when I want to listen to a long audio book, it is more convenient to use 
QuodLibet which remembers where I am up to on the MP3.  However I have 
found that if I forget to exit QL, then mplayer does not work . . I 
guess there is no solution to having multiple players open at the same 
time - but not playing at the same time - and being able to switch 
between them without reinstalling PA?

I also quite frequently have problems with audio on Chrome but because I 
can't reliably reproduce the problem - in order I do:

- refresh tab

- exit and restart Chrome

- reboot

in order to get audio going again on Chrome - I am presuming this is a 
Chrome issue more than an ALSA issue . .

Thanks,

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Re: [Alsa-user] Fedora 23 x86_64; Pulseaudio removed; playing from multiple sources serially - a little progress . .

2015-12-10 Thread Philip Rhoades
People,


On 2015-10-08 18:16, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> Paolo Bolzoni wrote:
>> "Dmix is enabled by default for soundcards which don't support 
>> hardware mixing."
>> 
>> In my experience, this is a lie.
> 
> It is enabled in the ALSA device named "default".  That doesn't help
> with programs that hardcode a device name like "hw:0".
> 
> 
> You could try something like the following to find any programs that
> still try to use "hw":
> 
> pcm.my_hw {
>   @args [ CARD DEV ]
>   @args.CARD {
> type string
> default 1
>   }
>   @args.DEV {
> type integer
> default 0
>   }
>   type hw
>   card $CARD
>   device $DEV
>   subdevice -1
> }
> 
> pcm.dmixer {
>   slave.pcm "my_hw:1"
>   ...
> }
> 
> pcm.!hw = blow_up
> 
> 
> (You could also redefine "hw" to another valid device, but it would be
> a better idea to adjust the configuration of the respective program to
> use the correct device.)


This version has been rock-solid for a couple of months now:


pcm.!default {
  type plug
  slave.pcm "asymed"
}

# This is the audio output:
pcm.dmixer {
  type dmix
  ipc_key 1024
  slave {
pcm "hw:1,0"
period_time 0
period_size 1024
buffer_size 4096
rate 44100
  }
  bindings {
0 0
1 1
  }
}

ctl.dmixer {
  type hw
  card 0
}

# This is the microphone
pcm.dsnooped {
  ipc_key 1027
  type dsnoop
  slave.pcm "hw:1,0"
}

# This makes both channels work together.
pcm.asymed {
  type asym
  playback.pcm "dmixer"
  capture.pcm "dsnooped"
}


I am very happy now!  Thanks for all your help!

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Re: [Alsa-user] A long shot I know: recording from a POTS phone for voicemail

2016-02-23 Thread Philip Rhoades
Guys,


On 2016-02-24 11:28, chris hermansen wrote:
> Doug, Philip, list;
> 
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 4:06 PM, doug <dmcgarr...@optonline.net>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 02/23/2016 03:10 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote:
>>> People,
>>> 
>>> I know this is a bit of a long shot but does anyone here have any
>>> experience setting up a voicemail recording system for a POTS
>> phone?  I
>>> thought it should be simpler than using say using Asterisk to set
>> up a
>>> whole PABX but maybe it isn't . .
>>> 
>>> Yhanks,
>>> 
>>> Phil.
>> It depends on what you are trying to do. If you just want to record
>> the
>> audio on a telephone line, the easiest way is
>> a small audio transformer and a capacitor. Say a 1 Ohm 1:1 audio
>> transformer and about a 0.1 microfarad capacitor
>> rated at 100 volts DC or better in series with the transformer on
>> the
>> phone line side. Connect the secondary to the recorder
>> or computer line input.
>> 
>> If you're trying to run voice in both directions from, say, a
>> computer
>> to the phone line, you need a telephone modem, which
>> is explicitly designed to do that job.


The main reason is to simply replace my answering machine with my 
computer - I don't need to make calls out or record my conversations or 
anything like that - the setup justs needs to answer the phone when I am 
not around and record a message as a WAV file or something . .


> Most older laptops include a modem.  Or if you don't have one of those
> you can buy a cheapo modem
> 
> Here is a reference you might find useful
> http://www.linuxtoys.org/answer/answering_machine.html
> 
> Here is another http://frank.harvard.edu/~coldwell/answering_machine/
> 
> Another
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/513004/telephone-call-answering-machine-software
> 
> Another
> http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/44624/is-there-a-way-for-linux-to-pick-up-the-phone
> 
> You may also be able to do the job with vgetty
> http://linux.die.net/man/8/vgetty


I will have a look at all that - thanks!

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[Alsa-user] A long shot I know: recording from a POTS phone for voicemail

2016-02-23 Thread Philip Rhoades
People,

I know this is a bit of a long shot but does anyone here have any 
experience setting up a voicemail recording system for a POTS phone?  I 
thought it should be simpler than using say using Asterisk to set up a 
whole PABX but maybe it isn't . .

