Re: [Alsa-user] EMU1212M - Fedora 8 - Nothing

2008-01-20 Thread Erik Slagter
Shawn Eary wrote: I have a 1212M (firewire) that works fine in XP, but FC8 thinks it is a Creative Labs SB Audigy. When I try to play the test sound, I get nothing through the Analog Outputs. Alsa Driver Version 1.0.15 Alsa Lib Package 1.0.15-1.fc8 Alsa Utils Package 1.0.15-1.fc8 Someone said

Re: [Alsa-user] I/O possible

2008-01-17 Thread Erik Slagter
Mihaela Vitalariu wrote: The application IS multithreaded. The async callback is invoked from more than one thread until at some point SIGIO simply interrupts the whole program So, is it my bug or is it from ALSA? Hmmm, not sure. My first impression is that alsa cannot know how many threads

Re: [Alsa-user] I/O possible

2008-01-16 Thread Erik Slagter
Mihaela Vitalariu wrote: I am coding a Linux sound application using the PCM interface. It plays fine but at unexpected intervals i sometimes get a SIGIO directly in my program, which exits printing the message I/O possible. What can be happening? Looks like you enable asynchronous I/O one

Re: [Alsa-user] I/O possible

2008-01-16 Thread Erik Slagter
Mihaela Vitalariu wrote: Well, i use async I/O because this is the way my program works, using callbacks, and i just can't disable it :( Huh? Normally, using asynchronous I/O, your program would do whatever it's meant to do, then it would get SIGIO signals every now and then, and in the

Re: [Alsa-user] I/O possible

2008-01-16 Thread Erik Slagter
John Haxby wrote: I bet someone somewhere is using signal(3) instead of sigaction(2). signal() is the old interface which has some unpleasant side effects -- for example, the handler is reset to the default once the signal has been delivered. In the bad old days the first thing your signal

Re: [Alsa-user] using two sound cards

2008-01-15 Thread Erik Slagter
Lee Revell wrote: I have one sound card onboard of my PC which I have disabled from BIOS. My question is can I activate the second sound card and for example duplicate all that is played on my front speakers of the primary card and pass it to the output of the second card ? If the answer is yes

Re: [Alsa-user] Why won't this card work?

2008-01-04 Thread Erik Slagter
Adrian McMenamin wrote: Please try aplay -Dhw0,0 file the device syntax is mandatory afaik. If that works you can start building a proper alsa config file with all kinds of useful stuff on top of that. Does this $ aplay -Dhw0,0 /aine-email.wav ALSA lib pcm.c:2144:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate)

Re: [Alsa-user] Why won't this card work?

2008-01-03 Thread Erik Slagter
Adrian McMenamin wrote: # aplay -L null Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture) # aplay /aine-email.wav Playing WAVE '/aine-email.wav' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 8000 Hz, Mono ALSA lib pcm_plug.c:773:(snd_pcm_plug_hw_refine_schange) Unable to find an usable

Re: [Alsa-user] Why won't this card work?

2008-01-02 Thread Erik Slagter
Adrian McMenamin wrote: aplay -L reports: $ aplay -L null Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture) while aplay -l reports the card exists $ aplay -l List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices card 0: AICA [AICA], device 0: AICA PCM [AICA PCM]

Re: [Alsa-user] Why won't this card work?

2008-01-02 Thread Erik Slagter
Adrian McMenamin wrote: aplay -L onmly reports pseudo-devices defined in software (afaik) (asound.conf etc.) Using aplay -Dhw:0,0 it should work, and probably also using the default device which gives you dmix and conversion. I get this: $ aplay -Dhw:0,0 aine-email.wav Playing WAVE

Re: [Alsa-user] Why won't this card work?

2008-01-02 Thread Erik Slagter
Adrian McMenamin wrote: On 02/01/2008, Erik Slagter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adrian McMenamin wrote: Your device probably isn't capable of reproducing phone-format audio. It is!. It used to play this sample without any problem (but only using oss emulation - aplay wouldn't work

Re: [Alsa-user] FC8, no ALSA sound support

2008-01-01 Thread Erik Slagter
John Haxby wrote: Erik Slagter wrote: As imho pulseaudio doesn't add significant functionality if you're not using remote (over the network) audio, you'd be better off without it, i.e. remove all pulseaudio packages alltogether. That must be a different pulseaudio to the one I'm using

Re: [Alsa-user] ICH7 Family and arecord: hangs

2008-01-01 Thread Erik Slagter
Carles Pina i Estany wrote: On Dec 31, 2007 5:32 AM, Carles Pina i Estany [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Make sure you have the capture mixer control(s) unmuted and volume raised. Some hardware inexplicably does not generate any interrupts otherwise. it is up for sure :-) checked using

Re: [Alsa-user] FC8, no ALSA sound support

2008-01-01 Thread Erik Slagter
Peteris Krisjanis wrote: In nutshell, I have nothing so much against PA (some features are really promising, but GUI and ease of use is seriously lacking), I don't think the -G-UI is lacking (the pa* tools). My problem is that there are no command line tools! I need to set some mixer

Re: [Alsa-user] FC8, no ALSA sound support

2008-01-01 Thread Erik Slagter
John Haxby wrote: I've lost the bit where you said about you're against putting an unmatured[sic] system in a distro. Fedora is a proving ground for relatively immature systems -- compiz and beryl are a good example: if you want a guaranteed stable distro pick up RHEL or CentOS.

Re: [Alsa-user] ICH7 Family and arecord: hangs

2008-01-01 Thread Erik Slagter
Carles Pina i Estany wrote: [..] (and HDA Intel interrupts doesn't change) [..] I probably won't be able to solve your problem, but at least I can help get useful data that might others enable to solve your problem... So the card doesn't use MSI, which seems to be a common problem with

Re: [Alsa-user] [alsa-devel] Hotplug plugin

2008-01-01 Thread Erik Slagter
Lennart Poettering wrote: - pulseaudio, using hal-detection and combined device: doesn't work because a removed device is never reinserted into the combined device; Of course it is. Just install PA 0.9.7 or newer. Nope, really. The relevant config file sections (using pa 0.9.7): ***

Re: [Alsa-user] FC8, no ALSA sound support

2007-12-31 Thread Erik Slagter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# alsamixer *** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: Connection refused With FC8 esd/esound has been replaced by pulseaudio (+ esound emulation). This that every program that has esound as it's default,

[Alsa-user] Hotplug plugin

2007-12-31 Thread Erik Slagter
Sorry for crossposting, but this is a problem I am not quite sure might be solved by users or developers. Also I am not too lazy to do a little development myself, if that appears to be necessary. This is my setup: - internal snd-hda soundcard connected to speakers in the bathroom playing 24x7

Re: [Alsa-user] ICH7 Family and arecord: hangs

2007-12-31 Thread Erik Slagter
Carles Pina i Estany wrote: In poll. I tried to boot the kernel with noacpi (same result) and with pci=noacpi (kernel hangs when loading). Hmm, I don't think this is the direction to search for the problem. ACPI is OK nowadays. What is your hardware (motherboard)? Does it have pci express and

[Alsa-user] Asus MB + ICH7 + HDA + ALC882 spdif

2006-10-26 Thread Erik Slagter
Hi, I recently bought a new motherboard, which, completely to my suprise, had on-board audio that actually was supported, so I could bounce my Soundblaster Live that had been around for years and which I had only be using for it's optical sp/dif output that actually works from linux ;-) My new