Re: [Alsa-user] Updated to kernel 4.4.1, missing module snd_ice1712 -> no more envy24 support?

2016-02-18 Thread Niels Mayer
On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 5:52 PM, Takashi Sakamoto wrote: > Why did you add additional comments to the fixed-released bug? It's not > within my intension to mention about the bug. I think your behaviour is > unwelcome to developers. You should have used button of 'This bug affects > you' or someth

Re: [Alsa-user] Updated to kernel 4.4.1, missing module snd_ice1712 -> no more envy24 support?

2016-02-15 Thread Niels Mayer
On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 6:36 PM, Takashi Sakamoto wrote: > grep SND_ICE /boot/config-4.4.1-040401-generic > npm@gnuport:~$ grep SND_ICE /boot/config-4.4.1-040401-generic CONFIG_SND_ICE1724=m > Collateral damage due to kernel configuration > change enabling CONFIG_ZONE_DEVICE > (Kernel 4.4 amd64

[Alsa-user] Updated to kernel 4.4.1, missing module snd_ice1712 -> no more envy24 support?

2016-02-14 Thread Niels Mayer
I recently updated my Ubuntu 14.04 LTS systen with Skylake CPU from kernel 4.3.0 to 4.4.1 ( http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.4.1-wily/ https://lwn.net/Articles/674176/ ). Although everything works fine, all my ICE-1712 (aka "Envy24") cards are no longer seen by ALSA. Investigating

Re: [Alsa-user] [alsa-devel] Alsamixer-Qt4 0.5.0 released

2010-10-10 Thread Niels Mayer
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Sebastian H. wrote: > ( http://xwmw.org/alsamixer-qt4/ ) > After an almost complete rewrite to support separate channels views > in the main sliders and switches areas, Alsamixer-Qt4 0.5.0 is now > available. This is a vast improvement over the previous version for

Re: [Alsa-user] Input device captures output (fwd)

2010-09-09 Thread Niels Mayer
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Warren Dumortier wrote: > > However it didn't fix the issue at all, i still have the same problem, the > card is recognized without problems but the problem persist even if i mute > everything on my onboard card... > Also in Mumble the problem is present and i choose

Re: [Alsa-user] [LAU] Installing Google Voice Chat for Linux on Fedora instead of Debian

2010-09-08 Thread Niels Mayer
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Paul Davis wrote: > gnome (not gtk) apps use the following gconf settings for sound output > > system/gstreamer/0.10/audio/default/audiosink > system/gstreamer/0.10/audio/default/chataudiosink > system/gstreamer/0.10/audio/default/musicaudiosink I've long had these

Re: [Alsa-user] [LAU] Installing Google Voice Chat for Linux on Fedora instead of Debian

2010-09-08 Thread Niels Mayer
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Paul Davis wrote: > most (or maybe just a lot of) code doesn't use PulseAudio directly at > all. it opens an ALSA device that is implemented by the Pulse ALSA > user-space plugin. > > last time i looked lennart was still encouraging people NOT to use the > PulseAudi

Re: [Alsa-user] Installing Google Voice Chat for Linux on Fedora instead of Debian

2010-09-07 Thread Niels Mayer
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Niels Mayer wrote: > FYI if you're running without pulseaudio (so as to avoid the problems > it introduces -- see two messages below as examples), the > GoogleTalkPlugin has an annoying delay every time it tries to access > an audio device, as

Re: [Alsa-user] Installing Google Voice Chat for Linux on Fedora instead of Debian

2010-09-07 Thread Niels Mayer
FYI if you're running without pulseaudio (so as to avoid the problems it introduces -- see two messages below as examples), the GoogleTalkPlugin has an annoying delay every time it tries to access an audio device, as it's querying for pulseaudio and not finding it present and timing out. Each time

Re: [Alsa-user] Input device captures output (fwd)

2010-09-03 Thread Niels Mayer
I think this might be the problem: http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-user/2010-September/072350.html If you have a multichannel capture, then GoogleTalkPlugin, talking to alsa default input through a dsnoop, will end up capturing from all channels, not just the microphone. If some

