Re: [Alsa-user] Problems with snd hda intel: works only part of the time

2006-10-07 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-10-07 at 10:24 -0500, Peter Hartman wrote: > I'm glad your issue was resolved, but if you check the start of this > thread, it was my original issue, which is still unresolved, that > started this all off! :) Any insights into the issue? > It must be a driver bug. You're not doing

Re: [Alsa-user] Problems with snd hda intel: works only part of the time

2006-10-06 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 22:29 +0200, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > I think that we, end users, want the following: > > * we want to be able to disconnect/reconnect external cards; > * we want to be able to use (crappy) internal audio chips for things > like > Internet telephony; > * whenever we disconne

Re: [Alsa-user] Problems with snd hda intel: works only part of the time

2006-10-06 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 21:37 +0200, Dominique Michel wrote: > options snd-snd-usb-audio index=1 [...] > alias snd-card-1 snd-usb-audio > options snd-snd-usb-audio index=1 snd-snd-usb-audio is wrong, it should be snd-usb-audio. Did you create these files by hand? Or is it a Gentoo bug? Lee -

Re: [Alsa-user] Problems with snd hda intel: works only part of the time

2006-10-05 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 16:19 -0700, Bill Unruh wrote: > On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Lee Revell wrote: > > > On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 14:33 -0700, Bill Unruh wrote: > >> On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Lee Revell wrote: > >> > >>> On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 20:42 +0200, Dominique Mich

Re: [Alsa-user] Problems with snd hda intel: works only part of the time

2006-10-05 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 14:33 -0700, Bill Unruh wrote: > On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Lee Revell wrote: > > > On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 20:42 +0200, Dominique Michel wrote: > >> It can be the case if you have an USB sound card as a webcam. The > >> snd_usb_audio will be loaded

Re: [Alsa-user] Pb with simultaneous SATA and ALSA I/O

2006-10-05 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 23:01 +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote: > Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > This is going to be a problem with the SATA driver not ALSA. I've heard > > that some motherboards do evil stuff like implementing legacy drive > > acces

Re: [Alsa-user] Pb with simultaneous SATA and ALSA I/O

2006-10-05 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 23:01 +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote: > Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > This is going to be a problem with the SATA driver not ALSA. I've heard > > that some motherboards do evil stuff like implementing legacy drive > > acces

Re: [Alsa-user] Pb with simultaneous SATA and ALSA I/O

2006-10-05 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 22:52 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > Ar Iau, 2006-10-05 am 16:45 -0400, ysgrifennodd Lee Revell: > > I've heard that some motherboards do evil stuff like implementing legacy > > drive > > access modes using SMM which would cause dropouts without xruns >

Re: [Alsa-user] Pb with simultaneous SATA and ALSA I/O

2006-10-05 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 22:42 +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote: > "Francesco Peeters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Have you tried using a different slot for the SB Live? > > Yes. No change at all. (Sorry for the delay). This is going to be a problem with the SATA driver not ALSA. I've heard tha

Re: [Alsa-user] Problems with snd hda intel: works only part of the time

2006-10-05 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 20:42 +0200, Dominique Michel wrote: > It can be the case if you have an USB sound card as a webcam. The > snd_usb_audio will be loaded by hotplug before at alsasound load the > alsa > modules, and the regular sound card will be the second sound card. > > If it is the case, y

Re: [Alsa-user] Some questions about the Audigy 2 NX

2006-10-03 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 20:25 +0200, Evgeni Golov wrote: > I though, dmix is not needed anymore (or is setup'ed automagicaly)? > Not for USB audio. There are too many different devices for a single dmix config to work with them all. You'll have to create your own. Lee -

Re: [Alsa-user] configuring ALSA driver to avoid invertion

2006-10-03 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 06:41 +0400, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > Sergei, > > You are right, "as binary signal value increases analog output > value decreases". As for reference, I'm an audio DIY-er, almost all > signal chain is made by my hand :-) > > LADSPA is a more high level. ALSA driver configuri

