Re: [Alsa-user] CS46XX : disable external midi ?

2003-02-07 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
because I have a windows program loader that is not able at the moment to choose the midi port. it always takes the first port he finds. > why do you need to disable it? > the ports timidity create will be different from anyway. > they will be assigned always from 128:0. > = Sylvain Petre

[Alsa-user] ice1712/envy24 experts, simultaneous independent channel recording

2003-02-07 Thread Carl Lee
Help ice1712/envy24 experts! Below is my current asound.conf file (thanks to Steve Mercier). It defines 4 different stereo input channels for A/D recording. I noticed that if I attempt to record on 4 channels simultaneously (4 different threads of course) only 1 channel will record, the other 3

[Alsa-user] Extigy issues

2003-02-07 Thread iain
Hi, I've been trying to get my Extigy card to work with Linux, and I've managed to get it to play fine (although it plays at the wrong speed with MPlayer, it works for everything else though). The problem I'm having is with the mixers. When I try to use amixer or alsamixer I just get errors [iain@

[Alsa-user] alsa-cvsexport-20030208

2003-02-07 Thread Wolfgang Teichmann
Hello, I have installed alsa-cvsexport-20030208; ice1712 for Terratec DMX 6fire. Now , if I set in envy24control H/W Out 1 (L), H/W Out 2 (R) to Digital Mix L and Digital Mix R, I get no stereo sound, only mono. With alsa-cvsexport-20030201 I had no problems. Regards, Wolfgang smime.p7s De

Re: [Alsa-user] aplay returns "Unable to install hw params" withTerraTec EWX 24/96

2003-02-07 Thread Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano
> > aplay -D plug:hw:1 sm.wav Should be "plughw:1" (all one word). -- Fernando --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com __

[Alsa-user] aplay returns "Unable to install hw params" with TerraTec EWX 24/96

2003-02-07 Thread Karsten Muuss
Hello, I am using alsa-driver-0.9.0rc7 on a 2.2.23 kernel and I am trying to install a Terratec EWX 24/96 card. I can successfully load the driver (ice1712) and I can use envy24control to modify some settings, but aplay (or arecord) refuses to access the card. I get either one of the following tw

Re: [Alsa-user] es1968 - AC97 debugged

2003-02-07 Thread Voluspa
On Fri, 07 Feb 2003 12:46:49 +0100 Takashi Iwai wrote: > thanks, could you test the latest cvs version? Couldn't stay a chicken for the rest of my life... installed CVS and pulled. The fix you made works flawlessly here. Thanks. Btw :-) CVS still has issues: Making all in include make[1]: Ente

Re: [Alsa-user] via 686 codec detect problems

2003-02-07 Thread Voluspa
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 13:15:40 -0800 Bill Mueller wrote: > I must be building the cvs version incorrectly. Now when I modprobe > the snd-via82xx driver is says 'device not found' Do you have information in /var/log/messages (or kernel or debug or...) which elaborates on the error? > > I pulled t

Re: [Alsa-user] via 686 codec detect problems

2003-02-07 Thread Bill Mueller
> this might be the reset phase. i changed it again to do cold reset. > could you try the latest cvs version? I must be building the cvs version incorrectly. Now when I modprobe the snd-via82xx driver is says 'device not found' I pulled the cvs tree, modified the 'build' script to include oss

Re: [Alsa-user] alsa snd-cs4231-lib.o: unresolved symbols

2003-02-07 Thread Arie Dogterom
did you depmod -a ?? arie - Original Message - From: andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 3:23 PM Subject: [Alsa-user] alsa snd-cs4231-lib.o: unresolved symbols > hello - > > i'm using kernel 2.4.20, and trying to move from

[Alsa-user] Broken pipe mystery

2003-02-07 Thread Pete Barnard
I am using ALSA 0.9.0rc7 and Red Hat Linux 7.2. My sound card is a CS461x. My computer is a reasonably powerful beast with 512M of RAM and 1Gig clock speed. I have written a simple capture program which reads interleaved samples from the sound card and goes around in a continuous while(1) loop. M

Re: [Alsa-user] Sound device permissions problem

2003-02-07 Thread Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano
> Recently I've been having problems with the ownership/permissions of the > /dev/. I'm not sure how and when it started happening. > > The devices take on the ownership of who logs on; eg if I log on, the > devices are setup as, for example, > > crw 1 dave audio14, 3 ... /dev

Re: [Alsa-user] via 686 codec detect problems

2003-02-07 Thread Bill Mueller
Hello there, > > this might be the reset phase. i changed it again to do cold reset. > could you try the latest cvs version? Pulling it now... Thanks. -Bill > --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + Li

[Alsa-user] ymfpci (YMF-744) and SPDIF AC3 passthrough

2003-02-07 Thread Marcus Rieks
Hi, I'm trying to get Dolby AC3 SPDIF passthrough playback over the TOSLINK optical output on a Yamaha YMF-744 based card (Hoontech Digital XG). I'm running Linux 2.4.19 on an x86-based PC with Alsa 0.9 rc7. I also tried the Alsa version from CVS on 2003-02-01, but this made no difference compare

[Alsa-user] Re: nForce "Analog subsections not ready", 0.9rc7, 2.4.20. Debian 3.0

2003-02-07 Thread Stephan Seitz
Hi! On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 03:53:08PM +, Stuart Gardner wrote: > > some another application is blocking the device. > > please check what program using the device via fuser. > Firia:/dev# fuser /dev/dsp Hm, try dmesg. Maybe there is a kernel oops that blocks the device. Shade and sweet wate

[Alsa-user] using cheap 5:1 surround cards as multi-output-cards?

