Re: [Alsa-user] record vinyl at 24-bit 96khz

2009-06-08 Thread Mark Constable
On Tuesday 09 June 2009 00:10:08 Sergei Steshenko wrote: > > You I am afraid are being a little bit silly. a) you cannot hear anything > > above 22KHz. b) there is nothing recorded on the vinyl above that. The > > recording and cutting equipment certainly cut it off above that. > > But one very w

Re: [Alsa-user] hda_intel no sound when upgrading from 2.6.28 to 2.6.29 on a debian sid 64bit

2009-05-04 Thread Mark Constable
On Tuesday 05 May 2009 03:18:35 Hybris wrote: > > Perhaps start again with some basics like going to a shell > > and using "aplay some.wav" and fiddling with alsamixer to > > see, or hear, if you can get something working. You can > > then paste any suspicious errors into an email to this > > list.

Re: [Alsa-user] hda_intel no sound when upgrading from 2.6.28 to 2.6.29 on a debian sid 64bit

2009-05-04 Thread Mark Constable
On Monday 04 May 2009 22:42:11 Hybris wrote: > Please give me some hints on what could be the problem. > I'm in the unconfortable situation where i want to upgrade to .29 because i > need it for the new nvidia drivers but i can't update because of the sound > problem. Perhaps start again with some

Re: [Alsa-user] anyone can help me setting a correct asoundrc?

2009-04-22 Thread Mark Constable
On Wednesday 22 April 2009 22:02:16 jean-luc malet wrote: > I didn't had any reply to my previous mail... > I know that it might look not interesting... however I still can't > manage to play my 5.1 ogg stream on my 2.0 headphone device > can anyone help me, give me pointer to some tutorial or exam

Re: [Alsa-user] emu10k1 & jackd not working with realtime Kernel

2009-04-20 Thread Mark Constable
On Monday 20 April 2009 17:06:55 Matthias Mann wrote: > And now, what should i do? I have the group audio and the normal user > is a member of group audio since a long time. But jackd doesn't run in > realtime for this user. What's going wrong here? Have you added something like this to /etc/secur

Re: [Alsa-user] x-fi driver insanity

2009-04-15 Thread Mark Constable
On Thursday 16 April 2009 13:06:17 Ted T. Logan wrote: > This is not deterioration. It's completely unusable at that point. > > I use it quite frequently, and for long periods of time, with a > different sound card, and have with many other sound cards, and never > had the problem. > > I have on

Re: [Alsa-user] Doc for asound.conf?

2009-04-09 Thread Mark Constable
On Friday 10 April 2009 08:34:23 Geoffrey Leach wrote: > Generally this works fine. However, occasionally the audio is a few > seconds ahead of the video, so I'm looking for places I might have > screwed up. I don't think diddling asouncrd conf will fix that, it's more of an application. If using

Re: [Alsa-user] Creative X-Fi or snd-sbxfi driver help?

2009-01-18 Thread Mark Constable
On Monday 19 January 2009 07:51:35 Marek Dmao wrote: > Success! I managed to install it without a hitch on 2.6.27-7-generic > kernel, though I also followed the step posted here > http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6369503&postcount=148 Good find. Just as a curious comparison, here is mine wh

Re: [Alsa-user] Creative X-Fi or snd-sbxfi driver help?

2009-01-18 Thread Mark Constable
On Sunday 18 January 2009 19:24:16 Bill Unruh wrote: > >> Well, its not loaded according to lsmod. > >> sudo modprobe ctxfi returned > > > > I presume you did the depmiod step before this? > > And why would he want to do that? Linux kernel modules can provide services (called "symbols") for oth

Re: [Alsa-user] Creative X-Fi or snd-sbxfi driver help?

2009-01-18 Thread Mark Constable
On Sunday 18 January 2009 15:35:17 Marek Dmao wrote: > Well, its not loaded according to lsmod. > sudo modprobe ctxfi returned I presume you did the depmiod step before this? > FATAL: Error inserting ctxfi > (/lib/modules/2.6.27-9-generic/kernel/drivers/ssound/ctxfi.ko): Unknown > symbol in mod

Re: [Alsa-user] Creative X-Fi or snd-sbxfi driver help?

2009-01-17 Thread Mark Constable
On Sunday 18 January 2009 14:25:12 Marek Dmao wrote: > I saw where you replied to the cries of another lost soul with a > similar script and I didn't have much luck getting it to work. This > one did something... though during the make process I got several > warnings about deprecated files and 'c

Re: [Alsa-user] Creative X-Fi or snd-sbxfi driver help?