Re: [Alsa-user] alsa sound problem

2006-10-02 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 10:40 -0700, Bob wrote: > Okay. But since the OP did not mention a specific sound card I assumed > that you meant that mixing didn't work until 1.0.9 ... and that it did > on 1.0.9 and later. I guess the part that I don't get is why the card > would make a difference ... does

Re: [Alsa-user] alsa sound problem

2006-10-02 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 10:20 -0700, Bob wrote: > > Lee Revell wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 14:00 +0300, Martin Ivanov wrote: > >> Hello! > >> I am running Slackware Linux 10.2 with kernel 2.4.31 > >> My question is as follows: > >> When I listen

Re: [Alsa-user] alsa sound problem

2006-10-02 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 14:00 +0300, Martin Ivanov wrote: > Hello! > I am running Slackware Linux 10.2 with kernel 2.4.31 > My question is as follows: > When I listen to music for example in xine or any other player, no other > sound application is able to run, for example if I am listening to music

Re: [Alsa-user] Drop outs under I/O load with Terratec EWX 24/96

2006-10-02 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 13:43 +0200, Jascha Berberich wrote: > Uhm... I have searched in your threads but couldn't find it. Would be > nice if somebody could tell me wow to trace the latency :) > Search LKML or LAU archive, this has been explained many times. -

Re: [Alsa-user] Drop outs under I/O load with Terratec EWX 24/96

2006-09-30 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-09-30 at 18:39 +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote: > Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Lee Revell asked me to "try the -rt kernel, enable latency tracing and > >> post the output." So far, I've can't boot this rt kernel (St

Re: [Alsa-user] Drop outs under I/O load with Terratec EWX 24/96

2006-09-30 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-09-30 at 18:39 +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote: > Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Lee Revell asked me to "try the -rt kernel, enable latency tracing and > >> post the output." So far, I've can't boot this rt kernel (St

Re: [Alsa-user] Drop outs under I/O load with Terratec EWX 24/96

2006-09-30 Thread Lee Revell
h oh, this looks like the problem I have with my a7n8x deluxe board + > sata IO + drop-out . > > See the threads > http://www.mail-archive.com/alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net/msg17399.html > http://www.mail-archive.com/alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net/msg17641.html > > I'm s

Re: [Alsa-user] set_params:901: Sample format non available

2006-09-30 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-09-30 at 11:07 +0200, Udo van den Heuvel wrote: > This stuff worked under Windoze. > How can I fix this? > Am I doing something wrong? Yes. Use plughw:1 rather than hw:1. Or just use default:1 for automatic rate, format, channel conversion and dmix. Lee --

Re: [Alsa-user] can't seem to get ac3 passthrough working with ymfpci

2006-09-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 15:17 -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > What is the latest? I am using > > Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.10. 1.0.12 is the latest stable release, 1.0.13-rc? the latest development release. So you use the ymfpci driver? Clemens, don't you have this h

Re: [Alsa-user] can't seem to get ac3 passthrough working with ymfpci

2006-09-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 14:51 -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > I've been trying and trying and I just can't seem to get DD/DTS/AC3 to > work. My receiver receives PCM just fine so at least I know the > physical bits are working. > > I have tried both mplayer and ac3dec to drive the card into decodi

Re: [Alsa-user] RME Digi96/8 PST aplay: Channels count not available

2006-09-26 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 11:15 +0200, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > Jack works nicely through this card although I'm still not being able > to output sound via S/PDIF. > > So to test S/PDIF I tried a simple aplay, however it's failing > strangely: > > $ aplay -D hw:1,0 mlk.wav > Playing WAVE 'ml

Re: [Alsa-user] Pb with simultaneous SATA and ALSA I/O

2006-09-26 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 16:37 +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote: > Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Dominique: try the -rt kernel, enable latency tracing and post the > > output. > > Should I use 2.6.17 + rt to stay closer to my current setup or should I ge

Re: [Alsa-user] loading snd-ca0106 fails for Audigy Live! 7.1 on Debian

2006-09-26 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 11:50 +0200, Till Wimmer wrote: > i bought a CS Audigy Live! 7.1 and put it in my Debian Sarge > 2.6.8-3-68 > box... > > The card is detected by alsaconfig, but the kernel module doesn't > load > correctly. You need a much newer kernel than 2.6.8 for a card this new. Try

