Re: aucat bug in 4.8-beta/i386 ? (no more read tickets)

2010-08-03 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 10:32:40AM +0200, Alexandre Ratchov wrote: > On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 10:10:23AM +0200, Gabriel Linder wrote: > > aucat -d -d -d -d -d : > > > > [snip a lot of output when ok] > > > > sio(de

Re: aucat bug in 4.8-beta/i386 ? (no more read tickets)

2010-08-03 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 10:10:23AM +0200, Gabriel Linder wrote: > aucat -d -d -d -d -d : > > [snip a lot of output when ok] > > sio(default|): busy loop, disconnecting ^ the device is spinning. Could you send a dmesg and confirm that if you run: a

Re: 24->16 bit audio

2010-08-02 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 02:10:56PM +0200, Remco wrote: > I was looking at the Alesis iO|2 USB audio interface. It seems like a nice > device, especially since it appears to comply to both the USB-audio as well > as the USB-MIDI standard, see: > http://www.linuxquestions.org/ > questions/linux-har

Re: Music + NFS == skipping?

2010-07-04 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 02:53:01AM -0400, Corey J. Bukolt wrote: > Hi list, > > So far I have been able to get OpenBSD running nicely as my primary desktop > with the only hitch being my NFS mounted music skips occasionally. I'm > pretty sure it's not the NFS server since my Linux laptop has the

Re: mplayer segfault

2010-06-16 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 09:44:16PM +0200, Adam Borbely wrote: > hi! > > after updated from 4.6 to 4.7 I can not play tv with mplayer. > mplayer is installed as a package: > > * mplayer-20090708p4 movie player supporting MPEG, DivX, AVI, ASF, MOV & more > > krumpli$ r gd > gdb mplayer > GNU gdb

Re: audio recording levels

2010-06-15 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:06:40AM +1200, Paul M wrote: > On 15/06/2010, at 11:18 PM, Paul M wrote: > > >On 15/06/2010, at 8:25 PM, Alexandre Ratchov wrote: > > > >>On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 08:20:57AM -0600, Ted Roby wrote: > >>> > >>>Soun

Re: audio recording levels

2010-06-15 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:46:47AM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > > > Sound cards just get too much noise off the motherboard. > > > > well, it depends on the sound card; properly engineered > > cards don't get noise, including pci ones. > > Are some of them known to be better then others in this resp

Re: audio recording levels

2010-06-15 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 08:20:57AM -0600, Ted Roby wrote: > > Sound cards just get too much noise off the motherboard. well, it depends on the sound card; properly engineered cards don't get noise, including pci ones. -- Alexandre

Re: major bump note in faq/current.html

2010-05-29 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 07:58:03PM +0200, Charles Smith wrote: > Can we ask in the future something similar at src/*/shlib_version major bumps? > to avoid ``pkg_add -u'' complaining about bad major/minor I do the following: - check that my mirror is up to date ie ``ls'' to make sure all fi

Re: aucat + korg nanokontrol midi controller

2010-05-05 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 10:12:25PM +0200, Jona Joachim wrote: > > Here's a press & release of the start button: > solo% midicat -o - -q midithru:0 | hexdump -ve '1/1 "%02x\n"' > b0 > 2d > 7f > b0 > 2d > 00 > this a control message. Try other scenes. MMC messages aucat supports are: f0 7f xx 06

Re: aucat + korg nanokontrol midi controller

2010-05-05 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 09:19:05PM +0200, Jona Joachim wrote: > On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 09:17:15PM +0200, Alexandre Ratchov wrote: > > On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 08:20:38PM +0200, Jona Joachim wrote: > > > On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 07:57:31PM +0200, Alexandre Ratchov wrote: > >

Re: aucat + korg nanokontrol midi controller

2010-05-05 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 08:20:38PM +0200, Jona Joachim wrote: > On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 07:57:31PM +0200, Alexandre Ratchov wrote: > > On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 06:13:20PM +0200, Jona Joachim wrote: > [snip] > > > I recently bought a Korg NanoKONTROL[1] midi controller and the

Re: aucat + korg nanokontrol midi controller

2010-05-05 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 06:13:20PM +0200, Jona Joachim wrote: > Hi, > I would like to thank everybody who worked on libsndio/aucat, especially > ratchov@, I really love the design and the the "it just works(TM)" > experience. ;) > I recently bought a Korg NanoKONTROL[1] midi controller and the vo