2003-02-07 Thread decz
hello! I'm using ALSA 0.9rc7 on a RH8.0 system with 2 "cheap 5:1 capable soundcards" : o a soundblaster 128 o an on-board AD1980 (ac97 -> intel-8x0) both are capable of playing 5:1 surround sound. but what I'm interested in is having at least 1 device with two stereo outputs. since I inte

Re: [Alsa-user] nForce "Analog subsections not ready", 0.9rc7, 2.4.20. Debian 3.0

2003-02-07 Thread Stuart Gardner
On Friday 07 Feb 2003 3:44 pm, Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Fri, 7 Feb 2003 15:42:56 +, > > Stuart Gardner wrote: > > On Friday 07 Feb 2003 2:30 pm, Stuart Gardner wrote: > > > On Friday 07 Feb 2003 2:18 pm, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > this was already fixed on cvs. > > > > > > O

Re: [Alsa-user] nForce "Analog subsections not ready", 0.9rc7, 2.4.20. Debian 3.0

2003-02-07 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Fri, 7 Feb 2003 15:42:56 +, Stuart Gardner wrote: > > On Friday 07 Feb 2003 2:30 pm, Stuart Gardner wrote: > > On Friday 07 Feb 2003 2:18 pm, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > > > > > > > this was already fixed on cvs. > > > > Ok, I'll wait for rc8, or do you think it would be worth me trying the c

Re: [Alsa-user] nForce "Analog subsections not ready", 0.9rc7, 2.4.20. Debian 3.0

2003-02-07 Thread Stuart Gardner
On Friday 07 Feb 2003 2:30 pm, Stuart Gardner wrote: > On Friday 07 Feb 2003 2:18 pm, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > > > this was already fixed on cvs. > > Ok, I'll wait for rc8, or do you think it would be worth me trying the cvs > to fix my nForce? Just tried the CVS version, no difference. With MPla

Re: [Alsa-user] es1968 - AC97 debugged

2003-02-07 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Fri, 7 Feb 2003 16:03:05 +0100, Voluspa wrote: > > On Fri, 07 Feb 2003 12:46:49 +0100 > Takashi Iwai wrote: > > > > Sure, this is the Asahi Kasei AK4540 (also identified as such by the > > > normal OSS driver: AC97 Codec detected: v: 0x414b4d00 caps: 0x0 pwr: > > > 0xf) > > > > thanks, could

Re: [Alsa-user] es1968 - AC97 debugged

2003-02-07 Thread Voluspa
On Fri, 07 Feb 2003 12:46:49 +0100 Takashi Iwai wrote: > > Sure, this is the Asahi Kasei AK4540 (also identified as such by the > > normal OSS driver: AC97 Codec detected: v: 0x414b4d00 caps: 0x0 pwr: > > 0xf) > > thanks, could you test the latest cvs version? Thank you for the quick work. Ehe

Re: [Alsa-user] cs4236

2003-02-07 Thread Dennis Björklund
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Takashi Iwai wrote: > no. you need a software down-mix. > > > I found an old faq that said that it might be possible in the future. > > the software-mixing on alsa-lib might be available in future... That would be nice. Now that alsa is in the official linux kernel one can

[Alsa-user] alsa snd-cs4231-lib.o: unresolved symbols

2003-02-07 Thread andy
hello - i'm using kernel 2.4.20, and trying to move from the oss drivers to alsa: ii kernel-source- 2.4.20-5 Linux kernel source for version 2.4.20 with ii alsa-base 0.9.0rc7-1 ALSA driver common files ii alsa-source0.9.0rc7-1 ALSA driver source ii alsa-utils 0.9.0r

Re: [Alsa-user] nForce "Analog subsections not ready", 0.9rc7, 2.4.20. Debian 3.0

2003-02-07 Thread Stuart Gardner
On Friday 07 Feb 2003 2:18 pm, Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Fri, 7 Feb 2003 14:17:56 +, > > Stuart Gardner wrote: > > > > both XMMS (using OSS) or MPlayer (using OSS or ALSA) hang as soon as > > > > they attempt to access the soundcard. > > > > > > do you mean the kernel lock up? > > > no oops? > >

Re: [Alsa-user] nForce "Analog subsections not ready", 0.9rc7, 2.4.20. Debian 3.0

