Re: [Alsa-user] hda-intel "error creating card"?

2006-06-24 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 13:36 -0700, Ken Yee wrote: > --- Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Try removing all ALSA modules manually and run > > "modprobe snd-hda-intel" > > by hand, do you get the same error? > > Hmmm..this looks ok (had to modp

Re: [Alsa-user] hda-intel "error creating card"?

2006-06-26 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 19:43 -0700, Ken Yee wrote: > --- Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You can blacklist cx88_alsa to prevent it from being > > loaded. > > That does work. Putting this set of commands into a > script you run w/ sudo also works: > mo

Re: [Alsa-user] ac3 only through oss emulation ?!

2006-06-27 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 21:29 +0200, ord wrote: > nothing else is using the device and I removed all asoundrc. > Any advice on how I could debug that ? I guess you verified this with (as root): fuser /dev/dsp fuser /dev/mixer fuser /dev/snd/* ? Lee Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to sup

Re: [Alsa-user] Crackles on PCI Audigy2 ZS

2006-06-27 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 06:51 +1000, Nick Urbanik wrote: > Dear Folks, > > On this P4 machine running FC5, I had great sound from this Audigy2 ZS > soundcard until a few months ago, when a constant popping/crackling > sound appeared, even when no sound source is playing. > Sounds like the hardware

Re: [Alsa-user] [a-users] VSTi ...it could be possible to build a free software vst sdk?

2006-06-27 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 20:51 +0200, Marcos Guglielmetti wrote: > El Lunes, 26 de Junio de 2006 23:11, oz escribió: > > Steinberg vst_sdk2_3.zip (free download with license agreement > > Some people think that it could be possible to build a free software vst sdk > (steinberg headers, etc.), what d

Re: [Alsa-user] [a-users] VSTi ...it could be possible to build a free software vst sdk?

2006-06-27 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 03:09 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > Haven't heard of them yet. > > Search for LV2 in > > http://www.ladspa.org/ > > brings nothing. It's the successor to LADSPA. It's still being defined. See the linux-audio-dev archive for the past month or so. Lee Using Tomcat bu

Re: [Alsa-user] Cant get started -II

2006-06-29 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 16:21 -0500, Robert Rappaport wrote: > I have a new Gateway Desktop that has an intel motherboard with an > integrated Realtek ALC880 sound card. I followed Realtek links and > downloaded > "realtek-linux-audiopack-3.5-6b.tar.bz2". I had Slackware Linux 10.2 > installed wit

Re: [Alsa-user] MIDI pb with Terratec Phase 26

2006-06-30 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 21:54 +0200, Jacques Bon wrote: > Hello, > > I've a problem using MIDI IN connector of the Terratec Phase 26 (USB). > I need to use it to connect a non-USB midi keyboard. > > The card works fine for the sound, is detected as a MIDI device by > aconnect, but when I connect t

Re: [Alsa-user] Integrated Realtek ALC880 Sound Card

2006-07-01 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-07-01 at 12:53 -0500, Robert Rappaport wrote: > Hi: > > Am still trying to set up my new Gateway Desktop for Linux. I have > Sackware 10.2 with 2.4.31 and 2.6.13 kernels. Gateway says the sound > card is an Integrated Realtek ALC880. I followed Realtek links and > downloaded a 1

Re: [Alsa-user] need mic-in, line-in, line out, hardware MIDI, have SB Live! 5.1 0220 (EMU10K1)

2006-07-03 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 12:00 +0200, Dominique Michel wrote: > Here is your problem. The emu10k1 share the same IRQ as the usb, and > it is very bad. The emu10k1 must be on its own IRQ. You must check in > the bios if you can assign the IRQ and/or move the card in another > slot. You can also try to

Re: [Alsa-user] play midi on this hp lappy?