Re: Source Overview

2010-04-21 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 03:02:17PM -0300, Christiano F. Haesbaert wrote: > > I also know he (as every developer) is busy with more important > things, so "publishing" these small tasks would also give the > developers more time to focus on the big/important issues. > If a task is on my todo list

Re: recording sounds: a permanent DC offset

2010-02-22 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 08:51:05PM +0100, Jan Stary wrote: > > > this could also be caused by the way the codec is wired to > > the preamp and/or the power supply. > > Is there a way I can find out whether this is the case? > I'm aware of no easy way to verify it, but if the DC offset doesn't de

Re: recording sounds: a permanent DC offset

2010-02-21 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 09:16:39AM +0100, Jan Stary wrote: > I am recording on a MSI Wind PC running -recent, > using the integrated azalia > > azalia0 at pci0 dev 27 function 0 "Intel 82801GB HD Audio" rev 0x01: apic 1 > int 16 (irq 10) > azalia0: codecs: Realtek ALC888 > audio0 at azalia0 > >

Re: uaudio - Lexicon Alpha

2010-02-21 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 12:29:15AM +0100, Jan Stary wrote: > I consider buying the Lexicon Alpha souncard: > http://www.lexiconpro.com/product.php?id=7 > > Is someone using it sucessfully? I understand there > are "USB soundcards" out there not even appearing as > USB Audio class devices. > > If

Re: Voice Chat over IP?

2010-02-19 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 07:51:42AM -0600, Chris Bennett wrote: > I want to set up voice chat with another computer in Guatemala from US. > My ISP here blocks all incoming connections now so I need to ( I > assume) use SSH Tunneling through my server to make this work. > I looked at thread about voi

Re: aucat on -current ignoring -C ?

2010-01-14 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:49:52AM +0100, Jan Stary wrote: > This is yesterday's current. Trying to record a _mono_ > sound with 'aucat -C 0:0 -o file.wav' seems to always > result in a _stereo_ file, whether I specify -u or not, > whether the aucat server is running or not > (see script and dmesg

Re: scrotwm: anyone with a non-US keyboard ?

2010-01-12 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 07:13:37PM -0600, Marco Peereboom wrote: > So what is the verdict? No good? Need something else? > It seems to need to handle the ``Map'' and ``Unmap'' events; so when the user switches between keyboard layouts XKeycodeToKeysym still works. I'm cooking a diff for this t

scrotwm: anyone with a non-US keyboard ?

2010-01-09 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On .fr keyboards you have to press shift to get digits, so XKeycodeToKeysym(display, keycode, 0) doesn't return a digit, so by default switching between workspaces doesn't work. Similarly, ``M-.'' doesn't work, because shift modifier must be used to get ``.'' More generally, M- and M-S- cannot be

Re: no love with sound record

2009-12-31 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 02:13:52AM +0300, Andrej Elizarov wrote: > Trying to get fully working my shiny OpenBSD 4.6-stable. > > Now i had some problem with recording. > I'm just playing around about two days and still no love. > Can't enumerate all variants that i tried. > > Try to record with: >

Re: sound problems with -current

2009-12-11 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 08:27:42AM -0600, Chris Bennett wrote: > After upgrading to the latest -current as of Dec 9, I no longer have any > control of sound output except within mplayer or cdio cdplay, etc. > This makes it impossible to listen to a list of mp3s (or whatever) > without ear grindingl

Re: [OT] integer overflows

2009-11-12 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:46:47AM -0500, Mark Bucciarelli wrote: > Hi, > > Part 1: > > How can I tell if casting a off_t (e.g, sb.st_size) to size_t risks > an overflow? > You have to check for overflows: if (sb.st_size > SIZE_MAX) { /* error */ ...

