Re: [Alsa-user] Archeology/ future of alsamixergui

2022-10-29 Thread Mark Knecht
> Starting a new project based upon gtk2 is foolish. Old projects based > upon gtk2 soon or later need to be rewritten or they will go the way of > the dodo. > > I'm not an alsamixergui user, but IMO FLTK was a way better choice than > gtk2 is. > > Regards, > Ralf The latest stable Kubuntu reposit

Re: [Alsa-user] USB sound card with Mic Input

2021-07-09 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Sorry for your problems with the Schiit products. I own a Magni Heresy and Modi 3 driven by an HDSP 9652 only desktop systemand so far they have been great for me. As for USB devices I have a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 running under Kubuntu/pulseaudio and for a simple 2 input system it's wor

Re: [Alsa-user] How do I set up a filter/plugin?

2021-07-09 Thread Mark Knecht
ually install pipewire-jack as I > am already running on pipewire, I'll look up for jack-compatible > plugins. > I'd still like to try implementing this with plain ALSA though, just > to learn and experiment with it. > Let me know if you know how to do it this way too! >

Re: [Alsa-user] How do I set up a filter/plugin?

2021-07-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jul 8, 2021, 6:27 AM Kevin P wrote: > > Hello everyone, > I own a Scarlett Solo 3rd gen USB audio board, and I would like to use > a compressor > plugin from the package "alsa-plugins", Arch Linux. The goal is to > apply this effect > to my voice when I'm recording, always. > > I'm not qu

[Alsa-user] Trace audio from application to card?

2021-05-23 Thread Mark Knecht
This is primarily for study. I'm wondering if there's a way to logically trace the flow of audio through the Alsa stack? I.e. - generically I run some app that creates sound. Possibly it's complicated like YouTube in Chrome, or something easier like aplay. Is there any way to get an overview of h

[Alsa-user] kernel upgrade to 3.2.1 - now no master volume

2012-01-14 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I haven't been subscribed to alsa-user in probably a year or so. Up until this week Alsa has worked well on all my machines. However with an upgrade to my kernel (gentoo-sources-3.2.1) I've lost access the master volume control in KDE. On this machine I only use headphones. Up until this ker

[Alsa-user] Recommended USB interface with 2 XLR inputs?

2011-04-28 Thread Mark Knecht
I'd like to pick up something to do simple mobile recording gigs with my laptop. It needs to be USB 2.0 based, have 2 XLR inputs, support headphone monitoring and preferably do 96KHz. The M-audio Fast Track Pro seems to come closest although as I understand it that device won't do 96K on all input

Re: [Alsa-user] Volume maximum volume is nearly inaudible w/ Intel HDA onboard.

2011-01-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Andre LeBlanc wrote: > This is on a fairly new Intel DH55HC > Motherboard http://www.intel.com/products/desktop/motherboards/DH55HC/DH55HC-overview.htm > The specs on that page claim that the audio codec is ALC888S, not ALC888 as > reported by alsa. > output of als

Re: [Alsa-user] Moderators MIA?

2010-12-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 3:25 AM, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: > Hi! > > It's been three weeks that I sent a mail here to ask for and offer help with > the > C API, which I was told will await moderator approval. I wonder, is there > anyone > actually maintaining this? Was the mail rejected perhaps? An

[Alsa-user] intel-hda muting problem

2010-04-07 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I don't know if others are seeing this with the Intel-hda driver set but my wife's new Intel X58 chipset based machine is a bit weird with the 1.0.21 drivers from the 2.6.33 kernel. We find that to get sound from the real panel audio output we have to set 3 levels - master, PCM and front. Wh

Re: [Alsa-user] need help with M-audio 2496 soundcard input controls

2010-04-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:00 PM, jo cachecar wrote: > Hi list, > > It could be the right place for this message, if not please let me know. > Search a while but can't find a path so here I am. (sorry for bad english)) > > Buy this audiophile 2496 from M-audio, and face a problem in envy24control >

[Alsa-user] HDSP 9652+Win 7 == update flash - bye bye Linux audio & Alsa?

