[Alsa-user] Noise when switching from PCM to AC3 streams

2006-01-20 Thread Marcus Agehall
Hi!I'm trying to use the optical S/PDIF out on my Abit KN8-Ultra motherboard (nForce4 based).I've managed to set things up so that I can play PCM data and AC3 data using my Sony STR-925 receiver. The only problem left, is that when I start playing an AC3 stream, after playing PCM data, the

Re: [Alsa-user] using dmix causes silent output with snd-cs46xx (1.0.10rc1)

2006-01-20 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Thu, 19 Jan 2006 13:55:38 -0600, Joel Bison wrote: On 1/19/06, Takashi Iwai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Wed, 18 Jan 2006 22:50:36 -0600, Joel Bison wrote: I'm having some interesting trouble getting dmix to work properly with snd-cs46xx, using the 1.0.10rc1 bundled with 2.6.14.3

Re: [Alsa-user] Noise when switching from PCM to AC3 streams

2006-01-20 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Marcus Agehall wrote: Hi! I'm trying to use the optical S/PDIF out on my Abit KN8-Ultra motherboard (nForce4 based). I've managed to set things up so that I can play PCM data and AC3 data using my Sony STR-925 receiver. The only problem left, is that when I start playing an AC3 stream, after

[Alsa-user] problem with USB latency (emi 6|2m)

2006-01-20 Thread Alexander Carôt
Hi to all, I have a Fedora Core 3 2,66 GHz-machine with low-latency kernel (Planet CCRMA). All soundcard stuff is working fine except USB cards : I've tested an emagic emi6|2m : It runs with 48kHz, 128 Samples/frame : 2 periods doesn't work (over/underruns -- just confusion ...) 3 is working

Re: [Alsa-user] Noise when switching from PCM to AC3 streams

2006-01-20 Thread Sergei Steshenko
Regarding Due to lack of documentaton, we are unable to set the non-audio S/PDIF bits on the interface. You are just lucky that your receiver can decode AC3 without the non-audio bit set Is there a possibility to make a snapshot of registers under Windows when the bit in question is set ?

Re: [Alsa-user] Noise when switching from PCM to AC3 streams

2006-01-20 Thread Prakash Punnoor
Am Freitag Januar 20 2006 16:08 schrieb Sergei Steshenko: Regarding Due to lack of documentaton, we are unable to set the non-audio S/PDIF bits on the interface. You are just lucky that your receiver can decode AC3 without the non-audio bit set Is there a possibility to make a snapshot

Re: [Alsa-user] Noise when switching from PCM to AC3 streams

2006-01-20 Thread Sergei Steshenko
Even better. On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 16:16:54 +0100 Prakash Punnoor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Freitag Januar 20 2006 16:08 schrieb Sergei Steshenko: Regarding Due to lack of documentaton, we are unable to set the non-audio S/PDIF bits on the interface. You are just lucky that your

[Alsa-user] alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: Permission denied

2006-01-20 Thread Sebastian Reitenbach
Hi alsa users, I am trying to get a mentioned card to work. unable to find the error. So I downloaded the alsa-driver-1.0.9.tar.bz2 archive to have the latest drivers. lspci: :00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Sound Controller

[Alsa-user] snd_cmipci + optical input

2006-01-20 Thread Patrick Plattes
Hello, i'm new to the list and i have (maybe a stupid) problem. I'm using a terratec 5.1 soundcard and everything works fine until now :). But since i try to use the optical input i see an issue. I don't know how to record the input. I can hear the sound on the lodspeaker, but i'm not able to

[Alsa-user] What's going wrong (SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_TREAD)?

2006-01-20 Thread Jeroen Nijhof
Hello, I recently installed Debian/etch/amd64 on my new PC -- but I've got great troubles getting the sound working. Only xmms works; aplay repeats itself 3 times a second, and tuxpaint doesn't play anything, and hangs when I try to quit... The sound card in question is the on-board chip of the

Re: [Alsa-user] Vivanco 6C PCI and Midi?