Re: No sound in 4.6 with M-Audio Audiophile 2496 (envy(4))

2009-10-24 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 02:42:10PM +0200, Toma?? Bod??ar wrote: > Maybe I'm wrong but at least part with running more audio "apps" in > one time is solved http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq13.html#audioserver > oh, sorry I wasn't clear enough. Right now, multiple *independent* audio apps can be used,

Re: No sound in 4.6 with M-Audio Audiophile 2496 (envy(4))

2009-10-24 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 10:58:37AM +0200, pet...@schwertfisch.de wrote: > Jacob Meuser wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 09:58:22AM +0200, pet...@schwertfisch.de wrote: > > > > > On the application side, I remember seeing a preliminary port of Ardour > > > to OpenBSD, but it seems to have disa

Re: No sound in 4.6 with M-Audio Audiophile 2496 (envy(4))

2009-10-23 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 06:33:47PM +0200, pet...@schwertfisch.de wrote: > Alexandre Ratchov wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:12:34AM +0200, pet...@schwertfisch.de wrote: > > > > > After a fresh install of OpenBSD 4.6 my sound card stopped working, &

Re: No sound in 4.6 with M-Audio Audiophile 2496 (envy(4))

2009-10-23 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 02:48:06PM +0200, pet...@schwertfisch.de wrote: > Alexandre Ratchov wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:12:34AM +0200, pet...@schwertfisch.de wrote: > > > After a fresh install of OpenBSD 4.6 my sound card stopped working, > > > i.e., I

Re: No sound in 4.6 with M-Audio Audiophile 2496 (envy(4))

2009-10-23 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:12:34AM +0200, pet...@schwertfisch.de wrote: > After a fresh install of OpenBSD 4.6 my sound card stopped working, > i.e., I can hear nothing when playing audio. It worked just fine in 4.5. > The card is an M-Audio Audiophile 2496 using envy(4). > I run "aucat -l" before

Re: Unable to set volume using mixerctl

2009-10-14 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 08:40:49PM +0300, Antti Harri wrote: > On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Jacob Meuser wrote: > > >On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 09:04:17PM +0300, Antti Harri wrote: > >>Hi, > >> > >>my cmedia sound card broke down, so I started using the > >>integrated sound device (auvia(4)). I'm able to pla

Re: /dev/audio: Device busy

2009-10-04 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 02:33:27PM -0700, Buzzer wrote: > pO DANNYM RADIOPEREHWATA OT 2-Oct-2009 07:18, Paul de Weerd > BYL ZAME^EN W \FIRE, NA ^ASTOTE misc, S TAKIM SOOB]ENIEM: > > > | > > I need to play a few audio files simultaneously. > > | > > > | > > can't open /dev/audio: Device busy. > >

Re: /dev/audio: Device busy

2009-10-04 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 02:33:37PM -0700, Buzzer wrote: > pO DANNYM RADIOPEREHWATA OT 3-Oct-2009 07:07, Jacob Meuser > BYL ZAME^EN W \FIRE, NA ^ASTOTE misc, S TAKIM SOOB]ENIEM: > > > > > > On ttyC0 following message appers: 'sbdsp_trigger_input: > > > > > width=8 bad chan 5'. > > > > > > > > see

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-18 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 01:13:56PM -0700, 4625 wrote: > On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 01:59:43PM +1200, Paul M wrote: > > I like fluidsynth. > Well, I got it. Could you explain me how do you ran it? > > > > Are you serious? > Is it looks like joke? > fluidsynth -ni Unison.sf2 beethoven_-_5th_sim

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-18 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 03:33:07PM +0200, Alexandre Ratchov wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 04:59:45PM -0700, 4625 wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:08:55PM +, Jacob Meuser wrote: > > > > > > > > > I think your problem can be traced to the differ

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-18 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 04:59:45PM -0700, 4625 wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:08:55PM +, Jacob Meuser wrote: > > > > > > > > I think your problem can be traced to the different default > > > > > > > > voices. > > > > > > > I've test timidity with a different sound fonts and with the > > >

Re: aucat: dividing signal strengths of inputs?

2009-08-14 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:52:28AM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > First off, thanks to alex@ for all the work being put into aucat. > OpenBSD 4.5 is the first operating system where I can easily do > multitrack recording in base. > > My situation is this: aucat -l is running, and I play two different >

Re: No audio : did I miss something basic ?

2009-07-29 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 07:06:15PM +0200, Jean-Frangois SIMON wrote: > Thanks for your patience. No it just rest silent and here two successive > audioctl, no movement in the play sensor. > > $ audioctl > play.samples=0 > play.open=1 > play.active=0 > play.errors=0 very strange, the device is ope

Re: No audio : did I miss something basic ?