2010-03-16 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi all, Please excuse the cross-post to LAU and Alsa-User. I haven't been as involved as much here in the last year as I was earlier, and I'm on actually leaving anytime soon. However my systems are RME HDSP 9652 based and it appears that with new machines and the more-or-less forced move to W

[Alsa-user] https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=4904 - This Connection is Untrusted

2010-02-09 Thread Mark Knecht
In trying to review another post here this morning I run into the info below. Here's the link: https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=4904 I assume this is real? I can accept to trust it but if it's real the Alsa-Project minght consider getting its certificates up to date. - Mark

Re: [Alsa-user] [LAU] How to make Focusrite Saffire 6 USB works?

2010-02-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Pandu Rakimanputra wrote: > > I've tried to load snd-audio-module using: > $ sudo modprobe snd-usb-audio vid=0x1235 pid=0x0010 > > But nothing happend > > Thanks for your attention Mark > > Pandu P > By 'nothing happened' do you mean that lsmod doesn't show the mo

Re: [Alsa-user] snd-hda-intel / Ibex Peak chipset sound device not found...

2010-02-05 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Jaroslav Kysela wrote: > On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> Are any Alsa devs reading this list or do I need to post this elsewhere? >> >> I've got a new Intel motherboard that was just recently released which >> uses

Re: [Alsa-user] [LAU] How to make Focusrite Saffire 6 USB works?

2010-02-05 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Pandu Rakimanputra wrote: > --- On Fri, 2/5/10, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> From: Mark Knecht >> Subject: Re: [LAU] How to make Focusrite Saffire 6 USB works? >> To: "Pandu Rakimanputra" >> Cc: alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.ne

[Alsa-user] [SOLVED] snd-hda-intel / Ibex Peak chipset sound device not found...

2010-02-04 Thread Mark Knecht
Got it working. Sorry for the noise! Cheers, Mark On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and

Re: [Alsa-user] [LAU] How to make Focusrite Saffire 6 USB works?

2010-02-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Pandu Rakimanputra wrote: > Hi All > > Let me introduce myself, My name is Pandu, I'm from Indonesia, and I'm a new > comer in this mailing list. As written on my subject, I just bought a new > focusrite Saffire 6 USB from my local store. > > Is anybody now how to

[Alsa-user] snd-hda-intel / Ibex Peak chipset sound device not found...

2010-02-04 Thread Mark Knecht
Are any Alsa devs reading this list or do I need to post this elsewhere? I've got a new Intel motherboard that was just recently released which uses the new H55 chipset. The spec sheet says it's Intel HDA but I don't think Alsa or the kernel is recognizing it, at least not automatically. The kerne

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA bug with hw:0,0?

2009-12-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Grant wrote: > My Wavelength Proton USB DAC works with the "default" device and with > "plughw:0,0", but it does not work with "hw:0,0".  I get the following > error: > > output: Failed to open "Wavelength Proton" [alsa]: ALSA device > "hw:0,0" does not support for

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA bug with hw:0,0?

2009-12-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Grant wrote: > My Wavelength Proton USB DAC works with the "default" device and with > "plughw:0,0", but it does not work with "hw:0,0".  I get the following > error: > > output: Failed to open "Wavelength Proton" [alsa]: ALSA device > "hw:0,0" does not support for

Re: [Alsa-user] Do must Linux users just live without sound?

2009-06-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Daren Krive wrote: > > I do not mean to be negative but I am seriously wondering.  Do most Linux > users simply learn to live without sound?  Or live with sound that does not > operate as expected?  I have been searching for over a year on how to get > sound workin

Re: [Alsa-user] hello

2009-01-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 10:20 AM, embeded linux wrote: > hi,everyone: > > i am interest in ALSA, i wanna to post to this list, > thanks > > embededli...@gmail.com Welcome. Enjoy ALSA. Post any time. ;-) Cheers, Mark -

Re: [Alsa-user] In a jam!

