Re: [linux-audio-dev] Anyone to Desktop Architects Meeting 3?

2006-11-17 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Thu, 16 Nov 2006 13:09:11 -0500, Paul Davis wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 18:50 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > Hi, > > > > is anyone interested in participating in the third Desktop Architects > > Meething (DAM) on December 7-8 in Beaverton near Portland, Oreg

[linux-audio-dev] Anyone to Desktop Architects Meeting 3?

2006-11-16 Thread Takashi Iwai
Hi, is anyone interested in participating in the third Desktop Architects Meething (DAM) on December 7-8 in Beaverton near Portland, Oregon? I'm not able to attend it (I'll be in vacation in Japan exactly at that time), and hope someone could be there as a linux audio developer... For details, pl

Re: [linux-audio-dev] M$/SuSE/ALSA ?

2006-11-16 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Fri, 10 Nov 2006 09:21:24 -0500, Dave Phillips wrote: > > Greetings: > > As many of you already know, SuSE has entered into an interesting 5-year > plan with Microsoft. You can find the details on Slashdot and > elsewheres, so I won't rehash them here. > > What isn't mentioned is the ALSA/S

[linux-audio-dev] Re: LADSPA AC3 encoder?

2006-01-30 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Sun, 29 Jan 2006 01:05:12 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > > Question for the DSP gurus: > > How hard would it be to implement an AC3 encoder as a LADSPA plugin that > could be used in an ALSA config to encode stereo and 5.1 sources on the > fly? Many Windows drivers seem to contain one, and it wou

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-21 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Mon, 20 Jun 2005 23:50:38 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 18:47 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > The set-up is, however, not only the choice of the soundcard, but it > > includes eventually the choice and set-up of devices. For example, > > the defaul

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-21 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Tue, 21 Jun 2005 01:59:32 +0200, Jens M Andreasen wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 00:10 +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote: > > > > (And remember GNOME & KDE are multi-platform - so I don't > > > > think GNOME & KDE apps can use ALSA directly.) > > > > > > They don't have to use ALSA directly, but

Re: [linux-audio-dev] What parts of Linux audio simply suck ? - ALSA

2005-06-20 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Mon, 20 Jun 2005 13:26:06 -0300, Juan Linietsky wrote: > > Takashi Iwai wrote: > > >>-Module configuration parameters. WHY ON EARTH do I have to specify the > >>IO port for mpu401, joystick, etc as driver options when loading the > >>modules for my soundc

Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great? (was Re: [linux-audio-dev] Best-performing Linux-friendly MIDI interfaces?)

2005-06-20 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Thu, 16 Jun 2005 10:30:29 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > > > > i don't think that, even if we had had fons on board at that time, that > > > the idea of using a DLL rather than interrupts to truly drive the whole > > > system would have occured to anyone in 1996-2000. > > > > Probably not, but I r

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-20 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Sat, 18 Jun 2005 20:59:11 -0400, Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote: > > I think that the core question is do Windows and OS X users have to know > anything about "sound servers" to get multiple applications to talk to the > soundcard? The answer is obviously no. > > The second question is do Windows and

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [linux-audio-user] What parts of Linux audio simply suck ?

2005-06-20 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Sun, 19 Jun 2005 16:01:39 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > >SOUNBLASTER LIVE MIXER: > > > >total mystery > > This was never really an ALSA problem. The confusion due to the large > number of mixer elements is resolved with recent versions of alsamixer > (by splitting the controls into Pl

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [linux-audio-user] What parts of Linux audio simply suck ?

2005-06-20 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Sun, 19 Jun 2005 12:42:34 -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > >looks like dmix solves the problem but it seems like it's not that > easy to set it up (I haven't tried since I have soundcard with hw > support for multiple channels). This should have been improved. If you still have difficulties

Re: [linux-audio-dev] What parts of Linux audio simply suck ? - ALSA

2005-06-20 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Sun, 19 Jun 2005 22:41:03 -0300, Juan Linietsky wrote: > > ALSA related, I hate: > > -Dmix. It's not fair, why not the windows/beos approach which uses > primary/secondary buffers? so you can > AT THE SAME TIME access asyncronously to the audio device (Jack) and > have lower priority audio m

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-20 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Mon, 20 Jun 2005 11:33:18 +0100, Damon Chaplin wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 11:34 -0400, Dave Phillips wrote: > > > Ideally we'd be rid of artsd, esd, and all the legacy from OSS/Free. > > We'd have one sound server (JACK?) and software mixing would be enabled > > by default. The remai

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-20 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Mon, 20 Jun 2005 00:23:57 +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote: > > > > But the core ALSA developers work for SuSE.  There must be > > some other explanation for this one. > > > > Maybe they just felt that dmix was not ready until > > recently.  Or maybe their desktop people really do not ever > > ta

Re: [linux-audio-dev] RME HDSP MADI drivers?