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Re: [Alsa-user] Fedora 23 x86_64; Pulseaudio removed; playing from multiple sources serially - a little progress . . UPDATE

2017-09-03 Thread Philip Rhoades

Ralf,


On 2017-09-04 14:57, Philip Rhoades wrote:

Ralf,


On 2017-09-04 02:01, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

On Mon, 04 Sep 2017 00:50:24 +1000, Philip Rhoades wrote:
I now want to use "recordmydesktop" which is working fine with the 
mic

but not recording sound from videos that are playing eg from YouTube
or local mpv etc - hopefully an alsa guru will have a solution for 
me?


Sorry, I can't help, but perhaps one of the following software is
helpful:

https://github.com/i-rinat/apulse
https://github.com/vkohaupt/vokoscreen

I don't know if

  vokoscreen



With "Pulse" selected as audio input does not work . . although at
least it was good to compare recordmydesktop to vokoscreen  .



or

  apulse vokoscreen



Does not work either . .



does work, at least

  apulse firefox

works.



Which doesn't  help my situation unfortunately . .



As an exercise I tried this:

  apulse google-chrome

but it didn't work either.

Thanks,

Phil.



Anyone on the list who sees this and needs to see my .asoundrc file
should see my previous post.

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Re: [Alsa-user] Fedora 23 x86_64; Pulseaudio removed; playing from multiple sources serially - a little progress . . UPDATE

2017-09-03 Thread Philip Rhoades

Ralf,


On 2017-09-04 02:01, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

On Mon, 04 Sep 2017 00:50:24 +1000, Philip Rhoades wrote:

I now want to use "recordmydesktop" which is working fine with the mic
but not recording sound from videos that are playing eg from YouTube
or local mpv etc - hopefully an alsa guru will have a solution for me?


Sorry, I can't help, but perhaps one of the following software is
helpful:

https://github.com/i-rinat/apulse
https://github.com/vkohaupt/vokoscreen

I don't know if

  vokoscreen



With "Pulse" selected as audio input does not work . . although at least 
it was good to compare recordmydesktop to vokoscreen  .




or

  apulse vokoscreen



Does not work either . .



does work, at least

  apulse firefox

works.



Which doesn't  help my situation unfortunately . .

Anyone on the list who sees this and needs to see my .asoundrc file 
should see my previous post.


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[Alsa-user] Fedora 28 x86_64; Pulseaudio removed - using "recordmydesktop" to record sound from mic AND the computer (eg from YouTube)

2018-08-23 Thread Philip Rhoades

People,

Is this possible?  My current .asoundrc is below.

Thanks!

Phil.


pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm "asymed"
}

# This is the audio output:
pcm.dmixer {
type dmix
ipc_key 1024
slave {
pcm "hw:0,0"
period_time 0
period_size 1024
buffer_size 4096
rate 44100
}
bindings {
0 0
1 1
}
}

ctl.dmixer {
type hw
card 0
}

# This is the microphone
pcm.dsnooped {
ipc_key 1027
type dsnoop
slave.pcm "hw:0,0"
}

# This makes both channels work together.
pcm.asymed {
type asym
playback.pcm "dmixer"
capture.pcm "dsnooped"
}


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Re: [Alsa-user] aplay weirdness

2018-08-30 Thread Philip Rhoades

Jay,


On 2018-08-31 01:42, Jay Foster wrote:

What version of aplay?



alsa-utils-1.1.6-1.fc28.x86_64



If it is version 1.1.6, you might be running
into this issue:
From: Takashi Iwai 
Subject: [PATCH] aplay: Fix invalid file size check for non-regular
files



Looks like you nailed it - so I will have to build my own I guess . .

Thanks!

P.



aplay tries to check the file size via fstat() at parsing the format
headers and avoids parsing when the size is shorter than the given
size.  This works fine for regular files, but when a special file like
pipe is passed, it fails, eventually leading to the fallback mode
wrongly.

A proper fix is to do this sanity check only for a regular file.

Reported-by: Jay Foster 
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai 
---
 aplay/aplay.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/aplay/aplay.c b/aplay/aplay.c
index bbd7fffa04fc..63ec9efbebc1 100644
--- a/aplay/aplay.c
+++ b/aplay/aplay.c
@@ -2821,7 +2821,8 @@ static int read_header(int *loaded, int
header_size)

 /* don't be adventurous, get out if file size is smaller than
  * requested header size */
-if (buf.st_size < header_size)
+if ((buf.st_mode & S_IFMT) == S_IFREG &&
+buf.st_size < header_size)
 return -1;

 if (*loaded < header_size) {

Jay

On 8/30/2018 2:50 AM, Philip Rhoades wrote:


People,

This produces a crashing static sound:

espeak --stdout 'words to speak' | aplay

but this works as expected:

espeak --stdout 'words to speak' > ./t
aplay ./t

What is wrong with the first command?

Thanks,

Phil.

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[Alsa-user] aplay weirdness

2018-08-30 Thread Philip Rhoades

People,

This produces a crashing static sound:

  espeak --stdout 'words to speak' | aplay

but this works as expected:

  espeak --stdout 'words to speak' > ./t
  aplay ./t

What is wrong with the first command?