2008-12-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 11:30 AM, FrankK 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? > Similarly openSuse thinks soft dialup modems are the thing of the > past! > What I coul

Re: [Alsa-user] M-Audio Fast Track Pro compatibility

2008-11-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Rodrigo Rodrigues da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> What happens if you run the jack server without the -o4 part (as a >> user) and then in another terminal issue jack_lsp or one of its >> variants? Does it list your ports? >> >> - Mark > > Thanks for answeri

Re: [Alsa-user] M-Audio Fast Track Pro compatibility

2008-11-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Rodrigo Rodrigues da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I just bought an M-Audio Fast Track Pro usb audio interface. As far as I > know, it is a standard compliant usb-audio device. I could get two separate > devices (hw:1,0 and hw:1,1) and use them with

Re: [Alsa-user] Need help with lost usb sound

2008-06-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Michael D. Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark, No problem there, > Here are the current state of the files after doing as you suggested: So it could be that the devil's in the details but all of that looked fairly reasonable to me. What is amixer doing now?

Re: [Alsa-user] Need help with lost usb sound

2008-06-28 Thread Mark Knecht
2008/6/28 Michael D. Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I upgraded from Suse 10.3 to Suse 11.0 on Thursday 6/26/08. The kernel > changed to 2..6.25.5 and with it the /dev setup for the sound. /dev now has > a subdirectory of snd instead of audio with the pcm dev units and controls. > > Everything I

Re: [Alsa-user] RME HDSP + Multiface

2008-06-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Martin Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I want to use a RME Multiface soundcard with PCMCIA Cardbus Card on a Dell > Notebook with Ubuntu. > I installed all alsa drivers and other available tools for the RME card > successfully and if I do: >

Re: [Alsa-user] how to run jackd on a only-48k-card at 44.1?se

2008-06-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 7:00 PM, Roman Haefeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi mark > > thanks a lot for the detailed eplanation. > > On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 18:45 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> >> Technically, I think you're looking for a Jack aware resamp

Re: [Alsa-user] how to run jackd on a only-48k-card at 44.1?se

2008-06-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Roman Haefeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > are you saying, that it is simply not possible to run jackd over an alsa > plugin, that does resampling or mixing? if so, does that mean, that Yes, I am saying that. Jack communicates directly with the hardware. Jack ge

Re: [Alsa-user] how to run jackd on a only-48k-card at 44.1?

2008-06-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Roman Haefeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > actually, my problem is not jackd related at all. i cannot use a > samplerate other than 48k with any application i tried, not only with > jackd. isn't alsa supposed to provide resampling, if necessary? > > i forgot to ment

Re: [Alsa-user] Output latency

2008-06-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 5:12 AM, "Alexander Carôt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > can anyone give me an explanation why the blocking delay of a soundcard > appears twice using the ALSA driver ? E.g. with 48 kHz at 128 samles / frame > I understand that the capturing process requires 2,6

Re: [Alsa-user] Spdif clock switching?

2008-05-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 8:42 AM, Bart de Boer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Complete output of /proc/asound/card0/codec97#0/ac97#0-0: > > 0-0/0: Realtek ALC650F > > PCI Subsys Vendor: 0x1509 > PCI Subsys Device: 0x9202 > > Capabilities : > DAC resolution : 20-bit

Re: [Alsa-user] Sound Quality: difference in digital outputs? optical vs coax? discrete vs integrated?

2008-04-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 7:13 AM, Matt Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 06:29:30PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > In my experience there is no comparison between my Benchmark DAC1 > > and the D/A in our home theater. In one case the DAC1 is a $

Re: [Alsa-user] MAudio 2496 left-channel crackling (was: Sound Quality: difference in digital outputs? optical vs coax? discrete vs integrated?)

2008-04-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 7:10 AM, Matt Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 06:17:32AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Any reason to suspect it's gotten damaged? I have an M-Audio 2496 > > and I've never had any trouble like you're expe

Re: [Alsa-user] MAudio 2496 left-channel crackling (was: Sound Quality: difference in digital outputs? optical vs coax? discrete vs integrated?)

