Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: The obsolence of OSS, Was: big smile

2004-02-25 Thread Dan Hollis
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Måns Rullgård wrote: > Adam Tla/lka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Test xmms with ALSA and dma plugin and try to open big tar.gz > > file. We got buffer underrun and app freezes. Sometimes I can only > > do kill -9 ;-). It depends on buffer and period sizes. Sometimes app > >

Re: [Alsa-user] Re: [Alsa-devel] Bugtracking system

2004-01-21 Thread Dan Hollis
On 21 Jan 2004, Andreas Kuckartz wrote: > 2. ALSA is closely related with the kernel (especially since version 2.6). > It therefore makes some sense to track ALSA issues together with (other) > kernel issues. This makes it easy to link to other kernel bugs or move bugs > to other Categories. This

Re: [Alsa-devel] Bugtracking system

2004-01-21 Thread Dan Hollis
On 21 Jan 2004, Andreas Kuckartz wrote: > I clearly prefer Bugzilla to the sourceforge bugtracking system. I can't stand bugzilla or sourceforge bugtracker. I searched a long time for a good bugtracker, tried many different ones before I decided on mantis: http://mantisbt.sourceforge.net/ It's

Re: [Alsa-devel] Lynx AES16 driver

2004-01-19 Thread Dan Hollis
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Michal Kostrzewa wrote: > Is this whole situation hopeless? Yes. > Have I any arguments to use in the discussion with Lynxstudio? Tell them you will use some other vendor instead, and that if they believe there is anything about their card which needs hiding in software, th

Re: [Alsa-devel] s/pdif controls

2003-03-11 Thread Dan Hollis
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Benny Sjostrand wrote: > Another spec. from Cirrus that explains all the IEC958 bitfields, I > guess this one is well known. I got a copy on > http://www.cucumelo.org/~gorm/an22.pdf It doesn't explain all the subcodes though... -Dan -- [-] Omae no subete no kichi wa ore no

Re: [Alsa-devel] s/pdif controls

2003-03-11 Thread Dan Hollis
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Paul Davis wrote: > i agree. but why are the status bit fields so long? is this following > IEC958 specs? Yes. They are large. The only full description of the status bitfields I have ever found is in the AD1892 datasheet. I have archived a copy here: http://bani.anime.net/b

Re: [Alsa-devel] echo hardware

2002-08-01 Thread Dan Hollis
On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Pete Black wrote: > They indicated 1-2 weeks until driver release, but it is now going on 3 > weeks i think, so I don't hold out too much hope for a prompt release. They have released it here: http://www.echoaudio.com/Download/Developer/EchoGenericDriverA0.zip -Dan -- [-] O

[Alsa-devel] echo hardware

2002-08-01 Thread Dan Hollis
Anyone on the list have echo hardware? (darla,gina,layla,etc) -Dan -- [-] Omae no subete no kichi wa ore no mono da. [-] --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf

Re: [Alsa-devel] more sample formats? too little place left.

2002-06-12 Thread Dan Hollis
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Mon, 10 Jun 2002 13:46:04 -0700 (PDT), > Dan Hollis wrote: > > you mean represent each mask bit with separate ascii character? > no, it's just a byte array as bitmap to hold more than 32bit (int). > the meaning is same, but

Re: [Alsa-devel] more sample formats? too little place left.

2002-06-10 Thread Dan Hollis
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Takashi Iwai wrote: > i talked (yes, physically!) with Jaroslav about this issue. > our conclusion is to extend the snd_pcm_hw_constraints_t struct, > namely, using char arrays instead of int for mask bits. you mean represent each mask bit with separate ascii character? -Dan

Re: [Alsa-devel] Writing a driver for this card: your thoughts?

2002-06-06 Thread Dan Hollis
On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Eliot Blennerhassett wrote: > > What's minimum latency possible with the card? > Historically our cards have very large buffers that contain seconds of audio, so > that they can keep playing flawlessly even if the CPU or network gets bogged > down. Whether this is used or no

Re: [Alsa-devel] Writing a driver for this card: your thoughts?