Re: [Alsa-user] hda-intel on Thinkpad T60p fails to load with unable to handle kernel paging request

2006-09-26 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 11:02 +0200, Eivind Tagseth wrote: > Sep 26 09:09:10 [kernel] EIP:0060:[]Tainted: GF Why did you forcibly load a module (insmod -f)? Lee - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Jo

Re: [Alsa-user] Pb with simultaneous SATA and ALSA I/O

2006-09-25 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 10:38 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > Well i agree with the suggestion of trying a different PCI slot for > the sb live. There is so much onboard stuff sharing interrupts on > those boards that you might have problems because of that. Creative > cards are not very good at d

Re: [Alsa-user] /dev/dsp not found with kernel 2.6.16.29

2006-09-25 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 11:56 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > LR> Does "aplay file.wav" work? > > That produces the following: > > === import === > ALSA lib confmisc.c:670:(snd_func_card_driver) cannot find card '0' > ALSA lib conf.c:3479:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver > re

Re: [Alsa-user] /dev/dsp not found with kernel 2.6.16.29

2006-09-24 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 21:37 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hallo alsa-users, > > Currently I'm running alsa driver 1.0.12 with kernel 2.6.16.27. > This afternoon I tried to use kernel 2.6.16.29. I used 'make > oldconfig' with the config of kernel 2.6.16.27. > That made alsa complain that /dev/d

Re: [Alsa-user] [Alsa-devel] USB card @48kHz only: at what layer to resample?

2006-09-24 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 08:12 -0700, Bill Unruh wrote: > This is audio card insanity. All CDs are at 44100 but for some reason > many card manufacturers designed their cards to run at 48000. This is > a real problem since this requires rate conversion. Rate conversion is > in general a very very nois

Re: [Alsa-user] [Alsa-devel] USB card @48kHz only: at what layer to resample?

2006-09-24 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 18:41 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks Markus and all for the replies. > > My problem is that STK does not seem able to see the alsa plugins. > > In other words, when one uses -say- aplay it is possible to specify what > device or plugin to use with the -D option, f

Re: [Alsa-user] strange period size behaviour

2006-09-21 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 08:55 +0200, Tomas Carnecky wrote: > Lee Revell wrote: > > You are mixing up period_time (which is in microseconds) with > > period_size (which is in frames). period_time defaults to 125000. > > > > Why do you want to use an .asoundrc at all? >

Re: [Alsa-user] strange period size behaviour

2006-09-20 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 03:24 +0200, Tomas Carnecky wrote: > Without a .asoundrc, alsaplayer gives this: PERIOD_TIME: (21333 21334) > I can play several sounds at the same time through dmix. > > But, with a .asounrc that has the following: > > cards.ICE1724.pcm.dmix.period_time 1024 > > (note that

Re: [Alsa-user] What are all those devices?

2006-09-20 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 22:04 +0100, Mario Rossi wrote: > Thanks for your answer, but I don't know much about digital audio component. > On my laptop there are > > 1) integrated MIC (is it MIC1?) > 2) integrated speakers > 3) port for external MIC (is it MIC2?) > 4) port for external speakers > > I

Re: [Alsa-user] switch between two soundcards

2006-09-19 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 00:18 +0200, Jürgen Herrmann wrote: > > my goal is that applications can always use alsa hw:0:0 without > reconfiguration, maybe this could even be automated via hotplug > when (dis)connecting the usb device? Applications shouldn't use hw:0,0 anyway, it only supports one ap

Re: [Alsa-user] C-Media USB soundcard (usb id 0d8c:000c) unable to get to work.

2006-09-19 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 14:48 -0700, Jose Gilberto Torres wrote: > aplay -D hw:1,0 ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Sounds/unhide.wav > Playing WAVE > '/home/torresj/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Sounds/unhide.wav' : > Unsigned > 8 bit, Rate 22050 Hz, Mono > aplay: set_params:901: Sample format non avai

Re: [Alsa-user] What are all those devices?