2008-04-25 Thread Mark Knecht
d hear about this here all the time. - Mark On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 5:44 AM, Matt Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 09:43:33PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > One, the crackling of my MAudio 2496. I'm just assuming that > > >

Re: [Alsa-user] Sound Quality: difference in digital outputs? optical vs coax? discrete vs integrated?

2008-04-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Sergei Steshenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:29:30 -0700 > "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > you'll have to resample your pristine lossless audio rips from 44.1K > &g

Re: [Alsa-user] Sound Quality: difference in digital outputs? optical vs coax? discrete vs integrated?

2008-04-24 Thread Mark Knecht
Matt, It's a great subject and one I've played with quite a bit. Hopefully I can point you in a direction or two to think about. Unfortunately, I think in your quest to become totally digital in your sound path you have ended up leaving out what is actually the most important component in de

Re: [Alsa-user] RME HDSPe AIO (9632) supported?

2008-04-23 Thread Mark Knecht
Florian, Great info and thanks for all the help. If you get to a place where you want another tester, in my case and HDSP 9652 running under Gentoo, drop me a note. Thanks, Mark On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Florian Faber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark, > > > > Any chance you might

Re: [Alsa-user] RME HDSPe AIO (9632) supported?

2008-04-23 Thread Mark Knecht
Florian, Any chance you might be working on hdspmixer at the same time. I worked on testing it when Thomas Charbonell first wrote the program. One disappointing limitation of the whole HDSP Linux support suite is that there is no way to use the cards without logging in to a graphical interface a

Re: [Alsa-user] USB optical device

2008-04-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 1:13 AM, Marco Gusy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alle lunedì 07 aprile 2008, Marco Gusy ha scritto: > > Alle giovedì 03 aprile 2008, Marco Gusy ha scritto: > > > Is there any well supported USB device which allows 44.1khz playback, > > > 48khz, Dolby Digital and DTS passt

Re: [Alsa-user] Alsa on a Mac Mini?

2008-04-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Risto Suominen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/4/18, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >I tried looking in through an ssh tunnel, removing the modules and > > watching the list of modules still loaded. The first list is befo

Re: [Alsa-user] Alsa on a Mac Mini?

2008-04-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Risto Suominen > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2008/4/18, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > ... > > > > > alias snd-card

Re: [Alsa-user] Alsa on a Mac Mini?

2008-04-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Risto Suominen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/4/18, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > ... > > > alias snd-card-0 snd-powermac > > ... > > > > I would try to comment out the alias above. As far as I

[Alsa-user] Alsa on a Mac Mini?

2008-04-18 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I've got an older PPC-based Mac Mini. No one was using it so after sitting for a year unpowered I blew away OS X and put Gentoo on it. The install went well and sound is working (sort of) but I'm having some Alsa problems. First, please note that my version of Alsa is a bit old but it is

Re: [Alsa-user] Better way to play MP3s?

2004-02-24 Thread Mark Knecht
Kirk Bauer wrote: On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, John Haxby wrote: When I tried this, I needed "rate 44100" ... the re-sampling would make aplay use a lot of CPU time. Also, I don't know if there's a transcription error, but "buffer_size 6553" looks like a typo -- it's not a power of two, but 65536 is

Re: [Alsa-user] setpci latency_timer for nForce2 AC97

2004-02-14 Thread Mark Knecht
FYI - This is informational only. It may or may not apply to your case. The PCI spec does not require all latency timers are writable. Latency Timers are only required to be writable for PCI bus masters, and then only if they burst more than two data phases, however for any bus master device that

RE: [Alsa-user] Alsa 1.0.2 under Gentoo-2.6.1 kernel

2004-02-09 Thread Mark Knecht
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Paul Ruhland > Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2004 10:02 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Alsa-user] Alsa 1.0.2 under Gentoo-2.6.1 kernel > > > I don't know if something changed from 1.0.1 to 1.0.2