2002-06-06 Thread Dan Hollis
On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Eliot Blennerhassett wrote: > (It may be possible to release the host side code, but never the DSP code > on the cards.) Is it possible to bundle DSP firmware code with the driver? (If it's uploaded by the host, and it's not in eeprom or something). It's very hard to distri

Re: [Alsa-devel] more sample formats? too little place left.

2002-06-04 Thread Dan Hollis
On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > Of course you will want a good API support structure for handling format > > conversions... > hmm, i don't think it must be a struct. enum (int) could have enough > values if it's not bitmask, although the order of format enumerators > may look a bit w

Re: [Alsa-devel] more sample formats? too little place left.

2002-06-03 Thread Dan Hollis
On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Takashi Iwai wrote: > but the question is whether we should just add such new formats as new > bits, or define something more ordinary. A format descriptor structure, instead of hardcoded format types? Of course you will want a good API support structure for handling format

Re: [Alsa-devel] problem for VIA 8233A

2002-06-03 Thread Dan Hollis
On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Siu Kam Ming wrote: > I am using kernel 2.4.18. I try 0.9.0rc1 and 0.5.12a. I can insert the > module successfully. And I can use "aumix" to tune the mixer. But I can > not play any sound files. The speaker keep slience. http://www.alsa-project.org/~jfulmer/alsa-faq.html 2.8

Re: Re: [Alsa-devel] ALSA user documentation

2002-05-26 Thread Dan Hollis
On 17 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 5/17/2002 - 04:06:26, Martin Langer said: > > What about the soundcard matrix, I mean the email address on top of that page? > > I don't get an answer from there. Are you working on that page, too? > I can merge the page into the main website easily bu

Re: [Alsa-devel] Support for Midiman Delta1010LT - No specs fromMidiMan

2002-05-26 Thread Dan Hollis
On 26 May 2002, Jean-Marc Valin wrote: > 1010LT in sight. Marking it as supported in the list was a mistake (BTW, > from the chips on it, the 1010LT seems quite different from the 1010). What chips are on the 1010LT that are different from the 1010? -Dan -- [-] Omae no subete no kichi wa ore no

Re: [Alsa-devel] Support for Midiman Delta1010LT - No specs fromMidiMan

2002-05-26 Thread Dan Hollis
On 14 May 2002, Jean-Marc Valin wrote: > So I'd like to know what the options are right now? Is it possible to > obtain the required information through reverse-engineering? At least, > I'd like to warn potential MidiMan customers to be careful when checking > for Linux support since MidiMan itsel

Re: [Alsa-devel] snd-rme9652_mem and the H-DSP

2002-05-13 Thread Dan Hollis
On Mon, 13 May 2002, Paul Davis wrote: > who shall we ask? alan. he's been involved in this particular problem with the OSS drivers. -Dan -- [-] Omae no subete no kichi wa ore no mono da. [-] ___ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is l

Re: [Alsa-devel] rtcw,quake3 hang on exit

2002-03-20 Thread Dan Hollis
On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Paul Davis wrote: > >so what kind of bug is this? rtcw? alsa? kernel? > you haven't really described the bug very much. something to do with > processes left around, etc. > does the program(s) in question use threads? if so, using _exit() will > fail to terminate all threads i

Re: [Alsa-devel] ALSA drivers for USB audio devices

2002-03-19 Thread Dan Hollis
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Paul Davis wrote: > >Recently on this very list, Paul Barton-Davis proposed that one could > ^ >PaulDavis (op.net/~pbd/name.html) ^^ $ telnet o

[Alsa-devel] alsa ready for 24bit/192khz cards?

