[Alsa-user] RME9636 Hammerfall light installation problems

2003-10-22 Thread Kris Modrak
I ran into problems during the installation of ALSA 0.9.7c for an RME9636 (on a Debian machine with a 2.4.22 kernel) at the following point modprobe snd-seq-oss /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/sound/acore/seq/oss/snd-seq-oss.o: init_module: Device or resource busy Hint: insmod errors can be caused by

Re: [Alsa-user] laptop and MIDI

2003-10-22 Thread Ben Saylor
I'm using a Midiman Midisport 1x1 (USB), and it works perfectly. It's about US$40. From the ALSA soundcard matrix, it looks like many of the Edirol UM-series USB MIDI interfaces are also supported. Ben On Tuesday 21 October 2003 5:28 pm, Florin Andrei wrote: I'd like to add a MIDI input and

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 level when

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 from

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 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 - 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 how

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 'asoundrc.txt' which

[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] 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.

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 both dmix

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

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 dmix). I

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 thank

[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

[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

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] 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=VIAcard=chip=via8233amodule=via82xx I have the following setup: OS:Mandrake Linux 9.1 Sound: Via 8233 on a Gigabyte GA-7VA

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:

[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),

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 mplayer work

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.

[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

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 different

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

[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