Thanks,

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Re: [Alsa-user] aplay weirdness

2018-08-30 Thread Philip Rhoades

Clemens,


On 2018-08-30 20:29, Clemens Ladisch via Alsa-user wrote:

Philip Rhoades wrote:

This produces a crashing static sound:

  espeak --stdout 'words to speak' | aplay

but this works as expected:

  espeak --stdout 'words to speak' > ./t
  aplay ./t


Is there a difference in the output of "hexdump -C -n48 ./t" and
"espeak --stdout 'words to speak' | hexdump -C -n48"?



hexdump -C -n48 ./t
  52 49 46 46 24 f0 ff 7f  57 41 56 45 66 6d 74 20  
|RIFF$...WAVEfmt |
0010  10 00 00 00 01 00 01 00  22 56 00 00 44 ac 00 00  
|"V..D...|
0020  02 00 10 00 64 61 74 61  00 f0 ff 7f 00 00 00 00  
|data|

0030

espeak --stdout 'words to speak' | hexdump -C -n48
  52 49 46 46 24 f0 ff 7f  57 41 56 45 66 6d 74 20  
|RIFF$...WAVEfmt |
0010  10 00 00 00 01 00 01 00  22 56 00 00 44 ac 00 00  
|"V..D...|
0020  02 00 10 00 64 61 74 61  00 f0 ff 7f e7 ff cd ff  
|data|

0030

Hmm . . four bytes at the end . .

P.



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Re: [Alsa-user] Problem with sending a reply to the list - previous replies were OK . .

2020-08-03 Thread Philip Rhoades

lists,


On 2020-08-03 17:13, lists wrote:
I run my own email server. I use this to verify my server is working 
properly.


https://dkimvalidator.com/



Thanks - I will have a look.



I haven't been following this thread. If you aren't running your own
email server, I don't see how you can effect SPF or DKIM.



Yes I do run my own email server (IndiMail - an updated version of 
QMail) - the problem is that of the reports I get daily about my setup, 
only roughly 50% pass DKIM - it is better for SPF.  I don't understand 
why it is not 0% or 100% . .




SPF means your email comes from an IP address that is allowed to send
email from your domain.



Yes.



This is handled by your DNS. DKIM is
substantially more difficult to explain. It is a way to
cryptographically sign your message. If you pass DKIM then the message
has not been altered.



How could my DKIM setup not be either 0% or 100% ?



One way to fail SPF is to use a remailer.



Well I don't have that problem . .

Thanks for the info!

Phil.





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Subject: Re: [Alsa-user] Problem with sending a reply to the list -
previous replies were OK . .


Alan,


On 2020-08-03 01:43, Alan Corey wrote:

I don''t remember the exact error message, it was something like
"unable to establish secure connection to ...".  I spent a lot of time
digging into it and the simple fix was just to reboot the router which
hadn't been done in months.  My router then was a cell phone with
battery and charger so it was mostly always up.  It was affecting SSL
connections to some web sites but not all.



As expected, rebooting my modem did not help - I still get the DKIM
error messages when I post to this list - I will just have to spend 
more

time on it yet again to try and work out why some sites are failing . .
it would be nice if there are some DKIM / DMARC / SPF gurus here who
could help me . .

Thanks,

Phil.




On 8/2/20, Philip Rhoades  wrote:

Alan,


On 2020-07-30 14:44, Alan Corey wrote:

When was the last time you rebooted your router?  I've seen that
solve
weird things.



Just did that now before sending this reply . . but I bet I will get
this stupid DMARC / DKIM problem again . .

Thanks,

P.



On 7/30/20, Philip Rhoades  wrote:

Alan,


On 2020-07-29 23:58, Alan Corey wrote:

Could it be because you changed the subject line?  It wouldn't
surprise me if something does a hash of the subject.  I don't know
a
lot about secure email with SSL and all that.



I don't think so - posting this note also caused me to receive
similar
error messages - even though in both cases the email made it onto
the
list . . must be some sort of DKIM problem I think . .

Thanks,

Phil.



On 7/29/20, Philip Rhoades  wrote:

People,

I tried to reply to my previous thread with a slightly modified
Subject:

    SOLVED: Re: Anybody got Google Meet going on Linux (Fedora)
with
just
ALSA (ie not with PulseAudio)?

and received a response:

This is an authentication failure report for an email message
received
from pricom.com.au on Wed Jul 29 10:43:32 UTC 2020
Received-SPF: pass (domain of lists.sourceforge.net designates
216.105.38.7 as permitted sender)
Authentication-Results: atlas201.free.mail.ir2.yahoo.com;
   dkim=perm_fail header.i=@sourceforge.net header.s=x;
   dkim=perm_fail header.i=@sf.net header.s=x;
   dkim=perm_fail header.i=@pricom.com.au header.s=phr1;
   spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lists.sourceforge.net;
   dmarc=success(p=NONE,sp=NONE) header.from=pricom.com.au;
.
.

How can I fix this?

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Re: [Alsa-user] Problem with sending a reply to the list - previous replies were OK . .

2020-07-29 Thread Philip Rhoades

Alan,


On 2020-07-29 23:58, Alan Corey wrote:

Could it be because you changed the subject line?  It wouldn't
surprise me if something does a hash of the subject.  I don't know a
lot about secure email with SSL and all that.



I don't think so - posting this note also caused me to receive similar 
error messages - even though in both cases the email made it onto the 
list . . must be some sort of DKIM problem I think . .