2006-09-19 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 21:58 +0100, Mario Rossi wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to know what is the second device Intel ICH - IEC958. > If I try to play via it no sound is emitted > > aplay -D plughw:0,4 somefile.wav > > nothing happens. > > The first device is the actual device, while the third i

Re: [Alsa-user] Audio drop-out with ac3 on iec958 during heavy SATA io

2006-09-19 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 18:13 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > Well, you've seen the xrun detection there, so it's basically the > problem of other parts, such as disk contoller driver. That is, > something else takes too long time, and the irq for sound can't be > handled at the right time. > > If the

Re: [Alsa-user] Duplexing (?) Audiophile 2496

2006-09-16 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 19:15 -0500, Bob van der Poel wrote: > So, it appears that jack is running. But, when I try to run audio I > get "busy" error messages. The > most clear comes from mpg123: > > mpg123 *Yell* > High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layer 1, 2 and 3. > Version 0.59r

Re: [Alsa-user] Duplexing (?) Audiophile 2496

2006-09-16 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 17:52 -0500, Bob van der Poel wrote: > Thanks, Lee. I'll see if I can get JACK running. > > But, if there is no hardware mixing ... then what is the point of all those > neat little VUE meters in envy24control? > The term "mixing" is overloaded. The device does have a har

Re: [Alsa-user] Duplexing (?) Audiophile 2496

2006-09-16 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 12:05 -0500, Bob van der Poel wrote: > I recently installed a M-Audio Audiophile 2496 in machine running Mandriva > 2006. > > All, including MIDI, runs just fine. But, it appears that I can only listen > to a single stream at one time. > > I _think_ that it has something t

Re: [Alsa-user] ALi ac97 soundcard

2006-09-16 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 10:09 -0400, Roger D Vargas wrote: > I have a motherboard with an onboard ALi chipset. According to lspci it > is a ALi Corporation high Definition Audio/AC97 Host Controller. > According to official manual it is anADI1986A 6 Channel High Definition > Audio CODEC > Is this c

Re: [Alsa-user] How to get a list of pcm devices

2006-09-16 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 10:38 +0100, Mario Rossi wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering whether there is a function to get the list of pcm devices? > It would be a list which the user could choose from. > > I've seen that if you run "aplay -L" you get it, but many of those pcm > devices need arguments. >

Re: [Alsa-user] VIA K8M890 (8237 chipset) not working with kernel 2.6.18-rc6

2006-09-15 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 14:52 -0300, Martin Sarsale wrote: > Dear all: > I've just bought this MSI mobo with a VIA K8M890 chipset, and I can't > make ALSA work. > AFAIK the soundcard is supported by ALSA (via 8237): modules load > without problem but do not print anything in dmesg. Then > /proc/asoun

Re: [Alsa-user] Sound stops anomalous and goes on after some time

2006-09-14 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 15:52 +0200, Henrik Niehaus wrote: > Another thing is, that i have /dev/dsp, but programs using this > device > like audacity (or cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp) are mute. > Mixer levels are all about 75% > Don't use an .asoundrc - dmix should be enabled automatically with a r

Re: [Alsa-user] Sound quality with SB Live 5.1

2006-09-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 16:19 -0300, aluizio-neto wrote: > That was the first thing I thought but there`s no capture record volume on my > mixer, only the capture feedback, witch doesn`t make any difference in the > sound I record... > Thanks a lot, Let me guess, kmix? It's buggy. Run alsamixer,

Re: [Alsa-user] ESI U46DJ

2006-09-12 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 20:51 +0200, Lukas Zapletal wrote: > Hello, > > do this external USB soundcard work in ALSA? I cannot find any "ESI" > soundcard in the supported cards matrix. > > http://www.esi-pro.com/viewProduct.php?pid=60 > > I want to purchase this one. I need full support. Thanks in

Re: [Alsa-user] Audio drop-out with ac3 on iec958 during heavy SATA io

2006-09-10 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 14:24 +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote: > Takashi Iwai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Then check whether XRUN occurs at next. Make sure that you compiled > > the driver with debug option (--with-debug=full configure option), > > then do the following as root: > > > > # e

Re: [Alsa-user] do I need to upgrade alsa 1.0.4 to 1.0.12?

