Re: [Alsa-user] alsa vs midi

2003-11-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 20 November 2003 00:15, David Garcia wrote: >Timidity is a software (CPU wasting) synth that synths audio (say > wav) from midi information. That audio information can be played by > any Wav device so its sound level is controlled by pcm/wav > controls. > >Mainly, kmidi is a kde fronten

[Alsa-user] ice1712 dshare asoundrc config problem

2003-11-19 Thread Garett Shulman
Hello, I am having three particular issues that I was hopeing someone might have some insight into. I have an ice1712 card and would like to be able to have the digital mixer mix xmms & fluidsynth so I can jam with mp3s. Here is the asoundrc I have created so far: pcm.44_1 { type dshare

Re: [Alsa-user] alsa vs midi

2003-11-19 Thread David Garcia
Timidity is a software (CPU wasting) synth that synths audio (say wav) from midi information. That audio information can be played by any Wav device so its sound level is controlled by pcm/wav controls. Mainly, kmidi is a kde frontend to timidity. On the other side, kmid uses any of the available

[Alsa-user] In progress: *User* documentation in Spanish

2003-11-19 Thread David Garcia
I am currently working on a 'no-compilation, no-installation, no-programming' user manual for Alsa-Jack-Ladspa. I wanted to bring some friends of mine to Linux. They use Windows based music software, so i intended to do some introduction (in spanish) to the capababilities of Alsa-Jack-Ladspa(-Lad

Re: [Alsa-user] alsa vs midi

2003-11-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 19 November 2003 19:37, Gene Heskett wrote: >Greetings all; Yeah, I know, its poor form to answer/comment on ones own messages, but more info below. >I've recently moved to a kernel-2.6.0-test9-mm4, which is getting >pretty close to final. The formerly OSS audio system has been >r

[Alsa-user] alsa 1.0

2003-11-19 Thread Gonzalo Zapata
Hi, i downloaded alsa 1 and installed but when i restart my systemthe 0.9 still loading, how i have to make the change form 0.9 to 1. Thanx Gonzalo Zapata --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net h

Re: [Alsa-user] Re: [Alsa-devel] [ANN] ALSA 1.0.0pre1 is released

2003-11-19 Thread Collins Richey
On 19 Nov 2003 17:30:29 -0800 Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > as you might have already seen on the web news page, we released > > 1.0.0pre1 tarball. This is intended for the wide tests before the > > official 1.0.0 release. We planned to release 1.0.0 (hopefully) in

[Alsa-user] Re: [Alsa-devel] [ANN] ALSA 1.0.0pre1 is released

2003-11-19 Thread Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano
> as you might have already seen on the web news page, we released > 1.0.0pre1 tarball. This is intended for the wide tests before the > official 1.0.0 release. We planned to release 1.0.0 (hopefully) in > this month, so please everyone test this version and give bug reports > now. Looks like so

[Alsa-user] C-Media CMI9739 and volume control

2003-11-19 Thread Stefan Bittner
Hi, I have a motherboard with an nForce2 chipset and the CMI9739 AC97 codec. As some helpful person has pointed out, the Chip lacks a PCM-Out volume control in hardware. All there is, is the mute bit. Now, using alsa-libs plugin arcitecture, can I implement volume control in software (maybe by ev

[Alsa-user] also vs midi

2003-11-19 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; I've recently moved to a kernel-2.6.0-test9-mm4, which is getting pretty close to final. The formerly OSS audio system has been replaced with alsasound, and can be built right into the kernel, which I have. Most of the audio functions are working, with the notable exception of

[Alsa-user] Joystick with alsa and snd-ens1371

2003-11-19 Thread pincon
It was hard and I hope it's nearly the end. I have succeeded in activating the gameport. I use Alsa included with my 2.6-test9 kernel. I activated the gameport using alsactl-store and restore. [EMAIL PROTECTED] thibaut $ cat /proc/asound/card0/audiopci Ensoniq AudioPCI ES1371 Joystick enable : on

Re: [Alsa-user] alsa friendly DJ hardware ?

