[Alsa-user] Mic + Headphone Problem in Samsung R540

2010-10-05 Thread Volkan YAZICI
Hi, This is a damn Samsung R540 notebook with kernel 2.6.5.37 and ALSA 1.0.23 installed. (See here[1] for details.) I couldn't get mic and headphone work. Setting model=basic brings much more configurations to the alsamixer screen and I can hear my sound and that sss noise from the speakers (w

Re: [Alsa-user] No audio

2010-10-05 Thread James Le Cuirot
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 09:52:45 -0700 (PDT) jason grey wrote: > I am going insane, as I do not have the time to find the problem.  I > changed from Ubuntu 9.10 to the 10.  My audio onboard used to work, > with screen speakers or headphones and now stopped.  I followed the > online list of checks from

Re: [Alsa-user] No audio

2010-10-05 Thread jason grey
Dear All, I am going insane, as I do not have the time to find the problem.  I changed from Ubuntu 9.10 to the 10.  My audio onboard used to work, with screen speakers or headphones and now stopped.  I followed the online list of checks from the wiki and found the output below, including the er

Re: [Alsa-user] S/PDIF Volume

2010-10-05 Thread Thor Kristoffersen
Gerry Brown writes: > Thor, If you want to control the volume on the S/PDIF output, you can > use the softvol plugin. > > http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/How_to_use_softvol_to_control_the_master_volume Yes, I'm aware of the softvol plugin, and I'm not saying that bit-exactness is a disqualifyin

[Alsa-user] Choppy sound SPDIF CM6206 (CM106)

2010-10-05 Thread Kim Engebretsen
Hi. I've just tried out the SPDIF output on a usb sound box with the CM6206 chip, and the sound seem to have a choppy background noise. I've tried both the 2.6.35-22-generic and 2.6.32-24-generic kernels with alsa v1.0.23 just to check if it could be the kernel, but same result in both. I'm using

[Alsa-user] S/PDIF Volume

2010-10-05 Thread Gerry Brown
Thor, If you want to control the volume on the S/PDIF output, you can use the softvol plugin. http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/How_to_use_softvol_to_control_the_master_volume gerry -- Beautiful is writing same marku

[Alsa-user] Alsa and Jack

2010-10-05 Thread Samuel Kidman
Hello All, I'm having issues getting audio programs that don't use jack to make sounds while i'm running jack. as soon i quit jack everything works again. Applications that use jack work fine when jack is running but i can't get them to make a sound without jack. Ultimately I would like to have e

Re: [Alsa-user] Basic PCM Recording

2010-10-05 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 09:30:37 -0400 Paul Braman wrote: > Sergei Steshenko wrote: > > > > Maybe these: > > > > http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Low_latency_howto > > https://lwn.net/Articles/120797/ > > > > can help ? > > That is certainly some interesting stuff but not entirely relevant

Re: [Alsa-user] Basic PCM Recording

2010-10-05 Thread James Le Cuirot
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 09:30:37 -0400 Paul Braman wrote: > The problem is that there is no good way to discover or set these > things that seems "official." There are semi-official suggestions of > "set to maximum buffer and divide into four periods" or "buffer about > a second and divide into about

Re: [Alsa-user] Basic PCM Recording

2010-10-05 Thread Paul Braman
Sergei Steshenko wrote: > > Maybe these: > > http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Low_latency_howto > https://lwn.net/Articles/120797/ > > can help ? That is certainly some interesting stuff but not entirely relevant to the discussion at hand. Currently, I do not have latency requirements fo

Re: [Alsa-user] Basic PCM Recording

2010-10-05 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Sun, 3 Oct 2010 00:46:27 -0400 Paul Braman wrote: > Paul Braman wrote: > > > > I guess therein lies some of the fundamental difference with how I was > > previously thinking. I figured I could just ask the driver/device for > > some basic defaults that should work but, instead, I should *tell*

Re: [Alsa-user] Can't play sounds on HDA Intel with latest kernel

2010-10-05 Thread Juan Felipe Arjona
I have he same issue, if anyone can help it would be great ! On 10/05/10 09:31, Vlady Rafael wrote: When booting a LiveCD (CentOS 5.4 with alsa 1.0.17 kernel 2.6.18.el5) speaker-test works fine. However when we use custom built kernel version 2.6.32.4 with alsa version 1.0.17 or 1.0.23 on th

[Alsa-user] Can't play sounds on HDA Intel with latest kernel

2010-10-05 Thread Vlady Rafael
When booting a LiveCD (CentOS 5.4 with alsa 1.0.17 kernel 2.6.18.el5) speaker-test works fine. However when we use custom built kernel version 2.6.32.4 with alsa version 1.0.17 or 1.0.23 on the same hardware the speaker-test fails with the following error: ALSA lib pcm_direct.c:866:(snd1_pcm_direc