2009-07-28 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:13:47PM +0200, Jean-Frangois SIMON wrote: > Hi, > > I am runing VLC under fvwm but could not have any sound. > > Are things working by default or there might be something to tune in > general, or in my case ? > in most cases, yes. But on certain devices, you may have

Re: usr.bin/aucat fails to build on sparc64 -current

2009-07-26 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 07:57:58AM +0200, Alexandre Ratchov wrote: > > it seems that /usr/include/sndio.h is not up to date. Does > the following help? > > cd /usr/src/include > cvs update sndio.h > sudo make install ^^^ it's

Re: usr.bin/aucat fails to build on sparc64 -current

2009-07-26 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 04:23:05PM -0700, Brian Keefer wrote: > # make > cc -O2 -pipe -DDEBUG -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wundef -c > /usr/src/usr.bin/aucat/aucat.c > cc -O2 -pipe -DDEBUG -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wundef -c > /usr/src/usr.bin/aucat/abuf.c > cc -O2 -pipe -DDEBUG -Wall -Wstric

Re: Can't open audio device /dev/audio after some time of working in 4.5 needs reboot to fix the Issue

2009-06-18 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 07:42:00PM +0530, Siju George wrote: > On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Siju George wrote: > > > > $ fstat /dev/audio > > USER CMD PID FD MOUNTINUM MODE R/WSZ|DV > > NAME > > $ > > > > I was running skype through Linux Emulation. > When I k

Re: audio clangs without aucat

2009-06-17 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 07:05:35PM +0200, Peter J. Philipp wrote: > Hi, > > When I use mplayer I noticed that since OpenBSD 4.5 that the audio clangs > unless I use aucat -l then it sounds alright. The drawback of this is that > mplayer thinks the audio driver is too slow and it seriously messes

Re: Voice-chat on OpenBSD with nothing more than aucat and ssh

2009-06-06 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 03:34:08PM -0400, Ryan Flannery wrote: > > I had forgot to mention the following in my original post... > Obviously, when piping the aucat output through ssh, ssh itself is > going to introduce some delay. However, just trying the following... > > aucat -l > aucat -o - |

Re: Voice-chat on OpenBSD with nothing more than aucat and ssh

2009-06-06 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 06:02:01PM -0400, Ryan Flannery wrote: > With the recent work done to the audio system on OpenBSD, a buddy of > mine and I figured it should be easy to setup two-way voice-chat > between two OpenBSD clients using nothing more than aucat(1) and > ssh(1). As we found out, it

Re: OSSv4 on OpenBSD

2009-05-25 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 07:48:27PM -0400, Predrag Punosevac wrote: > A friend of mine who is an avid NetBSD user kept complaining about how > bad is audio on NetBSD. After getting sick of hearing complains, > I asked on OSS mailing lists about OSSv4 support for NetBSD and OpenBSD. > I actually got

Re: aucat freezes sparc64 on -current

2009-05-18 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 09:03:06PM +0200, Mattieu Baptiste wrote: > Hi all, > > I updated my machine to snapshot 2009-05-15 and the machine freezes > when I start aucat : > > mattieu:/home/mattieu:2$ /usr/bin/aucat -l > mattieu:/home/maschizo0: pci bus A error > it seems related to the audio de

Re: aucat's volume-sharing algorithm

2009-04-25 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:29:02AM -0400, Nick Guenther wrote: > I'm playing with the new aucat. Or rather, running it, since unlike > every other soundserver it doesn't require endless tweaking to just > work. There is one issue I'm having, and I'm not sure if it's on > purpose or not. Whenever (s

Re: Music Stutters If Firefox Is Launched

2009-03-18 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 06:05:18PM +0100, Thomas Pfaff wrote: > On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:41:24 -0400 > Jeff Flowers wrote: > > In OpenBSD 4.4, I have noticed that if I launch Firefox when I am > > already playing an audio CD (cdio) or listening to music (mpg123), the > > audio will stutter. Us