2003-11-19 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hat gesagt: // [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks for your prompt replies & recommendations. Unfortunately, the Delta > series is PCI based, which excludes them from working with a laptop. The > Midiman product line does look pretty good, and the M-audio Mobile Pre > (http:

Re: [Alsa-user] alsa friendly DJ hardware ?

2003-11-19 Thread ivar
> First I've been told by those who know that USB isn't real great > as it has latency problems. You might look at the Midiman > (www.midiman.com) Delta cards. They have a Delta 66 and a Delta 44 > with 6 and 4 channels respectively. Thanks for your prompt replies & recommendations. Unfortun

Re: [Alsa-user] SoundMAX (intel8x0) surround on a Asus P4P800

2003-11-19 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Clemens Ladisch wrote: > >> What is this? I have no sound output [using ALSA 0.9.8] > > No rear, or no sound at all? > No sound at all. Nothing. >> do you think it will work if I get a new version, or it's a >> hopeless dream? > > The new ALSA code works on my P4P800 (maybe because I wrote it), s

[Alsa-user] ICE1724 driver doesn't work

2003-11-19 Thread Otto Wyss
When using alsaconf the soundcard is now detected. When I choose it the configuration in /etc/alsa/modules/0.9 seems to work but afterwards when alsa is started I get the following error: Starting ALSA (version 0.9.6): ice1724-failed failed Is there a log file somewhere where the error message is

Re: [Alsa-user] CS46xx spdif output + ogle question

2003-11-19 Thread Henri
On 19 Nov 2003, Clemens Ladisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Henri wrote: > > > On 19 Nov 2003, Clemens Ladisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > it fails on the call to "snd_ctl_elem_write". > > > > > > What is the error code/message? > > > > "No such file or

[Alsa-user] SB Live/MIDI made difficult

2003-11-19 Thread Juhana Sadeharju
Hello. Can it be this difficult? We should have better user docs, I see. I'm testing a MIDI keyboard with SB Live/LiveDrive, but Alsa receives no MIDI. I tested "cat -v" on every midi device I found and used rawmidi program. I checked at MS Windows. The correct driver is "SB Live! Midi In [C000]"

Re: [Alsa-user] Re: spdif input with cmipci based card

2003-11-19 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Michael Hunold wrote: > > The CMI chip doesn't support recording raw subframes, it only records > > the PCM data contained in these frames (i.e., -f S16_LE). > > Just to clarify this: it's not possible to record raw iec958 frames with > this card, ie. frames with untouched ac3 data? I've never us

Re: [Alsa-user] CS46xx spdif output + ogle question

2003-11-19 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Henri wrote: > On 19 Nov 2003, Clemens Ladisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > it fails on the call to "snd_ctl_elem_write". > > > > What is the error code/message? > > "No such file or directory" = "control not found" > > > the snd_pcm_info_get_device(info) and

Re: [Alsa-user] SoundMAX (intel8x0) surround on a Asus P4P800

2003-11-19 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Alberto Monteiro wrote: > Clemens Ladisch wrote: > > > > Install ALSA 1.0.0pre1, then set the appropriate mixer controls. > > > What is this? I have no sound output [using ALSA 0.9.8] No rear, or no sound at all? > do you think it will work if I get a new version, or it's a > hopeless dream? Th

Re: [Alsa-user] CS46xx spdif output + ogle question

2003-11-19 Thread Henri
here is a follow up (still having trouble). this time using mplayer mplayer -ao alsa9:spdif movie.avi VIDEO: [DIV3] 460x340 24bpp 25.000 fps 985.8 kbps (120.3 kbyte/s) == Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2

[Alsa-user] ESS Allegro problem on Omnibook Xe3

2003-11-19 Thread Rózsa Szabolcs
Dear All, I have installed RedHat Linux (2.4.20-8) on an Omnibook Xe3 GC with ESS Allegro-1 soundcard. I'm using the 0.9.8 ALSA release, but unfortunately I have experienced a problem with the microphone. Actually I can not record anything with the microphone but noise. The speech is audible o

