Re: [Alsa-devel] re: Hammerfall woes

2002-02-05 Thread Jeremy Hall
I do not know what this rtcmix thingie is, but here are a couple options you have: Convert the rtcmix program to use jack, adding jack functionality to it figure out how to get rtcmix to use a fifo or stdin/stdout, then write a small jack app that interfaces with it. It should be no more than a

[Alsa-devel] re: Hammerfall woes

2002-02-05 Thread Ivica Bukvic
> Try jack (jackit.sf.net) it will help you in part with what you want. > latest ardour CVS requires this. > > _J Thanks for your help. But isn't it true that the app has to be "jack-aware" in order to utilize it as a software downmixing tool? For instance, I am greatly interested in running m

Re: [Alsa-devel] RE: Hammerfall woes

2002-02-05 Thread Jeremy Hall
Try jack (jackit.sf.net) it will help you in part with what you want. latest ardour CVS requires this. _J In the new year, Ivica Bukvic wrote: > > >As far as the ardour is concerned, when I start it with -D rme9652 -i > 8 > > >-o 8 flags, and press play it only plays a quick "click-like" snippet

[Alsa-devel] RE: Hammerfall woes

2002-02-05 Thread Ivica Bukvic
> >As far as the ardour is concerned, when I start it with -D rme9652 -i 8 > >-o 8 flags, and press play it only plays a quick "click-like" snippet of > >a sound and immediately stops (no xruns reported). Why is this happening > >(I am using the 4-6 days old CVS version)? > > no idea. your descri

[Alsa-devel] Re: Hammerfall woes

2002-02-05 Thread Paul Davis
>Well, I tried restarting the alsasound and that did not fix it at all. >Granted, I was also trying to use cmixplay command which most likely >invokes rme card via oss emulation, and I've heard that oss emulation is >a bit flaky. So, I did end up having to restart the machine to get the >sound bac

[Alsa-devel] re: Hammerfall woes

2002-02-05 Thread Ivica Bukvic
> if this is the problem i think it is, you don't need to reboot. in > ardour/jack, just stopping+restarting the PCM streams would generally > clear it. > > i have had this problem from time to time as well. i am still, after 2 > years of working with the hammerfall, unsure of what causes it.

Re: [Alsa-devel] More woes with the RME 9652 soundcard

2002-02-05 Thread Jeremy Hall
just yesterday I had an issue where ardour was running at frames_per_cycle == 64 and capturing. After about 5 minutes or so (wildly random guess) I had some wierd alignment problems that caused me to be quite concerned that coming next would be the famous hammerfall hum at whatever amplitude it l

Re: [Alsa-user] Re: [Alsa-devel] More woes with the RME 9652 soundcard

2002-02-05 Thread Paul Davis
>> i have had this problem from time to time as well. i am still, after 2 >> years of working with the hammerfall, unsure of what causes it. > >Could it be a PCI problem? Latency timer issue? Busmastering problem? it seems to be related to the condition of the h/w when it was stopped and/or resta

Re: [Alsa-user] Re: [Alsa-devel] More woes with the RME 9652 soundcard

2002-02-05 Thread Dan Hollis
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Paul Davis wrote: > i have had this problem from time to time as well. i am still, after 2 > years of working with the hammerfall, unsure of what causes it. Could it be a PCI problem? Latency timer issue? Busmastering problem? -Dan -- [-] Omae no subete no kichi wa ore no mo

Re: [Alsa-devel] More woes with the RME 9652 soundcard

2002-02-05 Thread Paul Davis
>It seems I have been celebrating too early. > >Here's the scoop on my current issues: > >I have finally managed to produce sound with the darn thing, but every >so often now I get sporadic "crackle" out of the output, as well as >complete distortion of the sound, almost as if the pitch is constan

[Alsa-devel] some issues with SBLive SPDIF output

2002-02-05 Thread José Carlos Monteiro
Hi! A few months ago I finally managed to make my SBLive card (rev 07) output AC3 sound via SPDIF. Unfortunately I can only make it work under a very limited combination of settings. ALSA seems to be out of the question for me. I've tryed several alsa versions (even the latest cvs versions, which

[Alsa-devel] More woes with the RME 9652 soundcard

2002-02-05 Thread Ivica Bukvic
It seems I have been celebrating too early. Here's the scoop on my current issues: I have finally managed to produce sound with the darn thing, but every so often now I get sporadic "crackle" out of the output, as well as complete distortion of the sound, almost as if the pitch is constantly osc

[Alsa-devel] Maestro 3

2002-02-05 Thread Steve Harris
Does anyone know what the state of the Maestro 3 driver is? My card is an "ESS Technology ES1983S Maestro-3i PCI Audio Accelerator (rev 10)", "Class 0401: 125d:1998 (rev 10)" according to lspci. I've been having some problems with it under cvs ALSA. Things have got better over the last few weeks

[Alsa-devel] ensoniq card with device id 1271 ?

2002-02-05 Thread Riku Voipio
(CC me, i'm not subscribed) hi, I've got a souncard that claims to be ct4810 by creative. chip says it's a CT2518-DAQ . I hacked the es1371 driver to accept id 1271 too, mixer seems to work, but I get no sound. xmms plays tracks at huge speed. using the latest 0.5 alsa and 2.4.17 kernel. /proc/

Re: [Alsa-devel] problem with dynamic loading in Python extensionmodule

2002-02-05 Thread Kai Vehmanen
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am writing a Python extension module for the ALSA PCM device, > because I am interested in real-time audio processing with Python > scripts. This may sound weird first, but Python is fast enough [...] > Now I'm writing an pure C extension for ALSA-0

[Alsa-devel] problem with dynamic loading in Python extension module

2002-02-05 Thread Roger E Critchlow Jr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Now I'm writing an pure C extension for ALSA-0.9 . I encountered > the following strange problem: > > When I try to initialize the pcm device, I get the following > error message: > For what it's worth, if I write a dynamically loaded Tcl extension that imp