Re: [Alsa-user] envy24control - multiple left / right volume control for 1 channel

2004-02-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 21:19, patrick wrote: > hi, > > sorry to post screenshot to the list... but i want to be clear (as i'm not > really good in english). No screenshot was attached. > > envy24.jpg: > i don't understand the logic of the envy24control! i have 2 volume control > (Left and Right)

Re: [Alsa-user] envy24control - multiple left / right volume control for 1 channel

2004-02-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 21:21, patrick wrote: > dac.jpg: > what should be a reasonable value here : i set it to 240, but 255 doesn't > clip? > Yes, I set mine all the way up, but I find the output of the 2496 under Alsa to be less than it's output under Windows so I feel I need the full volume. -

Re: [Alsa-user] Alsa 1.0.2 under Gentoo-2.6.1 kernel

2004-02-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 07:02, Jason Jones wrote: > Hmm... I'm using Gentoo 1.4 with 2.6.1 (ALSA .97) and it works great. > Try emerging the ALSA-libs... and make sure you get a mixer to unmute > the channels... I'm definitely no expert. Hope that helped. > > --Jason > Sorry Jason, but when I

[Alsa-user] Alsa 1.0.2 under Gentoo-2.6.1 kernel

2004-02-08 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Can anyone explain how to install Alsa 1.0.2 (or higher) under Gentoo-2.6.1? I'm using gentoo-dev-sources which installs 1.0.0rc2 and the emerge system will not install alsa-driver over the top. I tried the patches from the Alsa site but they did not seem in patch cleanly against this 1.0.0rc

RE: [Alsa-user] Delta 1010: request for feedback

2004-02-05 Thread Mark Knecht
> That said, I see no reason why two cards couldn't be used together, With proper clocking to ensure they are synced --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the

RE: [Alsa-user] why is alsa splitted? 1.02a problems with 2.6

2004-02-04 Thread Mark Knecht
> Hey all, i have to report that i now have the aureal card working with the > recently released stable 2.6.2 kernel! Kewl! --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration Se

RE: [Alsa-user] why is alsa splitted? 1.02a problems with 2.6

2004-02-04 Thread Mark Knecht
>> I am depressed, can anyone tell me why... ;-) > > > > thanks, Andre. > > > > You are depressed because it is not easy. ;-) I am depressed like you! ;-) > > Andre, > > I feel your pain! Im migrating to kernel 2.6.x as well and using an aureal > vortex based card (au8820).. ive gone through nume

Re: [Alsa-user] Simple soundcard question

2004-01-31 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 10:16, Jack O'Quin wrote: > Allan Peda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > That looks like a terrific device. I just realized an > > error on my part... I was hoping for /digital/ SPDIF > > output, so as to avoid any problem with ground loops > > between the PC and my amplifi

Re: [Alsa-user] Intel8x0 6 channels

2004-01-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 00:21, Jean-Marc Sarat wrote: > Hi, > > When I play a DVD with a 5.1 soundtrack, the channels seem to be mixed > or swapped. Instead of having voices in the front channels I have the > left and right channels mixed in the rear left channel, no sound in the > rear right, only

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA Users: What Bugs You Most?

2004-01-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 06:48, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > > Apparently, the hotplug scripts aren't run when you boot. > > There should be a script rc.hotplug somwhere which should be > executable, and run by some other startup script. > Interesting... [EMAIL PROTECTED] mark $ slocate rc.hotplug [

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA Users: What Bugs You Most?

2004-01-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, 2004-01-25 at 16:31, Frank Barknecht wrote: > > I'll try removing them later today. I found 100's of examples of > > other people using these just using Google for a moment, so it's > > clear I'm not doing this on my own. > > There are a lot of urban legends floating around, too. ;) > >

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA Users: What Bugs You Most?

2004-01-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, 2004-01-25 at 13:48, Bill Unruh wrote: > No, those lines (/dev/mixer, /dev/dsp,...) are NOT needed in /etc/modules.conf, and > may get in the > way of the assignment of the devices. If OSS emulation is running > properly those devices will get set up automatically. I'll try removing them

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA Users: What Bugs You Most?