2006-01-20 Thread Lorenz Hopfmüller
Hi Lorenz. It sounds like your card is like my Audigy2 soundblaster then. You will need to load a soundfont onto the card. If you have the cdrom for the card, the soundfont (.sf2) should be somewhere on it, and you'll need to copy it to your home directory. If you havn't got the cdrom, you

Re: [Alsa-user] Vivanco 6C PCI and Midi?

2006-01-20 Thread Nigel Henry
On Friday 20 January 2006 22:45, Lorenz Hopfmüller wrote: Hi Lorenz. It sounds like your card is like my Audigy2 soundblaster then. You will need to load a soundfont onto the card. If you have the cdrom for the card, the soundfont (.sf2) should be somewhere on it, and you'll need to copy

Re: [Alsa-user] Ice1712 FC4 Kernel upgrade - dmix not working

2006-01-20 Thread Rich Rosa
OK. I have a solution and a working asound.conf file. The setup below allows me to use two seperate stereo channels to output MPD streams. This is working well now. My only remaining problem is how to use XMMS with this config file. Everytime I try it it is blocked. Any suggestions?

Re: [Alsa-user] Ice1712 FC4 Kernel upgrade - dmix not working

2006-01-20 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 19:52 -0500, Rich Rosa wrote: OK. I have a solution and a working asound.conf file. The setup below allows me to use two seperate stereo channels to output MPD streams. This is working well now. My only remaining problem is how to use XMMS with this config file.

Re: [Alsa-user] problem with USB latency (emi 6|2m)

2006-01-20 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 13:21 +0100, Alexander Carôt wrote: Hi to all, I have a Fedora Core 3 2,66 GHz-machine with low-latency kernel (Planet CCRMA). P.S.: Similar behavior I experience with a cheap soundblaster MP3+. Is this a laptop? You may be experiencing the ACPI/SMM bug. You are

Re: [Alsa-user] alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: Permission denied

2006-01-20 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 17:00 +, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote: Hi alsa users, I am trying to get a mentioned card to work. unable to find the error. So I downloaded the alsa-driver-1.0.9.tar.bz2 archive to have the latest drivers. That is NOT the latest version!

Re: [Alsa-user] snd_cmipci + optical input

2006-01-20 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 21:52 +0100, Patrick Plattes wrote: Hello, i'm new to the list and i have (maybe a stupid) problem. I'm using a terratec 5.1 soundcard and everything works fine until now :). But since i try to use the optical input i see an issue. I don't know how to record the input.

Re: [Alsa-user] Vivanco 6C PCI and Midi?

2006-01-20 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 22:45 +0100, Lorenz Hopfmüller wrote: I need a card which costs less than 25 €(Euro), plays MIDI without problems and in a good qualiti and is complitliy compatible with alsa. Which one should I choose? I don't want to buy a wrong again, you understand? This describes

Re: [Alsa-user] Ice1712 FC4 Kernel upgrade - dmix not working

2006-01-20 Thread Rich Rosa
My XMMS settings are: audio device: pcm:channel12 Mixer Card: M-Audio Delta 1010LT Mixer Device: PCM On 1/20/06, Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 19:52 -0500, Rich Rosa wrote: OK. I have a solution and a working asound.conf file. The setup below allows me to use two

Re: [Alsa-user] Ice1712 FC4 Kernel upgrade - dmix not working

2006-01-20 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 20:44 -0500, Rich Rosa wrote: My XMMS settings are: audio device: pcm:channel12 Mixer Card: M-Audio Delta 1010LT Mixer Device: PCM I have absolutely no idea why this won't work. If aplay works then XMMS should. Try stracing it. Lee

Re: [Alsa-user] Ice1712 FC4 Kernel upgrade - dmix not working

2006-01-20 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 20:44 -0500, Rich Rosa wrote: My XMMS settings are: audio device: pcm:channel12 Mixer Card: M-Audio Delta 1010LT Mixer Device: PCM Also your Bindings syntax is still completely wrong, see my previous email. Lee

