[Alsa-user] multi-channel audio on laptop sucks?

2003-10-22 Thread Joakim Verona
Hello, I'm trying to get multi channel on my ldell lattitude laptop to work. I used to have a dell inspiron, and that laptop had multi channel audio inbuilt, and that was years ago. The fairly new lattitude seems to only have one stereo playback channel! Is this true or am I forgetting somethin

Re: [Alsa-user] S32_LE-->S24_LE

2003-10-22 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Panu Maijala wrote: > Hi, > > does anybody know any command line utility that would strip the additional > bits from recordings? My software configuration doesn't support 24 bit > recording (or is this a common ALSA problem?), but my sound hardware does > and I would like to a

Re: [Alsa-user] no sound on a laptop (SiS 7012)

2003-10-22 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, [let's keep this on the list, maybe someone else can help, too.] Black Eagle hat gesagt: // Black Eagle wrote: > > Did you turn up the volume with alsamixer? > Yes, I did, but only the first one > wich other should I turn up ? I don't know the mixer of your chip (many cards have differen

[Alsa-user] S32_LE-->S24_LE

2003-10-22 Thread Panu Maijala
Hi, does anybody know any command line utility that would strip the additional bits from recordings? My software configuration doesn't support 24 bit recording (or is this a common ALSA problem?), but my sound hardware does and I would like to acquire all the bits. The only way to do this is th

Re: [Alsa-user] no sound on a laptop (SiS 7012)

2003-10-22 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Black Eagle hat gesagt: // Black Eagle wrote: > I installed alsa on a RPM based distribution ( MDK 9.1 ) > It's a laptop computer with a SiS 7012 soundcard. > > I launched XMMS, and tried to play some music, it looks like it plays well ( > xmms having no errors ), but I dont hear anything

Re: third try: [Alsa-user] why doesn't digital output work?

2003-10-22 Thread BlinkEye
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 05:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Message: 7 > Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 22:57:24 +0200 > From: Michael Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: third try: [Alsa-user] why doesn't digital output work? > > BlinkEye wrote: > > > I don't get it: xine and m

[Alsa-user] alsa & midi (via8233 rev 50)

2003-10-22 Thread Méalier
HI I use mdk 9.1 with alsa 0.9.0rc8. I configurated my sound card to use the via82xx driver and included in my /etc/modules.conf file the option dxs_support=3. It seems that there are a lot of problems if the sampling rate is different from 48kHz (the oss driver works fine at any sampling rate),

[Alsa-user] no sound on a laptop (SiS 7012)

2003-10-22 Thread Black Eagle
Hi guys, I installed alsa on a RPM based distribution ( MDK 9.1 ) It's a laptop computer with a SiS 7012 soundcard. I launched XMMS, and tried to play some music, it looks like it plays well ( xmms having no errors ), but I dont hear anything. any help? Thanks Black Eagle

Re: [Alsa-user] How can I test capture?

2003-10-22 Thread J. Scott Merritt
As illustrated below, it appears as though the 32 bit format is not supported by the VXpocket. Any possible work-arounds ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] scott]$ arecord -Dhw:1,0 -c2 -fS32_LE -r48000 b32.wav Recording WAVE 'b32.wav' : Signed 32 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Stereo arecord: set_params:809

[Alsa-user] Alsa 0.9.7c will not build on a standard Mandrake 9.1

2003-10-22 Thread Simon Taylor
Hello all, I am attempting to install the latest alsa, and am following the instructions at: http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php?company=VIA&card=&chip=via8233a&module=via82xx I have the following setup: OS:Mandrake Linux 9.1 Sound: Via 8233 on a Gigabyte GA-7V

Re: [Alsa-user] laptop and MIDI

2003-10-22 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Florin Andrei hat gesagt: // Florin Andrei wrote: > If i could just use a sequencer on the laptop, that would be fine. I'm > not planning to actually do analog + MIDI on the laptop, not in the near > future anyway. I just want to be able to draw "musical sketches" with my > sequencer, just

[Alsa-user] cs4237b on dell latitude ...

2003-10-22 Thread rainer
hello, i've read the archives - there's a lot on this chip, and googled extensively, but after a week and a half i still can't get anything but a click at start-up out of this chip! finally got the options down (no more messages in syslog). running alsa 0.9.6 and slack 9.1. hope i've sent all t

[Alsa-user] alsa 0.9.8: playback running at double speed

2003-10-22 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Since v. 0.9.8, nearly all playback is running at double speed/pitch; - wav (alsaplayer, aplay, xmms) - mp3 (alsaplayer, xmms) - mid (TiMidity). I never have observed this before with any version of alsa. My configure options haven't changed for a long time: $ ./configure --with-cards=ice1712,virmi

Re: [Alsa-user] laptop and MIDI

2003-10-22 Thread Florin Andrei
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 01:59, Frank Barknecht wrote: > Florin Andrei hat gesagt: // Florin Andrei wrote: > > I'd like to add a MIDI input and output to my laptop, so that i can > > connect a hardware synthesizer to a software sequencer. The sequencer > > must run with JACK and ALSA. First, let me t