Thanks,

Phil.



On 7/29/20, Philip Rhoades  wrote:

People,

I tried to reply to my previous thread with a slightly modified 
Subject:


   SOLVED: Re: Anybody got Google Meet going on Linux (Fedora) with 
just

ALSA (ie not with PulseAudio)?

and received a response:

This is an authentication failure report for an email message received
from pricom.com.au on Wed Jul 29 10:43:32 UTC 2020
Received-SPF: pass (domain of lists.sourceforge.net designates
216.105.38.7 as permitted sender)
Authentication-Results: atlas201.free.mail.ir2.yahoo.com;
  dkim=perm_fail header.i=@sourceforge.net header.s=x;
  dkim=perm_fail header.i=@sf.net header.s=x;
  dkim=perm_fail header.i=@pricom.com.au header.s=phr1;
  spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lists.sourceforge.net;
  dmarc=success(p=NONE,sp=NONE) header.from=pricom.com.au;
.
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How can I fix this?

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[Alsa-user] This appears to be the problem I am getting with this list - and now other lists - DMARC / DKIM / SPF

2020-08-03 Thread Philip Rhoades

People,

FYI, this seems to explain (most of) my hassles mailing to this list:

  Yahoo breaks every mailing list in the world including the IETF's
  
https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ietf/J-IsfA0Lb-6T_NeMD1ENKZyb9tA/


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Re: [Alsa-user] This appears to be the problem I am getting with this list - and now other lists - DMARC / DKIM / SPF

2020-08-04 Thread Philip Rhoades

lists,


On 2020-08-04 16:41, lists wrote:

I just logged into my yahoo account and used the dkimvalidator. It
passes SPF and DKIM perfectly.



So does mine . .



I really doubted the claim that they
don't pass DMARC since they helped set the standard.



Well that is an old article but it looks so much like my problem I 
figured it must be related . .




As an aside, Google is happy with either passing SPF or DKIM.



Right.



From a
spam viewpoint, if you pass SPF then you are authorized to send email
from that server. There is a slight chance that the domain got
spoofed, and that would make it trivial to spoof the SPF.



Well, as I said before, despite passing the above checking site - I get 
reports like the attached which reports fails more often than not for 
DKIM less so for SPF . .




DKIM is another story. It involves public and private keys. For
postfix to sign the message with DKIM, you need the private key on the
server. The public key is in the DNS so that links it to the domain.
So if you own the domain and the private key, you must be legit. Mind
you I have simplified DKIM slightly since it isn't worth me spewing a
half dozen more paragraphs.



See previous response.



Try your account with the dkimvalidator:
https://dkimvalidator.com/



I did when I had set up this stuff originally (as I said above - 
everything passed OK then and still does now) - something has recently 
changed - I am getting dozens of stupid Yahoo messages every time I mail 
to this list now . .




The website creates an email address. You send a message to that email
address. Don't leave the subject line or message block blank if you
want a valid spam assassination score.

Wait a minute or two, then click on the check results box. The output
is a bit wordly, but you will see verification for spf and dkim.

This is the website I use when setting up email servers.



Yes, I had forgotten that I had also used it originally.



Technically I have only proved SPF and DKIM work. That should be all
that a mailing list requires.



Apparently not anymore . .



DMARC is a bit more complicated to
explain, but it isn't worth talking about unless you fail SPF or DKIM.
The email system administrator in theory processes reports from other
email servers in order to see if any accounts on their server have
been spoofed. I say in theory because there is no way to tell if the
administrator reads the DMARC reports.



Anyway, now that this problem appears to be greater than this list - I 
should pursue problem-solving in a more appropriate place!  Thanks.



On the bright side, I have had no ALSA problems in my latest opensuse 
upgrade!



Great! - although am a Fedora person myself . .

Regards,

Phil.




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Subject: [Alsa-user] This appears to be the problem I am getting with
this list - and now other lists - DMARC / DKIM / SPF


People,

FYI, this seems to explain (most of) my hassles mailing to this list:

   Yahoo breaks every mailing list in the world including the IETF's
  
https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ietf/J-IsfA0Lb-6T_NeMD1ENKZyb9tA/

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Re: [Alsa-user] Problem with sending a reply to the list - previous replies were OK . .

2020-08-02 Thread Philip Rhoades

Alan,


On 2020-07-30 14:44, Alan Corey wrote:

When was the last time you rebooted your router?  I've seen that solve
weird things.



Just did that now before sending this reply . . but I bet I will get 
this stupid DMARC / DKIM problem again . .


Thanks,

P.



On 7/30/20, Philip Rhoades  wrote:

Alan,


On 2020-07-29 23:58, Alan Corey wrote:

Could it be because you changed the subject line?  It wouldn't
surprise me if something does a hash of the subject.  I don't know a
lot about secure email with SSL and all that.



I don't think so - posting this note also caused me to receive similar
error messages - even though in both cases the email made it onto the
list . . must be some sort of DKIM problem I think . .

Thanks,

Phil.