Re: Music Stutters If Firefox Is Launched

2009-03-18 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 09:41:24AM -0400, Jeff Flowers wrote: > In OpenBSD 4.4, I have noticed that if I launch Firefox when I am > already playing an audio CD (cdio) or listening to music (mpg123), the > audio will stutter. Usually it will recover and continue normal > playback but sometimes it ca

Re: 4.5 audio aucat autoconfig

2009-02-23 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 07:58:22AM -0800, J.C. Roberts wrote: > On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:35:14 +0100 Alexandre Ratchov > wrote: > > > aucat records 1-channel, s16le at 16kHz (required by the device) > > then it converts it to 2-channel, s16le at 44.1kHz (required by -o > &

Re: 4.5 audio aucat autoconfig

2009-02-23 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 03:10:07AM -0800, J.C. Roberts wrote: > My build of -current is a few days old. I'm having problems recording > with aucat on a particular device. > > The system has an integrated "Intel 82891DB AC97" audio chipset and has > three physical jacks: one output (headphone/hp) a

Re: mp3 playback speed problem on new snapshot

2009-02-21 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 11:14:29AM -0500, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 01:37:27AM +, Jacob Meuser wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 05:23:09PM -0500, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm running > > > > > > OpenBSD paranoiac.blackhelicopters.org 4.5 GENERIC.

Re: Correct way to enable aucat -l?

2009-01-28 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 06:41:30PM -0500, Joe Gidi wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 02:27:59PM -0500, Joe Gidi wrote: > >> I've been playing with aucat's new sound server capabilities, and it's > >> impressed me enough that I'd like to have it running as a system-wide > >> sound daemon. What is p

Re: jackd clicks and pops

2009-01-18 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 07:43:49PM -0500, Nick Guenther wrote: > > > > libsndio is a new audio API. among it's benefits is the ability > > to use different "backends" transparently, currently either audio(4) > > or aucat(1) in server mode. > > So it's like PortAudio? Out of curiousity, why not ju

Re: jackd clicks and pops

2009-01-18 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 01:06:38AM +, Jacob Meuser wrote: > > because PA probably isn't coming to OpenBSD base any time soon. > and, possibly, in the long term, sio_open(3) will become sio_open(4). > > a sndio backend for PA would be nice. but it's a complex API, and > actually not many port

Re: no sound with aucat -l

2008-12-24 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 05:44:29PM -0700, Steven wrote: > * Jacob Meuser [081223 15:30]: >> Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:50:51 + >> From: Jacob Meuser >> To: OpenBSD Misc >> Subject: Re: no sound with aucat -l >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

Re: no sound with aucat -l

2008-12-23 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 09:39:31AM -0700, Steven wrote: > * Jacob Meuser [081223 01:30]: >> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 09:32:17PM -0700, Steven wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I can't seem to get any sound when I run aucat -l. In /usr/lib I >>> have libsndio.so.3.2 as my only libsndio.so. I've ran make >>>

Re: no sound with aucat -l

2008-12-23 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 10:09:43AM -0700, Steven wrote: > > I don't know if this makes a difference, but before I rebooted the > computer I noticed that I had three instances of aucat running. One > I could kill, but the other two I actually had to use > > kill -9 > > before they finally terminat

Re: azalia: >16-bit audio?

2008-12-15 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 10:53:57PM +, Dieter wrote: > > > > Something of an idle question: According to audioctl, my azalia > > > > device only supports 16-bit audio, but according to the data sheet > > > > the codec also offers 20- and 24-bit audio. Are there any plans > > > > to add support

Re: azalia: >16-bit audio?

2008-12-15 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 01:09:42AM +, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Something of an idle question: According to audioctl, my azalia > device only supports 16-bit audio, but according to the data sheet > the codec also offers 20- and 24-bit audio. Are there any plans > to add support for this?

Re: Sound problems

2008-12-11 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 09:15:53AM -0700, Duncan Patton a Campbell wrote: > Howdy list? > > I am having problems with the sound on a 4.3 system > running Gnome desktop. > > The error that mplayer gives is: > > AO SUN Can t open audio device /dev/audio, Device busy - nosound > > This ha

Re: Problems with aucat playback

2008-12-08 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 11:50:02PM +0100, Alexandre Ratchov wrote: > On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 11:20:56PM +0200, Pekka Niiranen wrote: > > > > I obviously do not understand enough of audio processing to be able to > > understand the manuals. Why is mono 8kHz ulaw chopping the s

Re: Problems with aucat playback

2008-12-08 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 11:20:56PM +0200, Pekka Niiranen wrote: > > I obviously do not understand enough of audio processing to be able to > understand the manuals. Why is mono 8kHz ulaw chopping the sound, > for example. > > When I run command: > > aucat sound440.au > aucat: format not

Re: microphone input for azalia?