[Alsa-user] [ANN] ALSA 1.0.0pre1 is released

2003-11-19 Thread Takashi Iwai
Hi all, as you might have already seen on the web news page, we released 1.0.0pre1 tarball. This is intended for the wide tests before the official 1.0.0 release. We planned to release 1.0.0 (hopefully) in this month, so please everyone test this version and give bug reports now. Especially, if

Re: [Alsa-user] CS46xx spdif output + ogle question

2003-11-19 Thread Henri
On 19 Nov 2003, Clemens Ladisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > picked up a Hercules DigiFire 7.1 card today. CS46xx based. > > > > but ogle fails to configure the device correctly. the ogle > > code is at the bottom of the email. it fails on the call to > > "snd_ctl_ele

Re: [Alsa-user] HOWTO: spdif with nforce / intel8xO card inc AC3 & DTS

2003-11-19 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 19 Nov 2003 11:25:51 + (GMT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, > > Thanks to all those who made Alsa, its great and has helped me achieve one of my > goals - AC3 / DTS output via the digital SPDIF on my system! This means I can > playback DVD's using xine with full Dolby Digital

Re: [Alsa-user] Re: spdif input with cmipci based card

2003-11-19 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Clemens, % arecord -v -v -D hw:0,2 -f IEC958_SUBFRAME_LE -r 44100 -c 2 -t raw a.raw Recording raw data 'a.raw' : IEC-958 Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo arecord: set_params:828: Sample format non available The CMI chip doesn't support recording raw subframes, it only records the PCM da

Re: [Alsa-user] SoundMAX (intel8x0) surround on a Asus P4P800

2003-11-19 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 19 Nov 2003 13:46:00 +, Alberto Monteiro wrote: > > Clemens Ladisch wrote: > > > > Install ALSA 1.0.0pre1, then set the appropriate mixer controls. > > > What is this? I have no sound output [using ALSA 0.9.8], do you > think it will work if I get a new version, or it's a hopeless drea

[Alsa-user] Multiple wave

2003-11-19 Thread MvH
Hello, I own an emu10k1 card, and I've always used multiple applications at the same time sharing the pcm; I always thought this was normal ( it was my first sound card apart from a "soundblaster 8" ) with pci soundcards. that was using oss, lately I tried alsa as I came across an onboard card tha

Re: [Alsa-user] SoundMAX (intel8x0) surround on a Asus P4P800

2003-11-19 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Clemens Ladisch wrote: > > Install ALSA 1.0.0pre1, then set the appropriate mixer controls. > What is this? I have no sound output [using ALSA 0.9.8], do you think it will work if I get a new version, or it's a hopeless dream? Alberto Monteiro ---

[Alsa-user] (no subject)

2003-11-19 Thread cmcclan
Hello, Thanks to all those who made Alsa, its great and has helped me achieve one of my goals - AC3 / DTS output via the digital SPDIF on my system! This means I can playback DVD's using xine with full Dolby Digital 5.1 sound. I've seen lots of people asking if this is possible with my particul

[Alsa-user] Newbie question about Echo Audio Indigo

2003-11-19 Thread Luigi Bardelli
Hi all, I have recently bought an Echo Audio Indigo PCMCIA card for my notebook. I was wondering if there is any support for it under Linux: this card is not present in the ALSA Soundcard Matrix. Can you help me? Regards Luigi

Re: [Alsa-user] CS46xx spdif output + ogle question

2003-11-19 Thread Clemens Ladisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > picked up a Hercules DigiFire 7.1 card today. CS46xx based. > > but ogle fails to configure the device correctly. the ogle > code is at the bottom of the email. it fails on the call to > "snd_ctl_elem_write". What is the error code/message? > the snd_pcm_info_get_device

