Re: [Alsa-user] Odd bug or crappy sound card?

2004-01-24 Thread Jason Clouse
On 2004-01-24 12:00:39 -0500 Robert Dege [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *) Here's how I solve the problem. I go into alsamixer, and adjust the Master volume. It doesn't matter if I lower the volume by 1, or increase the volume by 1. The problem resolves itself immediately, while the client is still

Re: [Alsa-user] Upgrade from kernel 2.4 to 2.6

2004-01-23 Thread Jason Clouse
On 2004-01-24 15:44:48 +1000 Mark Constable [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The version of ALSA shipped with the 2.6 kernel is not as recent as the latest ALSA sources actually available. Out of curiosity, why isn't the ALSA code developed in the kernel tree?

Re: [Alsa-user] Recent Complaints Threads

2004-01-21 Thread Jason Clouse
On 2004-01-20 21:13:09 -0800 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 20:51, Jason Clouse wrote: They expect (rightly or wrongly) that they'll have a better experience if they have more than 2 monitors. They got a new set of 5.1 or 7.1 monitors for Christmas and they want

Re: [Alsa-user] Recent Complaints Threads

2004-01-20 Thread Jason Clouse
On 2004-01-20 16:01:56 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been half-reading the ongoing complaining threads, and I think that, overall, the people doing the whining are being unreasonable. I'm not the only one posting, but I don't think I've been complaining and I don't think

RE: [Alsa-user] Recent Complaints Threads

2004-01-20 Thread Jason Clouse
On 2004-01-20 09:51:52 -0800 Stuart Felenstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If one wants handholding and the type of support to walk through traces , debugs, etc Perhaps there's a disconnect here? I don't think anybody is asking for support. What they're doing is saying, all is not well, and

[Alsa-user] ALSA Users: What Bugs You Most? (Was: Recent Complaints Threads)

2004-01-20 Thread Jason Clouse
Since I seem to have nominated myself to improve the documentation, it would be helpful if ALSA users would tell me about their unfulfilled dreams. 1. What does ALSA do that you wish it wouldn't? 2. What does ALSA NOT do that you wish it would? 3. Have you been able to find solutions to those

Re: [Alsa-user] Recent Complaints Threads

2004-01-20 Thread Jason Clouse
On 2004-01-20 17:58:57 -0700 Robert Bushman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I'm reading your offer correctly, Jason, it sounds like you're proposing that: 1. You find the places in the documentation that aren't what a typical user will be looking for. 2. You would then ask the developers to clarify

Re: [Alsa-user] Recent Complaints Threads

2004-01-20 Thread Jason Clouse
On 2004-01-20 17:09:35 -0800 Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess it depends. I would be _quite_ shocked if I played a stereo soundfile and I got output over all eight speakers of a couple of setups I have around here. I understand that, having worked in semi-pro

Re: [Alsa-user] shittiness

2004-01-19 Thread Jason Clouse
On 2004-01-19 15:41:06 -0800 Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: alsa seems to be fairly stable now so it's time to build it into infrastructure (note that that's what the original poster complained about). and build infrastructure around it (so that it's easier to configure/use etc.)

Re:[Alsa-user] shittiness

2004-01-17 Thread Jason Clouse
On 2004-01-16 22:31:59 -0600 Stephen Stocker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My thoughts on this subject are relatively straightforward and easy to express. What you've described below is already available. In Windoze. I more or less expected this elitist garbage from somebody. Do you run KDE or

Re: [Alsa-user] Re: shittiness

2004-01-17 Thread Jason Clouse
On 2004-01-17 06:00:20 -0600 Stephen Stocker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Elitist? My apologies if that's how I sounded. That's what I took away from your comments. But if that's not what you intended, then the apologies are all mine. Of course it can be improved! Then we're in agreement. I'm

Re:[Alsa-user] shittiness

2004-01-16 Thread Jason Clouse
The way Steve said what he said was rather rude and sounded whiny. But I *do* believe he's basically correct about a few things. Remember when some Microsoft sponsored benchmarks showed that Linux had some problems and a lot of zealots screamed because Microsoft was attacking Linux? Linus

Re:[Alsa-user] shittiness

2004-01-16 Thread Jason Clouse
I forgot one more thing that could be fixed: simplify. The strong point of Linux is that there are 1001 ways to do anything. And the weakness of Linux is that there are 1901 ways to do anything. End users like simplicity. They want power, it's true, but they don't want to have a lot of

Re: [Alsa-user] I tried the speaker-test app, but still nothing...