Re: [Alsa-user] Ice1712 FC4 Kernel upgrade - dmix not working

2006-01-20 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 20:44 -0500, Rich Rosa wrote: My XMMS settings are: audio device: pcm:channel12 Mixer Card: M-Audio Delta 1010LT Mixer Device: PCM What is the output of: $ grep pcm ~/.xmms/config pcm_device=default It should say: pcm_device=channel12 Lee

[Alsa-user] redirect sound output

2006-01-20 Thread Steffen Schwientek
OK, I have two soundcards on my laptop. One is an internal one (Cirrus Logic ) and one of the tv-card (saa7133). No all I want is to direct the tv-sound to the internal soundcard. There is no cable-solution, since the tv-card has no audio-out. If I start the oss-compatiblilty layer, I can

Re: [Alsa-user] Ice1712 FC4 Kernel upgrade - dmix not working

2006-01-20 Thread Rich Rosa
If I use software mixer control it works!! Thanks for all your help. On 1/20/06, Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 20:44 -0500, Rich Rosa wrote: My XMMS settings are: audio device: pcm:channel12 Mixer Card: M-Audio Delta 1010LT Mixer Device: PCMI have absolutely no idea

Re: [Alsa-user] Ice1712 FC4 Kernel upgrade - dmix not working

2006-01-20 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 21:06 -0500, Rich Rosa wrote: If I use software mixer control it works!! Thanks for all your help. That's very strange, where exactly is the configuration item in XMMS to do this and what exactly did you change? Lee

Re: [Alsa-user] using dmix causes silent output with snd-cs46xx (1.0.10rc1)

2006-01-20 Thread Joel Bison
On 1/19/06, Takashi Iwai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, it should work as it is. Could you check whether you really compiled with NEW_DSP config by the number of substreams listed in /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/info? Also, how did you test the multiple playbacks? As a simple test, try to run

[Alsa-user] HDA Intel alsamixer controls strange.

2006-01-20 Thread Bill Unruh
I am running alsa (mandrake 10.1 alsa version 1.0.6-- so maybe this is fixed later). If I run alsamixer, I get controls Headphone, PCM, FronMic, Surround, Center, LFE, Line, CD, Mic,PCSpeaker, Capture, Capture, Channel, InputSo, Input So. HOwever the only control that seems to affect output

Re: [Alsa-user] HDA Intel alsamixer controls strange.

2006-01-20 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 18:11 -0800, Bill Unruh wrote: I am running alsa (mandrake 10.1 alsa version 1.0.6-- so maybe this is fixed later). If I run alsamixer, I get controls Headphone, PCM, FronMic, Surround, Center, LFE, Line, CD, Mic,PCSpeaker, Capture, Capture, Channel, InputSo, Input So.

Re: [Alsa-user] HDA Intel alsamixer controls strange.

2006-01-20 Thread Bill Unruh
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Lee Revell wrote: On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 18:11 -0800, Bill Unruh wrote: I am running alsa (mandrake 10.1 alsa version 1.0.6-- so maybe this is fixed later). If I run alsamixer, I get controls Headphone, PCM, FronMic, Surround, Center, LFE, Line, CD, Mic,PCSpeaker,

Re: [Alsa-user] HDA Intel alsamixer controls strange.

2006-01-20 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 23:30 -0800, Bill Unruh wrote: On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Lee Revell wrote: On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 18:11 -0800, Bill Unruh wrote: I am running alsa (mandrake 10.1 alsa version 1.0.6-- so maybe this is fixed later). If I run alsamixer, I get controls Headphone, PCM,

Re: [Alsa-user] HDA Intel alsamixer controls strange.

2006-01-20 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 23:30 -0800, Bill Unruh wrote: The question of course is NOT why aumix has a volume control which works but why the alsa mixer (which surely is part of alsa) has no volume control, and as a result I could not turn up the output volume using alsamixer. Surely the

Re: [Alsa-user] HDA Intel alsamixer controls strange.

2006-01-20 Thread Bill Unruh
On Sat, 21 Jan 2006, Lee Revell wrote: On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 23:30 -0800, Bill Unruh wrote: The question of course is NOT why aumix has a volume control which works but why the alsa mixer (which surely is part of alsa) has no volume control, and as a result I could not turn up the output