2006-07-03 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 10:35 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > I guess the subject says it all. The lappy is an HP dv5120us, with FC5 > installed, and an ATI-IXP (connexant 30) chipset. > > Howto links appreciated. Just install a soft synth like Timidity or Fluidsynth and run "aplaymidi -p ". Use ap

Re: [Alsa-user] need mic-in, line-in, line out, hardware MIDI, have SB Live! 5.1 0220 (EMU10K1)

2006-07-03 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 15:37 +0200, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > Arthur Marsh wrote: > > While all the above functions work, MIDI playback whilst there is > > significant hard disk activity causes a complete system lock-up )-: (see > > https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=952 ). > >

Re: [Alsa-user] [linux-audio-user] some ALSA questions

2006-07-04 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 09:05 -0400, Dave Phillips wrote: > Greetings: > > I'm preparing a final draft of an article re: ALSA and I started > wondering about whatever happened to modules.conf. In my old RH9 (2.4 > kernel) I was able to freely manipulate the ALSA modules (designate for > loading

Re: [Alsa-user] Alsa and Firefox...

2006-07-04 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 07:12 -0500, Michael Stempf wrote: > All, > > Twice now I have loaded Alsa drivers on my Suse 10 (64bit) server. > After both installations, Firefox begins crashing...continuelsly. It > gets to the point that it is totally unuseable. > > I have uninstalled Firefox and reins

Re: [Alsa-user] Ekiga full-duplex & arecord problems [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2006-07-04 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 21:12 +1200, Adam Bogacki wrote: > Hi, having discovered a full-duplex problem with ekiga (echo test does > not work) I've been trying to get arecord working with the following > error message. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~08:53:20$ arecord -f dat -d 20 -D hw:0,0 test.wav > Recordi

Re: [Alsa-user] Switching audio devices on the fly?

2006-07-04 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 12:09 +0200, Michael wrote: > Hi > > is there a possibility to switch audio devices "on the fly". That is, while > the program that will use (but does not do this at the moment!) the device > is running? > No, it's not possible. Lee Using Tomcat but need to do more? Nee

Re: [Alsa-user] Alsa and Firefox...

2006-07-04 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 18:11 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 11:01:54 -0400 > Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 07:12 -0500, Michael Stempf wrote: > > > All, > > > > > > Twice now I have

Re: [Alsa-user] Soundblaster live 5.1 24 bits: problem with microphone.

2006-07-04 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 17:23 +0200, Chris Dams wrote: > I > have alsa 1.0.9a that came with my SuSe distribution. Too old. This driver is still under development. Try ALSA 1.0.12-rc1. Lee Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-

Re: [Alsa-user] Alsa and Firefox...

2006-07-04 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 18:05 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > The case of the original poster is a bit complicated. He's using > x86-64, and firefox is likely i386 binary. And, it's possible that > firefox is started via aoss automatically for flash plugin, depending > on the system. > It could also

Re: [Alsa-user] Soundblaster live 5.1 24 bits: problem with microphone.

2006-07-05 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 16:48 +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote: > With my SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 model SB0220 I saved the following: > Completely different device. You have a regular SBLive! 5.1, the OP has the new, crippled "24 bit" version. They have nothing in common but the name. Lee Using Tomcat

Re: [Alsa-user] How to record from /dev/snd/pcmCxD0c devices created with udev ?

2006-07-05 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 20:04 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > > *** description : > I want to record wav files from several *identical* (except for serial > number) usb audio soundcard. > > My sound cards must appear in the right order. For example, physical > card called n°1 must a

Re: [Alsa-user] Problems with oss pcm emulation on sbawe64 pnp since 1.0.11-rc3

2006-07-05 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 23:48 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > If you have a powerful enough machine you might consider using QEMU in > which you'll run older versions of kernel + ALSA + Skype. > > It does work, though my machine (Athlon XP1900+) is not powerful > enough, > rather, I didn't try to d

Re: [Alsa-user] Problems with oss pcm emulation on sbawe64 pnp since 1.0.11-rc3

2006-07-05 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 00:03 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > I have a life to live, and ALSA QA and regression testing is not a > part of > it. > Why in the hell are you on this mailing list then?!?!?!? Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done qui

Re: [Alsa-user] Problems with oss pcm emulation on sbawe64 pnp since 1.0.11-rc3

2006-07-05 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 00:35 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 17:10:19 -0400 > Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 00:03 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > > > I have a life to live, and ALSA QA and regression testing i