On 7/29/20, Philip Rhoades  wrote:

People,

I tried to reply to my previous thread with a slightly modified
Subject:

   SOLVED: Re: Anybody got Google Meet going on Linux (Fedora) with
just
ALSA (ie not with PulseAudio)?

and received a response:

This is an authentication failure report for an email message 
received

from pricom.com.au on Wed Jul 29 10:43:32 UTC 2020
Received-SPF: pass (domain of lists.sourceforge.net designates
216.105.38.7 as permitted sender)
Authentication-Results: atlas201.free.mail.ir2.yahoo.com;
  dkim=perm_fail header.i=@sourceforge.net header.s=x;
  dkim=perm_fail header.i=@sf.net header.s=x;
  dkim=perm_fail header.i=@pricom.com.au header.s=phr1;
  spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lists.sourceforge.net;
  dmarc=success(p=NONE,sp=NONE) header.from=pricom.com.au;
.
.

How can I fix this?

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Re: [Alsa-user] Problem with sending a reply to the list - previous replies were OK . .

2020-08-03 Thread Philip Rhoades

Alan,


On 2020-08-03 01:43, Alan Corey wrote:

I don''t remember the exact error message, it was something like
"unable to establish secure connection to ...".  I spent a lot of time
digging into it and the simple fix was just to reboot the router which
hadn't been done in months.  My router then was a cell phone with
battery and charger so it was mostly always up.  It was affecting SSL
connections to some web sites but not all.



As expected, rebooting my modem did not help - I still get the DKIM 
error messages when I post to this list - I will just have to spend more 
time on it yet again to try and work out why some sites are failing . . 
it would be nice if there are some DKIM / DMARC / SPF gurus here who 
could help me . .


Thanks,

Phil.




On 8/2/20, Philip Rhoades  wrote:

Alan,


On 2020-07-30 14:44, Alan Corey wrote:
When was the last time you rebooted your router?  I've seen that 
solve

weird things.



Just did that now before sending this reply . . but I bet I will get
this stupid DMARC / DKIM problem again . .

Thanks,

P.



On 7/30/20, Philip Rhoades  wrote:

Alan,


On 2020-07-29 23:58, Alan Corey wrote:

Could it be because you changed the subject line?  It wouldn't
surprise me if something does a hash of the subject.  I don't know 
a

lot about secure email with SSL and all that.



I don't think so - posting this note also caused me to receive 
similar
error messages - even though in both cases the email made it onto 
the

list . . must be some sort of DKIM problem I think . .

Thanks,

Phil.



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People,

I tried to reply to my previous thread with a slightly modified
Subject:

   SOLVED: Re: Anybody got Google Meet going on Linux (Fedora) 
with

just
ALSA (ie not with PulseAudio)?

and received a response:

This is an authentication failure report for an email message
received
from pricom.com.au on Wed Jul 29 10:43:32 UTC 2020
Received-SPF: pass (domain of lists.sourceforge.net designates
216.105.38.7 as permitted sender)
Authentication-Results: atlas201.free.mail.ir2.yahoo.com;
  dkim=perm_fail header.i=@sourceforge.net header.s=x;
  dkim=perm_fail header.i=@sf.net header.s=x;
  dkim=perm_fail header.i=@pricom.com.au header.s=phr1;
  spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lists.sourceforge.net;
  dmarc=success(p=NONE,sp=NONE) header.from=pricom.com.au;
.
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Re: [Alsa-user] Anybody got Google Meet going on Linux (Fedora) with just ALSA (ie not with PulseAudio)?

2020-07-26 Thread Philip Rhoades

Peter,


On 2020-07-26 19:39, Peter P. wrote:

* Philip Rhoades  [2020-07-26 10:11]:

People,

I am not sure what is going on - I seem to have had increased sound 
problems
on recent versions of Fedora (30-31).  I have been routinely 
uninstalling PA
for some years and haven't had more than the usual number of problems 
with

audio in that time.  Currently:

alsa-lib-1.2.1.2-4.fc31.i686
alsa-lib-1.2.1.2-4.fc31.x86_64
alsa-ucm-1.2.1.2-4.fc31.noarch
alsa-utils-1.2.1-3.fc31.x86_64
alsamixergui-0.9.0-0.29.rc2.fc31.x86_64
qemu-audio-alsa-4.1.1-1.fc31.x86_64
wine-alsa-5.0-1.fc31.i686
wine-alsa-5.0-1.fc31.x86_64

http://alsa-project.org/db/?f=0da7d0299aadfe9dc87c66a526ee14c7806776c7

If I use the analog rear mic instead of "Default" on GoogleMeet people 
can
hear me but I can't hear them - but the "Speakers" option can't be 
changed

from "Default".

Playing YT videos is fine and I can record from my mic here:

  https://online-voice-recorder.com

Any suggestions about debugging would be greatly appreciated.


Which browser ist this



google-chrome-stable-83.0.4103.61-1.x86_64



and have you tried the apulse package (at least
that's what it's called on Debian



Doesn't that mean I would have to reinstall PA?

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[Alsa-user] Anybody got Google Meet going on Linux (Fedora) with just ALSA (ie not with PulseAudio)?