2008-10-02 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 06:55:08PM +0300, Vladimir Kirillov wrote: > On 14:31 Thu 02 Oct, Jacob Meuser wrote: > > > inputs.mic=127,127 > > probably need to raise this to 255 > > Tried it, > > > > inputs.sel.source=mic > > > > what other sources are available? use `mixerctl -v' to see the > > op

Re: unable to set "play.encoding" using audioctl(1) on 4.2/i386

2008-08-24 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 11:36:38AM +0530, Siju George wrote: > Hi, > > I tried to set a few parameters as said in the faq > > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq13.html#playaudio > > I get the following errors. > > $ sudo audioctl play.encoding=slinear_le > audioctl: set failed: Invalid argument >

Re: uaudio+umidi recommendation

2008-08-14 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 01:55:18AM +0300, Alexey Suslikov wrote: > Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Can somebody recommend well-supported external (u)audio > card with (u)midi controller? > i've never used such device, but will try to provide useful information. - by midi controller, you mean an int

Re: envy24-based card for OpenBSD [was: "VIA Announces..."]

2008-04-11 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:20:43PM +0200, Zbigniew Baniewski wrote: > Found it - looks good, but it's an expensive one :/ what do you think about > that other chips? Are they supported presently? > > http://www.digit-life.com/articles/maudioaudiophile/ > > * main chip - multichannel PCI control

Re: Resampling? [was: "VIA Announces..."]

2008-04-11 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:17:05AM +0200, Zbigniew Baniewski wrote: > I would to ask about the issue to be found under Linux - is it valid for > OpenBSD's "audio" too? > > http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=93315 > > "The latest versions of ALSA which are included with Ubuntu

Re: "VIA Announces Strategic Open Source Driver Development Initiative"

2008-04-10 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 09:47:37PM +0200, Zbigniew Baniewski wrote: > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 09:36:51PM +0200, Alexandre Ratchov wrote: > > > - first, envy24 is a generic digital only chip; it's connected to > >up to 4 codecs that do the analog<->digital convers

Re: "VIA Announces Strategic Open Source Driver Development Initiative"

2008-04-10 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 03:41:54AM +0200, Zbigniew Baniewski wrote: > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:08:26AM +, Jacob Meuser wrote: > > > > Yes, I noticed it's there - but does the driver support all of the > > > available > > > capabilities? > > > > according to BUGS in envy(4), no. but emu(4)

Re: using openbsd to make presentations

2008-03-19 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 09:25:33AM +0100, Pau Amaro-Seoane wrote: > Hi, > > yes, I also thought of something similar, but the result is that gs > produces slides which are not "smooth", i.e. you can almost see the > pixels. Using -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 options of gs should produ

Re: using openbsd to make presentations

2008-03-18 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:18:30PM +0100, Pau Amaro-Seoane wrote: > Hi, > > very often I have to give a talk about my work etc... The slides > contain a lot of math equations, plots and even sometimes some movies. > > I was used to latex-beamer to do all this because I want something I > can edit

Re: Reversing audio channels

2008-01-21 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 08:32:12PM +0200, Antti Harri wrote: > On Sun, 20 Jan 2008, L. V. Lammert wrote: > > >Ahh, .. swap the speakers or wires?? > > I still don't understand why such a simple > thing isn't implemented in the software.. > Yeah yeah missing the daemon & other crap. > well, it's

Re: Skype on the OpenBSD

2007-12-03 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 06:35:13PM +, Jacob Meuser wrote: > On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 06:04:50PM +0100, Daniel wrote: > > On Sun, 2 Dec 2007 16:48:14 + > > Jacob Meuser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > VoIP applications generally require full-duplex audio operation (or > > > two soundcar

