[Alsa-user] RME AES 32

2009-08-18 Thread Arthur Cheng
Hi, I am new to this sound card under linux. When I check the amixer contents, there are 64 channels available from numid 24 to numid 87. Does anyone knows which channels are for output channels and which are for input channels? Yours Arthur -

Re: [Alsa-user] RME AES-32 questions

2008-03-04 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:57:15 +, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > > Takashi Iwai wrote: > > At Tue, 4 Mar 2008 15:03:15 +, > > James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > >>> > Now that we have these dB gain levels, we could potentially set all > >>> > mixer controls to 0dB, i.e. not gain and not attenu

Re: [Alsa-user] RME AES-32 questions

2008-03-04 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Tue, 4 Mar 2008 15:03:15 +, > James Courtier-Dutton wrote: >>> > Now that we have these dB gain levels, we could potentially set all >>> > mixer controls to 0dB, i.e. not gain and not attenuation, with only >>> > the master output control being set to a lower value s

Re: [Alsa-user] RME AES-32 questions

2008-03-04 Thread John Sigler
Takashi Iwai wrote: > hdspm driver still doesn't support TLV dB information. > In addition, rme9652/hdsp/hdspm drivers use control elements in a > non-standard way for indirect accessing, so each mixer value isn't > visible in amixer or alsactl. Hello Takashi, Can you tell whether the hdspm driv

Re: [Alsa-user] RME AES-32 questions

2008-03-04 Thread John Sigler
James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > Some time ago, there was no way to tell, from user space, if 100% > or 50% was 0db, -50dB or +50dB. As a result, the safest value to > use was the minimum value being either 0% or mute. That has changed > with alsa 1.0.16, as dB gain information is now available. I'

Re: [Alsa-user] RME AES-32 questions

2008-03-04 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Tue, 4 Mar 2008 15:03:15 +, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > > > > Now that we have these dB gain levels, we could potentially set all > > > mixer controls to 0dB, i.e. not gain and not attenuation, with only > > > the master output control being set to a lower value so as to avoid > > >

Re: [Alsa-user] RME AES-32 questions

2008-03-04 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 04/03/2008, John Sigler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > > > John Sigler wrote: > > > >> I have an RME AES-32 PCI board. > >> http://www.rme-audio.de/en_products_hdsp_aes32.php > >> > >> When I boot, every channel has its volume set to 0. > >> > > >> http://lxr.

Re: [Alsa-user] RME AES-32 questions

2008-03-04 Thread John Sigler
James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > John Sigler wrote: > >> I have an RME AES-32 PCI board. >> http://www.rme-audio.de/en_products_hdsp_aes32.php >> >> When I boot, every channel has its volume set to 0. >> >> http://lxr.linux.no/linux/sound/pci/rme9652/hdspm.c#L3396 >> http://lxr.linux.no/linux/sou

Re: [Alsa-user] RME AES-32 questions

2008-03-03 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 03/03/2008, John Sigler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (I'll try answering some of my questions.) > > > John Sigler wrote: > > > I have an RME AES-32 PCI board. > > http://www.rme-audio.de/en_products_hdsp_aes32.php > > > > > [...] > > > > > When I boot, every channel has its volume set to 0.

Re: [Alsa-user] RME AES-32 questions

2008-03-03 Thread John Sigler
(I'll try answering some of my questions.) John Sigler wrote: > I have an RME AES-32 PCI board. > http://www.rme-audio.de/en_products_hdsp_aes32.php > > [...] > > When I boot, every channel has its volume set to 0. > Is this done by the board's firmware? http://lxr.linux.no/linux/sound/pci/rme

Re: [Alsa-user] RME AES-32 questions

2008-02-29 Thread John Sigler
John Sigler wrote: I used amixer to change the volume. I've attached the output of amixer and amixer contents in case they are relevant. Regards. Simple mixer control 'Line Out',0 Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Mono Mono: Playback [on] Simple mixer control 'AES

[Alsa-user] RME AES-32 questions

2008-02-29 Thread John Sigler
Hello, I have an RME AES-32 PCI board. http://www.rme-audio.de/en_products_hdsp_aes32.php I installed the main board only (not the daughter board) which gives me 8 mono in's and 8 mono out's (4 male + 4 female XLR connectors). My kernel is 2.6.22.1-rt9 (compiled from source). I have set the f

[Alsa-user] RME AES-32

2007-03-12 Thread ericf64
Hi All I try to use an RME AES-32 under Gentoo, Alsa 0.14-rc1, kernel 2.6.20-rc1 but with this message when Kack starts : ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1357:(_snd_pcm_hw_open) Invalid value for card ALSA: Cannot open PCM device alsa_pcm for playback. Falling back to capture-only mode cannot load driver modul