Re: [Alsa-user] Problems with oss pcm emulation on sbawe64 pnp since 1.0.11-rc3

2006-07-05 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 00:42 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > I suggested what I personally checked and what aprtially worked - what > is > irresponsible in my suggestion ? It does not help to fix the problem, so is not useful to the community - at best, you're helping one user. And your workarou

Re: [Alsa-user] Problems with oss pcm emulation on sbawe64 pnp since 1.0.11-rc3

2006-07-05 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 00:44 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > Because I STRONGLY believe people who know the code should write > the documentation. > > Or, responding you in the "STFU" manner - everybody has to wipe > his/her > own shit - I wouldn't dare to ask you to write documentation for my > p

Re: [Alsa-user] Problems with oss pcm emulation on sbawe64 pnp since 1.0.11-rc3

2006-07-05 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 00:55 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 17:48:19 -0400 > Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 00:42 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > > > I suggested what I personally checked and what ap

Re: [Alsa-user] Problems with oss pcm emulation on sbawe64 pnp since 1.0.11-rc3

2006-07-05 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 23:14 +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: > > Hi! > > > > After upgrading to 2.6.17 skype on my Creative SB AWE64 PnP started to sound > > with really metallic voices, the speed and the tone seems similar to real > > but the voice is really m

Re: [Alsa-user] How to record from /dev/snd/pcmCxD0c devices created with udev ?

2006-07-06 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 11:04 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello > > Lee Revell a écrit : > > On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 20:04 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >>Hello, > >> > >> > >>*** description : > >>I want to record wav

Re: [Alsa-user] Which Card for direct Audio-Recording

2006-07-10 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 20:34 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In the meantime a record for my WinTV PCI-Card is shown at > /proc/asound/cards but trying to access /dev/snd/pcmC1D1c with sox > > sox -V -r 48000 -w -t alsa /dev/snd/pcmC1D1c -t cdr test.wav > > gives this error: > > ALSA lib pcm.c:

Re: [Alsa-user] Which Card for direct Audio-Recording

2006-07-10 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 21:02 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Please read the sox documentation for how to use it with ALSA. > > I would love to read it! Can you tell me where I find it? > > The only documentation I know is the man-page and there current example > on how to use sox on ALSA ther

Re: [Alsa-user] Which Card for direct Audio-Recording

2006-07-10 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 12:25 -0700, Bill Unruh wrote: > > > >> Example: sox infile -t alsa -w -s /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p > > > > That's really from the sox man page? It's totally wrong. So is the > > page: > > Yup that is the man page. > > .alsa ALSA /dev/snd/pcmCxDxp device driver >

Re: [Alsa-user] Which Card for direct Audio-Recording

2006-07-10 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 12:25 -0700, Bill Unruh wrote: > When this driver is used it allows you to open up > the ALSA /dev/snd/pcmCxDxp file and configure it to use the > same data format as passed in to SoX. It works for both > playing and recording sound samples. That's also wrong - how

Re: [Alsa-user] Which Card for direct Audio-Recording

2006-07-10 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 21:37 +0200, Jaroslav Kysela wrote: > On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Lee Revell wrote: > > > No it does not. However > > > sox pluck/p6.wav -t alsa /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p > > > DOES work. (or with the -w -s option as well) > > > So it seems that s

Re: [Alsa-user] Which Card for direct Audio-Recording

2006-07-10 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 13:02 -0700, Bill Unruh wrote: > On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Lee Revell wrote: > > Why does sox abuse the ALSA API this way? Why can't it use the alsa-lib > > interface like everyone else? > > I guess you need to ask Chris Bagwell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) t

Re: [Alsa-user] Hangup with snd-hda-intel & Realtek ALC880

2006-07-12 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 17:45 -0500, Robert Rappaport wrote: > Hi, > > I have some kind of conflict with my Realtek ALC880 Sound Card, my > Realtek 8139 Network Card > and my acpi system with 2.6.13 kernel. I can get the sound working ( > Slackware Package > alsa-driver-1.0.9b_2.6.13-i486.1.tgz f