2020-07-26 Thread Philip Rhoades

People,

I am not sure what is going on - I seem to have had increased sound 
problems on recent versions of Fedora (30-31).  I have been routinely 
uninstalling PA for some years and haven't had more than the usual 
number of problems with audio in that time.  Currently:


alsa-lib-1.2.1.2-4.fc31.i686
alsa-lib-1.2.1.2-4.fc31.x86_64
alsa-ucm-1.2.1.2-4.fc31.noarch
alsa-utils-1.2.1-3.fc31.x86_64
alsamixergui-0.9.0-0.29.rc2.fc31.x86_64
qemu-audio-alsa-4.1.1-1.fc31.x86_64
wine-alsa-5.0-1.fc31.i686
wine-alsa-5.0-1.fc31.x86_64

http://alsa-project.org/db/?f=0da7d0299aadfe9dc87c66a526ee14c7806776c7

If I use the analog rear mic instead of "Default" on GoogleMeet people 
can hear me but I can't hear them - but the "Speakers" option can't be 
changed from "Default".


Playing YT videos is fine and I can record from my mic here:

  https://online-voice-recorder.com

Any suggestions about debugging would be greatly appreciated.

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Re: [Alsa-user] Anybody got Google Meet going on Linux (Fedora) with just ALSA (ie not with PulseAudio)?

2020-07-26 Thread Philip Rhoades

Peter,


On 2020-07-26 21:18, Philip Rhoades wrote:

Peter,


On 2020-07-26 19:39, Peter P. wrote:

* Philip Rhoades  [2020-07-26 10:11]:

People,

I am not sure what is going on - I seem to have had increased sound 
problems
on recent versions of Fedora (30-31).  I have been routinely 
uninstalling PA
for some years and haven't had more than the usual number of problems 
with

audio in that time.  Currently:

alsa-lib-1.2.1.2-4.fc31.i686
alsa-lib-1.2.1.2-4.fc31.x86_64
alsa-ucm-1.2.1.2-4.fc31.noarch
alsa-utils-1.2.1-3.fc31.x86_64
alsamixergui-0.9.0-0.29.rc2.fc31.x86_64
qemu-audio-alsa-4.1.1-1.fc31.x86_64
wine-alsa-5.0-1.fc31.i686
wine-alsa-5.0-1.fc31.x86_64

http://alsa-project.org/db/?f=0da7d0299aadfe9dc87c66a526ee14c7806776c7

If I use the analog rear mic instead of "Default" on GoogleMeet 
people can
hear me but I can't hear them - but the "Speakers" option can't be 
changed

from "Default".

Playing YT videos is fine and I can record from my mic here:

  https://online-voice-recorder.com

Any suggestions about debugging would be greatly appreciated.


Which browser ist this



google-chrome-stable-83.0.4103.61-1.x86_64



and have you tried the apulse package (at least
that's what it's called on Debian



Doesn't that mean I would have to reinstall PA?



Doesn't appear to exist for Fedora anyway . .

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[Alsa-user] SOLVED: Re: Anybody got Google Meet going on Linux (Fedora) with just ALSA (ie not with PulseAudio)?

2020-07-29 Thread Philip Rhoades

People,

I eventually narrowed down what the problem was:

- a new test user on the same workstation worked fine

- a different profile (attached to the non-working user) worked fine

- using the Chrome reset account facility fixed the problem

- reinstalling some Chrome extensions caused the problem again

I have narrowed it down to either a YouTube video speed controller or an 
extension for preventing automatic playing of YT videos . . somehow one 
or other of these extensions, for Google Meet and Jitsi prevents the 
speakers from working at all and the mic needs to be changed from 
Default to Analog . . weird . .


So now I have work-arounds anyway . . a somewhat interesting exercise I 
guess . .


Thanks,

Phil.


On 2020-07-26 17:43, Philip Rhoades wrote:

People,

I am not sure what is going on - I seem to have had increased sound
problems on recent versions of Fedora (30-31).  I have been routinely
uninstalling PA for some years and haven't had more than the usual
number of problems with audio in that time.  Currently:

alsa-lib-1.2.1.2-4.fc31.i686
alsa-lib-1.2.1.2-4.fc31.x86_64
alsa-ucm-1.2.1.2-4.fc31.noarch
alsa-utils-1.2.1-3.fc31.x86_64
alsamixergui-0.9.0-0.29.rc2.fc31.x86_64
qemu-audio-alsa-4.1.1-1.fc31.x86_64
wine-alsa-5.0-1.fc31.i686
wine-alsa-5.0-1.fc31.x86_64

http://alsa-project.org/db/?f=0da7d0299aadfe9dc87c66a526ee14c7806776c7

If I use the analog rear mic instead of "Default" on GoogleMeet people
can hear me but I can't hear them - but the "Speakers" option can't be
changed from "Default".

Playing YT videos is fine and I can record from my mic here:

  https://online-voice-recorder.com

Any suggestions about debugging would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Phil.


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[Alsa-user] Problem with sending a reply to the list - previous replies were OK . .

