[Alsa-devel] snd_ctl_open mode

2001-12-16 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
What are the possible values one can pass to snd_ctl_open in mode field ? Vladimir Dergachev ___ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel

Re: [Alsa-devel] plughw or hw?

2001-12-16 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, Paul Davis wrote: > >Could you explain to me how to do the following: the user has a TV capture > >card with audio-out that is plugged in into one of the sound cards > >installed in the system. I need to ask user which card and which input > >s/he plugged the TV audio into.

[Alsa-devel] which mixer interface

2001-12-16 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
Which mixer interface should I use: selem or plain ctl ? Vladimir Dergachev ___ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel

Re: [Alsa-devel] plughw or hw?

2001-12-16 Thread Paul Davis
>Could you explain to me how to do the following: the user has a TV capture >card with audio-out that is plugged in into one of the sound cards >installed in the system. I need to ask user which card and which input >s/he plugged the TV audio into. How do I do that ? (Preferably without the >user

[Alsa-devel] writing to /dev/sound/midi00 freezes computer with alsa 0.9.0beta10

2001-12-16 Thread Keith Duthie
When writing to /dev/sound/midi00 in alsa 0.9.0beta10, my computer freezes. It still responds to pings, but anything else is a no go. There is no debug output, no oops, no messages whatsoever; just a frozen computer. I have a cs4237b, and compiled the driver with gcc 2.95.3 and binutils 2.11.90.0

Re: [Alsa-devel] plughw or hw?

2001-12-16 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, Paul Davis wrote: > >What is a difference between an ASCII identifier "plughw:0,0" > >and "hw:0,0"? And what the output of 'aplay -L' means? > > a "hw" device is totally constrained by the hardware characteristics > of the underlying audio interface. if the device has 26 c

[Alsa-devel] Four channel support

2001-12-16 Thread Steven Walter
I've noticed that a lot of the cards ALSA supports are capable of four or more channel audio. However, in at least two cases that I've investigated in depth, the driver supports only two channels (maestro3 and cs46xx). Why is the four-channel sound capability of these cards not implemented? Is i

Re: [Alsa-devel] plughw or hw?

2001-12-16 Thread Paul Davis
>What is a difference between an ASCII identifier "plughw:0,0" >and "hw:0,0"? And what the output of 'aplay -L' means? a "hw" device is totally constrained by the hardware characteristics of the underlying audio interface. if the device has 26 channels, then it must be used with 26 channels; if i

[Alsa-devel] plughw or hw?

2001-12-16 Thread Jozef Kosoru
Hi! I'm porting my application from ALSA-0.5 to ALSA-0.9 and I don't understand ASCII identifier of the PCM handle which is a parameter of the snd_pcm_open function. I'd like to implement an user friendly sound card configuration dialog. This is a screenshot of the previous one: http://