Re: [Alsa-user] snd-hda-intel : Unknown model for ALC882

2007-11-22 Thread Dmitri Pogosyan
That's no problem by itself. > Hi all, > > I have an Asus A7T laptop which had a problem. Asus switched my > motherboard to correct it but now i have no sound. > > I searched on the web and understood that the codec should be known by > kernel in order to have sound. > > Here is some output :

[Alsa-user] snd-hda-intel : Unknown model for ALC882

2007-11-22 Thread Bonnel Christophe
Hi all, I have an Asus A7T laptop which had a problem. Asus switched my motherboard to correct it but now i have no sound. I searched on the web and understood that the codec should be known by kernel in order to have sound. Here is some output : $lspci -v 00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporat

Re: [Alsa-user] usb audio - help with asoundrc

2007-11-22 Thread Mark Constable
On 2007-11-23 01:14 pm, Yan Seiner wrote: > How do I assign a device to a specific user/head? > > I have a multi-head setup in X; I have 3 sound cards, and I want to > always have head 1 be assigned USB card #1, regardless of who is logged > in to head 1. I'm not quite sure what to suggest to s

Re: [Alsa-user] "best" card for "bitperfect" SPDIF I/O with external clock sync ?

2007-11-22 Thread Darrell Bellerive
I have the M-Audio Audiophile 24/96. I purchased the card a few years ago on the basis of recommendations on this mailing list. I have never been happy with this card. While it works okay for playing basic sound, getting it to do anything more sophisticated is pure black magic. For example, I h

[Alsa-user] determining and setting sample rate for HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia (and maybe others)

2007-11-22 Thread Sergei Steshenko
Hello All, I'm wondering what the official way is to determine and set sample rate for HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia sound "card" (it's on my MB); the core/chip is: Realtek ALC883. According to Realtek documentation the chip supports various sample rates: http://www.realtek.com.tw/products/productsView

Re: [Alsa-user] "best" card for "bitperfect" SPDIF I/O with external clock sync ?

2007-11-22 Thread Rene Herman
On 22-11-07 22:00, Paolo Saggese wrote: > (what's worse is that, nevertheless, even now a good analogue system can > still sound MUCH better than any CD: it actually takes a good SACD or > DVD-A system to come close to the good old LP when it comes to the real > perceived audio quality!) If we're

Re: [Alsa-user] "best" card for "bitperfect" SPDIF I/O with external clock sync ?

2007-11-22 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 22:00:29 +0100 Paolo Saggese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > If the digital audio folks have had a lesser simplistic approach in > the first place, we would not have had to wait some 20 years before > gettin' a barely acceptabe sound out of a CD... > [snip] In a sens

Re: [Alsa-user] "best" card for "bitperfect" SPDIF I/O with external clock sync ?

2007-11-22 Thread Paolo Saggese
On Wednesday 21 November 2007 23:49, Bill Unruh wrote: > The clock jitter tends to be in the ppm range. This means that the > frequency jitter is very low (if I believe the ppm then at the level of > -120dB) > which is completely inaudible. My cheap Transit card reliably gives me noise unfort

Re: [Alsa-user] "best" card for "bitperfect" SPDIF I/O with external clock sync ?

2007-11-22 Thread Rene Herman
On 22-11-07 19:44, Paolo Saggese wrote: > [OT on] > In fact, unfortunately cdparanoia is not (or perhaps no > longer) good enough to do "perfect" DAE. Over the course of ripping 735 CDs now to my harddrive with cdparanoia, I have found that all's well as long as cdparanoia leaves nothing but sp

Re: [Alsa-user] "best" card for "bitperfect" SPDIF I/O with external clock sync ?

2007-11-22 Thread Rene Herman
On 22-11-07 20:38, Paolo Saggese wrote: > On Thursday 22 November 2007 11:39, Rene Herman wrote: > >> I suppose your external DAC has no actual WordClock (BNC connection) output? > > indeed, it does not. As it does not have an SPDIF output, either... > > but I'm a DIY guy (with an EE degree...

Re: [Alsa-user] "best" card for "bitperfect" SPDIF I/O with external clock sync ?

2007-11-22 Thread Vladimir Mosgalin
Hi Sergei Steshenko! On 2007.11.21 at 23:24:35 +0200, Sergei Steshenko wrote next: > > > Regarding soundcard and syncrhonization - M-Audio Revolution 7.1, and > > quite possibly M-Audio Revolution allow you to use external clock > > source. > > > > I meant "M-Audio Revolution 7.1, and quite p

Re: [Alsa-user] "best" card for "bitperfect" SPDIF I/O with external clock sync ?

2007-11-22 Thread Rene Herman
On 22-11-07 20:49, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > Just a random thought on jitter - if you like music recorded originally > before the digital era - don't bother. > > I.e. analog tape recorder wow and flutter > > ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow_and_flutter ) > > is much higher than digital jitter

Re: [Alsa-user] "best" card for "bitperfect" SPDIF I/O with external clock sync ?

