Re: [Alsa-user] USB soundcard advice

2009-11-03 Thread James Shatto
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 20:42:48 +0100 Y.A. Bolawy bol...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'd like some advice on a USB soundcard. The reason for getting one is that I'd like to have good quality sound on all the computers I use or will use. The quality should be good enough to allow speech

Re: [Alsa-user] [Intel-gfx] Problems with HDMI audio on Intel DG45FC motherboard

2009-11-03 Thread David Härdeman
I've done some more testing... I managed to borrow a DG45FC based computer with Windows 7 (32-bit, using HDMI driver 14.6 from Intel's website) from a colleague over the weekend. Under Windows 7, HDMI audio with my receiver just works when using the Windows drivers (no complete-track-silence, no

Re: [Alsa-user] [Intel-gfx] Problems with HDMI audio on Intel DG45FC motherboard

2009-11-03 Thread David Härdeman
On Mon, November 2, 2009 10:11, Wu Fengguang wrote: Could you try dumping the audio infoframe data at the beginning of hdmi_switch_infoframe() or hdmi_stop_infoframe_trans(), to check if the previous content have been reset to 0? Sure, will do... -- David Härdeman

Re: [Alsa-user] [Intel-gfx] Problems with HDMI audio on Intel DG45FC motherboard

2009-11-03 Thread Wu Fengguang
On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 08:54:32PM +0800, David Härdeman wrote: On Mon, November 2, 2009 10:11, Wu Fengguang wrote: Could you try dumping the audio infoframe data at the beginning of hdmi_switch_infoframe() or hdmi_stop_infoframe_trans(), to check if the previous content have been reset to

Re: [Alsa-user] USB soundcard advice

2009-11-03 Thread Fabrício Nihues
I got 2 usb sound cards, one is a 5.1 and work with the new .31 kernel out of the box (even 5.1 spdif trought the optical out), it's a generic chineese sound card with CMI chipset, I bougth for my Home Theater. Search for USB external 5.1 sound card on ebay, it's a blue or orange little case. like

Re: [Alsa-user] [Intel-gfx] Problems with HDMI audio on Intel DG45FC motherboard

2009-11-03 Thread Wu Fengguang
David, On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 09:16:37PM +0800, David Härdeman wrote: I've done some more testing... That's awesome efforts, thank you very much! I managed to borrow a DG45FC based computer with Windows 7 (32-bit, using HDMI driver 14.6 from Intel's website) from a colleague over the

Re: [Alsa-user] USB soundcard advice

2009-11-03 Thread lists
I have one of those. You can find a US vendor on ebay if you look at all the ads. It uses a C-Media chip. Not the greatest specs, but many usb cards like the Griffin Imic have no specs at all. -Original Message- From: Fabrício Nihues fabricio.nih...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009

Re: [Alsa-user] USB soundcard advice

2009-11-03 Thread Samuel Gilbert
Hi there, I own a HiFi USB sound card based on a TI Burr-Brown chip. It worked out of the box with Linux on two of my machines. However, I have bought a new machine and now I still haven't found a way to make it play correctly. After a random amount of time, the sound gets garbled. This is

Re: [Alsa-user] USB soundcard advice

2009-11-03 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Felix Pfeifer wrote: USB Audio is a standard. Sadly this is only true for usb 1.x. Most usb 2.0 audiocards don't work under linux. The USB Audio 1.0 standard was written for 1.x devices. There are no devices for the new 2.0 revision because Windows doesn't implement it (see

Re: [Alsa-user] USB soundcard advice

2009-11-03 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Samuel Gilbert wrote: I own a HiFi USB sound card based on a TI Burr-Brown chip. It worked out of the box with Linux on two of my machines. However, I have bought a new machine and now I still haven't found a way to make it play correctly. After a random amount of time, the sound gets

Re: [Alsa-user] USB soundcard advice

2009-11-03 Thread Y.A. Bolawy
Thanks for all replies so far! I'm reading information re all suggestions. Many seem very nice. I will use it with a laptop and I guess there's no need therefore to get a card with fancy features such as xlr or direct monitoring of the inputs. I basically want to be able to use a combination

Re: [Alsa-user] USB soundcard advice

2009-11-03 Thread Bill Unruh
On Tue, 3 Nov 2009, Y.A. Bolawy wrote: Thanks for all replies so far! I'm reading information re all suggestions. Many seem very nice. I will use it with a laptop and I guess there's no need therefore to get a card with fancy features such as xlr or direct monitoring of the inputs. I

Re: [Alsa-user] Multiple cards, alphanumeric names?

2009-11-03 Thread James Shatto
On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:25:24 -0600 Jonathan E. Brickman j...@joshuacorps.org wrote: OK. I now find myself happily educated in card names (HD2 in my case), devices as being items on cards (HD2,0 et cetera), and subdevices whose names appear to be used in rather different locations. My

[Alsa-user] Intel HDA - AD1883 Codec - Jack Sense / Detect

2009-11-03 Thread Alan Bennett
Hello; We have a custom motherboard Intel HDA / AD1883. For output, we connect the headphone jack and the mono / front speaker. We are unable to get audio in Linux (Windows is fine) that activates the front/mono speaker. The headphones work without a problem. However, none of the 4 model=

Re: [Alsa-user] USB soundcard advice

2009-11-03 Thread Y.A. Bolawy
Because of the lack of a mic preamp in the card, putting in a microphone preamp is probably a good idea, as otherwise the mic input tends to be pretty quiet. I assume that that is not necessary if I'd use a pc headset, but only if I would want to use a more advanced mic right. For now I'll use

Re: [Alsa-user] USB soundcard advice

2009-11-03 Thread Bill Unruh
On Tue, 3 Nov 2009, Y.A. Bolawy wrote: Because of the lack of a mic preamp in the card, putting in a microphone preamp is probably a good idea, as otherwise the mic input tends to be pretty quiet. I assume that that is not necessary if I'd use a pc headset, but only if I would want to use a

Re: [Alsa-user] USB soundcard advice

2009-11-03 Thread Samuel Gilbert
Hi Clemens and everybody else, I just rebuilt my kernel activating CONFIG_USB_EHCI_TT_NEWSCHED as you suggested and I still get the same problem with the usual messages when the sound is messed-up and I try to play the next song ; [ 758.452549] usb 3-2: amarokapp timed out on ep0out len=0/0

Re: [Alsa-user] USB soundcard advice

2009-11-03 Thread Y.A. Bolawy
Thanks everyone who shared his thoughts. I think I'll get myself the M Audio transit. It seems to be an expensive deck of cards, but it sounds like the quality is good and I guess it's not easy to achieve that on that scale. For now I'll stick with my pc-headset (sennheiser), which can operate

Re: [Alsa-user] USB soundcard advice

2009-11-03 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Samuel Gilbert wrote: I just rebuilt my kernel activating CONFIG_USB_EHCI_TT_NEWSCHED as you suggested and I still get the same problem with the usual messages when the sound is messed-up and I try to play the next song ; [ 758.452549] usb 3-2: amarokapp timed out on ep0out len=0/0 [

Re: [Alsa-user] Multiple cards, alphanumeric names?

2009-11-03 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Jonathan E. Brickman j...@joshuacorps.org wrote: My next question: What if I had two cards of this type? Do I have to use numeric names, or is there an alphanumeric rule built in somewhere which gives me HD2(0) or some such? The alphanumeric name to be used in device names is the card