Re: [Alsa-user] Continuous Recording

2015-03-06 Thread Friedrich Ewaldt
Clemens Ladisch schrieb am 06.03.2015 um 08:34: Alexandre Ratchov wrote: On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 09:39:17AM -0800, Robin _ wrote: does anyone know of a readymade open source program for 24/7/365 logging? If JACK programs are an option: How about Rotter? http://www.aelius.com/njh/rotter/ I

Re: [Alsa-user] Capturing stereo signals into files

2013-05-02 Thread Friedrich Ewaldt
Hi Vincent, Vincent Gulinao schrieb am 02.05.2013 19:19: Hi everyone, I have a task to setup a system that will continuously capture multiple stereo signals using a MADI audio card (RME HDSPe MADI) and write them into files (perhaps in 1 hour chunks). Few checks I've learned while googling

Re: [Alsa-user] Help configuring HDSP9632

2011-02-26 Thread Friedrich Ewaldt
Hi Matt, I didn't use a RME HDSP9632 for quite a long time (also I never used it with the dmix plugin). However, the dmesg message sounds like a clock source problem. All I can suggest is to check for the correct rate settings, e.g. compare what hdspconf is showing to the output of cat

Re: [Alsa-user] rme Hammerfall

2009-11-02 Thread Friedrich Ewaldt
Felix Pfeifer wrote: Hi list, is there a possibility to use 2 Hammerfall cards at the same time? I would like to cascade them and use 48 adat channels for 1 application. I heard that some people do that, but i guess they work on windows. greets Felix Hi Felix, this is definitely

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

2009-07-10 Thread Friedrich Ewaldt
Matt Snow wrote: On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 2:20 AM, Clemens Ladischcladi...@googlemail.com wrote: Matt Snow wrote: On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 12:05 AM, Clemens Ladischcladi...@googlemail.com wrote: Matt Snow wrote: After upgrading to KnoppMyth/LinHES R6(ArchLinux), the analog out plays audio

Re: [Alsa-user] RME HDSP and Suse 10.1, will NOT work...

2006-11-26 Thread Friedrich Ewaldt
Tim Barker schrieb: ... The card appears to be recognised by the system, the red light on the front of the breakout box does extinguish on startup as expected (and even extinguishes when inserting the card while the system is running, which surprised me). hotplug should work. this is ok.

[Alsa-user] SiS748/963L, CMI9739, pcm not working

2003-12-02 Thread Friedrich Ewaldt
Hi, I've collected some additional information to my previous mail CMI9739 pcm not working: attached you find the output of proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/sub0/status when running aplay. Before running aplay, the status is 'closed'. When running aplay, the only number that changes over time is

[Alsa-user] CMI9739 pcm not working

2003-12-01 Thread Friedrich Ewaldt
Hi, I've set up a new PC using Mandrake 9.2. The onboard sound chip was correctly detected and installed. The modules are loaded, the sound-devices exist, /proc/asound/ looks ok, alsamixer is working fine, but... ... there is no sound output from PCM. Playing back a CD through analoug

Re: [Alsa-user] CS46xx spdif output + ogle question

2003-11-22 Thread Friedrich Ewaldt
Hi, see below... Henri wrote: sorry, but i'm still stuck. mplayer doesn't work w/ -ao alsa9 aplay works w/ -D hw:0,0 and hw:0,2 alsa-init: soundcard set to spdif alsa-init: unable to set periodsize: Invalid argument Could not open/initialize audio device - no sound. Audio: no sound Video: no

Re: [Alsa-user] Re: cs46xx - alsa-0.9.x freezes the system

2003-04-02 Thread Friedrich Ewaldt
Hmm, I also had some lockups with the nvidia drivers. Download newest nvidia driver + GLX module. Check for the correct driver and GLX version (must match you kernel). I solved my problem by seeting the AGP mode to Option NvAgp 0. This works for my TNT2 M64 card, don't know if there are similar

Re: [Alsa-user] rme9652/hammerfall playback problems

2003-03-16 Thread Friedrich Ewaldt
Ede Wolf wrote: Hello, I have a problem with 0.9.1 and the hammerfall card (true for 0.9_rcx, too): I am only able to play back mono files. I have seen this issue has occurred before, but without any solution, so maybe there is some more experience outside there by now. aplay -D foo.wav just

Re: [Alsa-user] Hercules Gametheater XP (cs46xx)

2003-02-15 Thread Friedrich Ewaldt
Hi, IIRC, the phase reversal problem (causes lack of bass) was fixed with the patch from 2002-12-09. On 2002-12-10 a patch was released with some corrections that worked my DMX XFire, i.e. I would try 2002-12-09.tar.bz2 from cvs plus the patch from 2002-12-10. An additional patch (regarding

Re: [Alsa-user] Game Theater XP, no bass. saving mixer settings forshutdown restart