2007-11-22 Thread Sergei Steshenko
Just a random thought on jitter - if you like music recorded originally before the digital era - don't bother. I.e. analog tape recorder wow and flutter ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow_and_flutter ) is much higher than digital jitter. And that wow and flutter is already in the now digital si

Re: [Alsa-user] "best" card for "bitperfect" SPDIF I/O with external clock sync ?

2007-11-22 Thread Paolo Saggese
On Thursday 22 November 2007 11:39, Rene Herman wrote: > I suppose your external DAC has no actual WordClock (BNC connection) output? indeed, it does not. As it does not have an SPDIF output, either... but I'm a DIY guy (with an EE degree...) and can add whatever output I need or even build a n

Re: [Alsa-user] "best" card for "bitperfect" SPDIF I/O with external clock sync ?

2007-11-22 Thread Paolo Saggese
Hi everybody, first of all, I'd like to thank you all so much for the prompt and many replies I've got... Wow, they came in faster then I was able to read! :-) (there's still someone claiming that Linux has no support?! :-) On Wednesday 21 November 2007 22:19, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > Extra

Re: [Alsa-user] usb audio - help with asoundrc

2007-11-22 Thread Yan Seiner
william estrada wrote: > Yan, > > While I am not an expert, I do have a little experience with one USB > sound device (SB). > > First, asoundconf does not support USB devices. > > Second, the USB devices are assigned their ID in the order they are > seen. The first one plugged in will be the

Re: [Alsa-user] "best" card for "bitperfect" SPDIF I/O with external clock sync ?

2007-11-22 Thread Rene Herman
On 22-11-07 15:25, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > Rene Herman wrote: >> On 21-11-07 20:33, Paolo Saggese wrote: >>> Thus, I would need a sound card which must be: >>> >>> * cabable of "bitperfect" (pass through) operation at CD standard >>> 16bit/44.1KHz (as well as, possibly, also at higher resolutions

Re: [Alsa-user] "best" card for "bitperfect" SPDIF I/O with external clock sync ?

2007-11-22 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Rene Herman wrote: > On 21-11-07 20:33, Paolo Saggese wrote: >> Thus, I would need a sound card which must be: >> >> * cabable of "bitperfect" (pass through) operation at CD standard >> 16bit/44.1KHz (as well as, possibly, also at higher resolutions and >> sample rates such as 16/48, 24/48, 24/96

Re: [Alsa-user] "best" card for "bitperfect" SPDIF I/O with external clock sync ?

2007-11-22 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Rene Herman wrote: > On 22-11-07 11:10, Clemens Ladisch wrote: >> An SPDIF input _always_ derives its clock from its signal. >> >> Besides, the clock for the actual DAC has to be a multiple of the bit >> clock anyway, so there must be a PLL to derive the DAC's clock from the >> input signual, i.e.,

Re: [Alsa-user] RME HDSP 9652 no input or output PCMs displayed

2007-11-22 Thread Christian Schumann
On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 05:49:43PM +, Chris Birkinshaw wrote: >So I can't use alsactl and amixer to restore levels from the command line? >amixer does not show any level controls either. To my knowledge you can not. Probably there's a command line option in hdspmixer for that, since you

Re: [Alsa-user] "best" card for "bitperfect" SPDIF I/O with external clock sync ?

2007-11-22 Thread Rene Herman
On 22-11-07 11:10, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > Paolo Saggese wrote: >> Of course I plan to use the PC only to provide a "bitperfect" >> (exact copy of the original media, normally CD) digital stream >> to an external DAC. >> >> As you probably know better than me, the one major known problem >> wh

Re: [Alsa-user] "best" card for "bitperfect" SPDIF I/O with external clock sync ?

2007-11-22 Thread Rene Herman
On 22-11-07 11:39, Rene Herman wrote: > On 21-11-07 20:33, Paolo Saggese wrote: > >> Thus, I would need a sound card which must be: >> >> * cabable of "bitperfect" (pass through) operation at CD standard >> 16bit/44.1KHz (as well as, possibly, also at higher resolutions and >> sample rates such

Re: [Alsa-user] "best" card for "bitperfect" SPDIF I/O with external clock sync ?

2007-11-22 Thread Rene Herman
On 21-11-07 20:33, Paolo Saggese wrote: > Thus, I would need a sound card which must be: > > * cabable of "bitperfect" (pass through) operation at CD standard > 16bit/44.1KHz (as well as, possibly, also at higher resolutions and > sample rates such as 16/48, 24/48, 24/96 and 24/192). 16/44.1 is

Re: [Alsa-user] "best" card for "bitperfect" SPDIF I/O with external clock sync ?

2007-11-22 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Paolo Saggese wrote: > Of course I plan to use the PC only to provide a "bitperfect" > (exact copy of the original media, normally CD) digital stream > to an external DAC. > > As you probably know better than me, the one major known problem > when you strive for the highest possible quality in