2004-01-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, 2004-01-25 at 07:23, Frank Barknecht wrote: > There are other ways to specify this in the modules configuration. The > most common is this from the docs: > > alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 > alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss > alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss > alias sound-service

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA Users: What Bugs You Most?

2004-01-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 17:07, Knute Johnson wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss > > alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss > > alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss > > > > I haven't seen this before in modules.conf. > It isn't in m

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA Users: What Bugs You Most?

2004-01-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 10:07, Mark Knecht wrote: > 1) When I first start booting and I get to the place where you get all > the [OK] messages I the 2nd or 3rd message says something like 'Device > ID 0x0763 unclaimed by any driver. The 763 number is the ID for the > MidiSport

Re: [Alsa-user] which USB devices work?

2004-01-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 09:58, Dave Neuer wrote: > What about firewire-based units? I've seen several of > them and they seem quite a bit cheaper than the Edirol > UA-1000 (which goes for $600-$800 from what I can > tell). > > I don't recall seeing anything like an ieee1394-audio > module in ALSA. >

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA Users: What Bugs You Most?

2004-01-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 10:07, Mark Knecht wrote: > > 2) After booting, if I do an lsmod snd-usb-midi is loaded, but > apparently not attached to the MidiSport: > I meant snd-usb-audio in response to your question. Sorry. --- The

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA Users: What Bugs You Most?

2004-01-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 09:38, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > Now if I remembered where I've put my TODO list ... ;-) :-) > > > One other related frustration about Alsa MIDI is that under Gentoo at > > least my MidiSport is never recognized by Alsa until I hotplug it. > > Is it recognized when you ru

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA Users: What Bugs You Most?

2004-01-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 06:18, Florian Schmidt wrote: > see the screenshot on this page to clarify.. All alsa apps should be > able to query the names of the port.. > > http://pkl.net/~node/alsa-patch-bay.html > > > Flo Ah, well that's ever so slightly better than what I see from the HDSP 9652 in

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA Users: What Bugs You Most?

2004-01-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 07:12, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > I think we need some little userspace utility that allows to change > client/port names. It would have a device database and user-specific > configuration, so it would be possible to set a port's name to that of > the external device, too. > >

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

2004-01-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 19:59, Jason Clouse wrote: > 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? Nothing that I know of. > 2. What does

Re: [Alsa-user] Recent Complaints Threads

2004-01-20 Thread Mark Knecht
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 to try out all their music on them. Yeah, I can understand it

RE: [Alsa-user] Recent Complaints Threads

2004-01-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 15:43, Jason Clouse wrote: > 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 askin

Re: [Alsa-user] Recent Complaints Threads

2004-01-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 16:35, Jason Clouse wrote: > On 2004-01-21 00:20:30 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> For instance, 2 channel audio should automatically be > >> copied to all the outputs on a multichannel card, without > >> changing anything or setting up asound.conf.

Re: [Alsa-user] shittiness

2004-01-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 00:10, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > >00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. > >VT8233/A/8235 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) > > > > It will look like this for an 8233: > 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 > AC97 Audio Control

Re: [Alsa-user] shittiness

2004-01-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 01:14, Jaroslav Kysela wrote: > Before flames, I would like to notice that we have only limited amount of > hardware for tests. The current hardware vendors are producing very large > number of configurations, modifications etc. especially for cheap > hardware. It's very d

Re: [Alsa-user] shittiness

2004-01-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 21:47, Noah Roberts wrote: > Then I find it very interesting that the best answer so far has been to > downgrade to 0.9.0rc6 and use the 2.4.x kernel tree. In fact I have > seen no other responce to myself or anyone else that has had problems > with this driver. OK, so

