[Alsa-user] Step-by-step configuring/testing a sound card

2008-02-19 Thread oxy
Hi all, geting my sound card work has been confusing for me. There are many forum threads, but none helps. More, maybe i've messed up with the good config part following those instructions, who knows ... Can somebody tell me a linear step-by-step method of configuring/testing a sound card? In my

Re: [Alsa-user] Need help with asound.conf

2008-02-19 Thread Radu Cristescu
Adam Nielsen wrote: The problem is that I can't hear two concurrent audio streams at the same time when using the default device. I tried setting things up using dmix, but failed miserably. Any ideas what to do to make two applications play simultaneously through spdif based on this

Re: [Alsa-user] Need help with asound.conf

2008-02-19 Thread Adam Nielsen
For me, hw:0,1 is the SPDIF connector, so I just put this in /etc/asound.conf: defaults.pcm.card 0 defaults.pcm.device 1 What if I need a more generic version of asound.conf so it works without changes on machines where spdif is hw:0,2 ? I'm certainly no expert, but to do this you

[Alsa-user] High sample rate audio problems with Juli@ ICE1724

2008-02-19 Thread Demian Martin
I’m trying to configure Alsa to send high definition audio files, 2 channel, 176.4 KHz/24 bit depth to the digital output of the card. I know the hardware can do it correctly, I have confirmed that in Windows and confirmed the stream with the external DAC. In Alsa no matter what I try the

[Alsa-user] VT1708 HD audio limitations?

2008-02-19 Thread Demian Martin
I have been trying to get this to play HD audio files at 24 bit depth and it won’t at any sample rate including 44.1 KHz. The driver seems to be 16 bit only but the chipset is capable of 24 bit audio. How do I configure asound.conf or tweak the driver to resolve this? (It’s a similar but not