Re: [Alsa-user] Jetway j7f2 via82xx volume problem: sound suddenly stops when increasing volume: "SOLVED" (well ... sort of)

2008-04-27 Thread Zoilo Gomez
I think I have found what is causing this problem: in ac97_patch.c / int patch_vt1617a(...) there is a line of code: >>> snd_ac97_write_cache(a97, 0x5c, 0x20); According to a comment, this code is supposed to "bring the analog power consumption to normal, like WinXP driver for EPIA SP". If I

Re: [Alsa-user] how do I change sample rate ?

2008-04-27 Thread Pete Black
Sergei Steshenko wrote: > On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:01:04 +1200 > Pete Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> I'm no expert, but as far as I can tell: >> >> Currently, it seems that the sample rate setting is supposed to be >> managed by applications (where application includes user space ALSA >

Re: [Alsa-user] how do I change sample rate ?

2008-04-27 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:01:04 +1200 Pete Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm no expert, but as far as I can tell: > > Currently, it seems that the sample rate setting is supposed to be > managed by applications (where application includes user space ALSA > plugins etc.) - an application tries

Re: [Alsa-user] how do I change sample rate ?

2008-04-27 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:56:08 +0200 Rene Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 27-04-08 22:47, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > > > On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:30:46 +0200 > > Rene Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Makes no sense. Setting the sampling rate has no meaning outside of the > >> action o

Re: [Alsa-user] how do I change sample rate ?

2008-04-27 Thread Pete Black
I'm no expert, but as far as I can tell: Currently, it seems that the sample rate setting is supposed to be managed by applications (where application includes user space ALSA plugins etc.) - an application tries to open a channel to the hardware device with a specific sample rate - if the hard

Re: [Alsa-user] how do I change sample rate ?

2008-04-27 Thread Rene Herman
On 27-04-08 22:47, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:30:46 +0200 > Rene Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Makes no sense. Setting the sampling rate has no meaning outside of the >> action of playing or recording. > > ALSA is needed only to playback or record using a soundcard

Re: [Alsa-user] how do I change sample rate ?

2008-04-27 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:30:46 +0200 Rene Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 27-04-08 12:55, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > > > On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 02:21:23 +0200 Rene Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > >> (the card = the M-Audio Revolution. No control is the expected > >> situation) > > >

Re: [Alsa-user] how do I change sample rate ?

2008-04-27 Thread Rene Herman
On 27-04-08 12:55, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 02:21:23 +0200 Rene Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> (the card = the M-Audio Revolution. No control is the expected >> situation) > > ??? > > For me it's the opposite - if a card is capable of having different > sample rates

[Alsa-user] High CPU usage with latest release; "ugly hack in rate plugin poll_descriptors callback"

2008-04-27 Thread Peter De Wachter
With the latest alse-lib release, several audio player (mpg123-alsa, mpg321, ogg123) started using a huge amount of high cpu to play anything. As an illustration, with mpg321 I get the numbers like the following: before after real 2m32.188s 2m32.276s user 0m2.212s0m25.310s sys

Re: [Alsa-user] how do I change sample rate ?

2008-04-27 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:48:16 +0100 Oliver Lupton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sergei Steshenko wrote: > > On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:29:11 +0100 > > Oliver Lupton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Sergei Steshenko wrote: > >>> On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 02:19:34 +0200 > >>> Rene Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [Alsa-user] how do I change sample rate ?

2008-04-27 Thread Oliver Lupton
Sergei Steshenko wrote: > On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:29:11 +0100 > Oliver Lupton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Sergei Steshenko wrote: >>> On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 02:19:34 +0200 >>> Rene Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> mplayer/vlc will just set the rate itself when opening the device, to the

Re: [Alsa-user] how do I change sample rate ?

2008-04-27 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 02:19:34 +0200 Rene Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > mplayer/vlc will just set the rate itself when opening the device, to the > sampling rate of whatever PCM data it wants to play (as does aplay, if you > feed it a wav file which announces the sampling rate of the file

Re: [Alsa-user] Using ALSA without a sound card?

2008-04-27 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:08:40 -0700 "Travis Wichert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm researching an accessibility project with the goal of transforming > things like syslog entries and system monitor data into different kinds of > sounds. The goal is to allow visually impaired peo

Re: [Alsa-user] how do I change sample rate ?

2008-04-27 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 02:21:23 +0200 Rene Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 27-04-08 02:19, Rene Herman wrote: > > >> Why mixers for M-Audio Revolution have sample rate control and mixers for > >> Intel HDA (on my two machines) do not have sample rate control ? > > > > No idea what that's abo

Re: [Alsa-user] software for MCP61

2008-04-27 Thread COUTANT Pierre
James Shatto earthlink.net> writes: > > > I have a new mother-card with a MCP61 > > module and the Linux OS is Suse 10.2. > > Alsa driver is the 1.0.13.22 version. > > I have that on one of my machines. It should use the snd-hda-intel module(s). And you should run at least alsa > version 1.0.