[Alsa-user] cmi8330 & skype

2006-04-17 Thread robert w hall
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Skype only supports OSS so switching to ALSA is unlikely to help, you're >just adding another layer of emulation. > >The Skype Linux client seems to be a piece of garbage. I gave up on >getting it to work with my Audigy2 ZS we

Re: [Alsa-user] cmi8330

2006-04-17 Thread Rene Herman
robert w hall wrote: OK, I'll review this at leisure. Some points for the time being:- 1) It works after a fashion under the old wss modules, (but with a rather horrid resources list for modprobe) Yes, it would work. The WSS part of the chip is also enabled correctly through the ALSA drive

Re: [Alsa-user] cmi8330

2006-04-17 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 15:00 +0100, robert w hall wrote: > 3) I had thought that 'alsaconf' was meant to circumvent these hours > of > headscratching over dma etc :-) It tries to but ISA is just a mess no matter what. The fix is PCI. ;-) Lee ---

Re: [Alsa-user] cmi8330

2006-04-17 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 15:00 +0100, robert w hall wrote: > 2) I only 'moved up' to ALSA to try to avoid the buffer over-runs in > SKYPE. Skype only supports OSS so switching to ALSA is unlikely to help, you're just adding another layer of emulation. The Skype Linux client seems to be a piece of g

Re: [Alsa-user] cmi8330

2006-04-17 Thread robert w hall
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rene Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Thirdly; I've seen no end to trouble with 2.4 ISA-PnP. 2.6 behaves much >better. So trying a 2.6 distribution would also be good. 2.4 is really >quite obsolete. > >In any case, this problem is not ALSA... > >Rene. OK, I'll r

Re: [Alsa-user] cmi8330

2006-04-17 Thread Rene Herman
robert w hall wrote: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes I recently dug an ISA-PnP CMI8330A up somewhere and tested it -- it seemed to work fine. What problems are you experiencing with the driver? from dmesg after alsaconf (but first insertion is similar) ALSA ../alsa-kernel/isa/cmi8330.c:338: CMI

Re: [Alsa-user] cmi8330

2006-04-17 Thread robert w hall
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rene Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >robert w hall wrote: > >> Is this module now considered mended (it is in the docs as 'broken') >> It still seems to be reporting errors similar to those documented in >> 2002 linux-kernel post. > >I recently dug an ISA-PnP CMI

Re: [Alsa-user] cmi8330

2006-04-16 Thread Rene Herman
robert w hall wrote: Is this module now considered mended (it is in the docs as 'broken') It still seems to be reporting errors similar to those documented in 2002 linux-kernel post. I recently dug an ISA-PnP CMI8330A up somewhere and tested it -- it seemed to work fine. What problems are yo

[Alsa-user] cmi8330

2006-04-16 Thread robert w hall
Is this module now considered mended (it is in the docs as 'broken') It still seems to be reporting errors similar to those documented in 2002 linux-kernel post. (I'm using alsa 1.0.10 drivers with 2.4.29 kernel) -- robert w hall --- This SF.

[Alsa-user] CMI8330 ISA sound distorted and noisy ?

2003-11-03 Thread Botoaca Andrei
Question: A friend of mine has a CMI8330 onboard soundcard, and with alsa it is noisy and distorted ... I think it's something from the samplerates, but I have no ideea how to fix that ... and example of settings or something could help, because i never had any problems with alsa on my 2 soundca

Re: [Alsa-user] CMI8330 and an ALSA newbie

2001-11-26 Thread Bob Young
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 18:56:44 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nathan Stenzel) wrote: > Ok. I think my computer decided to use the sb module for sound. > That works for the basics, but I want full-duplex and midi too. > I have no clue how to get it to use alsa instead of that sb module. > I know I need to

[Alsa-user] CMI8330 and an ALSA newbie

2001-11-26 Thread Nathan Stenzel
Ok. I think my computer decided to use the sb module for sound. That works for the basics, but I want full-duplex and midi too. I have no clue how to get it to use alsa instead of that sb module. I know I need to use the snd-card-cmi8330 module for alsa. I tend to do installs by RPM. How do I go a

[Alsa-user] CMI8330 Suse Linux 7.1 Total beginner - Please help - Updated Drivers - now device has de-materialised

2001-11-14 Thread Paul Hayes
THE PROBLEM I have been using computers for over 20 years but am still pretty computer iliterate (DOS batch files, Excel Macros and Unix database enquiries are about my limit). For a long time I have been using various versions of Windows, Excel & IE to do my work. This PC is also used by myself