Re: [Alsa-user] shittiness

2004-01-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 21:17, Matthew Geddes wrote: > On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 15:35, Noah Roberts wrote: > > > I guess you could say its stable, but it sure doesn't seem very useable > > to me. I am quite good at getting things to work, even when they don't > > want to, but nothing I do can make A

Re: [Alsa-user] Installation

2004-01-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 13:15, JTS wrote: > I just installed Red Hat 9 yesterday and it's my first time using Linux > in any capacity. I have a Sound Blaster Live! Value that needs to run > on digital output. I came across the alsa website late last night. I'm > still horribly confused about wh

Re: [Alsa-user] hdsp multiface / sample clock source

2004-01-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 03:19, Tim Blechmann wrote: > > Jan 6 04:09:52 Wizard kernel: ALSA > > ../../alsa-kernel/pci/rme9652/hdsp.c:807: wait for FIFO status <= 0 > > failed after 100 iterations > > although i doubt that our problems are similar, i'd try to edit the > lines 378/379: > #define HDSP_

Re: [Alsa-user] hdsp multiface / sample clock source

2004-01-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 02:54, Tim Blechmann wrote: > ALSA ../../alsa-kernel/pci/rme9652/hdsp.c:663: Hammerfall-DSP: no > Digiface or Multiface connected! > ALSA ../../alsa-kernel/pci/rme9652/hdsp.c:5042: card initialization > pending : waiting for firmware > ALSA ../../alsa-kernel/pci/rme9652/hdsp.

Re: [Alsa-user] Can't Get Started

2003-12-29 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 21:32, Dave Edwards wrote: > This I have done, as well as restarted alsa, but still no joy, i.e. no > sound, no error messages from aplay. > > Dave. I get somewhat different sorts of messages from aplay than you do. Possibly something in your .asoundrc file is mixing it up?

Re: [Alsa-user] Can't Get Started

2003-12-29 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 21:00, Dave Edwards wrote: > On Mon. 2003-12-29, 17:50, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > > OK, so I'm not exactly sure what you mean by 'That's right', but if > > you meant you built Alsa into the kernel then I'd recommend build

Re: [Alsa-user] Can't Get Started

2003-12-29 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 17:33, Dave Edwards wrote: > > Dave, > >OK, I've never done 2.6 work, so that part I'm goign to be no help, > > but from the lsmod info there are no Alsa sound modules loaded. Either > > it's not loading at all, or did you possibly try to build it into the > > kernel? >

Re: [Alsa-user] Can't Get Started

2003-12-29 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 17:13, Dave Edwards wrote: > On Mon. 2003-12-29, 16:25, Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 16:08, Dave Edwards wrote: > > > > > > > Okay, I'll see if I can't add some more info. > > > The output of several relevant

Re: [Alsa-user] Can't Get Started

2003-12-29 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 16:08, Dave Edwards wrote: > On Fri. 2003-12-26, 15:05, Dave Edwards wrote: > > Hello. > > > > I built myself a new 2.6.0 kernel, incorporating ALSA and no OSS > > drivers. However, I can't get my system to produce any sound, despite > > my best efforts. I have read a handf

Re: [Alsa-user] S/PDIF Coaxial output for the Revolution 7.1

2003-12-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 08:39, Alex Marsh wrote: > I have a M-Audio Revolution 7.1 card and would like to output sound through > the S/PDIF Coaxial output. I am a ALSA newbie and have no idea where to > start. I know this topic has been addressed before but I could not find any > documetation on t

Re: [Alsa-user] alsa modular synth problems

2003-12-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 18:19, Austin Acton 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 > BTW - One suggestion was to try going back to Alsa-0.9.0 or 0.9.2. Not an option for me, but possibly for you if you really

Re: [Alsa-user] alsa modular synth problems

2003-12-28 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I had this problem last week and reported it on Alsa-Modular-User. I have not received any replies as of yet. I am assuming that the author is on Christmas holidays. Mark On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 18:19, Austin Acton wrote: > Help is appreciated. IANACH (I am not a C hacker). > > Mandrake 1

Re: [Alsa-user] Re: card recommendation for working SP...