Re: 5.1 sound card recommendation

2007-11-21 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 01:12:38PM -0800, J.C. Roberts wrote: > On Wednesday 21 November 2007, Nickolay A. Burkov wrote: > > Hello everyone! > > > > Do somebody have success with 5.1 sound ? > > If so, please recommend PCI Sound Card to work with OpenBSD > > 4.2(-CURRENT). > > > > I have MARC'ed a

Re: 5.1 sound card recommendation

2007-11-21 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 09:23:52PM +0300, Nickolay A. Burkov wrote: > Hello everyone! > > Do somebody have success with 5.1 sound ? > If so, please recommend PCI Sound Card to work with OpenBSD 4.2(-CURRENT). > > I have MARC'ed a bit but similar messages were > 1 year ago. > I'd like to think tha

Re: OpenBSD Sound

2007-11-03 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 01:40:37PM +0100, Karel Kulhavy wrote: > On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 05:48:20PM +0100, Alexandre Ratchov wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 11:23:31AM -0400, Nick Guenther wrote: > > > On 10/31/07, Brian A Seklecki (Mobile) > > > <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: OpenBSD Sound

2007-10-31 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 11:23:31AM -0400, Nick Guenther wrote: > On 10/31/07, Brian A Seklecki (Mobile) > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Some *BSD systems are adjusting PCM driver support to allow multiple > > process to open /dev/dsp / /dev/audio multiple times in-exclusively, > > mitigating the n

Re: OpenBSD Sound

2007-10-31 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 08:49:01AM -0700, Unix Fan wrote: > This is an interesting topic, I also noticed that multiple > applications couldn't open /dev/audio at the same time... > > Doesn't this make it impossible to record and listen to audio > from ones microphone at the same time? quite... arc

Re: HD access problems and Audio sounds too fast: (was Re: Keyboard/Mouse problem OpenBSD 4.2)

2007-10-25 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 08:08:46AM -0600, Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > I have a HP Pavilion dv8000 too and, after install 4.2, i go back to > 4.1. The audio on vlc, xine, xmms sounds too fast and cut from time to > time (5-6 sec in

Re: high-end audio drivers [was: OSS audio drivers]

2007-10-23 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
dBlaster sb*at isapnp? ess* at isapnp? # ESS Tech ES188[78], ES888 Index: dev/pci/envy.c === RCS file: dev/pci/envy.c diff -N dev/pci/envy.c --- /dev/null 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000 +++ dev/pci/envy.c

Re: OSS audio drivers

2007-10-23 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 12:25:03PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > > What is the relation of OpenBSD's audio drivers to the OSS project? > What, if anything, does opensourcing (GPL, I know) their code mean for > our audio drivers? In particular, does that mean (future) support for > the high-end soundca

Re: Can OpenBSD perform hard/soft real-time functions?

2007-10-01 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 02:07:19PM +0800, Tito Mari Francis Escaqo wrote: > I tried googling for real-time computing with OpenBSD and all I found > was reference to RTMX. > In http://openbsd.org/products.html, it read: They (RTMX) have > graciously donated the source code for these extensions, and

Re: Xorg7 and driver CA0106 in OpenBSD ?

2007-09-03 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 04:34:58PM +0200, Nicolas Letellier wrote: > > - I see that soundcards based on chipset CA0406 don't work for > the moment. On the other hand, i see a driver (GPL) for > FreeBSD? Could it be include in next versions of OpenBSD ? Or > this driver is too different for it

Re: Support for soundblaster audigy SE ?

2007-08-27 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 04:53:14PM +0200, Nicolas Letellier wrote: > Hello, > > is anyone could confirm to me that this sound card is supported by > OpenBSD (4.1) ? > I couldn't see it in this page http://openbsd.com/i386.html > But, this sound card could use same driver than other soundblaster c

Re: 8-Bit RISC Microcontroller Programming

2007-04-18 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 04:20:22AM -0700, Clint Pachl wrote: > What options are available for programming 8-bit microcontrollers? I > found gputils for Microchip and avr for Amtel in the ports. What is the > most supported option? > > gputils in ports is a three year old version; does it work we

Re: sound synth w/autri or sb drivers

2007-03-04 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 10:45:40PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm loving OBSD 4.0/i386, but have a 4DWAVE sound card where the internal > synth doesn't produce any sound. Normal audio (ogg123, plaympeg) works > fine. > > $ midiplay -l > 0: 4DWAVE MIDI UART > 1: PC speaker > ... > > au