2006-09-07 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 08:55 +0800, littertiger wrote: > >On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 14:50 +0800, littertiger wrote: > >> I'm building an embedded system. I decide to use 2.6.9 kernel with > >> 1.0.4 alsa. > >> but alsa 1.0.4 may don't surport dmix for oss emulation. > >> perhaps some 3rd party applica

Re: [Alsa-user] do I need to upgrade alsa 1.0.4 to 1.0.12?

2006-09-07 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 14:50 +0800, littertiger wrote: > I'm building an embedded system. I decide to use 2.6.9 kernel with > 1.0.4 alsa. > but alsa 1.0.4 may don't surport dmix for oss emulation. > perhaps some 3rd party applications need oss. so, surporting oss of > multi audio stream will be be

Re: [Alsa-user] Emulating an alsa card on multiple OSS devices

2006-09-02 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 11:58 -0400, Geddes Munson wrote: > Greetings, > > I am trying to get our college radio station to do online streaming, and I > am pretty close. Running debian with the 2.6 kernel and the M-Audio M44 > sound card. It all works, but I need to run two different encoding program

Re: [Alsa-user] High end usb sound card recommendations?

2006-08-31 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 12:45 -0700, Bill Unruh wrote: > I have a fairly stringent sound card test > (www.theory.physics.ubc.ca/soundcard/soundcard.html) > that you can try out. The sound card has to be capable of input and > output > at the same time since it feeds theoutput to the input, and thus t

Re: [Alsa-user] High end usb sound card recommendations?

2006-08-31 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 21:32 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Many of the current devices from say Edirol, M-audio or Terratec are > not > on the list > http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/index.php?vendor=All#matrix > which also claims to have seen the last update in March 2005. > Any USB d

Re: [Alsa-user] volume control on spdif

2006-08-30 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 18:15 +0200, Oliver Eichler wrote: > However if I use "surround 5.1" raw digital data is sent to the > device. I wonder if alsa is able to apply a digital volume control to > this stream. If it is possible, would some kind soul tell me how? This isn't really ALSA's job. Ca

Re: [Alsa-user] PDAudio on the Sharp Zaurus SL-C3200 ?

2006-08-26 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-08-26 at 16:46 +, Michael Chapman wrote: > PDAudio on the Sharp Zaurus SL-C3200 (also known as "Spitz" and "Teriier") ? We saw this the first time, why do you keep reposting it? Lee - Using Tomcat but need

Re: [Alsa-user] Digigram VXPocket V2 Errors

2006-08-25 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 15:00 -0400, ibanez88 wrote: > bx_1_vxp.b56 Does this file exist somewhere on your system? Is alsa-firmware installed? Lee - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? G

Re: [Alsa-user] No sound on new notebook

2006-08-22 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 20:09 -0400, Chris O'Regan wrote: > > Try loading snd-hda-intel with the "model=ref" option. > > No change. Here are some logs (I've enabled debugging): > > Aug 22 20:01:05 eames ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LAZA] enabled at IRQ 20 > Aug 22 20:01:05 eames ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0

Re: [Alsa-user] no sound with e-mu 1820

2006-08-22 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 01:29 +0200, Pille wrote: > hmm... > but i found this on the project site: > http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php?company=Creative+Labs&card=E-MU+1820m.&chip=CA0102%2C+FPGA&module=emu10k1 > what does that mean? > http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/inde

Re: [Alsa-user] No sound on new notebook

2006-08-22 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 19:30 -0400, Chris O'Regan wrote: > > What codec does your sound card use? > > Check /proc/asound/card0/codec-something (I don't remember the filename) > > Do you mean this: > > $ cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#0 > Codec: SigmaTel STAC9200 Yes. Try loading snd-hda-intel with

Re: [Alsa-user] No sound on new notebook

2006-08-22 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 18:48 -0400, Chris O'Regan wrote: > Can anyone help? I'm out of ideas. > What codec does your sound card use? Check /proc/asound/card0/codec-something (I don't remember the filename) Lee > > Chris > > On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 12:12 -0400, Chris O'Regan wrote: > > I'm tryin