2009-01-17 Thread Mark Constable
On Sunday 18 January 2009 11:53:36 Marek Dmao wrote: > I'm trying to get my Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi card to finally work on my > computer running Ubuntu 8.10 amd_64. I'm pretty sure its the emu20k1 > chipset. I've been following the issue for quite a while on the alsa-dev > mailing list an

Re: [Alsa-user] How to order multiple usb devices

2009-01-14 Thread Mark Constable
On Thursday 15 January 2009 07:05:31 Hal V. Engel wrote: > One other option is it use UDEV. Here is a how to > http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Udev This also kind of solves a similar problem, at least to provide a particular default device regardless of what devices are available... http://als

Re: [Alsa-user] Fedora 10 & Tascam US 122

2009-01-05 Thread Mark Constable
On Tuesday 06 January 2009 08:13:47 David Niemira wrote: > I'm having 2 main problems: > 1. While it appears that the tascam firmware gets downloaded into the > US122, the green light never signals 'active', nor does the system > recognize the device (except using lsusb and cat /proc/asound/cards

Re: [Alsa-user] Creative SoundBlaster x-fi xtreme audio PCI-E ALSA driver

2008-12-22 Thread Mark Constable
On 2008-12-23, Fall Khadim wrote: > I purchased Creative SoundBlaster x-fi xtreme audio PCI-E > sound card and I found that this card is not supported by > many of the drivers out there. Somebody from Creative forums > told me that there is an ALSA driver that supports it, so > i would appreciate i

Re: [Alsa-user] Which repo is the best for a packager?

2008-12-22 Thread Mark Constable
I'm not sure how to deal with this one in alsa-tools/ld10k1? make[1]: Entering directory `/home/sources/eth-os/eth-os/lib/alsa-tools/src/alsa-tools/ld10k1' Making all in setup make[2]: Entering direc

Re: [Alsa-user] Which repo is the best for a packager?

2008-12-22 Thread Mark Constable
FWIW in alsa-tools from git://git.alsa-project.org/alsa-tools.git --- alsa-tools/sb16_csp/gitcompile.orig2008-12-23 16:34:58.0 +1000 +++ alsa-tools/sb16_csp/gitcompile 2008-12-23 16:33:19.0 +1000 @@ -25,6 +25,6 @@ echo "./configure $@" ./configure $@ || exit 1 unset CFLAGS -

Re: [Alsa-user] Which repo is the best for a packager?

2008-12-22 Thread Mark Constable
On 2008-12-21, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > > Try a snapshot: http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tiwai/alsa/ > ... > The alsa-driver tarballs in the URL above are generated from my > sound.git tree. > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6.git I still couldn't work o

Re: [Alsa-user] In a jam!

2008-12-20 Thread Mark Constable
On 2008-12-21, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Hello again list! I think my posts are getting to the list, but > > apparently not attracting favorable attention. Who wants to discuss > > modems on a alsa site? > ... > It doesn't offend but unfortunately I haven't ever seen these modem > devices discussed on

[Alsa-user] Which repo is the best for a packager?

2008-12-19 Thread Mark Constable
> Try a snapshot: http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tiwai/alsa/ I'm trying to set up some packages of the latest code for an experimental binary repo. I see there are hg and git source repos but I'm confused which one is the ultimate working tree for all alsa developers (if there is su

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Mark Constable
On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:37:31 am Grant wrote: > >> I'm going to donate a 24-bit capable sound card to the mpd project to > >> add 24-bit support. Can anyone recommend an inexpensive one that is > >> 24-bit capable and PCI, PCIe, or USB? Just a non-relevent FWIW but my cheap $80 mobo does 24/96 wit

Re: [Alsa-user] Mia-Midi & Ubuntu 8.04

2008-08-10 Thread Mark Constable
On Monday 11 August 2008 02:27:55 Henry W. Peters wrote: > I did a 'sudo lsmod | grep snd' &... > ... > snd_mia31652 0 So the right module seems to be loaded yet you showed the output of an "aplay -l" in a earlier email and there is only a single SiS (onboard) device... > apla

Re: [Alsa-user] Mia-Midi & Ubuntu 8.04

2008-08-08 Thread Mark Constable
On Saturday 09 August 2008 12:18:08 Henry W. Peters wrote: > p.s., my card is NOT a usb device (apologies here, as I should have said > it is the MiaMIDI card, made by Echo Audio. There are i/o ports for > midi/S/PDIF/analogue in the back, both on the card & a set of wires w/ > plugs; phono & stand

Re: [Alsa-user] Mia-Midi & Ubuntu 8.04

2008-08-08 Thread Mark Constable
On 2008-08-09, Henry W. Peters wrote: > Thanks much for reply... I pasted the i/o results of your requested > commands in the shell... (well, approximations due to non html > translation). The alsamixer output was not needed... just so you know it existed. > When I did the 'alsamixer' command it

Re: [Alsa-user] Mia-Midi & Ubuntu 8.04

2008-08-08 Thread Mark Constable
On Saturday 09 August 2008 01:58:52 Henry W. Peters wrote: > The short of it is, I tried basically everything you suggested... plus > de-installing the EchoMixer & associated products (controllers for other > devices which I do not have, it comes bundled) by means of the > Add/Remove menu item & th

Re: [Alsa-user] Mia-Midi & Ubuntu 8.04

2008-08-07 Thread Mark Constable
On Friday 08 August 2008 03:53:07 Henry W. Peters wrote: > OK, since I received no reply for some time now, would someone please > tell me if there is no interest for the below stated problem on this > list, is there another support group list that I may go to regarding > Ubuntu 8.04/Linux (Debian)

Re: [Alsa-user] Tascam US-122 problem on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy

2008-01-06 Thread Mark Constable
On 2008-01-06 07:48 pm, Shawn McMurdo wrote: > But then the usx2yloader fails with: > usx2yloader: no US-X2Y-compatible cards found > > Any other ideas or means of troubleshooting welcome. strace /usr/bin/usx2yloader may reveal a problem. I have a US-122 and wrote this wiki entry below so I may

Re: [Alsa-user] "plug" refuses to play audio at normal sample rates

2008-01-05 Thread Mark Constable
On Sunday 06 January 2008 12:59:28 Adam Nielsen wrote: > > I would like to be able to play 48k, 96k *and* 192k > > at the same time! I have ALC883: > > ... > > All DACs support 44.1k/48k/96k/192kHz sample rate > > All ADCs support 44.1k/48k/96kHz sample rate > > Oh the hardware is capable of play

Re: [Alsa-user] Tascam US-122 problem on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy

2008-01-05 Thread Mark Constable
On Sunday 06 January 2008 08:52:02 Shawn McMurdo wrote: > I am trying to get a Tascam US-122 working on Ubuntu 7.10 > Gutsy without much success. After reading various howtos > and postings I did the following. > ... > /usr/local/share/alsa/firmware/usx2yloader/tascam_ loader.ihx > /usr/local/shar

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord default settings

2007-12-21 Thread Mark Constable
On Saturday 22 December 2007 14:41:39 Bill Unruh wrote: > > Why couldn't the arecord defaults be what would > > most likely be the most common settings of 16 bit, > > Rate 44,100 Hz, Stereo ? > > Because then your counterpart would complain that since his sound card was > 48KHz, 24 bit, why did th

[Alsa-user] arecord default settings

2007-12-21 Thread Mark Constable
On 22 December 2007 13:24, Lee Revell wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ arecord -D plugfile out.wav > > Recording WAVE 'out.wav' : > > Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 8000 Hz, Mono > > arecord does not do any kind of format detection > on its input. It records with whatever format > you tell it to (in this c

[Alsa-user] 32bit Skype with 64bit Jack

2007-12-09 Thread Mark Constable
I'm running skype static 1.4.0.118 on a 64bit system with kernel 2.6.23 and it works okay with hw:0 (a USB device) and hw:1 (onboard hda-intel). So far, that only "trick" I had to do was a... ln -s /media/sda7/usr/lib /usr/lib/i686 where /media/sda7 is a 32bit distro with the needed 32bit Qt4 li

Re: [Alsa-user] Bitperfect Ears

2007-11-27 Thread Mark Constable
On 2007-11-28 01:55 am, Rene Herman wrote: > > How about a copyright, license, contact and version info, > > and a bit of a readme in the header comments ? > > Heh, public domain. Given that its expression is dictated by mathematics on > the one hand and the S16_LE format on the other, I'd have di

Re: [Alsa-user] Bitperfect Ears

2007-11-26 Thread Mark Constable
On 2007-11-27 01:19 pm, Bill Unruh wrote: > > A point is that these kind of "hearing tests" are almost > > useless in absolute terms but are indeed meaningful when > > tested and accumulated results are compared with for any > > particular individual. The consistent mean is to set up > > the listen

Re: [Alsa-user] Bitperfect Ears

2007-11-26 Thread Mark Constable
On 2007-11-27 12:22 pm, Rene Herman wrote: > Mmm, and now that I look at it again: > ampl = 32767.0 / pow(10, -dbfs / 20); > is the same as: > ampl = 32767 * pow(10, dbfs / 20); > which looks somewhat nicer. How about a copyright, license, contact and version info, and a bit of a re

[Alsa-user] Bitperfect Ears

2007-11-24 Thread Mark Constable
Was Re: [Alsa-user] "best" card for "bitperfect" SPDIF I/O?with?external clock sync ? On 2007-11-25 12:34 pm, Bill Unruh wrote: > > PS a bit of OT: I'm 24, and I barely hear 18khz (in headphones), unless > > it's VERY loud - I can hear only up to 17500-17800 clearly at average > > volume level. I

Re: [Alsa-user] usb audio - help with asoundrc

2007-11-22 Thread Mark Constable
On 2007-11-23 01:14 pm, Yan Seiner wrote: > How do I assign a device to a specific user/head? > > I have a multi-head setup in X; I have 3 sound cards, and I want to > always have head 1 be assigned USB card #1, regardless of who is logged > in to head 1. I'm not quite sure what to suggest to s

Re: [Alsa-user] UA-4FX problems

2007-11-21 Thread Mark Constable
On 2007-11-21 09:58 pm, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > > However, typing alsamixer just sends an error message that it can't > > load because there isn't a default soundcard! > > The default sound card would be that at index 0. The UA-4FX is loaded > at index 1. ie; try -> alsamixer -c1 -Vall and/or

Re: [Alsa-user] How to get set/fixed sample rate of ALSA device?

2007-10-07 Thread Mark Constable
On 2007-10-08 08:23, Rene Herman wrote: > You might consider this less of of a hack -- it uses the ALSA API to query > the information from the PCM handle directly. Please see the library > docoumentation for other information you can extract from a hw_params struct. > > (I don't suppose you can

[Alsa-user] Half height PCI soundcard

2007-09-29 Thread Mark Constable
Can anyone recommend a good quality half height PCI soundcard ? (if such a thing exists) --markc - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/

Re: [Alsa-user] US-122 distortion

2007-09-28 Thread Mark Constable
> > If that does not help try ruling out an interrupt sharing issue by > > testing with network, firewire & onboard audio disabled and nvidia > > module not loaded. > > Thanks for the suggestions Lee. No luck though, same amount > of crackly distortion as before... not just a little bit, > way too

Re: [Alsa-user] Two sound cards simultaneously

2007-09-27 Thread Mark Constable
On 2007-09-27 20:58, Jonathan Stowe wrote: > > Its beyond me too thats why I ask here;) > > If here nobody understands this magic where I can ask for it?;) > > See http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/TwoCardsAsOne I've also read all of this below, a couple of times over the years, but it still make

Re: [Alsa-user] US-122 distortion

2007-09-27 Thread Mark Constable
On 2007-09-27 16:36, Lee Revell wrote: > > I pulled in the latest sources but unfortuntely my US-122 is > > still distorted and unusable. > > Try a different USB port. > > If that does not help try ruling out an interrupt sharing issue by > testing with network, firewire & onboard audio disabled

Re: [Alsa-user] Two sound cards simultaneously

2007-09-26 Thread Mark Constable
On 2007-09-27 10:11, Roman Rybalko wrote: > >> Could you hlep me?;) I have two sound cards and I want hear this same sound > >> from both. For example when I run a sound player (audacious, xmms) i want > >> to > >> hear sound in headphones which are pluged into sound card 0 and in speakers > >> wh

Re: [Alsa-user] 3 cards - only 2 in /proc/asound/

2007-09-26 Thread Mark Constable
On 2007-09-27 09:51, James Shatto wrote: > ... > And hints on what I might be doing wrong? Or is this a > known/set limit of alsa to only support two sound cards > at the same time? I'd put money on the fact that your onboard snd-hda-intel device is disabled in the BIOS. --markc

Re: [Alsa-user] US-122 distortion

2007-09-26 Thread Mark Constable
On 2007-09-25 16:42, Bill Unruh wrote: > Just recompile Alsa 1.0.15rcx and install the drivers ( make install) > Ie, > ./configure > make > make install > in the alsa-driver directory. I pulled in the latest sources but unfortuntely my US-122 is still distorted and unusable. Advanced Linux Sound

Re: [Alsa-user] US-122 distortion

2007-09-24 Thread Mark Constable
On 2007-09-25 16:42, Bill Unruh wrote: > Sorry, exactly what usb card is it? Tascam US-122 USB soundcard http://www.tascam.com/details;39,15,68.html > > FWIW I took the hard drive out of my old 32bit/2.6.22 kernel > > system (VIA K8 / AMD2800+ uniprocessor) and put into my new > > nForce4 / AMD

Re: [Alsa-user] US-122 distortion

2007-09-24 Thread Mark Constable
On 2007-09-25 16:09, Mark Constable wrote: > I have a Tascam US-122 USB soundcard on a newish Abit AN-M2 > (nForce4) using both ArchLinux 64bit and Kubuntu 32bit distros > with a 2.6.22 kernel. Onboard MCP67 (snd_hda_intel) audio seems > fine but audio in and out the snd_usb_usx

[Alsa-user] US-122 distortion

2007-09-22 Thread Mark Constable
I have a Tascam US-122 USB soundcard on a newish Abit AN-M2 (nForce4) using both ArchLinux 64bit and Kubuntu 32bit distros with a 2.6.22 kernel. Onboard MCP67 (snd_hda_intel) audio seems fine but audio in and out the snd_usb_usx2y driver is distorted. I've tried nrpacks=1 which is the only tweak I

Re: [Alsa-user] Re: ALSA is dreamware on my system...

2004-03-08 Thread Mark Constable
On Tuesday 09 March 2004 03:43, Casey Heshler wrote: > > You could post it by anonymous ftp to > > ftp.theory.physics.ubc.ca/incoming. > > Once you have done so I will transfer it to > > ftp.theory.physics.ubc.ca/outgoing > > where anyone can get it. > > Call it heshler.wav > > You cannot read or

[Alsa-user] Script to build a 2.6 kernel + ALSA/CVS

2004-03-07 Thread Mark Constable
There is an alpha quality Bash shell script to help automate building the very latest kernel with ALSA from CVS here at: http://alsa.opensrc.org/?aabuild Suggestions and edits to the comments/script are most welcome. --markc --- This SF.Net

Re: [Alsa-user] C-Media CMI9739 and PCM / volume control

2004-03-02 Thread Mark Constable
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 06:48, Jason Boxman wrote: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg10804.html > > I applied the patch and, sure enough, I was able to control the PCM volume > whereas before I could either mute or unmute it only. However, the sound > volume did not actually in

Re: [Alsa-user] ANNOUNCE: pcm config tester tool

2004-01-31 Thread Mark Constable
On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 04:34 am, Florian Schmidt wrote: > http://mistatapas.ath.cx:/pcm_config_test.tgz > ... > -- alsa-lib pcm device config tester v0.0.1 -- > usage: pcm_config_test [options] > > options are: > --playback > --capture > --standard-samplerates > --samplerate-range x y > --standar

Re: [Alsa-user] [ANN] ALSA-native sfxload program

2004-01-27 Thread Mark Constable
On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 12:18 am, Takashi Iwai wrote: > ... > The tarball is at > http://www.alsa-project.org/~iwai/awesfx-0.5.5.tar.gz Thank you Takashi :-) But the only version I could find is... http://www.alsa-project.org/~iwai/awesfx-0.5.0.tar.gz It's working for me with a 2.6.2-rc2 ker

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

2004-01-23 Thread Mark Constable
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 09:31 am, Michael Klinteberg wrote: > Someone says that when compiling a new 2.6 kernel from 2.4 I should not > select ALSA from the kernel source, but download the source from ALSAs' > webpage instead, is this true? And why is it in the 2.6 kernel? The version of ALSA shipped

Re: [Alsa-user] Recent Complaints Threads

2004-01-20 Thread Mark Constable
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 10:04 am, Sam Vilain wrote: > ... > All it needs is a PCI and USB device database - ie, the numbers > provided by `lspci' and `lsusb' are the primary keys in the database. > With these entries, allow people to submit success or failure reports > for their hardware, along with th

Re: [Alsa-user] shittiness

2004-01-17 Thread Mark Constable
On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 07:41 pm, Steve Conrad wrote: > ... > btw, I would not be at all averse to helping out with the reprehensible > state of documentation for alsa. ANYONE can edit, correct or add to the growing store of quite useful info at http://alsa.opensrc.org. I hope some of the accumulated

Re: [Alsa-user] MIDI in to Livedrive delay

2004-01-09 Thread Mark Constable
On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 01:45 am, Günther Montag wrote: > > Only trouble is the 1/2 to 1 second delay between hitting > > the keyboard and hearing the sound. I'm not sure of the > you ar farer than me - my midi keyboard not a beep, although > modules there, devices there, tinidity working > how can yo

Re: [Alsa-user] Getting glitches in audio with kernel 2.6

2004-01-01 Thread Mark Constable
On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 03:16 pm, Justin Turner Arthur wrote: > I'm using a fresh kernel 2.6, and I have an M-Audio Delta 1010lt, which > uses the ice1712 driver. Once I started using kernel 2.6, I get glitches > like mad while using alsa. This is obvious when I use jackd and I'm > listening to music t

Re: [Alsa-user] Kernel 2.6 and ALSA

2003-12-31 Thread Mark Constable
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 09:27 pm, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: > Fredrik Smedberg wrote: > > I patched my kernel using: > > patch -Np1 -i patch_file > > Sorry, but adding the -N option didn't change anything. Here's part of > the output generated by the command > patch --dry-run -Np1 -i ../alsa-bk-

Re: [Alsa-user] Problems with MIDI

2003-12-25 Thread Mark Constable
On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 09:35 pm, holborn wrote: > On Jueves 25 Diciembre 2003 06:19, Wong Li Jie wrote: > > I have a sblive soundcard, running kernel 2.6.0 > > Compiled in the drivers for ALSA, including OSS emulation. > > However, when I try to use sfxload, I get the following error: > > /dev/sequenc

[Alsa-user] SBlive + 2.6 = distortion

2003-12-21 Thread Mark Constable
Here are some questions recently posted on the Wiki and I was wondering if this is a known issue or are these 3 people just unlucky ? I'm using this combo (vanilla 2.6) and and do not have this problem. Still distortion: I am using the current alsa drivers (1.0pre2) with an SBlive value (digit

Re: [Alsa-user] gcc 3.3.3 & alsa lib 1.0.0rc2

2003-12-20 Thread Mark Constable
On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 08:02 am, Lucas Lain wrote: > hi everybody ... i have some problems compiling alsa-lib in my > debian-unstable installation ... > In file included from /usr/local/include/signal.h:358, > from control.c:49: > /usr/local/include/bits/sigthread.h:36: error: storag

Re: [Alsa-user] Re: recording from tape

2003-12-14 Thread Mark Constable
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 06:20 pm, Jim McCloskey wrote: > To record from line input using this card (the Turtle Beach Santa > Cruz, cs46xx driver), you have to set *all three* of: > > LINE CAPTURE ADC > > to Captur(e) (and also un-mute and set values appropriately of course). >

[Alsa-user] 2.6 kernel

2003-12-08 Thread Mark Constable
Some queries about the latest 2.6 kernels... I presume the "alsa" part that comes with a 2.6 kernel is only the equiv of the alsa-driver package so do I still need to get alsa-lib and alsa-utils from somewhere else ? If so, then do I have to determine which particular version is in the kernel and

Re: [Alsa-user] Multiplex sound access with ALSA

2003-12-01 Thread Mark Constable
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 07:17 pm, rcm1im3 wrote: > I have recently installed ALSA modules and drivers on my new computer, > but I have problems to use ALSA with more than 1 sound application. > ... > What could be the problem? Perhaps this might gives us a better idea of your system. lynx -dump http:

[Alsa-user] Kernel 2.6.0-test9 and /dev/sequencer

2003-11-11 Thread Mark Constable
Would anyone have a suggestion about getting sfxload to work with an in-kernel ALSA ? # sfxload sf2/merlin_gm35.sf2 /dev/sequencer: No such device or address /dev/sequencer -> sound/sequencer /dev/sound/sequencer (does exist) Seems like sfxload does not like the kind of /dev/sequencer provid

[Alsa-user] MIDI in to Livedrive delay

2003-11-08 Thread Mark Constable
I just got a little MIDI controller keyboard and plugged it into the front panel of an old Livedrive for an early sblive card and lo and behold it worked with timidity -iA. Only trouble is the 1/2 to 1 second delay between hitting the keyboard and hearing the sound. I'm not sure of the right keywo

[Alsa-user] aadebug

2003-11-07 Thread Mark Constable
Here is a simple bash script that could help in diagnosing ALSA related problems. Please free to update the script on this page with extra tests or workarounds for different hardware and distros. http://alsa.opensrc.org/?aadebug --markc ---

Re: [Alsa-user] alsa-0.9.8 and linux-2.6.0-test9

2003-11-04 Thread Mark Constable
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 07:09 am, Joerg Maier wrote: > gives an error like > --snip > /home/joerg/soft/alsa/alsa-driver-0.9.8/include/adriver.h:42:31: linux/ > modversions.h: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden > --snap > > but there is a link from /lib/modules/2.6.0-test9/build to /usr/src/ > linux-2

Re: [Alsa-user] Capabilities under 2.6.*

2003-11-02 Thread Mark Constable
On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 03:38 pm, Jack O'Quin wrote: > > For a 2.4 kernel you needed to patch include/linux/capability.h as > > follows... > > > > #define CAP_INIT_EFF_SETto_cap_t(~0) > > #define CAP_INIT_INH_SETto_cap_t(~0) > > > > where the original values were... > > > > #define CAP_INI

[Alsa-user] Capabilities under 2.6.*

2003-11-01 Thread Mark Constable
Would anyone have any idea what settings I need to tweak for ALSA built into a 2.6 kernel to avoid this problem ? gw ~ jackstart -R -d alsa -d hw jackstart: cannot get realtime capabilities, current capabilities are: =ep cap_setpcap-ep probably running under a kernel with capabiliti

Re: [Alsa-user] LEAVE ME ALONE

2003-10-29 Thread Mark Constable
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 05:06 pm, moron wrote: > On October 28, 2003 10:55 pm, wrote: > > People that aren't completely retarded would go to the link listed at the > > bottom of EVERY E-MAIL, and follow the directions to unsubscribe. > > Since you can't figure this out, it's obvious to me why you can'

Re: [Alsa-user] Installation of Audigy2

2003-10-24 Thread Mark Constable
> Am Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2003 12:17 schrieben Sie: > > Try adding "options snd-emu10k1 index=0 extin=0x3fcf extout=0x1fcf" or > > other value to modules.conf. Consult the table from the link above for > > possible values. How would one do this for ALSA compiled into a 2.6 kernel ? --markc --

[Alsa-user] Dumb RTSynth question

2003-10-23 Thread Mark Constable
I've downloaded rtsynth-1.9.2 from http://www.linux-sound.org/rtsynth/ and it has a folder of MIDI file examples plus .mst somethings. I have trolled thru all docs I can find simply looking for anything that gives me a clue how to hear those MIDI files via RTSynth but no luck so far... Ok, so I'm j

Re: [Alsa-user] dmix

2003-10-19 Thread Mark Constable
On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 05:21 am, Bob Rossi wrote: > ... > Does anyone know how to get OSS applications to use the aoss wrapper > with dmix in order to get software mixing to work? > > Any help would be really appreciated. Does using dmix allow multiple > applications to open /dev/dsp? > > What about /

Re: [Alsa-user] Yamaha YMF715, about the gabillionth try now

2003-10-17 Thread Mark Constable
On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 11:35 am, Billybob wrote: > You went right over my head. I am a n00b, gimmie a break here. He meant that you need to provide some system information and real details about your problem otherwise no one has any hope of helping you with your problem. Open a shell and type "cat /

[Alsa-user] Problem reporting howto/script

2003-01-12 Thread Mark Constable
Is anyone aware of a HOWTO or shell script to assist in reporting problems for ALSA related issues ? If not, anyone interested in co-crafting such a beast ? --markc --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM +

Re: [Alsa-user] Multiple audio stream record?

2002-12-12 Thread Mark Constable
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:09 pm, Paul Winkler wrote: > know how. .asoundrc is not the most thoroughly documented > thing in the world :-] ... there are some examples of > using two cards as one in the ALSA wiki, but I don't know about the > reverse. See alsa.opensrc.org (seems to be down at the mom

[Alsa-user] Problem with ice1712 from CVS

2002-10-04 Thread Mark Constable
Even if I use "./configure --with-cards=emu10k1" I am still getting a problem with the following driver. Any solutions ? ... make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/alsa/alsa-driver/pci/emu10k1' make -C ice1712 modules make: *** ice1712: No such file or directory. Stop. make: Entering an unknown d

[Alsa-user] AlsaBuild 2.4.19 + preempt

2002-08-04 Thread Mark Constable
I got a hunch that maybe the pre-ac1 RML preempt patch might actually apply against the new 2.4.19 kernel, and it did, so I've refactored the AlsaBuild script using the final 2.4.19 tarball and the 2nd latest preempt-kernel-rml-2.4.19-rc5-3.patch. http://alsa.opensrc.org/?AlsaBuild --markc --

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA 0.9.0rc2 installation problem (unresolved symbols)

2002-08-02 Thread Mark Constable
Taupter wrote: > I installed alsa-driver 0.9.0rc2 from source on a Mandrake Linux 8.2 > with kernel 2.4.18-8.1mdk installed, following this way: > > - remove kernel OSS and ALSA sound modules from /lib/modules/2.4.18-8.1mdk; > - unpack the source file, cd to the directory; > - ./configure --with=o

[Alsa-user] AlsaBuild rc5-ac1+preempt

2002-08-02 Thread Mark Constable
This Bash shell script builds a late model preemptable 2.4 kernel with ALSA direct from CVS and a recent preempt patch. http://alsa.opensrc.org/?AlsaBuild --markc --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http:

[Alsa-user] Re: [Alsa-devel] guitar + sblive + ardour + ladspa effects

2002-07-29 Thread Mark Constable
Bob Ham wrote: > > name='Line LiveDrive Capture Volume',index=1 > > name='Line LiveDrive Capture Volume',index=1 > > > > This control is used to attenuate samples from left and right I2S ADC > > inputs (on the LiveDrive). The result samples are forwarded to the ADC > > capture FIFO (thus to the st

Re: [Alsa-user] alsamixer error - solved

2002-07-23 Thread Mark Constable
Takashi Iwai wrote: >>Quite embarassing, i discovered the permissions on the directory >>/usr/share/alsa were 644 :-( Changed that to 755 and now it works. > > oh, it's a good news. i totally forgot this possibility. should be added to FAQ :) I added this to AlsaTips at the Wiki. Hopefully this

Re: [Alsa-user] alsamixer error

2002-07-22 Thread Mark Constable
Mark Constable wrote: > Try "chmod 666 -R /dev/snd" and see if that allows you to at least > run all apps as any user... Toxic advice... should have been "chmod 666 /dev/snd/*". And to compliment this insecure setting the directory itself needs to be &quo

Re: [Alsa-user] alsamixer error

2002-07-22 Thread Mark Constable
Florin Andrei wrote: > Ok, i did that, but it doesn't help: > > [florin@rivendell florin]$ ls -l /dev/snd/* > crw-rw-rw-1 root root 116, 0 Jul 22 22:37 > /dev/snd/controlC0 > ... > I changed snd_device_mode to 0600, and the permissions changed in > /dev/snd, so it looks like the se