[Alsa-user] HOWTO: spdif with nforce / intel8xO card inc AC3 & DTS

2003-11-19 Thread cmcclan
Hello, Thanks to all those who made Alsa, its great and has helped me achieve one of my goals - AC3 / DTS output via the digital SPDIF on my system! This means I can playback DVD's using xine with full Dolby Digital 5.1 sound. I've seen lots of people asking if this is possible with my particul

Re: [Alsa-user] Re: spdif input with cmipci based card

2003-11-19 Thread Clemens Ladisch
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Michael Mauch wrote: > Michael Hunold wrote: > > In theory, I'd like to record the raw iec958 subframes, but using > > arecord like this fails: > > > > > arecord -v -D hw:0,2 -f IEC958_SUBFRAME_LE > > arecord: begin_wave:1608: Wave doesn't support IEC958_SUBFRAME_LE format... >

Re: [Alsa-user] als120

2003-11-19 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Tony Roba wrote: > Hi ,I'm using aPentium III 500 with REDHAT 9.0 (2.4.20-8 kernelversion) and > a ALS120 (avance logic) soundcard.I'm trying to make it work with the > ALSA-driver 0.9.8.Download all from > alsa-project.org.unzipped,untard,configured,maked ,and maked install.All > this with no comp

Re: [Alsa-user] alsa drivers on powermac g4

2003-11-19 Thread Clemens Ladisch
marco wrote: > # insmod snd-powermac > init_module: No such device > > In syslog I find : > > kernel: ALSA pmac.c:1104: pmac: can't request resource 0! > kernel: no PMac soundchip found > > In dmesg : > ... > Audio jack unplugged, enabling speakers. > AE-Init snapper mixer > PowerMac Snapper DMA s

Re: [Alsa-user] SoundMAX (intel8x0) surround on a Asus P4P800

2003-11-19 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Frank Hart wrote: > I'm trying to get the onboard AC97 to work. Strange thing about > this card is the multiple audio ports configs that are possible. > [...] > Is there documentation about reprogramming the ports on this card? The data sheet for the AD1985 codec is available at http://www.analog.

[Alsa-user] Alsa - midi & via82xx

2003-11-19 Thread audio2
Hi ! Just would like to add this "simple" solution to the list, maybe it could help someone... I also would like to say thanks to everyone who makes linux - audio possible. Thanks to All ! *** Alsa - midi - midiport - via82xx*** The following example seems

[Alsa-user] SPDIF on nforce / intel8xO working.

2003-11-19 Thread cmcclan
Hello, Thanks to all those who made Alsa, its great and has helped me achieve one of my goals - AC3 / DTS output via the digital SPDIF on my system! This means I can playback DVD's using xine with full Dolby Digital 5.1 sound. I've seen lots of people asking if this is possible with my particul

[Alsa-user] pcm_lib.c: Unexpected hw_pointer value

2003-11-19 Thread wwp
Hi folks, I usually see the message below in /var/log/messages. Using alsa 0.9.8 over a SuSE 8.1's 2.4.19-4GB, modutils 2.4.26. It doesn't happen w/ all the played sounds. kernel: ALSA ../alsa-kernel/core/pcm_lib.c:216: Unexpected hw_pointer value (stream = 0, delta: -62, max jitter = 8192): wr

[Alsa-user] Problem with Return to Castle Wolfenstein and AC97 Soundcard driv er

2003-11-19 Thread EXT / FOCAL ROHAUT Sébastien
Hi, Here is my problem : I've an onboard soundcard. My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-8KNXP with a Realtek ALC655 AC97 compliant onboard soundcard. I'm using ALSA 0.9.6 on a SuSE 9.0 distrib, but I compiled the 0.9.8 release to see if it changes something. The driver used by the Alsa conf is snd-in

[Alsa-user] CS46xx spdif output + ogle question

2003-11-19 Thread henri
hey, using alsa 1.0.0pre1 picked up a Hercules DigiFire 7.1 card today. CS46xx based. i only have an optical s/pdif cable in the card going to my amp normal stuff works fine (using the oss compat module). i get nice clean sound. but what i really want to do is play dvds w/ ogle and get the su