2002-03-13 Thread Dan Hollis
Is ALSA architecture ready for 24bit/192khz cards? http://www.harmony-central.com/Newp/2001/Ego-Sys-192-Series.html -Dan -- [-] Omae no subete no kichi wa ore no mono da. [-] ___ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.n

Re: [Alsa-devel] ALSA vs OSS/free

2002-03-07 Thread Dan Hollis
ALSA has rather complete support of IEC958, compared to OSS. At least for hardware that can handle it. I also believe ALSA had multi-open before OSS did. -Dan -- [-] Omae no subete no kichi wa ore no mono da. [-] ___ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Alsa-user] RE: [Alsa-devel] question regarding latest CS4205laptop soundcard driver

2002-02-26 Thread Dan Hollis
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Ivica Bukvic wrote: > wouldn't it be a rather easy step to make it also > be capable of accepting multiple queries and down-mixing them before > sending them to the actual dsp? Good resampling is hard, and good mixing is even harder and very processor intensive. You surely d

RE: [Alsa-devel] question regarding latest CS4205 laptop soundcarddriver

2002-02-26 Thread Dan Hollis
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Ivica Bukvic wrote: > > > P.S. What about Yamaha/Intel 753 chip that is found in the Toshiba > > > Satellite 5005's? > > All yamaha 75x should be supported with the alsa 'ymfpci' driver. > Yes, but does it include hardware mixing? Yes it does. > So my question is since this

RE: [Alsa-devel] question regarding latest CS4205 laptop soundcarddriver

2002-02-26 Thread Dan Hollis
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Ivica Bukvic wrote: > I am, however, baffled by what you had to say. Crystal company claims > complete Linux "friendliness" What is claimed and what is provided is two completely different things. Crystal still does not provide complete documentation for CS4630. > and I've

[Alsa-devel] delta 1010 howto

2002-02-20 Thread Dan Hollis
Have we got enough info to cook up an alsa-howto for delta 1010 cards? It is one of the more complex cards to configure and use alsa for (IIRC, rme hammerfall is the other one). -Dan ___ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.source

Re: [Alsa-devel] audio via ethernet (was: dolby digital output)

2002-02-19 Thread Dan Hollis
On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Steve Harris wrote: > However, on raw ethernet, the arrival of the packets + a timestamp should > be enough synchronisation. Yes, it should. > >From what I remeber of magic, it ensures the packets are sent > synchronosly. No, it just tries very hard :-) by using fixed packe

Re: [Alsa-devel] audio via ethernet (was: dolby digital output)

2002-02-18 Thread Dan Hollis
On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, stef wrote: > But the problem in digital audio is that the clock has > to be readjusted in short intervals. I just thought of something. multicast is perfect for clock synchronization. -Dan -- [-] Omae no subete no kichi wa ore no mono da. [-] ___

Re: [Alsa-devel] audio via ethernet (was: dolby digital output)

2002-02-18 Thread Dan Hollis
On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, stef wrote: > Anyway, which software/protocol/service do you use for > your clock synchronisation? _very_ interesting! Probably ntp. Works well, multicast mode should be excellent for this. BTW if you use fixed size packets on fullduplex ethernet (as gibson's magic does), t

Re: [Alsa-devel] audio via ethernet (was: dolby digital output)

2002-02-18 Thread Dan Hollis
On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, stef wrote: > I think sending realtime audio data via eternet will be > extremely difficult. Why? > It should be impossible to synchronize > sample clock via ethernet. Why? Did you read the gibson magic spec? -Dan -- [-] Omae no subete no kichi wa ore no mono da. [-] _

RE: [Alsa-devel] dolby digital output

2002-02-18 Thread Dan Hollis
On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > The magic web site did not mention anything about an AMP. The specs do. -Dan -- [-] Omae no subete no kichi wa ore no mono da. [-] ___ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.source

RE: [Alsa-devel] dolby digital output

2002-02-18 Thread Dan Hollis
On 18 Feb 2002, Bob Ham wrote: > On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 18:44, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > > A simple 100 Megs Full duplex point to point Ethernet cable can handle just > > about anything S/PDIF, USB, SCSI, IDE can throw at it. > I assume you've seen http://magic.gibson.com/? sadly, magic is pa

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] Driver for Philips Acoustic Edge (PSC 706)

2002-02-04 Thread Dan Hollis
On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Richard V Robinson wrote: > Is there an alsa/linux driver for the Philips Acoustic Edge (PSC 706) > sound card? Is anyone working on one? Answer is no to both. > I'm a fairly resourceful and clever programmer, or was once :). I have > the card in question installed on my

[Alsa-devel] audigy support

2002-01-28 Thread Dan Hollis
Creative labs released OSS drivers. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=44773 Perhaps someone can port to ALSA... -Dan -- [-] Omae no subete no kichi wa ore no mono da. [-] ___ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lis

Re: [Alsa-devel] Why should I port my OSS driver to ALSA?