Re: [Alsa-user] no sound with e-mu 1820

2006-08-22 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 00:57 +0200, Pille wrote: > what do i have to do now? This device is not yet supported by ALSA. You can wait for it to be supported. The upcoming ALSA 1.0.12 release will have improved support, but I still don't think it will work yet. Lee ---

Re: [Alsa-user] Stop and Start alsa in FC5

2006-08-22 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 00:22 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > Well thanks Lee. That's answered that. > It might answer it - it's just a guess ;-) Lee - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? G

Re: [Alsa-user] no sound with e-mu 1820

2006-08-22 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 00:06 +0200, Pille wrote: > hi, > i´m using ubuntu 6.06 lts. i have 2 soundcards installed. here the > output of /proc/asound/cards: > > 0 [EMU1212m ]: Audigy2 - E-mu 1212m [4001] > E-mu 1212m [4001] (rev.3, serial:0x40011102) at > 0xec00, irq 201 >

Re: [Alsa-user] Stop and Start alsa in FC5

2006-08-22 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 23:39 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > Since FC1 I've installed planetccrma stuff, and have an alsasound shellscript > for stopping and starting Alsa in /etc/rc.d/init.d. > > there have been queries on the Fedora list as how to stop and start Alsa on > FC5. I have 2 FC5 installs

Re: [Alsa-user] alsa-driver-1.0.11rc5 on SuSE won't compile

2006-08-22 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 22:43 +0200, D.Tamm wrote: > >> The distro is SuSE 8.3 and the kernel 2.6.7 I think. > > > > Run "uname -r" to know which kernel you are running and check at the > > kernel source version is exactly the same as the running kernel version or > > the kernel you want to compile

Re: [Alsa-user] hda-intel problems

2006-08-20 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 08:28 +0530, Damodharan R wrote: > Alsamixer doesnt show such controls in my case also. I see the > following error when booting > hda_codec.c: Unknown model for STAC9200. Using the BIOS defaults. > > The major problem I have is MIC doesnot work. Can anyone say how to > fix

Re: [Alsa-user] hda-intel problems

2006-08-20 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 13:25 -0700, John Gruenenfelder wrote: > Hello, > > I've got a Dell Inspiron E1405 laptop which uses the hda-intel ALSA driver. Try passing the "model=ref" option when loading snd-hda-intel. > A much less pressing issue, is that there are almost no controls present via > al

Re: [Alsa-user] Alsa Devices Impossible to Address

2006-08-11 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 10:50 +0100, Cefn Hoile wrote: > Now I have a way to address the cards, I need to implementing the > virtualisation of these individual cards into a single mega-sound > device! > For anyone who's interested, the plan is to build this... > http://cefn.com/curiosity/tag/pipe

Re: [Alsa-user] another in kernel alsa update that breaks backward compatibilty?

2006-08-09 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 12:07 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > This walks and qwacks like the alsa interface has been diddled, again. > But since it KNOWS what hardware its running, in this case an audigy > 2, not Value, so why was apparently working code broken and then > commited to the kernel tree?

Re: [Alsa-user] another in kernel alsa update that breaks backward compatibilty?

2006-08-09 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 17:56 +0200, Benoit Fouet wrote: > hi, > > Sergei Steshenko wrote: > > >On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 11:40:02 -0400 > >Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >>Greetings; > >> > >>The old fart is back again. :) > >> > >>I've just done a divide and conquer on kernel v

Re: [Alsa-user] another in kernel alsa update that breaks backward compatibilty?

2006-08-09 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 18:46 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 11:40:02 -0400 > Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Greetings; > > > > The old fart is back again. :) > > > > I've just done a divide and conquer on kernel versions, and have found that > > while I DO ha

Re: [Alsa-user] Trouble with EMU10K1X and upgrading

2006-08-09 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 17:56 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > OSS apps can probably benefit from http://fort.xdas.com/~kor/oss2jack/ > - I haven't tried it myself. > > I mean simultaneous playback by a number of OSS apps. > > I haven't tried this myself though. > That requires you to run JACK wh

Re: [Alsa-user] Trouble with EMU10K1X and upgrading

2006-08-09 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 00:18 +1000, Geoff Shang wrote: > First, the problems. We are experiencing two problems with the card: > > 1. It seems that we can play multiple audio sources if the sources > use ALSA output directly. If OSS output is used, only one source can > play at a time. Correct.

