alsa configuration

2002-12-23 Thread Amir Tal
so i've decided not to let my tecra8000 laptop get away with it, and to give one last effort to making the sound work (which did work a few months ago with mandrake 8.2 and 2 years ago with windows.) machine : toshiba tecra8000 running kernel : 2.4.18-bf2.4 precompiled. sound chip :(YMF715E or

Re: ALSA Configuration

2002-11-17 Thread Alex Shnitman
On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 08:16, Ira Abramov wrote: I had similar problems. ALSA does not support 4+ speakers, only 2. Use kernel emu10k driver, it will work. is it just me or is the great green hope of ALSA dying out? from the maintainence of the ALSA packages in Debian it looks like people

Re: ALSA Configuration

2002-11-17 Thread Hetz Ben-Hamo
Hi, is it just me or is the great green hope of ALSA dying out? from the maintainence of the ALSA packages in Debian it looks like people don't believe this project will ever live up to its promisses, and I keep hearing about how problmatic it is... DOES it have a future? Well, ALSA is a

Re: ALSA Configuration

2002-11-17 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Hetz Ben-Hamo, from the post of Sun, 17 Nov: In other cases - ALSA simply sucks - like in the case of old notebooks (opl3, opl3sa2, etc..) - the driver doesn't works reliably yet (you still need the emulation layer), and doesn't provide all the features that the OSS gives (here

Re: ALSA Configuration

2002-11-17 Thread Barak Kaufman
there is one area where alsa is better than the OSS driver for sblive cards... and its the support for sounds fonts (sound fonts are premade banks of midi samples which can be loaded into the card thus giving a much better sounding instruments on the midi playback). this feature lacks in both

ALSA Configuration

2002-11-16 Thread Barak Kaufman
Hello list i realise that the question i am going to ask is very specific ... but i resort to it after searching the net for quite a while and not finding an answer. the situation is this: i have a sblive 5.1 card i use alsa drivers that i compiled from the sources myself everything works great

Re: ALSA Configuration

2002-11-16 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Why do you need ALSO for SBLive 5.1? The truth is that the OSS driver in this specific card are MUCH better then ALSA (in terms of stability as well as multiplexing, supporting the digital output etc).. http://emu10k1.sf.net - make sure you read the docs and enable the stuff in emu10k1.conf

Re: ALSA Configuration

2002-11-16 Thread Omer Zak
To ask the obvious questions: 1. Are the rear speakers connected to the computer? 2. If you have also MS-Windows on your computer, do those speakers work when you play something under MS-Windows? On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Barak Kaufman wrote: Hello list i realise that the question i am going to

Re: ALSA Configuration

2002-11-16 Thread Barak Kaufman
Well the issue is over :) i switched to the OSS driver got the midi and the rear speakers working thatnk you Hetz :) (again) :))) On Saturday 16 November 2002 14:39, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Why do you need ALSO for SBLive 5.1? The truth is that the OSS driver in this specific card are MUCH

Re: ALSA Configuration

2002-11-16 Thread Oleg Kobets
I had similar problems. ALSA does not support 4+ speakers, only 2. Use kernel emu10k driver, it will work. - Original Message - From: Barak Kaufman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: linux il [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 2:17 PM Subject: ALSA Configuration Hello list i realise

Re: ALSA Configuration

2002-11-16 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Oleg Kobets, from the post of Sat, 16 Nov: I had similar problems. ALSA does not support 4+ speakers, only 2. Use kernel emu10k driver, it will work. is it just me or is the great green hope of ALSA dying out? from the maintainence of the ALSA packages in Debian it looks like people