Re: [Alsa-user] cards capable of multiple audio streams

2006-07-14 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 21:47 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > I've been trying to help someone with an audio problem on the Fedora mailing > list. Someone posted back asking "how do you know when you buy a card whether > it's capable of handling multiple audio streams?" > > The Alsa soundcard matrix

Re: [Alsa-user] cards capable of multiple audio streams

2006-07-14 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 23:50 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Friday 14 July 2006 22:01, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 21:47 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > > > I've been trying to help someone with an audio problem on the Fedora > > > mailing list. Someon

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA sound mixer - recording using USB headphone with microphone

2006-07-22 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 17:09 -0500, Ananda Krishnan wrote: > Hello, > > I am using a USB headphone (with the microphone) and the device is > Micronas UAC3556B. I am using the (LinuxOS) RHEL4.0-U3 on my desktop > (xSeries box). I am not able to record eventhogh (xmms-1.2.x.x) sound > mixer is con

Re: [Alsa-user] Hangup with snd-hda-intel & Realtek ALC880

2006-07-22 Thread Lee Revell
[please retain alsa-user in the cc: list] On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 18:37 -0500, Robert Rappaport wrote: > Using the 2.6.17.4 kernel and alsa-driver-1.0.11 or alsa-driver > 1.0.12rc1 I am able to compile and install the drivers with the same > disappointing result. When I try to unmute with amixer

Re: [Alsa-user] Fwd: ALSA sound mixer - recording using USB headphone with microphone

2006-07-22 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 16:35 -0500, V. Ananda Krishnan wrote: > Ananda Krishnan wrote: > > From: *Lee Revell* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > > Date: Jul 21, 2006 2:52 PM > > Subject: Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA sound mixer - recording using USB >

Re: [Alsa-user] Copying sound

2006-07-22 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 18:31 +0200, Luis Fernando Llana Díaz wrote: > El Viernes, 21 de Julio de 2006 00:32, escribió: > > > > Can jack handle this? > > > I have look the web page and it might fit my needs. Thank you. Yes, JACK can do it. You run one jackd for each sound card and use jack_diplomat

Re: [Alsa-user] alsa well supported Core 2 Duo/Extreme Motherboard sound?

2006-07-22 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 09:20 +0100, Andrew Lyon wrote: > spdif output and hardware mixing including spdif is a must, I have > purchased a couple of systems in the past year which appeared (from > reading the alsa soundcard matrix) to be fully supported by alsa, but > I had problems with broken spdif

Re: [Alsa-user] Windows driver are louder than Alsa driver?

2006-07-22 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 01:22 +0200, Dominique Michel wrote: > I am pretty confident at the Alsa guys have done a good job to get the > most of the sound card and at it is no problem with the sound level > inside the box. If it is the case, it will be a bug with the driver > for your sound card, and

Re: [Alsa-user] snd-dummy sound driver

2006-07-24 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 07:47 -0700, csarid wrote: > Hello, > > I need some help in getting the snd-dummy drivers installed on my > linux box. Can anyone point me to the location where I can get the > snd-dummy sound driver for my linux system and possibly some > instructions on how to install or s

Re: [Alsa-user] snd-dummy sound driver

2006-07-24 Thread Lee Revell
dule seperately instead of > having to install the entire alsa. > ALSA is included in the kernel, but your distro must have disabled it. Recompile the kernel and enable the dummy driver. Lee > Thank you > > Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On M

Re: [Alsa-user] snd-dummy sound driver

2006-07-24 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 08:54 -0700, csarid wrote: > Is there a particular entry to look for and enable once in the kernel > config? I see " Sound card support" which seems to be the closest, > but no designation for a dummy selection to enable. > Thenk you CONFIG_SND=m and CONFIG_SND_DUMMY=m Lee

Re: [Alsa-user] snd-dummy sound driver

2006-07-24 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 09:01 -0700, Bill Unruh wrote: > The kernel setup does NOT control the details of alsa. Um, if the ALSA shipped with the kernel is installed then yes, it does. > If alsa is enabled then all of the modules are compiled and > installed. The only way snd-dummy would not be the

Re: [Alsa-user] Fwd: ALSA sound mixer - recording using USB headphone with microphone

2006-07-24 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 13:07 -0500, V. Ananda Krishnan wrote: > > Does "aplay -D hw:0,0 file.wav" play the file? > NO. I am not able to make progress in debugging the cofig info. OK, well that won't work as the USB audio is device 1. What exactly happens when you try "aplay -D hw:1,0 file.wav"?