Re: uaudio trouble

2006-12-24 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 11:08:11PM -0500, Steve Shockley wrote: > Alexandre Ratchov wrote: > >does at least the following work? > > > >audioctl -f /dev/audioctl1 play.encoding=slinear_le play.precision=16 > > Huh, that returns "audioctl: set failed: Device not c

Re: uaudio trouble

2006-12-21 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 04:56:45PM -0500, Steve Shockley wrote: > I've got a Xitel DG2, which is a USB sound card with optical output. I > previously set up a nice music player using mpd, and it worked great. > Unfortunately the drive died, so I'm building a new one. (The old > install's dmesg

Re: mixerctl issue on macppc

2006-12-17 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 04:29:31PM -0800, Ben Calvert wrote: > using the current snapshot from 12/14 on Macppc, using a Tibook 400, > using mixerctl to set the output volumes to 0 results in low volume, > instead of no volume. > > > $ mixerctl -a > outputs.select=speaker > outputs.speaker=0,0 > o

Re: audio problems

2006-11-05 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 09:45:14PM +0100, thomas wrote: > hello > > i try to set up an openbsd4.0 workstation and ran into problems with > the audio/sound setup. > i followed the 'multimedia-faq' but the audio-output is in case of > *.au files somehow 'crippeld' and in the case of > audio-cds (pl

Re: uaudio recording?

2006-11-05 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 07:22:31PM +0900, vladas wrote: > Hi all, > > i386.html says uaudio is supported, but does that include sound > recording? If not, maybe someone could possibly share what PCI > cards [1] can do sound recording (quality is not an issue). > > My goal is to run /usr/ports/mbo

Re: Soundblaster Audigy LS (SE, PCI subsys id = 0x100a1102)

2006-10-27 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 12:04:55AM +0300, Peter Philipp wrote: > Hi, > > Any poor soul living in Frankfurt and running Linux or Windows needing a > Soundblaster (PCI) card? I have a Soundblaster Audigy LE card to give > away as there is no BSD support for this one (checked FreeBSD project as >

Re: IPv6 over PPPoE

2006-10-08 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 05:41:33PM +0200, Thomas Bader wrote: > Hi all > > With the help of my ISP I'm trying to get native IPv6 over ADSL (PPPoE). > This isn't a regular offer and I'm the first customer who tries it out. > > My ISP has set me the following two RADIUS attributes: > > Framed-IPv6

Re: USB sound device recommendations?

2006-07-31 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 10:04:32PM +0200, Matthias Kilian wrote: > Hi, > > has anyone tested the Creative SoundBlaster Live! 24Bit USB on > OpenBSD or can recommend a similar (or better) device? > hi, i've got a m-audio "mobile pre", it sounds really good and is fully supported by openbsd. It's

Re: audioctl play.channels problem

2006-07-20 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 03:36:45PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've been trying to figure out how to get more than two channels of > audio with, no success. What I read, "it should just work". Now, > "audioctl play.channels=2" on boot. Whatever I try to change the > value to, I get 'audioc

Re: Audio device

2006-07-17 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 04:42:15PM -0400, Steve Shockley wrote: > Can anyone suggest a good USB audio device that's supported under > OpenBSD? I'm looking for something that won't sound like crap when > played through a home stereo. I tried an AOpen PCI card some time ago > thinking that havin

Re: HQ Sound Device

2006-05-18 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 04:10:04PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As my sound card just fried on me, I'm interested in a new one. > Given the finicky nature of these devices I'm curious if there is > there a PCI card/driver combo that is considered fast and > nice-sounding that isn't integrated

Re: Mic recording

2006-05-07 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 12:40:30AM +0200, Rico wrote: > Hi > > Anyone who can recommend a good and "easy" to use tool for recording > audio (mic) from the packages? It doesn't need to have any gui but build > in compression like MP3 is preferable. > > I know there are a couple of different tool

Re: disk bad block

2006-05-04 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 04:17:57PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2006/05/03 10:24, Paulo Manoel Mafra wrote: > > I would like to create a large partition on a disk, but this disk has a > > known bad block. How could I create the partition without the bad block ? > > Use a different drive? I

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