Re: [Alsa-user] Driver status of the Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live 24-bit external 7.1 USB?

2006-11-16 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Jan Ries wrote: Am Mittwoch, 15. November 2006 13:20 schrieb Clemens Ladisch: What are your needs? Analog line-in/line-out (stereo) Then you shouldn't need to get a 5.1 or 7.1 device. However, it's very hard to find stereo USB devices because most USB audio devices are designed as a

Re: [Alsa-user] (snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL hw:0

2006-11-16 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Chuck Harrison wrote: I was being led astray by http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/asoundrc.php , which begins in no uncertain terms: Neither of the .asoundrc or alsa.conf files are required for ALSA to work properly. Maybe someone should update that! ;-) Done. Clemens

Re: [Alsa-user] alsaconf: setup of soundchip VIA 8237 fails - SuSE-Linux 9.2

2006-11-16 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Heinz Knoche wrote: Without success I tried to set up my soundchip. ... 4. Is it at all possible that the soundchip's silence is related to the sharing of an interrupt? No. What are the contents of /proc/asound/cards? Regards, Clemens

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA usb sound card on ARM

2006-11-16 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Victor Librado wrote: I'm trying to connect a USB sound card to an ARM evaluation board. The ARM is running a Linux 2.6.15 kernel compiled with the option of ALSA support and USB device compiled as kernel options. Plugging the sound card to the board causes next exception: ALSA

[Alsa-user] half speed playback mp3 etc

2006-11-16 Thread richard
Hi I have asked on this list before, without any positive feedback.:( I have major neuro-surgery next week and need this computer to be able to payback mp3 and dvd films . and I'm not going to able to debug the system for weeks afterwards. OS mandriva 2007 official release. DM = Gnome 2.16 Audio

Re: [Alsa-user] half speed playback mp3 etc

2006-11-16 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 11:23:56 + richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have asked on this list before, without any positive feedback.:( I have major neuro-surgery next week and need this computer to be able to payback mp3 and dvd films . and I'm not going to able to debug the system for

Re: [Alsa-user] alsaconf: setup of soundchip VIA 8237 fails - SuSE-Linux 9.2

2006-11-16 Thread Heinz Knoche
Sorry for getting the same mail a second time Clemens, I just forgot including the alsa-user list ! Clemens Ladisch schrieb: Heinz Knoche wrote: Without success I tried to set up my soundchip. ... 4. Is it at all possible that the soundchip's silence is related to the sharing of an

[Alsa-user] Audiophile USB progress

2006-11-16 Thread Tom Frei
Thanks to the good people on this list, I was able to get my config file right and have alsa recognize the two cards on my system. Hence: bash-3.1# cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [CS4237B]: CS4237B - CS4237B CS4237B at 0x530, irq 5, dma 10 1 [tm ]:

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA usb sound card on ARM

2006-11-16 Thread Clemens Ladisch
(please don't top-post) Victor Librado wrote: I finally got the device to work. I have a look into the mailing list and uncommented the #define IGNORE_CTL_ERROR. Now if I start ARM with the sound card connected the card is recognised as /dev/dsp and i can play audio. However i still got the

Re: [Alsa-user] Audiophile USB progress

2006-11-16 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Tom Frei wrote: bash-3.1# cat /proc/asound/cards 1 [tm ]: USB-Audio - Audiophile USB (tm) M-Audio Audiophile USB (tm) at usb-:00:07.2-1, full speed Yea!! I cannot, however, get the M-Audio Audiophile to output any sound. Does aplay -D plughw:1

Re: [Alsa-user] alsaconf: setup of soundchip VIA 8237 fails - SuSE-Linux 9.2

2006-11-16 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Heinz Knoche wrote: Clemens Ladisch schrieb: What are the contents of /proc/asound/cards? cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [rev60 ]: VIA8233 - VIA 823x rev60 VIA 823x rev60 with CMI9761 at 0xd000, irq 3 This codec should be supported even by your old ALSA version.

Re: [Alsa-user] Audiophile USB progress

2006-11-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 16 November 2006 11:10, Tom Frei wrote: Thanks to the good people on this list, I was able to get my config file right and have alsa recognize the two cards on my system. Hence: bash-3.1# cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [CS4237B]: CS4237B - CS4237B CS4237B

[Alsa-user] Dead sound after new install

2006-11-16 Thread Bob van der Poel
I decided to reinstall my OS yesterday ( a long story, but it wasn't due to hardware, so I don't think that it is fired is the reason). All seems to be working, except audio. I have maudio audiophile 2496 card, Mandriva 2007, alsa 1.0.12. In /etc I have the following files: root$ cat

Re: [Alsa-user] Audiophile USB progress

2006-11-16 Thread Tom Frei
The obvious question at this point Tom, is have you run alsamixer and unmuted it? This stuff defaults to muted, presumably to protect the speakers or some such folderol. Thanks, but alsamixer -c 1 returns the following No mixer elems found I think I read this somewhere about some

Re: [Alsa-user] Audiophile USB progress

2006-11-16 Thread Tom Frei
aplay -d plughw:1 xxx.wav gets me sound coming from the onboard soundcard on the laptop, but no sound from the Audiophile USB. The same results when I use plughw:1,1 (or 1,0 or 0,0). I also tried using hw:1 (and variants). I appreciate your help. -Tom Does aplay -D plughw:1

Re: [Alsa-user] alsaconf: setup of soundchip VIA 8237 fails - SuSE-Linux 9.2

2006-11-16 Thread Heinz Knoche
Clemens Ladisch schrieb: Heinz Knoche wrote: Clemens Ladisch schrieb: What are the contents of /proc/asound/cards? cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [rev60 ]: VIA8233 - VIA 823x rev60 VIA 823x rev60 with CMI9761 at 0xd000, irq 3 This codec should be supported

Re: [Alsa-user] alsaconf: setup of soundchip VIA 8237 fails - SuSE-Linux 9.2

2006-11-16 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 02:21 +0100, Heinz Knoche wrote: Clemens Ladisch schrieb: Heinz Knoche wrote: Clemens Ladisch schrieb: What are the contents of /proc/asound/cards? cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [rev60 ]: VIA8233 - VIA 823x rev60 VIA 823x rev60 with

Re: [Alsa-user] Dead sound after new install

2006-11-16 Thread Bob van der Poel
Bob van der Poel wrote: I decided to reinstall my OS yesterday ( a long story, but it wasn't due to hardware, so I don't think that it is fired is the reason). All seems to be working, except audio. I have maudio audiophile 2496 card, Mandriva 2007, alsa 1.0.12. snip Not cool replying

Re: [Alsa-user] Audiophile USB progress

2006-11-16 Thread Tom Frei
Hold it! I'm now replying to my own reply. Sorry for the annoyance.I used the wrong command. I should have done: aplay -D plughw:1 xxx.wav [as Clemens suggested below] That is, use a -D, not -d. When I use the right command, I actually do get some output, but it comes in one-second