[Alsa-devel] SB ES-1888 on Dell Latitude XPi

2001-12-07 Thread Hugo Hallqvist
I've got an old laptop called dell latitude xpi with an es-1888 chip called something like plug and play audiodrive inside it. I've tried using the alsa-drivers (and also the builtin kernel drivers) for it, but with no success. I do get sound, however it is played at half speed, or even maybe s

[Alsa-devel] Alsa and 2.5 kernel merge status?

2001-12-07 Thread Artur Kedzierski
Is there any news from Linus or other kernel developers about accepting the ALSA kernel patches into 2.5.x? Also, are there any plans for sound multiplexing done in ALSA? I searched the mailing list but I couldn't find a definitive answer. I would like to be able not to run 'artsd'

[Alsa-devel] Re: devfs unable to handle permission: 2.4.17-pre[4,5]/ALSA-0.9.0beta[9,10]

2001-12-07 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, Richard Gooch wrote: > Tell me how the driver no longer works. I repeat: you now get a > warning. You can still use the driver. devfs_mk_dir returns an error now, so the driver won't be able to make new dev nodes available. So far it was legal to manually create a directory under devfs, now

Re: [Alsa-devel] problem with alsa mono output

2001-12-07 Thread Jack Moffitt
> Use some file in native hardware format. aplay: set_params:724: Channels count non available Is what i get for a mono file. jack. ___ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel

[Alsa-devel] Re: devfs unable to handle permission: 2.4.17-pre[4,5]/ALSA-0.9.0beta[9,10]

2001-12-07 Thread Richard Gooch
Roman Zippel writes: > Hi, > > Richard Gooch wrote: > > > Well, no, it was never a valid option. It was always a bug. In any > > case, the stricter behaviour isn't preventing people from using their > > drivers, it's just issuing a warning. The user-space created device > > node still works. >

Re: [Alsa-devel] problem with alsa mono output

2001-12-07 Thread Jack Moffitt
> I don't know. It's hardware specific. Some hardware must be initialized > (registers) to do a proper mono->stereo conversion. Which is what I was thinking too (after all I just spent a day debugging this driver). But alsaplayer seems to work fine. I can play the same mono file, and it comes ou

Re: [Alsa-devel] problem with alsa mono output

2001-12-07 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Jack Moffitt wrote: > > And 'aplay -D hw:0,0 '? > > jack@babyjesus:/usr/share/sounds$ aplay -l > card 0: card0 [PowerMac Tumbler], device 0: PMac Tumbler [PowerMac > Tumbler] > Subdevices: 1/1 > Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 > jack@babyjesus:/usr/share/sounds$ aplay -D hw:0

Re: [Alsa-devel] problem with alsa mono output

2001-12-07 Thread Jack Moffitt
> jack@babyjesus:/usr/share/sounds$ aplay -D hw:0,0 generic.wav > Playing WAVE 'generic.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 > Hz, Mono > aplay: set_params:719: Sample format non available I forgot to mention that this works without the -D hw:0,0 option. jack. ___

Re: [Alsa-devel] problem with alsa mono output

2001-12-07 Thread Jack Moffitt
> And 'aplay -D hw:0,0 '? jack@babyjesus:/usr/share/sounds$ aplay -l card 0: card0 [PowerMac Tumbler], device 0: PMac Tumbler [PowerMac Tumbler] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 jack@babyjesus:/usr/share/sounds$ aplay -D hw:0,0 generic.wav Playing WAVE 'generic.wav' : Signed 16 b

Re: [Alsa-devel] problem with alsa mono output

2001-12-07 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Jack Moffitt wrote: > > I don't see it. Is the aplay utility working properly? > > It seems to exhibit the same behavior. This is strange. And 'aplay -D hw:0,0 '? It appears like a driver problem (wrong mono sample output or incorrect mixer settings at the driver level).

Re: [Alsa-devel] problem with alsa mono output

2001-12-07 Thread Jack Moffitt
> I don't see it. Is the aplay utility working properly? It seems to exhibit the same behavior. This is strange. jack. ___ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel

[Alsa-devel] Re: devfs unable to handle permission: 2.4.17-pre[4,5]/ALSA-0.9.0beta[9,10]

2001-12-07 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, Richard Gooch wrote: > Well, no, it was never a valid option. It was always a bug. In any > case, the stricter behaviour isn't preventing people from using their > drivers, it's just issuing a warning. The user-space created device > node still works. But the driver doesn't. You changed the

Re: [Alsa-devel] problem with alsa mono output

2001-12-07 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Jack Moffitt wrote: > Xiph.org has made a cross platform audio output library called ao. It > has output plugins for most major oses and platforms. > > I've been doing some work to bring our alsa09 plugin up to date, and ran > into a little bug. > > It seems that whenever mon