2003-01-16 Thread Friedrich Ewaldt
Nathan Allworth wrote: 2 things here, i finally got this thing working, using rpms. my first problem is there is no bass like there is when im in windows, it sounds good, just no bass, the only thing i've tested this in is xmms, so maybe thats my problem. but i've tried fooling with the

RE: [Alsa-user] CROM (getting kmod cdrom to talk with alsa)

2003-01-14 Thread Friedrich . Ewaldt
Hi, I don't know anything about the ibm 600e but perhaps there is no audio cable connecting cdrom and soundcard in it. This is needed if your CDROM should do the DA conversion (CDROM acting as audio CD player). Some windows versions are grabbing the CD in real time via IDE and deliver the PCM

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA setup ... redux

2003-01-13 Thread Friedrich Ewaldt
Hi, I am also using a cs46xx based card (Terratec XFire 1024) and haven't seen such error messages with any alsa version I've installed so far. I've installed the alsa rpms of several Mandrake distros as well as several tarballs from the alsa project page. I've also never seen this errors in

Re: [Alsa-user] Terratec Sixpack 5.1 with cs46xx

2003-01-08 Thread Friedrich Ewaldt
Hi, that's a bug in rc6 version of cs46xx driver. The lack of bass is caused by phase reversal of one channel, i.e. wrong sign of the values of one channel. Therefore correlating sound (low frequency components are stronger correlated because of the long wavelengths) in left and right channel

Re: [Alsa-user] device names

2003-01-03 Thread Friedrich Ewaldt
Hi, regarding the XFire initialization: do you reload the cs46xx module automatically and -if so- how? I have to do su -c '/etc/init.d/alsa restart' manually after rebooting and would like to have this done automatically by some change in an init script or my modules.conf but don't know how to

Re: [Alsa-user] Capturing 0s to buffer. Help Needed

2002-12-19 Thread Friedrich Ewaldt
Hi Pete, start alsamixer in a shell and set the input source (hit space at the correct item). You should also set the capture flag for the 'ADC' item (which is the analog-digital converter) and for the 'capture' item. When I'm recording I have the 'ADC' volume set to 100 and change the

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: [Alsa-user] fm801 driver status?

2002-12-16 Thread Friedrich Ewaldt
Hi! Hopefully, the following information is of some help. Takashi Iwai wrote: to be sure, could you elaborate the symptom again and the detail of your system (kernel version, applied patches, ALSA version)? kernel: 2.4.19-16mdkcustom, compiled with sound and without alsa. I compiled from

Re: [Alsa-user] Newbie vs. Turtle Beach Santa Cruz info

2002-12-13 Thread Friedrich Ewaldt
Hi! The new cs46xx driver can talk to (up to) 2 codecs on one card now . You can see duplicate controls because your card uses 2 codecs (CS4297A and CS4294) for multichannel playback/(recording?). Therefore, e.g. one master controls your front output, one master controls your surround outputs

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: [Alsa-user] fm801 driver status?

2002-12-13 Thread Friedrich Ewaldt
Takashi Iwai wrote: you can check this also via lspci command. in the output of lspci in your last mail, the i/o ports and irq are missing. please check again? here we go... 00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Fortemedia, Inc Xwave QS3000A [FM801] (rev a0) Subsystem: Fortemedia, Inc:

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: [Alsa-user] fm801 driver status?

2002-12-13 Thread Friedrich Ewaldt
Takashi Iwai schrieb: [...] 00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Fortemedia, Inc Xwave QS3000A [FM801] (rev a0) Subsystem: Fortemedia, Inc: Unknown device 1319 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 40, IRQ 10 I/O ports at ec00 [size=128] Capabilities: [dc] Power

Re: [Alsa-user] Re: fm801 driver status?

2002-12-13 Thread Friedrich Ewaldt
Adam Jones wrote: On 12-Dec-02, Takashi Iwai wrote: I've got a fm801 based sound card which locks my computer completely some seconds after loading the alsa driver module. it looks like a hardware problem rather than the driver itself. as lspci shows, your fm801 card has no resources

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: [Alsa-user] fm801 driver status?

2002-12-13 Thread Friedrich Ewaldt
Takashi Iwai wrote: lspci -n output: 00:0b.0 Class 0401: 1319:0801 (rev a0) 00:0b.1 Class 0980: 1319:0801 (rev a0) thanks, could you try the attached patch? at least, the weird messages for allocation of invalid i/o ports should disappear. not sure whether this cures the lock-up problem,

[Alsa-user] fm801 driver status?

2002-12-12 Thread Friedrich Ewaldt
Hi! I've got a fm801 based sound card which locks my computer completely some seconds after loading the alsa driver module. I compiled drivers with debug=detect -- please see my mail(s) from 12/09/2002 on alsa userlist for more info. What else could I do? Meanwhile I found several reports

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: [Alsa-user] fm801 driver status?

