Re: [Alsa-user] FC8, no ALSA sound support

2007-12-31 Thread Erik Slagter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# alsamixer *** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: Connection refused With FC8 esd/esound has been replaced by pulseaudio (+ esound emulation). This that every program that has esound as it's default,

[Alsa-user] ICH7 Family and arecord: hangs

2007-12-31 Thread Carles Pina i Estany
Hello, We have a Dell Latitude D520, using Ubuntu Gutsy and we updated Alsa to 1.0.15. We have a problem: arecord hangs and writes 44 bytes. Using strace we see that arecord hangs here: - unlink(b.wav) = 0 open(b.wav, O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_LARGEFILE, 0644) = 6

Re: [Alsa-user] FC8, no ALSA sound support

2007-12-31 Thread John Haxby
Erik Slagter wrote: As imho pulseaudio doesn't add significant functionality if you're not using remote (over the network) audio, you'd be better off without it, i.e. remove all pulseaudio packages alltogether. That must be a different pulseaudio to the one I'm using then. The

Re: [Alsa-user] FC8, no ALSA sound support

2007-12-31 Thread Peteris Krisjanis
2007/12/31, John Haxby [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Erik Slagter wrote: As imho pulseaudio doesn't add significant functionality if you're not using remote (over the network) audio, you'd be better off without it, i.e. remove all pulseaudio packages alltogether. That must be a different

Re: [Alsa-user] FC8, no ALSA sound support

2007-12-31 Thread John Haxby
Peteris Krisjanis wrote: 2007/12/31, John Haxby [EMAIL PROTECTED]: That must be a different pulseaudio to the one I'm using then. The per-application mixer (pavucontrol) is very useful How this is useful? Each app already has it's own volume control. Having additional one confuses

Re: [Alsa-user] FC8, no ALSA sound support

2007-12-31 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Dec 31, 2007 1:52 PM, John Haxby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] If mplayer (not gmplayer) has a volume control I've yet to find it. [snip] Since old days I've been using 9 and 0 keys to decrease/increase the app volume of mplayer. ( / and * keys, with their placement on numerical pad I

Re: [Alsa-user] FC8, no ALSA sound support

2007-12-31 Thread Peteris Krisjanis
2007/12/31, John Haxby [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Peteris Krisjanis wrote: 2007/12/31, John Haxby [EMAIL PROTECTED]: That must be a different pulseaudio to the one I'm using then. The per-application mixer (pavucontrol) is very useful How this is useful? Each app already has it's own

Re: [Alsa-user] FC8, no ALSA sound support

2007-12-31 Thread Vladimir Mosgalin
Hi Gianluca Cecchi! On 2007.12.31 at 14:07:51 +0100, Gianluca Cecchi wrote next: Since old days I've been using 9 and 0 keys to decrease/increase the app volume of mplayer. ( / and * keys, with their placement on numerical pad I suppose, should do the same) And when you restart it, it uses

[Alsa-user] Hotplug plugin

2007-12-31 Thread Erik Slagter
Sorry for crossposting, but this is a problem I am not quite sure might be solved by users or developers. Also I am not too lazy to do a little development myself, if that appears to be necessary. This is my setup: - internal snd-hda soundcard connected to speakers in the bathroom playing 24x7

Re: [Alsa-user] FC8, no ALSA sound support

2007-12-31 Thread Vladimir Mosgalin
Hi Peteris Krisjanis! On 2007.12.31 at 15:27:54 +0200, Peteris Krisjanis wrote next: If mplayer (not gmplayer) has a volume control I've yet to find it. To my mind, having all the volume controls in one place rather than in each app makes much more sense. But then I have a mixer :-)

Re: [Alsa-user] ICH7 Family and arecord: hangs

2007-12-31 Thread Erik Slagter
Carles Pina i Estany wrote: In poll. I tried to boot the kernel with noacpi (same result) and with pci=noacpi (kernel hangs when loading). Hmm, I don't think this is the direction to search for the problem. ACPI is OK nowadays. What is your hardware (motherboard)? Does it have pci express and

Re: [Alsa-user] ICH7 Family and arecord: hangs

2007-12-31 Thread Lee Revell
On Dec 31, 2007 5:32 AM, Carles Pina i Estany [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, We have a Dell Latitude D520, using Ubuntu Gutsy and we updated Alsa to 1.0.15. Make sure you have the capture mixer control(s) unmuted and volume raised. Some hardware inexplicably does not generate any

Re: [Alsa-user] ICH7 Family and arecord: hangs

2007-12-31 Thread Carles Pina i Estany
Hello, On Dec/31/2007, Lee Revell wrote: On Dec 31, 2007 5:32 AM, Carles Pina i Estany [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, We have a Dell Latitude D520, using Ubuntu Gutsy and we updated Alsa to 1.0.15. Make sure you have the capture mixer control(s) unmuted and volume raised. Some