[Alsa-user] Addressing ALSA's Configuration Complexity

2007-10-21 Thread T.P. Reitzel
How long has ALSA been in existence now? The documentation for ALSA is still incomplete and excessively complex for the average user trying to adapt it to his needs. Here's a rather common scenario. A user just purchases a new computer. For the sake of argument, the driver for the audio

[Alsa-user] Terrible Echo With Via VT8237 Chipset, CVS (Recent) ALSA 2.6.17 Kernel

2006-06-19 Thread T.P. Reitzel
Lee, In a more compact form, here's the output of lspci -n : 00:00.0 Class 0600: 1106:0204 00:00.1 Class 0600: 1106:1204 00:00.2 Class 0600: 1106:2204 00:00.3 Class 0600: 1106:3204 00:00.4 Class 0600: 1106:4204 00:00.7 Class 0600: 1106:7204 00:01.0 Class 0604: 1106:b188 00:0a.0 Class 0200:

[Alsa-user] Terrible Echo With Via VT8237 Chipset, CVS (Recent) ALSA 2.6.17 Kernel

2006-06-18 Thread T.P. Reitzel
I first mentioned this echo problem while experimenting with the 2.6.16.18 kernel. The problem is even worse now. Audio is totally unusable. Although my PC hasn't hardlocked yet, it just might at some point in the future. I simply changed from the 2.6.16.1 kernel which works fine with ALSA to

[Alsa-user] Terrible Echo With Via VT8237 Chipset, CVS (Recent) ALSA 2.6.17 Kernel

2006-06-18 Thread T.P. Reitzel
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium TAbort- TAbort-

[Alsa-user] Terrible Echo With Via VT8237 Chipset, CVS (Recent) ALSA 2.6.17 Kernel

2006-06-18 Thread T.P. Reitzel
Lee - I don't know if I can explain it much better, but here's another attempt. ANY sound just echoes for several seconds almost like the problem is due to conflicting interrupts. If I play a brief tone ( 1 sec.), the tone will just echo for several seconds. Imagine listening to a longer

[Alsa-user] VIA VT8237 AC97 Audio Controller

2006-05-30 Thread T.P. Reitzel
After more experimentation with the 2.6.16.1 kernel, I've discovered that 2 channel output is working fine with gXine. The sole problem seems to be choppy 5.1 channel output as indicated in my previous e-mail. I won't even think about installing the 2.6.16.18 kernel until this problem with 5.1

[Alsa-user] VIA VT8237 AC97 Audio Controller

2006-05-30 Thread T.P. Reitzel
Nevermind ... The problem of choppy 5.1 output seems to be gXine 0.5.6 with the 2.6.16.1 kernel. I'll just wait for newer ALSA drivers to see if the severe problems with the 2.6.16.18 kernel disappear. ___ Alsa-user mailing list

[Alsa-user] VIA VT8237A Audio Controller

2006-05-28 Thread T.P. Reitzel
My audio is nearly trashed, i.e. bad stutter (interrupts?), with the latest generic kernel for Linux, 2.6.16.18, and an onboard VT8237A audio controller. As of today, I've updated to Slackware Current with the latest kernel which was a big mistake in retrospect. I'm also using ALSA

[Alsa-user] compile error with timidity and alsa_seq OT - Takashi, You Da Man!:)

2003-08-26 Thread T.P. Reitzel
Takashi and TiMidity++ crew, I really appreciate your work on making TiMidity++-2.12.0-pre1b compatible with Jack! Of course, a lot of little problems still exist with the change to a newer transport mechanism, but I'm absolutely beside myself with glee! :) The whole crew working on

[Alsa-user] compile error with timidity and alsa_seq

2003-08-23 Thread T.P. Reitzel
Christian, First, use TiMidity++-2.12.0-pre1b source instead with ALSA 0.9.x. Find it at http://www.timidity.jp . Better yet, try the newer, unstable versions of TiMidity++ at http://www.sf.net/projects/timidity . Nightly tarballs are made of the source. Although bugs exist, I can hardly

[Alsa-user] PLIB ALSA

2003-07-07 Thread T.P. Reitzel
Hi, Recently, I've been experiencing audio problems with ALSA in general. I've been trying to get Flightgear 0.9.2 and TORCS to run properly, but both of them had audio problems where the simulations would just hang for about a minute before returning input control. Now, after further

[Alsa-user] Compile Error With .9rc8 and Kernels 2.4.19

2003-03-03 Thread T.P. Reitzel
I don't know much about alsa-compilation, but this sounds more like a gcc problem. Which version are you using? Iheard, that there are lots of problems between gcc 2.9.x and gcc 3.x. If you have an older gcc version, maybe you'd try updating it. I hope that helps. Kindest regards

[Alsa-user] Compile Error With .9rc8 and Kernels 2.4.19

2003-03-02 Thread T.P. Reitzel
I get the following error trying to compile .9rc8's alsa-driver package on Slackware 8.1 (2.4.18 kernel): make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/alsa/alsa-driver-0.9.0rc8/acore' gcc -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE=1 -I/usr/src/alsa/alsa-driver-0.9.0rc8/include -I/lib/modules/2.4.18/build/include -O2

[Alsa-user] Re: Recording Problems With Turtle Beach Santa Cruz

2003-02-26 Thread T.P. Reitzel
T.P. Reitzel wrote: T.P. Reitzel wrote: Hi, I bought Santa Cruz from Turtle Beach and I've been enjoying basking in the sunhe he However, it's been raining on my parade lately frown. With the silliness aside, I've been trying to get Ecasound 2.2.1 to record from a device with no success

[Alsa-user] Re: Recording Problems With Turtle Beach Santa Cruz

2003-02-25 Thread T.P. Reitzel
T.P. Reitzel wrote: Hi, I bought Santa Cruz from Turtle Beach and I've been enjoying basking in the sunhe he However, it's been raining on my parade lately frown. With the silliness aside, I've been trying to get Ecasound 2.2.1 to record from a device with no success. I must be doing

[Alsa-user] Turtle Beach Santa Cruz

2003-02-15 Thread T.P. Reitzel
Hi, After pondering the situation for awhile, I finally closed my eyes and bought Santa Cruz. hehe The card should be here on Monday. I've read a lot of commentary on the lack of support from Cirrus Logic on the Crystal Semiconductor 4630, especially Jaroslav's comments back in May of 2002.

[Alsa-user] Recording with SB PCI 16 -- Great!

2003-02-11 Thread T.P. Reitzel
Bob, If you can't adjust the levels of Capture or use the spacebar to select it with alsamixer, then reinstall ALSA and ensure that the *pcmc devices are installed. --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition +