Re: Subject: Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA Users: What Bugs You Most? (Was: Recent Complaints

2004-01-23 Thread Bill Unruh
Jason Clouse wrote: Since I seem to have nominated myself to improve the documentation, it would be helpful if ALSA users would tell me about their unfulfilled dreams. What ALSA needs is a manual like the OSS manual http://www.opensound.com/pguide/index.html Ie, it needs to go

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA has Alzheimers

2004-01-23 Thread p z oooo
Or for RedHat or Fedora use chkconfig --add alsasound http://www.logofun.pobox.sk - urobte radost svojmu telefonu --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools

RE: [Alsa-user] CD Digital In

2004-01-23 Thread p z oooo
Hi, Audigy CD control controls volume for digital CD connection. Are you sure that DVD outputs digital stream ??? Peter Zubaj http://www.pobox.sk/ - najvacsi slovensky freemail --- The SF.Net email

[Alsa-user] Re: Another idea to help reduce user complaints

2004-01-23 Thread Jrg Bhnke
dear Ladies and Gentlemen, thinking about the problems i had using ALSA. For easier usage The manpages must be emproved. look at man alsamixer! We shoud have for each slider an explanation. eg.: I did not expect to use switch Mixer Out To In to make my microphone work. That's not the only

Re: [Alsa-user] snd-cs46xx and waveblaster connector on TerratecDMXFire 1024/SixPack 5.1+

2004-01-23 Thread Rui Nuno Capela
Mark Eggers wrote: I have the same issue with a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz card. I have the DB50XG working great on Windows/2000 (XG Gold, midiox, Cakewalk Pro 2004), but no such luck on the Linux side. Same with me, for years and years. I'm still using Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 (as of 1999) on

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

2004-01-23 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Molnár Domokos wrote: I've seen a converation on alsa-user regarding the P4P800 alsa-driver. I have the same config. I have just insatlled alsa-1.0.1 and haven't managed to get the rears working. aplay -D rear test.wav ALSA lib pcm.c:1812:(snd_pcm_open_conf) Invalid type for PCM rear

Re: [Alsa-user] snd-cs46xx and waveblaster connector on TerratecDMXFire 1024/SixPack 5.1+

2004-01-23 Thread Florian Schmidt
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 09:16:39 - (WET) Rui Nuno Capela [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Same with me, for years and years. I'm still using Cakewalk Pro Audio 9(as of 1999) on win98se, and as soon as I find a way to bring this DB50XG to Linux, that windoze machine will be dismantled, if that

RE: [Alsa-user] Another idea to help reduce user complaints

2004-01-23 Thread p z oooo
We shoud have for each slider an explanation. But sliders are diffrent for diffrent card. Peter Zubaj http://www.pobox.sk/ - spolahliva a bezpecna prevadzka --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by

Re: [Alsa-user] Howto upgrade/add sound card drivers to kernel 2.6.1

2004-01-23 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: I have kernel 2.6.1-mm5 that has alsa 1.0.1 (I believe) However it does not have all the card drivers. In particular, I want au88xx support. How do I get this driver in? Disable ALSA in the kernel config, and recompile the kernel. Then compile and install ALSA

[Alsa-user] SBLive: mirroring analog inputs to rear channel

2004-01-23 Thread Sipos Tibor
Hi, recently I have discovered that all kind of external inputs (stereo inputs) on my SBLive (with 4 analog speaker) works, but their sounds (analog cd, mic, line-in) can be hear only on the front channels. Computer based sounds (mp3, video, games) use all four speakers, regardless of how

Re: RE: [Alsa-user] Another idea to help reduce user complaints

2004-01-23 Thread brettholcomb
Yes, that is a problem. This probably should be included in the card driver documentation on the Alsa web site. And while, we're improving docs G, the driver docs need to list the options that can be used on each card (that's sort of done now) but also show how to use them. From: p z

Re: [Alsa-user] Howto upgrade/add sound card drivers to kernel 2.6.1

2004-01-23 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Fri, 23 Jan 2004 13:27:22 +0100 (MET), Clemens Ladisch wrote: Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: I have kernel 2.6.1-mm5 that has alsa 1.0.1 (I believe) However it does not have all the card drivers. In particular, I want au88xx support. How do I get this driver in? Disable ALSA in the

Re: [Alsa-user] snd-cs46xx and waveblaster connector on TerratecDMXFire 1024/SixPack 5.1+

2004-01-23 Thread Rui Nuno Capela
Florian Schmidt wrote: I think the waveblaster connection works. If i connect vkeybd to Rawmidi 0 - CS46XX::CS46XX i think i can speak to it. I don't have an XG editor to test tweaking the parameters, but the epiano sound is just like the one i used to hear [it's been a while though]. There

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA Users: What Bugs You Most?

2004-01-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 07:12, Clemens Ladisch wrote: I think we need some little userspace utility that allows to change client/port names. It would have a device database and user-specific configuration, so it would be possible to set a port's name to that of the external device, too.

[Alsa-user] how to make the M-Audio Audiophile USB work

2004-01-23 Thread Stuart Pook
Hi Can someone please give me some ideas on how to make the M-Audio Audiophile USB work with Alsa. Just bought a M-Audio Audiophile USB and am already starting to regret it (and if i want to try and take it back I'll have to do it soon). I was looking for a high quality 44.1kHZ and 48kHz D/A USB

Re: [Alsa-user] snd-cs46xx and waveblaster connector on TerratecDMXFire 1024/SixPack 5.1+

2004-01-23 Thread Florian Schmidt
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 13:20:32 - (WET) Rui Nuno Capela [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please, I would appreciate very much if you do confirm this. Maybe there's distinctive MIDI ports, one for accessing the internal wavetable-synth and another for the waveblaster onboard connector and thus the

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA Users: What Bugs You Most?

2004-01-23 Thread Florian Schmidt
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 05:28:34 -0800 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just think that many composer types will not like 72:4 and 80:0. This is why every GUI shows the client/ports names, too. :-) I don't understand this comment. No Alsa MIDI app I've ever run has shown anything

Re: [Alsa-user] how to make the M-Audio Audiophile USB work

2004-01-23 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Fri, 23 Jan 2004 15:02:15 +0100, Stuart Pook wrote: The first interface doesn't work :; alsaplayer --verbose -d hw:1,0 *.mp3 AlsaPlayer 0.99.75 (C) 1999-2003 Andy Lo A Foe [EMAIL PROTECTED] and others. Output plugin: ALSA output v1.9.0beta12 error on

[Alsa-user] looking for low cost audio card with digital in/out

2004-01-23 Thread The Eye
since my ice1712 based card is kinda problematic (dropouts) and it seems like this is not going to be fixed soon, I am looking for alternatives. First thing that comes to mind: use a cheap soundcard with crappy analog parts that has digitan in and out and then connect a good external da/ad

Re: [Alsa-user] snd-cs46xx and waveblaster connector on TerratecDMXFire 1024/SixPack 5.1+

2004-01-23 Thread Florian Schmidt
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 15:15:21 +0100 Florian Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so basically this driver provides only a single midi port (client 64: 'Rawmidi 0 - CS46XX' [type=kernel]). I don't know what the midi through thing is but i suppose it's an internal alsa thing... When i talk to this

FW: [Alsa-user] 5.1 - Analogue - Philips Soundcard

2004-01-23 Thread Jonathan Lee Mahon [VDB Mechancial Maintenance]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone been able to setup a Philips Sonic Edge 5.1 Soundcard in Alsa yet? Not AFAIK. It depends on what chip it uses. It would be interesting to know what lspci says about it. I guess it's some proprietary chip which nobody knows anything about. Regards,

Re: [Alsa-user] snd-cs46xx and waveblaster connector on TerratecDMXFire 1024/SixPack 5.1+

2004-01-23 Thread Florian Schmidt
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 15:27:36 +0100 Florian Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 15:15:21 +0100 Florian Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so basically this driver provides only a single midi port (client 64:'Rawmidi 0 - CS46XX' [type=kernel]). I don't know what the midi

[Alsa-user] which USB devices work?

2004-01-23 Thread Bill Kearney
If someone wanted to use the USB for multiple simultaneous outputs of /different/ audio streams, what devices are known to be as headache-free as possible? As in, this is a box expected to output several MP3 streams simultaneously as an in-home jukebox type of device. Most likely no more than 3

Re: [Alsa-user] Howto upgrade/add sound card drivers to kernel 2.6.1

2004-01-23 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Fri, 23 Jan 2004 09:44:17 -0500, Bill Kearney wrote: I have kernel 2.6.1-mm5 that has alsa 1.0.1 (I believe) However it does not have all the card drivers. In particular, I want au88xx support. How do I get this driver in? Disable ALSA in the kernel config, and recompile

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

2004-01-23 Thread Andreas Kuckartz
Sam Vilain wrote: What about sub-sub-categories for attaching bugs to individual drivers? That is not supported by Bugzilla. One possibility is to remove one level and add something like ALSA drivers as a second separate top-level Category with the main drivers as individual Components. I

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA Users: What Bugs You Most?

2004-01-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 06:18, Florian Schmidt wrote: see the screenshot on this page to clarify.. All alsa apps should be able to query the names of the port.. http://pkl.net/~node/alsa-patch-bay.html Flo Ah, well that's ever so slightly better than what I see from the HDSP 9652 in

Re: [Alsa-user] which USB devices work?

2004-01-23 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Bill Kearney wrote: If someone wanted to use the USB for multiple simultaneous outputs of /different/ audio streams, what devices are known to be as headache-free as possible? None. USB 1.1 has a comparatively low bandwith. Some devices refuse to do full duplex with 24 bits at 96 kHz. There

Re: [Alsa-user] which USB devices work?

2004-01-23 Thread Bill Kearney
From: Clemens Ladisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] If someone wanted to use the USB for multiple simultaneous outputs of /different/ audio streams, what devices are known to be as headache-free as possible? None. USB 1.1 has a comparatively low bandwith. Some devices refuse to do full duplex

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA Users: What Bugs You Most?

2004-01-23 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 07:12, Clemens Ladisch wrote: (I've added this to my TODO list (which doesn't mean anything).) It means you are organized enough to have a TODO list. That's good. Now if I remembered where I've put my TODO list ... ;-) One other related frustration

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA Users: What Bugs You Most?

2004-01-23 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, The Eye hat gesagt: // The Eye wrote: it's unfortunately not so easy to fix like other consumer cards. since ice1712 *always* needs 10 channels x 32bit samples and its max. buffer size is limited to 64kB, *at most* you have 0.1 or 0.2 sec buffer size. when the task is switched

Re: [Alsa-user] Another idea to help reduce user complaints

2004-01-23 Thread rob fell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote snip b) A button Speaker Test which cycles through the speakers, playing a tone through each one, and flashing or otherwise highlighting each one as it is played. OEM automotive audio gear usually has a speaker walk-around test such as this, often augmented by

Re: [Alsa-user] which USB devices work?

2004-01-23 Thread Dave Neuer
What about firewire-based units? I've seen several of them and they seem quite a bit cheaper than the Edirol UA-1000 (which goes for $600-$800 from what I can tell). I don't recall seeing anything like an ieee1394-audio module in ALSA. Dave --- Clemens Ladisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA Users: What Bugs You Most?

2004-01-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 09:38, Clemens Ladisch wrote: Now if I remembered where I've put my TODO list ... ;-) :-) One other related frustration about Alsa MIDI is that under Gentoo at least my MidiSport is never recognized by Alsa until I hotplug it. Is it recognized when you run

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA Users: What Bugs You Most?

2004-01-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 10:07, Mark Knecht wrote: 2) After booting, if I do an lsmod snd-usb-midi is loaded, but apparently not attached to the MidiSport: I meant snd-usb-audio in response to your question. Sorry. --- The SF.Net email is

[Alsa-user] ALSA with soundblaster USB external card

2004-01-23 Thread Michael J. Sherman
I attempted to get ALSA working with a new Creative Soundblaster MP3+ external USB card last night. I compiled alsa with the usb-audio option, installed just fine, and loaded all the modules correctly. lsmod reported all the modules loaded. However, whenever I try to run alsamixer I get an

Re: [Alsa-user] snd-cs46xx and waveblaster connector on TerratecDMXFire 1024/SixPack 5.1+

2004-01-23 Thread Florian Schmidt
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 15:08:14 - (WET) Rui Nuno Capela [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: P.S.: the next problem would be to get xg support into a patch editor. I wrote an email to the jsynthlib guys, but never got an answer.. i also haven't managed to get XGedit95 or whatwasitcalled installed in

Re: [Alsa-user] which USB devices work?

2004-01-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 09:58, Dave Neuer wrote: What about firewire-based units? I've seen several of them and they seem quite a bit cheaper than the Edirol UA-1000 (which goes for $600-$800 from what I can tell). I don't recall seeing anything like an ieee1394-audio module in ALSA. Dave

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA Users: What Bugs You Most?

2004-01-23 Thread The Eye
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 06:41:27PM +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote: Hallo, The Eye hat gesagt: // The Eye wrote: it's unfortunately not so easy to fix like other consumer cards. since ice1712 *always* needs 10 channels x 32bit samples and its max. buffer size is limited to 64kB, *at

Re: [Alsa-user] which USB devices work?

2004-01-23 Thread Bill Unruh
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Bill Kearney wrote: From: Clemens Ladisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] If someone wanted to use the USB for multiple simultaneous outputs of /different/ audio streams, what devices are known to be as headache-free as possible? None. USB 1.1 has a comparatively low

Re: [Alsa-user] which USB devices work?

2004-01-23 Thread Bill Kearney
It's not so much 'quality' I'm after as it's convenience. This is not an audio-purist or recording studio applicaiton here, just some geeked-out home audio. You should probably tell us what it is you want out of those devices? Eg, how accuaratly synched do the say 3 need to be, etc.

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA Users: What Bugs You Most?

2004-01-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 10:07, Mark Knecht wrote: 1) When I first start booting and I get to the place where you get all the [OK] messages I the 2nd or 3rd message says something like 'Device ID 0x0763 unclaimed by any driver. The 763 number is the ID for the MidiSport. From dmesg: [EMAIL

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA with soundblaster USB external card

2004-01-23 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Michael J. Sherman wrote: Doing a 'cat /proc/asound/cards' reports no souncards. I attached this external sound card to another machine *without* ALSA and it picked it up just fine and it works (using Fedora kudzu to pick up the new device and configure it for me).

[Alsa-user] ALSA 1.0.1 / intel8x0 surround sound mysteries

2004-01-23 Thread John W. Cocula
Hello all, With the speaker-test program, why is it that I can get all six channels of surround51 through my analog OUT jacks, but I can only receive the front left and front right channels via the SPDIF digital OUT? (The external digital decoder says it's in stereo PCM mode, but I'm obviously

Re: [Alsa-user] which USB devices work?

2004-01-23 Thread Dave Neuer
--- Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 09:58, Dave Neuer wrote: What about firewire-based units? snip I don't recall seeing anything like an ieee1394-audio module in ALSA. Dave Yes. I just voted with my pocketbook yesterday and ordered my Digi 002 Rack.

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA 1.0.1 / intel8x0 surround sound mysteries

2004-01-23 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, John W. Cocula wrote: Hello all, With the speaker-test program, why is it that I can get all six channels of surround51 through my analog OUT jacks, but I can only receive the front left and front right channels via the SPDIF digital OUT? (The external digital decoder

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA with soundblaster USB external card

2004-01-23 Thread Michael J. Sherman
Jaroslav Kysela wrote: On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Michael J. Sherman wrote: Doing a 'cat /proc/asound/cards' reports no souncards. I attached this external sound card to another machine *without* ALSA and it picked it up just fine and it works (using Fedora kudzu to pick up the new device and

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA with soundblaster USB external card

2004-01-23 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Michael J. Sherman wrote: Jaroslav Kysela wrote: On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Michael J. Sherman wrote: Doing a 'cat /proc/asound/cards' reports no souncards. I attached this external sound card to another machine *without* ALSA and it picked it up just fine and it

Re: [Alsa-user] Forking the input sound stream to OSS/Free

2004-01-23 Thread Jason M. Sullivan
Hi, to share a capture stream between several apps, you can use the dsnoop plugin. You will then also have to tweak the OSS emu to use a pcm device defined in your .asoundrc. Read the pages about Oss-emu: http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=OssEmulation Got there, I think I've got

Re: [Alsa-user] snd-cs46xx and waveblaster connector on TerratecDMXFire 1024/SixPack 5.1+

2004-01-23 Thread Rui Nuno Capela
Hi Florian, Once I get a way to talk to my db50xg with ALSA, you can be sure I'll spend some time working on a cutie patch editor. However it will be hard to achieve the same level of the good'ol XGEdit, at least any time soon ;) Hey, that would be so great. I would, of course, be your

Re: [Alsa-user] Forking the input sound stream to OSS/Free

2004-01-23 Thread Florian Schmidt
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 15:24:18 -0500 (EST) Jason M. Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It has. I've gotten to the point where I can record (the trick with using hexdump on http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=AlsaTips was particularly helpful), but things get all screwy when I throw dsnoop

[Alsa-user] Another surround sound mystery

2004-01-23 Thread John W. Cocula
I am trying to send an AC-3 stream via the SPDIF OUT of my sound card, doing real-time encoding of various Jack inputs. The following recipe ought to achieve that result, I would think, but it does not -- I get white-ish noise in the output when alsaplayer tries to send data: - ac3jack -o stdout

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA Users: What Bugs You Most?

2004-01-23 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, The Eye hat gesagt: // The Eye wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 06:41:27PM +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote: I have no problems with dropouts on my Delta Audiophile card. Do you run a low-latency/preemptible patched kernel? nope, since so far I have not found a reliable answer to the

[Alsa-user] Upgrade from kernel 2.4 to 2.6

2004-01-23 Thread Michael Klinteberg
I have bean following this list for a couple of weeks now, and I still have some questions. I didn't read all the threads toe. Someone says that when compiling a new 2.6 kernel from 2.4 I should not select ALSA from the kernel source, but download the source from ALSAs' webpage instead, is this

Re: [Alsa-user] which USB devices work?

2004-01-23 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Bill Kearney hat gesagt: // Bill Kearney wrote: Sorry if it wasn't clear. The idea is to have 3 distinct an independent streams of stereo audio. Primarily being fed by ~192k MP3 files. Mainly, push mp3 music out to three separate zones. Think 'jukebox in basement, speakers in

Re: [Alsa-user] Upgrade from kernel 2.4 to 2.6

2004-01-23 Thread Mark Constable
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 09:31 am, Michael Klinteberg wrote: Someone says that when compiling a new 2.6 kernel from 2.4 I should not select ALSA from the kernel source, but download the source from ALSAs' webpage instead, is this true? And why is it in the 2.6 kernel? The version of ALSA shipped

Re: [Alsa-user] Upgrade from kernel 2.4 to 2.6

2004-01-23 Thread Jason Clouse
On 2004-01-24 15:44:48 +1000 Mark Constable [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The version of ALSA shipped with the 2.6 kernel is not as recent as the latest ALSA sources actually available. Out of curiosity, why isn't the ALSA code developed in the kernel tree?

[Alsa-user] sequencer filter client

2004-01-23 Thread Garett Shulman
Hello, I am trying to create a very simple midi filter client for the alsa sequencer based on aseqview-0.1.4. I have alsa 0.9.8. This code shows the input and the output port in aconnect when executed. And, when the raw_midi client is connected The callback does get called when I play keys on