Re: [Alsa-user] Installing Google Voice Chat for Linux on Fedora instead of Debian

2010-09-03 Thread Niels Mayer
( http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/chat/thread?tid=10ffe01c3a4779f5&fid=10ffe01c3a4779f500048f64576456f8 ) I finally figured out what is going on with some of the ALSA errors I've been seeing on an ice1712 soundcard. http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-user/2010-September/0723

Re: [Alsa-user] Installing Google Voice Chat for Linux on Fedora instead of Debian

2010-09-01 Thread Niels Mayer
Google Voice Chat is now available as RPMs for Fedora >=12 and OpenSuse (which will still need same lib symlinking as described in my earlier note) http://www.google.com/chat/video http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/chat/thread?fid=10ffe01c3a4779f500048f370d827d69 .

Re: [Alsa-user] Installing Google Voice Chat for Linux on Fedora instead of Debian

2010-08-31 Thread Niels Mayer
Now that I've discovered the way of setting hardware devices in http://mail.google.com/mail/#settings/chat , there's issues that limit my using GoogleTalkPlugin to "[Logitech USB Headset]" -- a USB headset that works well. However, (1) I have an old Hauppauge PVR-500 dual analog TV card and /opt

Re: [Alsa-user] Installing Google Voice Chat for Linux on Fedora instead of Debian

2010-08-30 Thread Niels Mayer
Duh even better than wrappering the GoogleTalkPlugin for using a different device, you can just go to http://mail.google.com/mail/#settings/chat and look for "Voice and video chat:" settings. It'll say "Detecting devices..." for a while, especially if you're not using pulseaudio, in which case

Re: [Alsa-user] Input device captures output (fwd)

2010-08-30 Thread Niels Mayer
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:08 AM, Warren Dumortier wrote: > I've been testing again and found some interresting fact. > When i only plug-in my microphone it works as it should even if music is > being played, but whenever i plug-in speakers, then the problem occurs. > This lets me thing again it's

Re: [Alsa-user] Installing Google Voice Chat for Linux on Fedora instead of Debian

2010-08-29 Thread Niels Mayer
I finally got tired of google talk for Linux not working due to ALSA/audio issues (after I'd gotten "this" close hacking the .deb distribution to work on fedora with chrome, w/o even running googles init scripts and crontab :-) ) ... so I decided to fix it. The issue was that the browser was happi

Re: [Alsa-user] Input device captures output (fwd)

2010-08-29 Thread Niels Mayer
Maybe I've totally missed what the problem is here, but it appears this is a common problem/misunderstanding. If that is not the case, then sorry for oversimplifying your issue. You should more closely investigate your alsamixer(1) options. Many consumer soundcards have the ability to capture from

[Alsa-user] Installing Google Voice Chat for Linux on Fedora instead of Debian

2010-08-25 Thread Niels Mayer
Excited to see http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/call-phones-from-gmail.html , I was quickly disappointed to find the plugin only supported debian and was 32 bit. However, I persevered and got it running on Fedora 12 x86_64 anyways. Solution: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/chat/thread?

Re: [Alsa-user] spdif and iec958 using wrong device (ck804, intel8x0)

2010-08-18 Thread Niels Mayer
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 4:25 AM, Gustaf Johansson wrote: > I get no audio when using digital out from my Nvidia nf4 CK804 ALC850 chip. > The card is listed as 2 devices, analog using the first and digital the > second. > However i never get audio when playing using the second device. > > Ports sp

Re: [Alsa-user] [LAU] does a pci-e x1 to pci adapter work with Linux soundcards and existing drivers?

2010-08-15 Thread Niels Mayer
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > These adapters are useful only if you need some features of a PCI card > and if your mainboard has already run out of free PCI slots. Hopefully "all features" of the PCI card would be available, right? There wouldn't be any bus-mastering

[Alsa-user] does a pci-e x1 to pci adapter work with Linux soundcards and existing drivers?