[Alsa-devel] problem with alsa mono output

2001-12-07 Thread Jack Moffitt
Xiph.org has made a cross platform audio output library called ao. It has output plugins for most major oses and platforms. I've been doing some work to bring our alsa09 plugin up to date, and ran into a little bug. It seems that whenever mono output is played, the result only comes out one spe

Re: [Alsa-devel] patch for snd-card-pmac (tumbler)

2001-12-07 Thread Jack Moffitt
> Thanks! You patches are now applied to CVS. Thanks. > I've added error check from tumbler_init(). Could you try out? You broke the build :) You added a '{' on one line accidently. Here's a patch. Other than that, your error checking code is fine. jack. Index: tumbler.c ===

[Alsa-devel] Request for test: opl3sa PM support

2001-12-07 Thread Takashi Iwai
Hi, the latest opl3sa2 driver on cvs includes experimental power management support. As usual the driver has not been tested fully, so if you have a notebook with opl3sa, please take the latest source and give a try. Thanks. Takashi ___ Alsa-devel m

[Alsa-devel] Request for tests: HW volume control on maestro2

2001-12-07 Thread Takashi Iwai
Hi, I added experimental codes to control HW volume on maestro2 (es1968) from the docking station. The new function is not tested since I myself don't own the docking stuff.. If you have es968 docking station, please give a try and report whether it works or not. Thanks. Takashi __

[Alsa-devel] Re: devfs unable to handle permission: 2.4.17-pre[4,5] / ALSA-0.9.0beta[9,10]

2001-12-07 Thread Richard Gooch
Rene Rebe writes: > On Thu, 6 Dec 2001 23:09:14 -0700 > Richard Gooch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Rene Rebe writes: > > > At least since 2.4.17-pre4 and -pre5 devfs is not handling > > > permissions in the right way with ALSA: [...] > > > rene@jackson:/dev > l dsp sound/dsp > > > ls: sound/

[Alsa-devel] Re: devfs unable to handle permission: 2.4.17-pre[4,5] /ALSA-0.9.0beta[9,10]

2001-12-07 Thread Richard Gooch
Roman Zippel writes: > Hi, > > On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Richard Gooch wrote: > > > Two possibilities: > > > > - the module is trying to register "unknown" twice. The old devfs core > > was forgiving about this (although it was always a driver bug to > > attempt to create a duplicate). The new cor

[Alsa-devel] Re: devfs unable to handle permission: 2.4.17-pre[4,5] /ALSA-0.9.0beta[9,10]

2001-12-07 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Richard Gooch wrote: > Two possibilities: > > - the module is trying to register "unknown" twice. The old devfs core > was forgiving about this (although it was always a driver bug to > attempt to create a duplicate). The new core won't let you do that. > Error 17 i

Re: [Alsa-devel] patch for snd-card-pmac (tumbler)

2001-12-07 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Thu, 6 Dec 2001 17:31:34 -0700, Jack Moffitt wrote: > > The current CVS version of ALSA is broken for ibook2 tumbler based > cards. After digging in quite a bit, I finally found and fixed several > bugs, although there is still one more pending. Thanks! You patches are now applied to CVS.

Re: [Alsa-devel] rmb() in pcm_meter.c

2001-12-07 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Fri, 07 Dec 2001 12:25:47 +0100, I wrote: > > Hi, > > i found now alsa-lib includes iatomic.h defining atomic operations for > each arch. good, that's the right way. > however, there is one more stuff from linux header files: rmb() in > pcm_meter.c. this stuff should be copied into iatomic.

[Alsa-devel] rmb() in pcm_meter.c

2001-12-07 Thread Takashi Iwai
Hi, i found now alsa-lib includes iatomic.h defining atomic operations for each arch. good, that's the right way. however, there is one more stuff from linux header files: rmb() in pcm_meter.c. this stuff should be copied into iatomic.h, too. also, it would be better to define atomic*() and rm

[Alsa-devel] Re: [Alsa-user] CM8738 spdif I/O mostly distortion - is a signed/unsigned problem

2001-12-07 Thread Thomas Tonino
Thomas Tonino wrote: > The option "IEC958 Output Switch" indeed neatly enables the digital > output with a quiet signal. When I enable the "IEC958 DAC To Out" > switch I get very distorted output. I'm using XMMS or MPG123 with OSS > emulation. I started playing around in the driver with so

Re: [Alsa-devel] corruption in snd_pcm_multi code

2001-12-07 Thread Jeremy Hall
After extensively debugging this, I do not think the problem is in alsa. _J In the new year, Jeremy Hall wrote: > any words on this? > > _J > > In the new year, Jeremy Hall wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I can't find a difference in the way audioengine and jack open / configure > > the alsa device, b