2004-01-03 Thread Jason Clouse
On 2004-01-04 01:49:30 + Mark Hubbard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got to ask this. :-) Have you turned the volume up to max in alsamixer for the surround channels? That did it! I had all my channels turned up to 10% because when I initially set my card up, setting the first two DACs to

Re: [Alsa-user] I tried the speaker-test app, but still nothing...

2004-01-02 Thread Jason Clouse
On 2004-01-02 14:21:18 + Mark Hubbard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 02 Jan 2004 03:12, Jason Clouse wrote: I finally found out about the little speaker-test app and tried it out on my new M-Audio Revolution 7.1, but I get very odd results. Here's what I get for ./speaker-test

[Alsa-user] I tried the speaker-test app, but still nothing...

2004-01-01 Thread Jason Clouse
I finally found out about the little speaker-test app and tried it out on my new M-Audio Revolution 7.1, but I get very odd results. Here's what I get for ./speaker-test -Dsurround51 -c 6: Playback device is surround51 Stream parameters are 44100Hz, S32_LE, 6 channels Sine wave rate is

Re: [Alsa-user] Surround Sound

2003-12-28 Thread Jason Clouse
On 2003-12-27 16:58:41 + Dave Hope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having got a lovely surround system for christmas I was slightly dissapointed to discover that sound would not come out my two rear speakers, but would out my front 3 and sub. I realise the information is extremely vague, but is

Re: [Alsa-user] Surround Sound

2003-12-28 Thread Jason Clouse
On 2003-12-28 10:01:28 + Dave Hope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 27 December 2003 8:49 pm, Jason Clouse wrote: On 2003-12-27 16:58:41 + Dave Hope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello List, Having got a lovely surround system for christmas I was slightly dissapointed to discover

Re: [Alsa-user] Surround Sound

2003-12-27 Thread Jason Clouse
On 2003-12-27 16:58:41 + Dave Hope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello List, Having got a lovely surround system for christmas I was slightly dissapointed to discover that sound would not come out my two rear speakers, but would out my front 3 and sub. I realise the information is extremely

Re: [Alsa-user] alsa modular synth problems

2003-12-27 Thread Jason Clouse
On 2003-12-27 21:19:48 -0500 Austin Acton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Help is appreciated. IANACH (I am not a C hacker). Mandrake 10 (devel), gcc 3.2.2, libalsa2-devel-1.0.0-0.4rc2mdk ...snip... Paste these two lines at the top of alsa_driver.h, just before you see #include alsa/asoundlib.h:

[Alsa-user] Question about asoundrc and multichannel output

2003-12-22 Thread Jason Clouse
I'm trying to set up my brand new Revolution 7.1 for multichannel output. What I'd like to do is: 1) Be able to play back surround sound movies/music through all channels (5.1 or 7.1). 2a) Be able to play back stereo tracks through all channels (route left to front left and rear left and

Re: [Alsa-user] Need opinions on the M-Audio Revolution 7.1

2003-12-13 Thread Jason Clouse
On 2003-12-13 12:21:17 + Mark Hubbard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 13 Dec 2003 04:16, Jason Clouse wrote: On 2003-12-12 16:25:34 + Mark Hubbard But OSS mmapped games e.g. Quake3 do not work directly, Just out of curiosity, what do you mean by directly? Is there a way around

[Alsa-user] Need opinions on the M-Audio Revolution 7.1

2003-12-12 Thread Jason Clouse
Hi all. I'm considering buying this card (mainly for music and games, but I'll probably do some recording/synth stuff with it too). Does anyone have any opinions on the quality of the card and ALSA support for it? Does surround sound work properly?