2003-12-27 Thread Mark Knecht
Well, I have a Hammerfall Light and I'd like to get it's spdif I/O's working, so usually a few people getting together and asking nicely gets things done. I'm happy to help test and see what we can do together. - Mark On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 11:40, WR wrote: > Yes, I did read this thread days ago,

Re: [Alsa-user] alsa-driver and kernel 2.6.0

2003-12-21 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi all, Has this issue about Alsa & 2.6.0 corrupting file systems been debugged and are fixes into Alsa tarballs and/or CVS? - Mark --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your ski

Re: [Alsa-user] VIA 8233A - no sound

2003-12-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 00:12, Pawel Wrona wrote: > > There have been a lot of fixes to the Via and Intel chipsets > > recently, although there are still quite a number of people having > > trouble. Consider ~x86 and go to Alsa-1.0.0rc2 (or whatever is offered > > at this point. I haven't heard of

Re: [Alsa-user] latest alsa problems

2003-12-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 15:45, yodaj007 wrote: > The following came from my messages log. I had alsa-0.9.8 installed > before now. I have installed alsa-1xxx (latest available, can't > remember) and I get this and no sound. > > Anybody know what it means (besides alsa doesn't work :) ? > > Jaso

Re: [Alsa-user] VIA 8233A - no sound

2003-12-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 21:47, Keith Howe wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I recently updated my kernel from 2.5.69 (ALSA 0.9.2) to 2.6.0-test9 > (ALSA 0.9.7), and my sound suddenly stopped working. I'm using 0.9.8 > alsa-base and alsa-utils (debian packages). Keith,

Re: [Alsa-user] Re: snd-via82xx sound garbled

2003-12-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 13:52, brett holcomb wrote: > What exactly is dxs_support? I asked earlier and was > referred to a document that listed it but did not exlain > it. > Just guessing, could it be 'Direct X Sound Support'? --- This SF.ne

Re: [Alsa-user] Re: snd-via82xx sound garbled

2003-12-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 13:52, brett holcomb wrote: > What exactly is dxs_support? I asked earlier and was > referred to a document that listed it but did not exlain > it. > > Thanks. Brett, I don't have the slightest idea!!! There were problems on the snd-intel driver that were solved o

Re: [Alsa-user] Re: snd-via82xx sound garbled

2003-12-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 12:31, James McDonald wrote: > > > > First try to use dxs_support=1; if it does not work, try 4, or even 2 (in > > this case you will lose the (limited) hardware mixing support). If none > > of these values will work, install the xmms-crossfade plugin and configure > > it to

[Alsa-user] Re: [Alsa-devel] ALSA 1.0.0rc1 released

2003-12-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 10:16, Steve deRosier wrote: > We went ahead and added code to our alsa client software to cleanly > return to a PCM value of 0 and then stuffed a full buffer worth of 0s > into the buffer before closeing the PCM in order to solve our pop > problem. I'm not sure how the OS

[Alsa-user] Re: [Alsa-devel] ALSA 1.0.0rc1 released

2003-12-02 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I want to report that I've built alsa-1.0.0rc1 under Gentoo with q 2.4.20-r7 kernel. Thanks to Thomas Charbonnel for the help with the ebuilds. If any other Gentoo users need the ebuilds, then contact me off list. Unfortunately this release does not impact my loud glitch/pop noise on the

Re: [Alsa-user] Quake2 sound gone

2003-11-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 19:06, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > Okay, I'm getting closer. When run from a console I get the error "cannot > mmap /dev/dsp". /dev/dsp does exit. Okay - I've read the OSS How to and > think that I need to add > > options snd-pcm-oss dsp=0 > > to the modules.conf file. >

Re: [Alsa-user] Which card has working AC3 pass-through?

2003-11-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 11:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ok, > > i have come to the conclusion that my cs46xx card is not > setting a bit that is needed by my amp to decode the AC3 > info into 5.1 surround sound If the bit's there, but not getting set, wouldn't a better solution be to get the driv

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