Re: [Alsa-devel] DMIX and capture stream

2004-01-04 Thread Patrick Shirkey
David Lloyd wrote: On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Florian Schmidt wrote: On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 00:07:26 -0500 Paul Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm working on changing DMIX to allow clients to open the capture stream. i don't get it. dmix is for playback, not capture. what would be the semantics of thi

Re: [Alsa-devel] ALSA API

2004-01-04 Thread Alex Lau
Are you sure you've tested an existing ALSA application, to make sure your installation even works? (That tends to happen if /dev/snd/* doesn't exist.) Thanks for your help, I think I need to go back and check my alsa installation. Strange enough though, my xine palyer works fine and I have all

Re: [Alsa-devel] ALSA API

2004-01-04 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 05:44:38PM -0800, Alex Lau wrote: > I try to pass the string "default" to the function, but still get an error > -2 (No such file or directory) Are you sure you've tested an existing ALSA application, to make sure your installation even works? (That tends to happen if /de

Re: [Alsa-devel] ALSA API

2004-01-04 Thread Alex Lau
The sample in the tutorial use command line argument, so I try to follow the sine wave generation code in this url http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-lib/_2test_2pcm_8c-example.html it use char *device = "hw:0,0"; I try to pass the string "default" to the function, but still get an e

[Alsa-devel] pcm LADSPA plugin controls

2004-01-04 Thread Florian Schmidt
Hi, i was playing around with alsa-lib's LADSPA plugin and found no way of controlling the plugins' parameters at runtime.. So, i wonder if alsa-lib has hooks to alter the configuration of pcm plugins in general at runtime? Flo -- music: http://www.soundclick.com/bands/9/florianschmidt.htm

Re: [Alsa-devel] DMIX and capture stream

2004-01-04 Thread Florian Schmidt
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 18:02:11 -0600 (CST) David Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is exacly my point. The fact that dmix and dsnoop are > half-duplex is where I have a problem. There seems to be no way to > allow more than one OSS-compatibility client to share audio in a > satisfactory way.

Re: [Alsa-devel] DMIX and capture stream

2004-01-04 Thread David Lloyd
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Florian Schmidt wrote: > On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 00:07:26 -0500 > Paul Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >I'm working on changing DMIX to allow clients to open the capture > > >stream. > > > > i don't get it. dmix is for playback, not capture. what would be the > > semanti

[Alsa-devel] What about removing Config.help and Config.in

2004-01-04 Thread Martin Langer
Hi, what about removing Config.in and Config.help ? I saw them in alsa-driver/isa/msnd/ --- Aren't they obsolete since Kconfig? martin --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your

Re: [Alsa-devel] ALSA API

2004-01-04 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 09:19:16AM -0800, Alex Lau wrote: > I try to run the minimal playback program from the tutorial found in the > alsa web site, > > snd_pcm_t *handle; > char *device = "hw:0,0"; Shouldn't the tutorial be using "default", if that's what programs that don't care should be u

[Alsa-devel] Unique card identifier ?

2004-01-04 Thread Giuliano Pochini
I have to save the settings of the mixer and I need a unique name for each card. Does snd_ctl_card_info_get_id() return different ids if there are two identical cards ? -- Giuliano. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. B

[Alsa-devel] quake3 and alsa trouble: resampler probably doesn't work properly?

2004-01-04 Thread Prakash K. Cheemplavam
Hi all, I am using nforce2 with intel8x0 compiled into 2.6.1-rc1-mm1 based kernel. if you just start quake3 then you will have no sound. If you apply the famous cat "bla direct" > /bla/pcm/bla (and the other disable for capture), then sound reappears. Ok. But as soon as I load a map (except th

[Alsa-devel] Channels jumping with snd_intel8x0, nforce2 and 5.1 output

2004-01-04 Thread Gorka Olaizola
Hello, I've been experimenting with a Nforce2 mobo during last month and the only thing I couldn't fix is this sound problem with 5.1 surround sound. I have read all the messages in this and other lists refering this problem and I have tried 3 different versions of alsa drivers (0.9.8, 1.0.0rc2 a

[Alsa-devel] ALSA API

2004-01-04 Thread Alex Lau
I been doing some reading on using the alsa API, however, I cannot find much information on it. It also look like that the different versions have different argument for the same API. For example, the snd_pcm_open( ) some use snd_pcm_open( &handle, card, device, stream, mode) some use snd_pcm_o

Re: [Alsa-devel] Which API to use for simple clients?

2004-01-04 Thread Arve Knudsen
On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 12:00:57 +, Nick Ing-Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The ALSA implementation of v19 (development branch) is well developed, and fairly stable from what I can see (being one of the developers). There hasn't been a lot of feedback, but my own testing hasn't turned up any

Re: [Alsa-devel] Generating LFE-channel from Stereo Sound?

2004-01-04 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Thorsten Guenther wrote: Hi all! First i would like to thank you for your great work. Yesterday i watched DVD and really enjoied doing so with 5.1 sound on my nforce2 Linux system. :-))) After some hassle with the right settings for the DVD player software, anything works great and there is onl

Re: [Alsa-devel] DMIX and capture stream

2004-01-04 Thread Florian Schmidt
On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 00:07:26 -0500 Paul Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I'm working on changing DMIX to allow clients to open the capture > >stream. > > i don't get it. dmix is for playback, not capture. what would be the > semantics of this? Hmm, i don't know the OP's answer to this, but

Re: [Alsa-devel] DMIX and capture stream

2004-01-04 Thread Joern Nettingsmeier
Paul Davis wrote: I'm working on changing DMIX to allow clients to open the capture stream. i don't get it. dmix is for playback, not capture. what would be the semantics of this? haven't tried yet, but isn't "dsnoop" the dmix equivalent for capture ? -- In this house, we obey the laws of ther

Re: [Alsa-devel] Which API to use for simple clients?

2004-01-04 Thread Nick Ing-Simmons
Arve Knudsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Hi Nick > >Since you're looking into different alternatives, have you considered >PortAudio (www.portaudio.com)? Had not heard of it before. Looks interesting. >The ALSA implementation of v19 (development >branch) is well developed, and fairly stable f

[Alsa-devel] Terratec aureon space : strange behaviour

2004-01-04 Thread Zébulon
Hi, I have a problem with a new sound card based on Envy24HT, a Terratec Aureon Sky, on both Mandrake 9.2/kernel 2.4 and cooker/kernel 2.6 (dev version). I don't know if the problem is a Mandrake configuration issue or an alsa issue, so I post on that list because it may interests you. This card

[Alsa-devel] Generating LFE-channel from Stereo Sound?

2004-01-04 Thread Thorsten Guenther
Hi all! First i would like to thank you for your great work. Yesterday i watched DVD and really enjoied doing so with 5.1 sound on my nforce2 Linux system. :-))) After some hassle with the right settings for the DVD player software, anything works great and there is only one feature i'm missing

Re: [Alsa-devel] au88x0 problems with kernel 2.6.0

2004-01-04 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > Hi, > > The normal way I patch the 2.6.x kernel, is i download alsa-kernel from > CVS. and then delete the ./alsa-kernel/oss dir, then just copy all the > contents of alsa-kernel over the top of /usr/src/linux/sound > I then copy the include di