Re: [Alsa-user] alsamixer error

2002-07-21 Thread Mark Constable
Florin Andrei wrote: > - nForce soundcard (AC97 clone, works with the intel8x0 module) > - Linux Red Hat 7.3 with the latest kernel update (2.4.18-5) > - alsa-driver compiled from tarball > - alsa-lib and alsa-utils packaged into RPMs > > My sound applications work fine; i can play audio CDs with

[Alsa-user] AlsaModules

2002-07-15 Thread Mark Constable
This small script provides some ALSA module related information. If the ALSA modules are not loaded then it provides a list of available drivers and also gives an idea of what multimedia devices you have on board. If ALSA modules are loaded then it gives the version and date of compilation and a l

Re: [Alsa-user] Problem running alsamixer: snd_ctl_open failed

2002-07-14 Thread Mark Constable
Jeremy Higgs wrote: > Thanks. I had a look at it, and it looks fine, except that I currently use > make-kpkg to compile and package the kernel, and this seems to not use that. > That isn't really a problem, except that I have other modules which need to > be compiled (nvidia drivers and lirc modul

Re: [Alsa-user] Problem running alsamixer: snd_ctl_open failed

2002-07-13 Thread Mark Constable
Jeremy Higgs wrote: >>/usr/bin/glib-config and /usr/bin/xmms-config need editing >>to change -I${prefix}/include/glib-1.2 to -I${prefix}/include/glib. > > Is this needed to get the plugin to work, do you mean? It's what I needed to do to get it to compile. A make install plonked libALSA.so.0.0.0

Re: [Alsa-user] Problem running alsamixer: snd_ctl_open failed

2002-07-13 Thread Mark Constable
Jeremy Higgs wrote: > testing Strange as there is no xmms-alsa list for testing (or unstable) at http://packages.debian.org. 25 xmms packages, no xmms-alsa. > I used this one (designed for 0.9, apparently): > http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/alsa-xmms > Although nothing seems to have happened t

Re: [Alsa-user] Problem running alsamixer: snd_ctl_open failed

2002-07-12 Thread Mark Constable
Jeremy Higgs wrote: >>> When I go to run alsamixer, I get this: >>> alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: Permission denied >> That msg comes from libasound.so Just trace the execution of alsamaixer. > How do I do that? apt-get install strace strace alsamixer 2&> strace.log l

[Alsa-user] AlsaBuild 20020713

2002-07-12 Thread Mark Constable
I did some more research and found what I think is a reasonable kernel combo with the premptable low latency option. Based on... KERNEL=linux-2.4.18.tar.bz2 PATCH1=patch-2.4.19-rc1.bz2 PATCH2=patch-2.4.19-rc1-ac1.bz2 PATCH3=preempt-kernel-rml-2.4.19-rc1-ac1-1.patch http://alsa.opensrc.

[Alsa-user] SBliveMixerControls

2002-07-10 Thread Mark Constable
I've created a "template page" (with no content so far) for the SBlive Mixer controllers and what they actually do (when someone figures them out :-). http://alsa.opensrc.org/?SBliveMixerControls This page has some brief technical info about most SBlive Mixer controllers but it does not relate

[Alsa-user] AlsaKernel

2002-07-10 Thread Mark Constable
I've uploaded a 2.8mb binary tarball of a 2.4.19-rc1 kernel with the latest CVS ALSA built from the AlsaBuild script at http://alsa.opensrc.org/?AlsaBuild. http://alsa.opensrc.org/?AlsaKernel As usual, if anyone wants to correct or add notes, please simply do so. --markc -

Re: [Alsa-user] Wavetable synths and Alsa

2002-07-08 Thread Mark Constable
Josh Green wrote: > ... > I created Swami with the idea of making the possibility of writing > non-gui utilities, web applications, scripts, plugins etc. There are a > number of "dream" projects that I have in mind. > > The one I think I would most like to see come about is multi-peer > collabo

[Alsa-user] Best current lowlat kernel patches ?

2002-07-06 Thread Mark Constable
Could anyone offer an opinion as to what is the best low latency patch(es) for the current 2.4.19-rc1 kernel ? --markc --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Got root? We do. http://thinkgeek.com/sf __

Re: [Alsa-user] Wavetable synths and Alsa

2002-07-02 Thread Mark Constable
Takashi Iwai wrote: > swami (formerly smurf)? I did mean a non-GUI shell command that could be run remotely and/or via a cronjob. My thoughts are to split up that mega-soundfont on a web server and somehow allow updates to individual parts via a web interface so that anyone could keep their own

Re: [Alsa-user] Wavetable synths and Alsa

2002-07-01 Thread Mark Constable
Frank Boehme wrote: > Mark Constable wrote: >>I'd love to see some effort put into a "reference soundfont" >> ... > Hmm. There was a posting on the muse-ML about a "mega"-soundfont. I > missed the begin of the thread so I do not know if that soundfo

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