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-24 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 20:30 +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Hello, > > I try to make my 5.1 speaker set work properly on an SB Live! Player > with Alsa from kernel 2.6.17. Most things work well, but there is > something that feels like a bug or inconsistency in user interface: > > The volume for rea

Re: [Alsa-user] Fwd: ALSA sound mixer - recording using USB headphone with microphone

2006-07-24 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 14:53 -0500, V. Ananda Krishnan wrote: > Lee Revell wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 14:37 -0500, V. Ananda Krishnan wrote: > >> Lee Revell wrote: > >>> On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 13:07 -0500, V. Ananda Krishnan wrote: > >>>>&g

Re: [Alsa-user] Fwd: ALSA sound mixer - recording using USB headphone with microphone

2006-07-24 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 15:15 -0500, V. Ananda Krishnan wrote: > None of the "function keys (F1 thru F9) seems to function for the > alsamixer display. Only the "left/right/up/down" arrow keys work. > Also > the space bar doesn't work either. You must have a very old alsamixer then. Use "m" to

Re: [Alsa-user] Fwd: ALSA sound mixer - recording using USB headphone with microphone

2006-07-24 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 15:40 -0500, V. Ananda Krishnan wrote: > Lee Revell wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 15:15 -0500, V. Ananda Krishnan wrote: > >> None of the "function keys (F1 thru F9) seems to function for the > >> alsamixer display. Only the &quo

Re: [Alsa-user] Fwd: ALSA sound mixer - recording using USB headphone with microphone

2006-07-24 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 14:37 -0500, V. Ananda Krishnan wrote: > Lee Revell wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 13:07 -0500, V. Ananda Krishnan wrote: > >>> Does "aplay -D hw:0,0 file.wav" play the file? > >> NO. I am not able to make progress in debugging the c

Re: [Alsa-user] Need help setting up .asoundrc

2006-07-26 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 16:13 -0700, Phil wrote: > The poor configuration above is what I came up with after reading the > .asoundrc guide. Which .asoundrc guide? > I wouldn't be attempting to create said file if it > worked automatically. Given that sound is reaching the computer from > the dev

Re: [Alsa-user] Aliasing due to resampling?

2006-07-26 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 16:08 +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > From what I can tell, the cost of improving the mic input on > motherboards would be a zero cost item in hardware terms, but > manufacturers just don't seem to care, and therefore don't spend any > time even trying to improve it.

Re: [Alsa-user] Need help setting up .asoundrc

2006-07-26 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 16:46 -0700, Phil wrote: > Lee Revell wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 16:13 -0700, Phil wrote: > >> The poor configuration above is what I came up with after reading the > >> .asoundrc guide. > > > > Which .asoundrc guide? > >

Re: [Alsa-user] Need help setting up .asoundrc

2006-07-26 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 15:01 -0700, Phil wrote: > I have verified that the capture device works under Windows. When > running under MythTV, I can get some relevant audio (mono, 8000Hz) via > $ aplay /dev/audio1. > That is not how ALSA works. You use device names like hw:0 or hw:1, not /dev nodes

Re: [Alsa-user] snd-dummy sound driver

2006-07-27 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 11:36 -0700, csarid wrote: > Bill, > > Thanks for the suggestions. I did look and search through > the /lib/modules directory and their was nothing with snd-... at all > The distribution is RedHat 3 Enterprise. > That's an ancient distro. Even RHEL 4.x comes with a 2 yea

Re: [Alsa-user] Need help setting up .asoundrc

2006-07-27 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 16:46 -0700, Phil wrote: > Lee Revell wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 16:13 -0700, Phil wrote: > >> The poor configuration above is what I came up with after reading the > >> .asoundrc guide. > > > > Which .asoundrc guide? >

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 12:47 +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Yes, I talk about useability which just sucks. I imagine a more clear > frontend/backend infrastructure, an ultimate solution: > > - access to all backend settings is exported with consistent, fixed > names >(keywords) > - a wrapper in

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 12:47 +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Could I get a copy of that patch? > Check the alsa-devel archive. > Honnestly, the current set of mixer controls is cumbersome. $user can > hardly understand what all the controls are good for, and mixer > software is not user-friendly eit

Re: [Alsa-user] How to change channel names on Audigy?