Re: [Alsa-user] Apple opens kernel source - can Linux audio be improved in the light of this ?

2006-08-08 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 11:22 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > Hello All, > > according to > > http://lists.apple.com/archives/Darwin-dev/2006/Aug/msg00067.html > > Apple opens kernel source. > > A lot (if not all) of audio cards come with MacOS X drivers. > > Can Linux kernel implement Apple ke

Re: [Alsa-user] snd-hda-intel no master control in alsamixer

2006-08-04 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 23:56 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > Thanks for your replies Lee. I've relayed them to the 2 guys, and > suggested that an alternative is to go for a USB one, if they are > serious about needing audio. USB audio has its own set of issues with mixer control naming - also dmix is

Re: [Alsa-user] snd-hda-intel no master control in alsamixer

2006-08-03 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 08:29 +1000, Keith Owens wrote: > Lee Revell (on Thu, 03 Aug 2006 16:32:14 -0400) wrote: > >There's really no telling. It's misleading to say "snd-hda-intel is > >supported" because every single laptop and motherboard with > >snd-hd

Re: [Alsa-user] snd-hda-intel no master control in alsamixer

2006-08-03 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 21:07 +, 雷 致强 wrote: > Hi,Lee. > I'm the one who use Hasee Q310N laptop and Gentoo. I don't know if > these information can help to solve problems. > The ALC861 I have tried 3stack, 3stack-dig, 6stack-dig, and auto model > options. > No matter which one I use, I will get t

Re: [Alsa-user] snd-hda-intel no master control in alsamixer

2006-08-03 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 22:41 +0200, Jaroslaw Gorny wrote: > And I'm the one another with the same problem. My e-mail was ignored > here > too ;) > SigmaTel STAC9200 (at least system-config-sound on FC5 says that). > > The number of channels in alsamixer differs between reboots. On some > reboots

Re: [Alsa-user] snd-hda-intel no master control in alsamixer

2006-08-03 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 22:25 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > --- amixer > Simple mixer control 'PCM',0 > Capabilities: pvolume > Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right > Limits: Playback 0 - 255 > Mono: > Front Left: Playback 255 [100%] > Front Right: Playback 255 [100%] >

Re: [Alsa-user] snd-hda-intel no master control in alsamixer

2006-08-03 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 22:25 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > Hi Lee, if your there. I've seen a couple of guys having problems with no > master control in alsamixer using snd-hda-intel driver. One posted to this > list, but in HTML, and probably was ignored (quite rightly), and is using a > Hasee Q31

Re: [Alsa-user] loading/unloading modules

2006-08-03 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 15:32 +0200, Martin Reitbauer wrote: > - do i need to compile anew other parts of ALSA as well, when i do an > upgrade (like alsa-utils, for example)? > No > - when i'm re-loading the driver after the upgrade -- do i have to > unload all the modules first (snd_hda_intel,

Re: [Alsa-user] dmix device and mplayer

2006-08-02 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 12:25 +1200, Nick Wright wrote: > On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 05:33:52AM +1200, Nick Wright wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 02:03:22PM +0200, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > > > Nick Wright wrote: > > > > When using the dmix plugin to mix sounds for multiple apps, mplayer > > > > perf

Re: [Alsa-user] skype and other sound player

2006-08-02 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 19:07 +0530, François Patte wrote: > Bonjour, > > I try to have both xmms and skype at the same time: I would like to hear > people calling me while I am listening some music with xmms. > > Skype and xmms use both ALSA, but when I want to use skype while xmms is > playing, I

Re: [Alsa-user] Building ALSA

2006-08-01 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 11:21 -0700, Kartik Ramachandran wrote: > Hi, > > I am a newbie here. I want to install ALSA drivers on a Hardware Board > running Linux Kernel 2.6.13 > > I have the Kernel Source installed in there. > > > > I did ./configure –with-kernel= --with-cards=emu10k1 – > with-