2002-01-14 Thread Dan Hollis
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Adrian McMenamin wrote: > I wrote the OSS driver for the Sega Dremcast for OSS. > Are there any real world advantages of porting this to ALSA (the hardware is > quite specific and isn't going to appear anywhere else)? Are there any features of the dreamcast sound hardware wh

Re: [Alsa-devel] VIA pci bus problems

2002-01-06 Thread Dan Hollis
On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Erik Mouw wrote: > > http://www.tecchannel.de/hardware/817/7.html > Umm, interesting, but use at your own risk. There are quite some known > problems with VIA KT133 chipsets which should be fixed with the latest > kernels (2.4.17). Reprogramming the chipset might make it unstab

[Alsa-devel] VIA pci bus problems

2002-01-06 Thread Dan Hollis
http://www.tecchannel.de/hardware/817/index.html Interesting discussion about engineering flaws in VIA chipsets which prevent full PCI bus bandwidth from being achieved. Most interesting was the paragraph at the bottom of page 7! http://www.tecchannel.de/hardware/817/7.html -Dan -- [-] Omae

Re: [Alsa-devel] ymf753 and more

2001-12-03 Thread Dan Hollis
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, marco trevisani wrote: > 1)Toshiba claims i have a ymf753 sound chip linux sees an Intel chip: who's > right? They are both correct. YMF753 is AC97 codec attached to intel southbridge. You want to use intel8x0 driver. Datasheet is here: http://www.yamaha.com/lsi/products/pdf/

Re: [Alsa-devel] linux sound card w/ digital output

2001-12-03 Thread Dan Hollis
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Joshua Jacobs wrote: > I had posted earlier about finding a sound card which supports toslink output > under linux. It appears that Dan's page http://www.alsa-project.org/~goemon/ > has been updated to include an entry on the Fortissimo II and it shows that > its toslink in an

Re: [Alsa-devel] linux sound card w/ digital output

2001-11-30 Thread Dan Hollis
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Tom Browne wrote: > Wouldn't touch a YMF744 with a large pole. I have the NX from Hoontech that > Dan Hollis talks about, and the normal quality resampling (as far as the > Win9x drivers go) is a bad, bad joke. High quality mode is passable, but I > suspec

Re: [Alsa-devel] linux sound card w/ digital output

2001-11-29 Thread Dan Hollis
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Joshua Jacobs wrote: > The hercules Fortissimo 2 looks great (toslink in and out), but I just can't > find solid information on whether its linux drivers support the digital output. 4dwave-NX with optical outs (hoontech soundtrack digital-nx) works, but all output is resample

Re: [Alsa-devel] Oops in ens1371 driver

2001-11-28 Thread Dan Hollis
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Steve Harris wrote: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 12:30:21PM -0800, Dan Hollis wrote: > > > ardour. If ardour segfaults or is kill -9'd the kernel oopses inside the > > > alsa 1371 driver. > > This seems to be a problem with current alsa. I

Re: [Alsa-devel] kernel 2.5.0

2001-11-28 Thread Dan Hollis
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Jaroslav Kysela wrote: > If nobody has comments, I'm ready to prepare a whole patch for Linus > against the actual 2.5.1pre code. My only comment: ALSA has waited long enough. It's now ready for hardcore. -Dan -- [-] Omae no subete no kichi wa ore no mono da. [-]

Re: [Alsa-devel] Oops in ens1371 driver

2001-11-27 Thread Dan Hollis
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Steve Harris wrote: > I've been getting reliable oops's when using the ens1371 driver with > ardour. If ardour segfaults or is kill -9'd the kernel oopses inside the > alsa 1371 driver. > This is with current CVS alsa and back at least a few weeks. > I can't provide the whole

[Alsa-devel] kernel 2.5.0

2001-11-26 Thread Dan Hollis
Now that kernel 2.5.0 tree is started, shouldn't we start pushing to get ALSA into the tree? -Dan -- [-] Omae no subete no kichi wa ore no mono da. [-] ___ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-de

Re: [Alsa-devel] digital output on cs46xx (specifically, Game TheaterXP)?