2006-07-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 20:21 +0200, Lukas Zapletal wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to change my channel names. My mixers (gnome-mixer, > alsamixergui) doesnt separate input and output channels and I have to > guess which "Microphone" is the recording channel and which > "Microphone" is the recordi

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 21:48 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > If you, the developers, have already written the driver and know > how it works, what hardware specs do you need ? > > It's the documentation issue and/or HAL issue. The guy expresses my > thoughts very well. > > I'm glad yet another en

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 22:03 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > Look, after more than a year you added a phrase about no need of > .asoundrc. Um... this is documented all over the place. The page that I added it to is not even maintained by the ALSA team. And I am NOT an "ALSA developer". If you

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 23:38 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > What I know, is that when I bought M-Audio Revoluion 7.1 - fully > supported > by ALSA, I couldn't make "capture loopback" work - documentation said > nothing > on it. Blah blah blah, same old inflammatory complaints, no offer to help..

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 00:03 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > Did you help the guy with M-Audio Revolution 5.1 ? > > I DID tell him everything I knew based on my M-Audio Revolution 7.1, > but, apparently, the cards are different. > > Are you satisfied that yet another ALSA end user stepped on the

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 23:38 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > My logic is simple: > > * if you are saying that a feature is supported, this means you've > tested it - otherwise you are simply irresponsible. You're assuming that ALSA developers have access to every sound card that ALSA supports wh

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 00:38 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > Do you, the developers, test the card before announcing it as > supported ? > No, the ALSA developers rely on feedback from users to determine what is supported. The ALSA developers only have access to a small fraction of the supported

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 00:47 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > It should be 'why', not 'what' in "what the controls for each tested > feature ...". You don't seem to understand that vendors can customize the hardware such that the same mixer controls do different things on different devices. The on

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 00:54 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > Then what was exactly the report claiming that M-Audio Revolution 5.1 > indeed worked ? > > Where can end users find in order to read it ans assess its > credibility ? > > That is, to see whether the end user indeed checked the featured

Re: [Alsa-user] Inconsistent mixer controls (SB Live!, Surround speakers)

2006-07-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 01:11 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > You don't seem to understand that some end ALSA users have exactly > the same HW as the one used by ALSA developers to develop the driver. > > Having the controls of tested features written down would really help > such ALSA users. > A

Re: [Alsa-user] M-Audio Revolution 5.1 support

2006-08-01 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 03:55 -0400, Andrew K. Bressen wrote: > Jochen Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > in response to the recent thread about (the absence of) capture > > support for the M-Audio Revolution 5.1 sound card, I started a web > > page with information about what works and what doesn'

Re: [Alsa-user] No /proc/asound/card0/pcm0c/oss (mmap'ing OSS app)

2006-08-01 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 18:11 +0200, Matthias Czapla wrote: > Have to try that one, but I wished it would work without these ugly > dsp-wrappers. Furthermore I would be interested if the non-existence > of the /proc/asound/card?/pcm?c directories is intentional with the > ALSA drivers included with

Re: [Alsa-user] No /proc/asound/card0/pcm0c/oss (mmap'ing OSS app)

2006-08-01 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 18:57 +0200, Matthias Czapla wrote: > On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 12:23:11PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 18:11 +0200, Matthias Czapla wrote: > > > Have to try that one, but I wished it would work without these ugly > > > dsp-wra

Re: [Alsa-user] Building ALSA

2006-08-01 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 11:21 -0700, Kartik Ramachandran wrote: > Hi, > > I am a newbie here. I want to install ALSA drivers on a Hardware Board > running Linux Kernel 2.6.13 > > I have the Kernel Source installed in there. > > > > I did ./configure –with-kernel= --with-cards=emu10k1 – > with-