Re: [Alsa-user] No /proc/asound/card0/pcm0c/oss (mmap'ing OSS app)

2006-08-01 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 18:57 +0200, Matthias Czapla wrote: > On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 12:23:11PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 18:11 +0200, Matthias Czapla wrote: > > > Have to try that one, but I wished it would work without these ugly > > > dsp-wra

Re: [Alsa-user] No /proc/asound/card0/pcm0c/oss (mmap'ing OSS app)

2006-08-01 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 18:11 +0200, Matthias Czapla wrote: > Have to try that one, but I wished it would work without these ugly > dsp-wrappers. Furthermore I would be interested if the non-existence > of the /proc/asound/card?/pcm?c directories is intentional with the > ALSA drivers included with

Re: [Alsa-user] M-Audio Revolution 5.1 support

2006-08-01 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 03:55 -0400, Andrew K. Bressen wrote: > Jochen Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > in response to the recent thread about (the absence of) capture > > support for the M-Audio Revolution 5.1 sound card, I started a web > > page with information about what works and what doesn'

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 01:11 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > You don't seem to understand that some end ALSA users have exactly > the same HW as the one used by ALSA developers to develop the driver. > > Having the controls of tested features written down would really help > such ALSA users. > A

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 00:54 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > Then what was exactly the report claiming that M-Audio Revolution 5.1 > indeed worked ? > > Where can end users find in order to read it ans assess its > credibility ? > > That is, to see whether the end user indeed checked the featured

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 00:47 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > It should be 'why', not 'what' in "what the controls for each tested > feature ...". You don't seem to understand that vendors can customize the hardware such that the same mixer controls do different things on different devices. The on

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 00:38 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > Do you, the developers, test the card before announcing it as > supported ? > No, the ALSA developers rely on feedback from users to determine what is supported. The ALSA developers only have access to a small fraction of the supported

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 23:38 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > My logic is simple: > > * if you are saying that a feature is supported, this means you've > tested it - otherwise you are simply irresponsible. You're assuming that ALSA developers have access to every sound card that ALSA supports wh

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 00:03 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > Did you help the guy with M-Audio Revolution 5.1 ? > > I DID tell him everything I knew based on my M-Audio Revolution 7.1, > but, apparently, the cards are different. > > Are you satisfied that yet another ALSA end user stepped on the

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 23:38 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > What I know, is that when I bought M-Audio Revoluion 7.1 - fully > supported > by ALSA, I couldn't make "capture loopback" work - documentation said > nothing > on it. Blah blah blah, same old inflammatory complaints, no offer to help..

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 22:03 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > Look, after more than a year you added a phrase about no need of > .asoundrc. Um... this is documented all over the place. The page that I added it to is not even maintained by the ALSA team. And I am NOT an "ALSA developer". If you

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 21:48 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > If you, the developers, have already written the driver and know > how it works, what hardware specs do you need ? > > It's the documentation issue and/or HAL issue. The guy expresses my > thoughts very well. > > I'm glad yet another en

Re: [Alsa-user] How to change channel names on Audigy?

2006-07-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 20:21 +0200, Lukas Zapletal wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to change my channel names. My mixers (gnome-mixer, > alsamixergui) doesnt separate input and output channels and I have to > guess which "Microphone" is the recording channel and which > "Microphone" is the recordi

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 12:47 +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Could I get a copy of that patch? > Check the alsa-devel archive. > Honnestly, the current set of mixer controls is cumbersome. $user can > hardly understand what all the controls are good for, and mixer > software is not user-friendly eit

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 12:47 +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Yes, I talk about useability which just sucks. I imagine a more clear > frontend/backend infrastructure, an ultimate solution: > > - access to all backend settings is exported with consistent, fixed > names >(keywords) > - a wrapper in

Re: [Alsa-user] Need help setting up .asoundrc

2006-07-27 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 16:46 -0700, Phil wrote: > Lee Revell wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 16:13 -0700, Phil wrote: > >> The poor configuration above is what I came up with after reading the > >> .asoundrc guide. > > > > Which .asoundrc guide? >

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