2020-07-29 Thread Philip Rhoades

People,

I tried to reply to my previous thread with a slightly modified Subject:

  SOLVED: Re: Anybody got Google Meet going on Linux (Fedora) with just 
ALSA (ie not with PulseAudio)?


and received a response:

This is an authentication failure report for an email message received 
from pricom.com.au on Wed Jul 29 10:43:32 UTC 2020
Received-SPF: pass (domain of lists.sourceforge.net designates 
216.105.38.7 as permitted sender)

Authentication-Results: atlas201.free.mail.ir2.yahoo.com;
 dkim=perm_fail header.i=@sourceforge.net header.s=x;
 dkim=perm_fail header.i=@sf.net header.s=x;
 dkim=perm_fail header.i=@pricom.com.au header.s=phr1;
 spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lists.sourceforge.net;
 dmarc=success(p=NONE,sp=NONE) header.from=pricom.com.au;
.
.

How can I fix this?

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Re: [Alsa-user] Anybody got Google Meet going on Linux (Fedora) with just ALSA (ie not with PulseAudio)?

2020-07-26 Thread Philip Rhoades

Geordon,


On 2020-07-27 04:20, 3DTechnics wrote:

Peter,

I switched to apulse from PA in gentoo.works well.



Although I am using Fedora I installed OpenSuse's apulse (which should 
be OK I think):


  apulse-0.1.12-lp152.1.3.x86_64.rpm

- now I get:

  "No microphone found"

and for "Speakers", as well as "Default", I now also have:

  "default and only sync"

but neither of those work with the speaker test still.

I see at CLI:

apulse google-chrome-stable
/bin/apulse:10: DeprecationWarning: The SafeConfigParser class has been 
renamed to ConfigParser in Python 3.2. This alias will be removed in 
future versions. Use ConfigParser directly instead.

  conf_parser = configparser.SafeConfigParser()
MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information
MESA-LOADER: failed to open i915 (search paths /usr/lib64/dri)
failed to load driver: i915
MESA-LOADER: failed to open kms_swrast (search paths /usr/lib64/dri)
failed to load driver: kms_swrast
MESA-LOADER: failed to open swrast (search paths /usr/lib64/dri)
failed to load swrast driver

and when I try to test the speakers I get:

[437680:437680:0727/121043.555607:ERROR:gles2_cmd_decoder.cc(3601)] 
ContextResult::kFatalFailure: fail_if_major_perf_caveat + swiftshader


So I guess I could try building apulse from source for Fedora but I 
suspect that is not going to improve things . .


Thanks,

Phil.



Geordon



Peter,


On 2020-07-26 21:18, Philip Rhoades wrote:

Peter,


On 2020-07-26 19:39, Peter P. wrote:

* Philip Rhoades  [2020-07-26 10:11]:

People,

I am not sure what is going on - I seem to have had increased sound
problems
on recent versions of Fedora (30-31).  I have been routinely
uninstalling PA
for some years and haven't had more than the usual number of 
problems

with
audio in that time.  Currently:

alsa-lib-1.2.1.2-4.fc31.i686
alsa-lib-1.2.1.2-4.fc31.x86_64
alsa-ucm-1.2.1.2-4.fc31.noarch
alsa-utils-1.2.1-3.fc31.x86_64
alsamixergui-0.9.0-0.29.rc2.fc31.x86_64
qemu-audio-alsa-4.1.1-1.fc31.x86_64
wine-alsa-5.0-1.fc31.i686
wine-alsa-5.0-1.fc31.x86_64

http://alsa-project.org/db/?f=0da7d0299aadfe9dc87c66a526ee14c7806776c7

If I use the analog rear mic instead of "Default" on GoogleMeet
people can
hear me but I can't hear them - but the "Speakers" option can't be
changed
from "Default".

Playing YT videos is fine and I can record from my mic here:

  https://online-voice-recorder.com

Any suggestions about debugging would be greatly appreciated.


Which browser ist this



google-chrome-stable-83.0.4103.61-1.x86_64



and have you tried the apulse package (at least
that's what it's called on Debian



Doesn't that mean I would have to reinstall PA?



Doesn't appear to exist for Fedora anyway . .

Thanks,

Phil.
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Re: [Alsa-user] Anybody got Google Meet going on Linux (Fedora) with just ALSA (ie not with PulseAudio)?

2020-07-26 Thread Philip Rhoades

Robert,


On 2020-07-27 04:55, rm.ric...@jacob21819.net wrote:

Have you experimented with different content in your .asoundrc
file?



Not in recent years . .



I don't know about Google Meet and Chromium specifically,
but other setup (the old Firefox Hello, for example) required a
specific .asoundrc to make it work.  IIRC, this is it:

defaults.pcm.card 0
defaults.ctl.card 0



Tried creating a new .asoundrc with those lines in it - no improvement . 
.


Thanks,

Phil.



HTH

Robert




Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2020 17:43:12 +1000
From: Philip Rhoades 
To: ALSA user 
Reply-To: p...@pricom.com.au

People,

I am not sure what is going on - I seem to have had increased sound
problems on recent versions of Fedora (30-31).  I have been routinely
uninstalling PA for some years and haven't had more than the usual
number of problems with audio in that time.  Currently:

alsa-lib-1.2.1.2-4.fc31.i686
alsa-lib-1.2.1.2-4.fc31.x86_64
alsa-ucm-1.2.1.2-4.fc31.noarch
alsa-utils-1.2.1-3.fc31.x86_64
alsamixergui-0.9.0-0.29.rc2.fc31.x86_64
qemu-audio-alsa-4.1.1-1.fc31.x86_64
wine-alsa-5.0-1.fc31.i686
wine-alsa-5.0-1.fc31.x86_64

http://alsa-project.org/db/?f=0da7d0299aadfe9dc87c66a526ee14c7806776c7

If I use the analog rear mic instead of "Default" on GoogleMeet people
can hear me but I can't hear them - but the "Speakers" option can't be
changed from "Default".