Re: [Alsa-user] skype and other sound player

2006-08-02 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 19:07 +0530, François Patte wrote: > Bonjour, > > I try to have both xmms and skype at the same time: I would like to hear > people calling me while I am listening some music with xmms. > > Skype and xmms use both ALSA, but when I want to use skype while xmms is > playing, I

Re: [Alsa-user] dmix device and mplayer

2006-08-02 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 12:25 +1200, Nick Wright wrote: > On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 05:33:52AM +1200, Nick Wright wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 02:03:22PM +0200, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > > > Nick Wright wrote: > > > > When using the dmix plugin to mix sounds for multiple apps, mplayer > > > > perf

Re: [Alsa-user] loading/unloading modules

2006-08-03 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 15:32 +0200, Martin Reitbauer wrote: > - do i need to compile anew other parts of ALSA as well, when i do an > upgrade (like alsa-utils, for example)? > No > - when i'm re-loading the driver after the upgrade -- do i have to > unload all the modules first (snd_hda_intel,

Re: [Alsa-user] snd-hda-intel no master control in alsamixer

2006-08-03 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 22:25 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > Hi Lee, if your there. I've seen a couple of guys having problems with no > master control in alsamixer using snd-hda-intel driver. One posted to this > list, but in HTML, and probably was ignored (quite rightly), and is using a > Hasee Q31

Re: [Alsa-user] snd-hda-intel no master control in alsamixer

2006-08-03 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 22:25 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > --- amixer > Simple mixer control 'PCM',0 > Capabilities: pvolume > Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right > Limits: Playback 0 - 255 > Mono: > Front Left: Playback 255 [100%] > Front Right: Playback 255 [100%] >

Re: [Alsa-user] snd-hda-intel no master control in alsamixer

2006-08-03 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 22:41 +0200, Jaroslaw Gorny wrote: > And I'm the one another with the same problem. My e-mail was ignored > here > too ;) > SigmaTel STAC9200 (at least system-config-sound on FC5 says that). > > The number of channels in alsamixer differs between reboots. On some > reboots

Re: [Alsa-user] snd-hda-intel no master control in alsamixer

2006-08-03 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 21:07 +, 雷 致强 wrote: > Hi,Lee. > I'm the one who use Hasee Q310N laptop and Gentoo. I don't know if > these information can help to solve problems. > The ALC861 I have tried 3stack, 3stack-dig, 6stack-dig, and auto model > options. > No matter which one I use, I will get t

Re: [Alsa-user] snd-hda-intel no master control in alsamixer

2006-08-03 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 08:29 +1000, Keith Owens wrote: > Lee Revell (on Thu, 03 Aug 2006 16:32:14 -0400) wrote: > >There's really no telling. It's misleading to say "snd-hda-intel is > >supported" because every single laptop and motherboard with > >snd-hd

Re: [Alsa-user] snd-hda-intel no master control in alsamixer

2006-08-04 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 23:56 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > Thanks for your replies Lee. I've relayed them to the 2 guys, and > suggested that an alternative is to go for a USB one, if they are > serious about needing audio. USB audio has its own set of issues with mixer control naming - also dmix is

Re: [Alsa-user] Apple opens kernel source - can Linux audio be improved in the light of this ?

2006-08-08 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 11:22 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > Hello All, > > according to > > http://lists.apple.com/archives/Darwin-dev/2006/Aug/msg00067.html > > Apple opens kernel source. > > A lot (if not all) of audio cards come with MacOS X drivers. > > Can Linux kernel implement Apple ke

Re: [Alsa-user] Trouble with EMU10K1X and upgrading

2006-08-09 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 00:18 +1000, Geoff Shang wrote: > First, the problems. We are experiencing two problems with the card: > > 1. It seems that we can play multiple audio sources if the sources > use ALSA output directly. If OSS output is used, only one source can > play at a time. Correct.

Re: [Alsa-user] Trouble with EMU10K1X and upgrading

2006-08-09 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 17:56 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > OSS apps can probably benefit from http://fort.xdas.com/~kor/oss2jack/ > - I haven't tried it myself. > > I mean simultaneous playback by a number of OSS apps. > > I haven't tried this myself though. > That requires you to run JACK wh

Re: [Alsa-user] another in kernel alsa update that breaks backward compatibilty?

