Re: [Alsa-user] Metallic recording in cs46xx on Thinkpad T22

2008-03-11 Thread vsobreip
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Gadi Oron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sadly, I've already tried all of these to no avail. > > The only thing I can't do is to have the soundcard have it's own IRQ - I > allways get "yenta" together with it. > > Someone knows how to disable it or change it's IRQ? >

Re: [Alsa-user] recording from /dev/dsp

2008-03-11 Thread James Shatto
> Whether this works will depend on your hardware. Some devices support > capturing the audio output, some don't. Well, I swapped it around so that the onboard sound was card 0 and it works that way. But the quality of what gets recorded is bad, actually hideous is more appropriate. From stud

Re: [Alsa-user] recording from /dev/dsp

2008-03-11 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 9:01 PM, James Shatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > record -D copy -f cd -t wav outfile.wav > > This does not seem to capture any of the sounds from /dev/dsp. > > ecasound -i:/dev/dsp -o outfile.wav > > Nor does this. > > It's been a while since I've done this, what am I

[Alsa-user] recording from /dev/dsp

2008-03-11 Thread James Shatto
record -D copy -f cd -t wav outfile.wav This does not seem to capture any of the sounds from /dev/dsp. ecasound -i:/dev/dsp -o outfile.wav Nor does this. It's been a while since I've done this, what am I missing? Or is there something about usb-audio the prevents this from working? Or some .

Re: [Alsa-user] Metallic recording in cs46xx on Thinkpad T22

2008-03-11 Thread Rene Herman
On 11-03-08 08:24, Gadi Oron wrote: > I am trying to record sound on an old Thinkpad T22 that uses the cs46xx > sound driver. > > Each time you start to record you have a 10% chance of having the > recording completely distorted and having a metallic sound. When you > look at the waveform it l

[Alsa-user] asound.conf

2008-03-11 Thread Thierry Bouchard
Hi, I started to play with ALSA 2 days ago and Im trying to figure out how ALSA works and how to add PCM devices in the configuration file. I wrote a simple plugin for my microphone which is supposed to convert the data into a 32 bps format. Here is how it looks like : pcm.jcb-in-1 { t

Re: [Alsa-user] One process per audio channel

2008-03-11 Thread Helge Fredriksen
I'll sign in on that! Helge F. On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 7:49 PM, Darrell Bellerive <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 11 March 2008 06:33, John Sigler wrote: > > I must say that the ALSA > > configuration files look like pure voodoo magic to me. > > Me too. I really wish someone would write

Re: [Alsa-user] One process per audio channel

2008-03-11 Thread Darrell Bellerive
On Tuesday 11 March 2008 06:33, John Sigler wrote: > I must say that the ALSA > configuration files look like pure voodoo magic to me. Me too. I really wish someone would write "Ultimate ALSA Configuration for the Complete Idiot." It would be a book I would purchase. -- Darrell Bellerive

Re: [Alsa-user] Metallic recording in cs46xx on Thinkpad T22

2008-03-11 Thread James Shatto
> Sadly, I've already tried all of these to no avail. What recording application are you using? I've had issues where audacity would give me that metalic sound and ardour+jackd would not. And vice versa. Depending on versions and whatnot. Beyond that I really can't offer any more insight w

Re: [Alsa-user] One process per audio channel

2008-03-11 Thread John Sigler
John Sigler wrote: > Jaroslav Kysela wrote: > >> John Sigler wrote: >> >>> I have an RME AES-32 PCI board which provides 4 stereo input channels >>> and 4 stereo output channels. >>> >>> (I'm using the hsdpm driver at this time.) >>> >>> I want to use one process per channel, i.e. process A hand

Re: [Alsa-user] Metallic recording in cs46xx on Thinkpad T22

2008-03-11 Thread Gadi Oron
Hi James, thank you for the reply. >> Each time you start to record you have a >> 10% chance of having the recording completely >> distorted and having a metallic sound. > > I know that sound. And it is quite ugly. On my snd-hda-intel board(nVidia MCP61), I have to increase the number of periods

Re: [Alsa-user] 64 bit Compilation/Installation problem

2008-03-11 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:29:11 -0700 Roger Pryor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi: > > I seem to have a problem with Alsa 1.0.16 when compiling. > > My system is: an Open SUSE 10.2 running on a Intel DP965LT mobo, with an > Intel Core2 Duo E6420 processor. 2 G Ram. Intel HDA sound card, which > h

[Alsa-user] 64 bit Compilation/Installation problem

2008-03-11 Thread Roger Pryor
Hi: I seem to have a problem with Alsa 1.0.16 when compiling. My system is: an Open SUSE 10.2 running on a Intel DP965LT mobo, with an Intel Core2 Duo E6420 processor. 2 G Ram. Intel HDA sound card, which has given me lot of problems. OpenSUSE 10.2 comes with Alsa 10.0.14a, which does not seem

Re: [Alsa-user] One process per audio channel

2008-03-11 Thread John Sigler
Hello Jaroslav, Jaroslav Kysela wrote: > John Sigler wrote: > >> I have an RME AES-32 PCI board which provides 4 stereo input channels >> and 4 stereo output channels. >> >> (I'm using the hsdpm driver at this time.) >> >> I want to use one process per channel, i.e. process A handles stereo

Re: [Alsa-user] Preferred way to disable dmix

2008-03-11 Thread Michael Kiermaier
> >> To use your second card, you have to specifify the device somewhere. If > >> you want just the hardware abilities, just use the "hw:1" device instead > >> of "default:1" or whatever you are using now. > > > > Using hw:1:0, I get the error message "sample format non available" most > > of the t

Re: [Alsa-user] Metallic recording in cs46xx on Thinkpad T22

2008-03-11 Thread James Shatto
> Each time you start to record you have a > 10% chance of having the recording completely > distorted and having a metallic sound. I know that sound. And it is quite ugly. On my snd-hda-intel board(nVidia MCP61), I have to increase the number of periods to overcome this sound. default of 2 i

[Alsa-user] S32_LE format

2008-03-11 Thread John Sigler
Hello, I experimented with the following command: $ arecord -vv -M -r 48000 -f S32_LE -t raw -d 60 -D hw /tmp/out which gave the following output: Recording raw data '/tmp/out' : Signed 32 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono Hardware PCM card 0 'HDSPM MADI' device 0 subdevice 0 Its setup is

Re: [Alsa-user] Missing folder: /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p

2008-03-11 Thread John Sigler
hascii wrote: > the folder /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p is not there any more. What is the output of the following command? gunzip - < /proc/config.gz | grep CONFIG_SND_VERBOSE You might need to enable CONFIG_SND_VERBOSE_PROCFS in your kernel configuration. cf. http://alsa.opensrc.org/Proc_asound_

Re: [Alsa-user] looking for some advise

2008-03-11 Thread Julien Claassen
Hi Romeo! I don't have neither. But I have an M-Audio Delta 1010LT, which I suppose is RELATIVELY close to the revolution 5.1. If they also use the ICE-chip, then they are nice. I also remember, that we had a lot of traffic about the revolution cards here. Since I didn't notice those mails fo

[Alsa-user] Metallic recording in cs46xx on Thinkpad T22

2008-03-11 Thread Gadi Oron
Hi everyone, I ran over a lot of Internet search and could not find any clue to this issue. I am trying to record sound on an old Thinkpad T22 that uses the cs46xx sound driver. Each time you start to record you have a 10% chance of having the recording completely distorted and having a metallic