2001-11-14 Thread Dan Hollis
On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Allan Hsu wrote: > Are these problems specific to the Game Theater XP, or to the cs46xx driver in >general? Is anybody making > efforts to improve support? If so, how do I get in contact with this person? I would >like to contribute to > development of this driver, but

Re: [Alsa-devel] Stream mode in alsa-lib 0.9

2001-11-14 Thread Dan Hollis
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Andy Wingo wrote: > Mark Rages put up a wiki that might be useful for you. I believe it's > linked to from www.linuxdj.org/audio/lad/. linuxdj.org doesn't exist... -Dan -- [-] Omae no subete no kichi wa ore no mono da. [-] ___ A

[Alsa-devel] Re: ECS k7s5a audio sound SiS 735 - 7012

2001-11-02 Thread Dan Hollis
On 2 Nov 2001, John Fremlin wrote: > Who to talk to at SiS? They have a dubious web interface for sales and > marketing requests that I used, but I'd prefer to email someone who > knows what a datasheet actually is ;-) > Alsa doesn't advertise any contact with SiS at all :-( I've already talked w

Re: [Alsa-devel] korg 1212

2001-10-28 Thread Dan Hollis
On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, Steve Harris wrote: > On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 02:49:55PM +0100, René Moolenaar wrote: > > Is there already a driver for the korg 1212 soundcard? > I believe that the information is available. It is possible that Iain > Sandoe is working on one, but I don't know. The developer

Re: [Alsa-devel] sis 7012 audio codec documentation

2001-10-24 Thread Dan Hollis
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Dominik Christ wrote: > Recently I bought a new machine with a K7S5A Mainboard > The site http://www6.tomshardware.com/mainboard/01q2/010611/sis-11.html > claims that the used Audio Codec is AD1881A from Analog Products. The > Datasheets for this Codec are availablew here: > h

[Alsa-devel] [linux-audio-dev] good news regarding Hammerfall DSP linux drivers(fwd)

2001-10-16 Thread Dan Hollis
>From L-A-D... -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 15:29:47 -0400 From: Ivica Bukvic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [linux-audio-dev] good news regarding Hammerfall DSP linux drivers Hi all, Here's what I got today from

Re: [Alsa-devel] Missing MODULE_LICENSE in hwdep.c

2001-10-13 Thread Dan Hollis
On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Jaroslav Kysela wrote: > On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Chris Rankin wrote: > > I've noticed that the ALSA modules have suddenly > > gained GPL license tags. Unfortunately I think you > > missed one: the snd-hwdep module. > Thanks. It's fixed now. BTW are there plans for integration in

Re: [Alsa-devel] Philips Acoustic Edge

2001-10-12 Thread Dan Hollis
On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Peter Enderborg wrote: > It is realy a small market. For example one of the big midi interface > manufactures (Midiman) don't even have full supprt of there new > highend products for windows 2000. You have to go for windows 9x or NT > for that. But it is strage, they only hav

RE: [Alsa-devel] Philips Acoustic Edge

2001-10-12 Thread Dan Hollis
On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > I still don't understand what manufactures are protecting by not releasing > the programming details needed for 3rd parties to develope their own > drivers. I've found several reasons: 1) They don't even have documentation themselves (which is

Re: [Alsa-devel] Philips Acoustic Edge

2001-10-12 Thread Dan Hollis
On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Frans Ketelaars wrote: > Also, quoting http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/ : > A few words of thanks... > Philips gratiously donated a PCVC680, a PCVC730 and a PCVC740 webcam for driver >development, > and kudos to their engineers which have to endure the stream of > E-m