2006-08-09 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 18:46 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 11:40:02 -0400 > Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Greetings; > > > > The old fart is back again. :) > > > > I've just done a divide and conquer on kernel versions, and have found that > > while I DO ha

Re: [Alsa-user] another in kernel alsa update that breaks backward compatibilty?

2006-08-09 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 17:56 +0200, Benoit Fouet wrote: > hi, > > Sergei Steshenko wrote: > > >On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 11:40:02 -0400 > >Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >>Greetings; > >> > >>The old fart is back again. :) > >> > >>I've just done a divide and conquer on kernel v

Re: [Alsa-user] another in kernel alsa update that breaks backward compatibilty?

2006-08-09 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 12:07 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > This walks and qwacks like the alsa interface has been diddled, again. > But since it KNOWS what hardware its running, in this case an audigy > 2, not Value, so why was apparently working code broken and then > commited to the kernel tree?

Re: [Alsa-user] Alsa Devices Impossible to Address

2006-08-11 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 10:50 +0100, Cefn Hoile wrote: > Now I have a way to address the cards, I need to implementing the > virtualisation of these individual cards into a single mega-sound > device! > For anyone who's interested, the plan is to build this... > http://cefn.com/curiosity/tag/pipe

Re: [Alsa-user] hda-intel problems

2006-08-20 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 13:25 -0700, John Gruenenfelder wrote: > Hello, > > I've got a Dell Inspiron E1405 laptop which uses the hda-intel ALSA driver. Try passing the "model=ref" option when loading snd-hda-intel. > A much less pressing issue, is that there are almost no controls present via > al

Re: [Alsa-user] hda-intel problems

2006-08-20 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 08:28 +0530, Damodharan R wrote: > Alsamixer doesnt show such controls in my case also. I see the > following error when booting > hda_codec.c: Unknown model for STAC9200. Using the BIOS defaults. > > The major problem I have is MIC doesnot work. Can anyone say how to > fix

Re: [Alsa-user] alsa-driver-1.0.11rc5 on SuSE won't compile

2006-08-22 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 22:43 +0200, D.Tamm wrote: > >> The distro is SuSE 8.3 and the kernel 2.6.7 I think. > > > > Run "uname -r" to know which kernel you are running and check at the > > kernel source version is exactly the same as the running kernel version or > > the kernel you want to compile

Re: [Alsa-user] Stop and Start alsa in FC5

2006-08-22 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 23:39 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > Since FC1 I've installed planetccrma stuff, and have an alsasound shellscript > for stopping and starting Alsa in /etc/rc.d/init.d. > > there have been queries on the Fedora list as how to stop and start Alsa on > FC5. I have 2 FC5 installs

Re: [Alsa-user] no sound with e-mu 1820

2006-08-22 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 00:06 +0200, Pille wrote: > hi, > i´m using ubuntu 6.06 lts. i have 2 soundcards installed. here the > output of /proc/asound/cards: > > 0 [EMU1212m ]: Audigy2 - E-mu 1212m [4001] > E-mu 1212m [4001] (rev.3, serial:0x40011102) at > 0xec00, irq 201 >

Re: [Alsa-user] Stop and Start alsa in FC5

2006-08-22 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 00:22 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > Well thanks Lee. That's answered that. > It might answer it - it's just a guess ;-) Lee - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? G

Re: [Alsa-user] no sound with e-mu 1820

2006-08-22 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 00:57 +0200, Pille wrote: > what do i have to do now? This device is not yet supported by ALSA. You can wait for it to be supported. The upcoming ALSA 1.0.12 release will have improved support, but I still don't think it will work yet. Lee ---

Re: [Alsa-user] No sound on new notebook

2006-08-22 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 18:48 -0400, Chris O'Regan wrote: > Can anyone help? I'm out of ideas. > What codec does your sound card use? Check /proc/asound/card0/codec-something (I don't remember the filename) Lee > > Chris > > On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 12:12 -0400, Chris O'Regan wrote: > > I'm tryin

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