John What is the problem are you are trying to solve?
Think this is the bug report you are referring to... https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/1315769 This particular ~/.asoundrc file virtualises the alsa device hw:1,0 and does automatic format conversion using the alsa 'plug' plug-in. The client application would then use p148k as the virtual device name. I do not understand what problem this .asoundrc file was trying to solve. However it's unlikely to be the same as *your* problem, so cutting and pasting probably won't help. There is no silver bullet. You need to read and understand all this alsa stuff... http://alsa.opensrc.org/Asoundrc http://alsa.opensrc.org/Plugin_Documentation http://www.volkerschatz.com/noise/alsa.html etc. Then decide whether .asoundrc can solve your problem. As I understand it wsjtx 1.1 receives 16 bit integer samples at 12000 samples/sec and transmits 16 bit integer samples at 48000 samples/sec. The problem is on receive where very few sound card drivers can supply this sample rate. I do not know if this problem can be solved with a .asoundrc file. Instead I use wsjtx 1.3 on the linux box connected to the main rig. This uses 16 bit integer samples at 48000 samples/sec on receive and transmit via pulseaudio. It works well. I am currently trying to get wsjtx 1.3 to work with pulseaudio, jack, and sdr-core on the other linux box connected to a softrock RXTX via a Delta 44 card. This is not easy! I wish that wsjtx simply had an alsa interface that could handle 16 or 24 bit samples at 48000 samples/sec on receive and 16 bit samples at 48000 samples/sec on transmit. Pulseaudio is one too many layers of abstraction for this application in my humble opinion. Hope that helps. Nick On 17/08/14 21:12, John N1ISA wrote: > > My question is.. what is pcm.p148k? > > One last question(s)... I know I can just copy and paste the above .asoundrc > file to my home folder, but if I was to type it out in a Text Editor, how > important is it to get the curly brackets in the right postions? I am fairly > sure I can type the .asoundrc file to look exactly as shown above, but if I > was off a space, or two, would the .asoundrc file fail to run? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