2002-12-12 Thread Friedrich Ewaldt
find some spare time). TIA fe Takashi Iwai schrieb: At Thu, 12 Dec 2002 15:45:29 +0100, Friedrich Ewaldt wrote: Hi! I've got a fm801 based sound card which locks my computer completely some seconds after loading the alsa driver module. I compiled drivers with debug=detect -- please see my

[Alsa-user] fm801 locks system

2002-12-09 Thread Friedrich Ewaldt
Hi, because the alsa drivers shipped with Mandrake 9.0 (RPMs, version 0.9.0rc2) locked my system hard when using my fm801 soundcard, I recompiled the kernel with sound support and without alsa, compiled alsa-dirvers, -lib and utils version 0.9.0rc6 (I have the correct kernel sources of the

Re: [Alsa-user] fm801 locks system, additional information

2002-12-09 Thread Friedrich Ewaldt
I forgot to mention the following information: The system has an enmic/NMC board (KT133 chipset, via686a) with duron processor. The onboard soundcard (vi82xx) is switched off in the bios. (onboard sound works with oss driver without problems, if I switch it on) If you need any further

Re: [Alsa-user] Terratec DMX XFire 1024 cs46xx module

2002-12-02 Thread Friedrich Ewaldt
Hi Benny, I changed from Mandrake's AlsaRPMs(=0.9.0rc2) to tarballs (0.9.0rc6) now. I noticed some (not-)changes: * the DAC control slider now works for left right channel (it worked only for one channel before). Thanks! * the DSP hang problem when switching the SPDIF controls is gone! Great! *

Re: [Alsa-user] Terratec DMX XFire 1024 cs46xx module

2002-11-15 Thread Friedrich Ewaldt
Hi Richard, hi Benny(perhaps you have some idea what's going on ;-)) Richard Stevens wrote: [...] The problem is massively distorted sound. I get the driver loaded and there is some sound coming out of the card. But it's distorted. If I set very low levels for Master, PCM and DAC in

Re: [Alsa-user] Terratec DMX XFire 1024 cs46xx module

2002-11-15 Thread Friedrich Ewaldt
Hi, I attached the outputs of 'cat /proc/asound/card0/*' and 'cat /proc/asound/card0/dsp/*' before and after reloading the snd-cs46xx module. After reloading the distortion and popping noises are gone. Does this help finding an error? Richard Stevens wrote: When they get loaded the second time

Re: [Alsa-user] Terratec DMX XFire 1024 cs46xx module

2002-11-15 Thread Friedrich Ewaldt
Hi! Benny Sjostrand wrote: same problem for me and my DMX XFire 1024 :-(. I think the distortion sounds like a DC offset introduced by the PCM channel. Do you also get popping noise when changing the PCM volume? It just sounds like changing the supply voltage of a running amplifier for me.

Re: Re: [Alsa-user] cs46xx s/pdif: front/rear reversed?

2002-08-22 Thread Friedrich . Ewaldt
Hi! You need to unmute the optical out. It shows up as a device with no volume controls or anything, all you can do is mute/unmute it. How do I do that? It's been a while since I've fiddled around with the settings... Would IEC 958 Output be the SPDIF output? How would I unmute it, as

Re: Re: [Alsa-user] cs46xx s/pdif: front/rear reversed?

2002-08-20 Thread Friedrich . Ewaldt
Hi! Just out of interest... Is S/PDIF support for that card recent? (i.e. in CVS) I inquired a couple of months ago, and was told that there wasn't S/PDIF support... I have exactly the same card. Yes, S/P-DIF ouput support is quite new. S/P-DIF input is even newer! (There are some other

[Alsa-user] how do i connect ALSA outputs to ALSA inputs?

2002-08-09 Thread Friedrich . Ewaldt
Hi all, I asked this question several weeks before but did not succeed in solving my problem :-( is there a possibility to redirect audio output from one application (that outputs to some pcm device that I've defined in my .asoundrc) to a second pcm device so that I can record the sound

[Alsa-user] using copy plugin = file descriptor in bad state error

2002-08-09 Thread Friedrich . Ewaldt
Hi, I tried to get the copy plugin running using the following lines in my .asoundrc: pcm.cp_test { type copy # Copy PCM slave cp_slave # Slave name } pcm.pb {# playback device for copy plugin test type hw card 0 } pcm_slave.cp_slave {

[Alsa-user] problem with type file device (save audio to disk)

2002-03-28 Thread Friedrich . Ewaldt
Hi all! I've got some problems in writing a 5.1 audio stream from DVD (or a mpeg2 ripped from a DVD) to harddisk as one (or six) WAV file(s). I tried to use a program called a52dec for this, but the audio files I get seem to consist of 2 channels only (2ch downmix) when using the -owav option.