2010-08-15 Thread Niels Mayer
I'm just curious if something like this will work with Linux audio cards? http://www.beaglesoft.com/pcie2pci.htm / PCI Express to PCI Adapter featuring PLX Technology PEX 8111 PCI to PCI Express bridge PCI Express x1 cards have been scarce since the introduction of the bus several

Re: [Alsa-user] mic input does not work on Audio device: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT1708/A [Azalia HDAC]

2010-08-11 Thread Niels Mayer
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 5:12 AM, Siju George wrote: > Still can't Capture. Audacity gives > $ audacity > Expression 'stream->capture.pcm' failed in > 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 3653 Perhaps you don't have appropriate permissions on the device? Perhaps something else (pulseaudio?) h

Re: [Alsa-user] mic input does not work on Audio device: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT1708/A [Azalia HDAC]

2010-08-09 Thread Niels Mayer
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 6:42 AM, Siju George wrote: > http://pastie.org/1081704 > http://picasaweb.google.com/sgeorge.ml/Archlinux#5503404631278812482 The playback screen on alsamixer won't help you. Use the F4 "Capture" one or the F5 (all). IMHO this is the problem: You have "mono capture" sele

Re: [Alsa-user] [alsa-devel] Alsamixer-Qt4 0.4.0 released

2010-08-08 Thread Niels Mayer
This mixer is a major improvement over alsamixergui and alsamixer. Unfortunately with envy24-based soundcards, it doesn't do the right thing w/r/t the ice1712's built-in digital mixer ( http://nielsmayer.com/envy24control/envy24mixer-architecture.png ). There's up to eight pairs of input monitors a

Re: [Alsa-user] [LAU] [LAD] mudita24 1.02 -- improved envy24control mixer/router for ice1712-based sound-cards

2010-08-08 Thread Niels Mayer
I applied a variation of the suggestion made by Guido Scholz on LAD to the autoconf files and put out a new release to solve the potentially missing link to "-lm" http://nielsmayer.com/envy24control/mudita24-1.0.3.tar.gz http://nielsmayer.com/envy24control/mudita24-1.0.3.x86_64.tgz http://nielsmay

Re: [Alsa-user] mic input does not work on Audio device: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT1708/A [Azalia HDAC]

2010-08-08 Thread Niels Mayer
The vt1708 has both a front and rear microphone input. You must select the appropriate input to make it work: amixer -c SB gives: Simple mixer control 'Input Source',0 Capabilities: cenum Items: 'Stereo Mixer' 'Mic' 'Front Mic' 'Line' 'CD' Item0: 'Stereo Mixer' Once set to mic or front mi

Re: [Alsa-user] [LAU] [LAD] mudita24 1.02 -- improved envy24control mixer/router for ice1712-based sound-cards

2010-08-08 Thread Niels Mayer
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Geoff King wrote: > I tried the source version of your 1.0.2 mudita release. I'm having > problem with the build step. This is with FC13.   Any thoughts? >... > -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgio-2.0 -lpangoft2-1.0 > -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lcair

[Alsa-user] mudita24 1.02 -- improved envy24control mixer/router for ice1712-based sound-cards

2010-08-07 Thread Niels Mayer
The "Mudita24" package is a modification of alsa-tools' envy24control: an application controlling the digital mixer, channel gains and other hardware settings for sound cards based on the ice1712 chipset ( http://alsa.cybermirror.org/manuals/icensemble/envy24.pdf ). It also displays a level met

[Alsa-user] does ESI esp1010e work with Linux? What soundchip?

2010-08-06 Thread Niels Mayer
http://www.esi-audio.com/products/esp1010e/ This looks suspiciously like an ice1712 and not ice1724 (like on the ESI juli@/maya) given that it tops out at 96K in a time when HD fashion demands 192K... Also the two midi ports, and 8 I/O's and SPDIF, just like ice1712 (?): http://www.via.com.tw/en/

Re: [Alsa-user] No sound on GeForce 7050M-M ECS.

2010-07-15 Thread Niels Mayer
Just a long shot, but what is actually connected to the "output", and is it actually detecting that, or sending to elsewhere like "stereo amp out". (see below) also, since i setup my son's comp w/ perhaps similar mobo components (ASUS) it had a problem that its spdif output wasn't working and the