Re: [Alsa-user] dmix

2003-10-22 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 22 Oct 2003 10:53:35 +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: > > Hallo, > Frank Hellmuth hat gesagt: // Frank Hellmuth wrote: > > > Sorry, but the (non-alsa) mailing lists and forums are full of (not newbie) > > users, who failed to get thier sound card to work in the first place (whitout > > dmi

Re: [Alsa-user] RME9636 Hammerfall light installation problems

2003-10-22 Thread kevin ernste
I may be wrong and you should check the details page on your card in the alsa soundcard matrix, but I think there is no seq device on the Hammerfall lite. I seem to remember setting one up at one time and just not enabling the seq in modules.conf. In other words, no: alias sound-service-0-1 snd

Re: [Alsa-user] dmix - Attn: Frank Barknecht

2003-10-22 Thread Marcel
* Takashi Iwai ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > At Wed, 22 Oct 2003 08:38:57 -0400, > Marcel wrote: > > > > My CMI8738-MC6 cmipci card on the other computer is still yet to reconfigure > > in the same way, but I'm more than confident it will succeed. What I would > > like with this card is to have bo

Re: [Alsa-user] software sampler ?

2003-10-22 Thread Florin Andrei
On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 05:40, Thomas Graham wrote: > Hi, I am a musician that compose music with software sampler ( I use > gigastudio and halion on windows ), is there have any software sampler > have been developed under linux ? I would like to change to linux if I > could run any sampler, Thanks.

[Alsa-user] software sampler ?

2003-10-22 Thread Thomas Graham
Hi, I am a musician that compose music with software sampler ( I use gigastudio and halion on windows ), is there have any software sampler have been developed under linux ? I would like to change to linux if I could run any sampler, Thanks. -- HK Celtic Orchestra leader and coordanator: Thomas

Re: [Alsa-user] dmix

2003-10-22 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Tue, 21 Oct 2003 13:10:45 +0200 (CEST), Jaroslav wrote: > > On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Alfons Adriaensen wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 09:23:26PM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: > > > > > > Is there actually any documentation available about all this, apart from > > > > the very cryptic 'asound

Re: [Alsa-user] dmix - Attn: Frank Barknecht

2003-10-22 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 22 Oct 2003 08:38:57 -0400, Marcel wrote: > > My CMI8738-MC6 cmipci card on the other computer is still yet to reconfigure > in the same way, but I'm more than confident it will succeed. What I would > like with this card is to have both dmix and surround40 set as default. Any > hints on

Re: [Alsa-user] dmix - Attn: Frank Barknecht

2003-10-22 Thread Marcel
Hello Many thanks to Frank Barknecht for his dmix/ossmix post. After several months I've finally managed to get dmix to work on my ISA AWE64 card. You've done a fantastic work. My CMI8738-MC6 cmipci card on the other computer is still yet to reconfigure in the same way, but I'm more than confi

Re: [Alsa-user] laptop and MIDI

2003-10-22 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Florin Andrei hat gesagt: // Florin Andrei wrote: > I'd like to add a MIDI input and output to my laptop, so that i can > connect a hardware synthesizer to a software sequencer. The sequencer > must run with JACK and ALSA. > > The laptop already has a very simple sound card, embedded, with

Re: [Alsa-user] dmix

2003-10-22 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Frank Hellmuth hat gesagt: // Frank Hellmuth wrote: > Sorry, but the (non-alsa) mailing lists and forums are full of (not newbie) > users, who failed to get thier sound card to work in the first place (whitout > dmix). I never used Windows and I'm happy with Linux, but this is *definitly*

Re: [Alsa-user] laptop and MIDI

2003-10-22 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Florin Andrei wrote: > Therefore, i must add some sort of MIDI hardware, either via PCMCIA or > via USB. > > What are your recommendations? What works for you, is not too expensive, > is supported by ALSA and is compatible with existing MIDI hardware and > applications? All USB MIDI interfaces fro

Re: [Alsa-user] Abit IS7 (ICH5/ALC650) SPDIF sound not working

2003-10-22 Thread p z oooo
Hi, If you have ALC650 rev.1 alias ALC650 rev D, try to use alsa-driver 0.9.7c. Peter Zubaj == REKLAMA = Vyrazne zlavy pocitacov a prislusenstva SunFire V60x servery v cenach uz od 96.000,- Sk bez DPH Navstivte nas na adrese http://www.somi.s

Re: [Alsa-user] How can I test capture?

2003-10-22 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, J. Scott Merritt wrote: > > "arecord -f -cd -t raw -vv /dev/null" > shows the record level which is very helpful ! > > However, when I try: > "arecord -c2 -f S24_3LE -t raw -vv /dev/null" > on my VXPocket V2, all of the samples show > as 0%. Is there a way to show the input >