Playing YT videos is fine and I can record from my mic here:

   https://online-voice-recorder.com

Any suggestions about debugging would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Phil.
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[Alsa-user] Problem with kernel 2.6

2003-11-09 Thread Philip M. White
Hello, all.  I tried to search the archives for my problem, but couldn't
access them -- connection kept timing out.

I use a SoundBlaster 16(?) PCI sound card.  Until yesterday I ran Gentoo
with kernel 2.4.21 and with ALSA configured for the snd-ens1371 driver. 
Everything worked.

Yesterday I decided to upgrade to kernel 2.6.0-test9.  So, I stopped the
alsasound service from coming up at boot and interfering with the kernel,
and compiled Sound cart support as a module, ALSA as a module, RTC timer
support as a module, and (Creative) Ensoniq AudioPCI 1371/1373 as a
module.

Having restarted, I did modprobe snd, which worked.  Then I did
modprobe snd-ens1371 which paused for about 3 seconds and supposedly
loaded.  However, when I viewed dmesg, I got the following:

AC'97 0:0 does not respond - RESET
ENS1371: probe of :00:0c.0 failed with error -6

Viewing /proc/asound/cards showed that the kernel is not aware of any
sound cards.

After I rebooted back into my old kernel and loaded the snd-ens1371
module manually, everything worked again.

So, my question is, what can I do get my sound card, which worked with
ALSA on the 2.4 kernel series, to work on the 2.6 series?  Is it a
problem with ALSA or with the kernel?  (i.e. Where do I file the bug
report, if it's even a bug?)  Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

Philip


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[Alsa-user] Changed from Fedora 33 + ALSA to Fedora 34 + Wayland + ALSA + Pipewire

2021-09-17 Thread Philip Rhoades via Alsa-user

People,

With my .asoundrc attached hereunder I used to be able to have inputs 
and outputs from various sources without having to worry about using 
things like Jack etc, but after the change in the Subject:


- I can record online here:

  https://online-voice-recorder.com

happily while I use Jitsi (which can record to my DropBox account) but 
when I do this CLI command as well:


  arecord -D hw:0,0 -f S32_LE -c 2 ttt.wav

I get this result:

  arecord: main:831: audio open error: Device or resource busy

Is some kind ALSA guru able to tell me if there is a change I can make 
to my .asoundrc file that will allow me to have the convenience of my 
previous setup of being able to have multiple source and destination 
devices without needing to use extra software?


Thanks,

Phil.

.asoundrc:

pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm "asymed"
}

# This is the audio output:
pcm.dmixer {
type dmix
ipc_key 1024
slave {
pcm "hw:0,0"
period_time 0
period_size 1024
buffer_size 4096
rate 44100
}
bindings {
0 0
1 1
}
}

ctl.dmixer {
type hw
card 0
}

# This is the microphone
pcm.dsnooped {
ipc_key 1027
type dsnoop
slave.pcm "hw:0,0"
}

# This makes both channels work together.
pcm.asymed {
type asym
playback.pcm "dmixer"
capture.pcm "dsnooped"
}


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Re: [Alsa-user] Changed from Fedora 33 + ALSA to Fedora 34 + Wayland + ALSA + Pipewire

2021-09-17 Thread Philip Rhoades via Alsa-user

Extra info below:


On 2021-09-18 03:12, Philip Rhoades wrote:

People,

With my .asoundrc attached hereunder I used to be able to have inputs
and outputs from various sources without having to worry about using
things like Jack etc, but after the change in the Subject:

- I can record online here:

  https://online-voice-recorder.com



Using FireFox.



happily while I use Jitsi



in Brave:



(which can record to my DropBox account) but
when I do this CLI command as well:

  arecord -D hw:0,0 -f S32_LE -c 2 ttt.wav

I get this result:

  arecord: main:831: audio open error: Device or resource busy

Is some kind ALSA guru able to tell me if there is a change I can make
to my .asoundrc file that will allow me to have the convenience of my
previous setup of being able to have multiple source and destination
devices without needing to use extra software?

Thanks,

Phil.

.asoundrc:

pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm "asymed"
}

# This is the audio output:
pcm.dmixer {
type dmix
ipc_key 1024
slave {
pcm "hw:0,0"
period_time 0
period_size 1024
buffer_size 4096
rate 44100
}
bindings {
0 0
1 1
}
}

ctl.dmixer {
type hw
card 0
}

# This is the microphone
pcm.dsnooped {
ipc_key 1027
type dsnoop
slave.pcm "hw:0,0"
}

# This makes both channels work together.
pcm.asymed {
type asym
playback.pcm "dmixer"
capture.pcm "dsnooped"
}


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