2003-02-07 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Fri, 7 Feb 2003 14:17:56 +, Stuart Gardner wrote: > > > > both XMMS (using OSS) or MPlayer (using OSS or ALSA) hang as soon as they > > > attempt to access the soundcard. > > > > do you mean the kernel lock up? > > no oops? > > My bad. The application itself hangs. I press ctrl-c in the sh

Re: [Alsa-user] nForce "Analog subsections not ready", 0.9rc7, 2.4.20. Debian 3.0

2003-02-07 Thread Stuart Gardner
On Friday 07 Feb 2003 11:44 am, Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Thu, 6 Feb 2003 23:04:00 +, > > Stuart Gardner wrote: > > I am trying to install ALSA 0.9rc7 onto my linux system (debian woody, > > kernel 2.4.20) and am having problems > > > > I have compiled it as instructed for that card on the websi

Re: [Alsa-user] Alsa Mixer Groups?

2003-02-07 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Tue, 4 Feb 2003 22:35:04 -0700 (MST), Greg Watson wrote: > > Hi All, > > Can someone tell me if Alsa has support to make mixer "groups?" For > example, I'd like to group all the wave * channels (wave, wave center, > wave surround, etc) into a group and map that to PCM. So I can then use > os

Re: [Alsa-user] via82xx - no soundcards and no sound!

2003-02-07 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Tue, 4 Feb 2003 19:59:51 -0800 (PST), P.M.Soni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ye!!! I got this worked!! (No CD yet.. That's > okay!!).. I unmuted the headphone and it worked! > (Somebody in this mailing list had mentioned this, and > thanks a lot to him...) > > But this works with the s

Re: [Alsa-user] sb live dma buffer alloc failure?

2003-02-07 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 05 Feb 2003 16:42:48 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi, > > I have exactly the same problem, I was considering posting here. > My config is 2.4.21pre4 (HIGHMEM) alsa 0.9.0rc7 , my system has 1GB memory. > (the prb was the same with 2.4.21pre3 and 0.9.0rc6) did you have the exactl

Re: [Alsa-user] sb live dma buffer alloc failure?

2003-02-07 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 05 Feb 2003 02:15:27 -0500, Brian J. Tarricone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > forgive me for cross-posting, but i've found references to this problem > on both lists, so... this should go to alsa-devel, not alsa-users... > > so then i noticed rc7, and tried that (unpatched, fresh from

Re: [Alsa-user] cs4236

2003-02-07 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 5 Feb 2003 12:24:13 +0100 (CET), Dennis Björklund wrote: > > My computer now plays music like never before. Much better then OSS, > before with OSS the volume was to low but with ALSA I can now adjust the > ogain. Also there is some strange 3D-setting that makes it sound "better" > (or

Re: [Alsa-user] Game Fortissimo III and MIDI

2003-02-07 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Thu, 6 Feb 2003 13:48:20 +0100 (CET), Sylvain Petreolle wrote: > > Are the specs known at the moment ? > I had a look into the OSS cs46xx source and have seen it comes from > ALSA. you can find a minimal datasheet and demo programs in alsa's ftp site. well, it's not easy to implement the enou

Re: [Alsa-user] es1968 - AC97 debugged

2003-02-07 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 5 Feb 2003 19:13:40 +0100, Voluspa wrote: > > On Wed, 05 Feb 2003 18:52:36 +0100 > Takashi Iwai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > could you tell me which ac97 codec is detected on your machine? > > please check /proc/asound/card0/ac97#0. > > Sure, this is the Asahi Kasei AK4540 (also iden

Re: [Alsa-user] nForce "Analog subsections not ready", 0.9rc7, 2.4.20. Debian 3.0

2003-02-07 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Thu, 6 Feb 2003 23:04:00 +, Stuart Gardner wrote: > > I am trying to install ALSA 0.9rc7 onto my linux system (debian woody, kernel > 2.4.20) and am having problems > > I have compiled it as instructed for that card on the website and installed. > I then do > > modprobe soundcore > modp

Re: [Alsa-user] via 686 codec detect problems

2003-02-07 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Thu, 6 Feb 2003 13:01:44 -0800, Bill Mueller wrote: > > Hello, > > > it's just a check. if you can use the chip without problem, it's ok. > > > > remove the two lines at line 1544 of alsa-kernel/pci/via82xx.c: > > > > if ((val = snd_via82xx_codec_xread(chip)) & VIA_REG_AC97_BUSY) > > snd_prin

Re: [Alsa-user] Sound device permissions problem

2003-02-07 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Fri, 7 Feb 2003 02:16:01 +, Dave Bentham wrote: > > Hello, > > Recently I've been having problems with the ownership/permissions of the > /dev/. I'm not sure how and when it started happening. > > The devices take on the ownership of who logs on; eg if I log on, the > devices are setup as

Re: [Alsa-user] CS46XX : disable external midi ?

2003-02-07 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Fri, 7 Feb 2003 04:13:50 +0100 (CET), Sylvain Petreolle wrote: > > Since no driver is currently available for internal midi with the > cs46xx driver, > I must use timidity to have a midi port to open. > > I dont have an external midi device but its connector is detected and > occupies the stan