2005-02-10 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Mon, 07 Feb 2005 18:56:39 +0100, thomas charbonnel wrote: > > Marije Baalman wrote : > > Paul Davis wrote: > > > > >>the MADI driver was written by winfried rietsch, and has been in ALSA > > >>for at least 6 months. > > >> > > >> > > > > ok, that's great :) > > > > then we can consider g

[linux-audio-dev] Re: problem latencytest: modprobe rtc: no such device

2005-01-05 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 5 Jan 2005 13:46:11 +0100, Maarten de Boer wrote: > > Hi Takashi, > > Thanks for your reply. > > > Did you enable HPET? > > Hmm, it seems so... I configured my kernel using the debian .config > as oldconfig. > > $ grep HPET /boot/config-2.6.10-ck2-pentium4 > CONFIG_HPET_TIMER=y > CONF

[linux-audio-dev] Re: problem latencytest: modprobe rtc: no such device

2005-01-05 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 5 Jan 2005 11:20:01 +0100, Maarten de Boer wrote: > > Hello, > > I decided to give kernel 2.6.10 a try, so I installed it in combination > with Con Kolivas system system responsiveness patch. But when I try to > run the latencytest (0.5.5), I run into the following problem: > > $ modprob

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: [linux-audio-dev] muse and /dev/rtc

2004-11-22 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Mon, 22 Nov 2004 13:21:07 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > > (added alsa-devel to cc) > > On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 18:53 +0100, Alfons Adriaensen wrote: > > Which leads to the following question I've been asking myself for some time: > > > > the ALSA sequencer API seems to allow *timestamped* events -

[linux-audio-dev] Re: [Alsa-devel] Firewire Audio Card Support

2004-11-18 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Thu, 18 Nov 2004 19:54:58 +, Pieter Palmers wrote: > > Why don't we support the manufacturers that do support us? After all, > there are some that provide us with what we need, and I don't see that > mentioned that often. I'm quite confident that for most needs you can > find a card from

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [announce] [patch] Voluntary Kernel Preemption Patch

2004-07-16 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Thu, 15 Jul 2004 21:50:29 -0700, Florin Andrei wrote: > > On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 22:25, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > What we need to do is to encourage audio testers to use ALSA drivers, to > > enable CONFIG_SND_DEBUG in the kernel build and to set > > /proc/asound/*/*/xrun_debug and to send us t

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [announce] [patch] Voluntary Kernel Preemption Patch

2004-07-14 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Mon, 12 Jul 2004 20:01:51 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > > >OK, thanks. The problem areas there are the timer-based route cache > >flushing and reiserfs. > > > >We can probably fix the route caceh thing by rescheduling the timer after > >having handled 1000 routes or whatever, although I do wonder

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [announce] [patch] Voluntary Kernel Preemption Patch

2004-07-14 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Mon, 12 Jul 2004 21:01:16 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > > Note that this info because available because someone set > > /proc/asound/*/*/xrun_debug. We need more people doing that. > > - > > This goes back to the need for ALSA documentation. Someone needs to > write some. This will probably

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [announce] [patch] Voluntary Kernel Preemption Patch

2004-07-14 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 14 Jul 2004 05:36:31 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 04:51, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > At Tue, 13 Jul 2004 17:45:30 -0400, > > Lee Revell wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 17:29, Andrew Morton wrote: > >

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [announce] [patch] Voluntary Kernel Preemption Patch

2004-07-14 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Tue, 13 Jul 2004 17:45:30 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 17:29, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Would this explain these? When running JACK with settings that need > > > sub-millisecond latencies, I get them when I generate any loa

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [announce] [patch] Voluntary Kernel Preemption Patch

2004-07-13 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Tue, 13 Jul 2004 02:25:01 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Takashi Iwai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > t Tue, 13 Jul 2004 02:00:25 -0700, > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > > Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > &

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [announce] [patch] Voluntary Kernel Preemption Patch

2004-07-13 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Tue, 13 Jul 2004 02:00:25 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Here are some more. These result from using mplayer with ALSA OSS > > emulation: > > > > Jul 13 04:31:49 mindpipe kernel: > > Jul 13 04:31:49 mindpipe kernel: ALSA > > /usr/src/alsa-cv

[linux-audio-dev] Re: desktop and multimedia as an afterthought?

2004-07-13 Thread Takashi Iwai
improvement of the latter (often contradictorily)... -- Takashi Iwai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>ALSA Developer - www.alsa-project.org

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [announce] [patch] Voluntary Kernel Preemption Patch

2004-07-13 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Mon, 12 Jul 2004 17:46:39 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > resierfs: yes, it's a problem. I "fixed" it multiple times in 2.4, but the > > > fixes ended up breaking the fs in subtle ways and I eventually gave up. > > > > > > > Interesting. Th

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: [linux-audio-dev] snd-hdsp oddities

2004-07-02 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Fri, 2 Jul 2004 12:56:06 +, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Shouting "DON'T USE 2.6" isn't a good solution. Though, we need to > > inform to "set LD_ASSUME_KERNEL as a workaround"... > > Pardon my ignorance but how does one do this? As a part of the > config before compiling kernel or?

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: [linux-audio-dev] snd-hdsp oddities

2004-07-02 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Fri, 2 Jul 2004 13:26:44 +0200, Florian Schmidt wrote: > > On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 11:40:28 +0200 > Takashi Iwai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > When the dust settles from the kernel and NPTL, 2.6 will be more > > > viable. Right now, even though

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: [linux-audio-dev] snd-hdsp oddities

2004-07-02 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Thu, 01 Jul 2004 22:16:39 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > > >I am using the latest 2.6.7 kernel (tried also 2.6.5) but with hdsp I cannot s > >elect anything lower than 1024x2 buffer settings in jackd without having massi > >ve xruns. > > Give up on 2.6 for now. If you can't give up on it, then at

Re: [linux-audio-dev] TiMidity as a CPU hog

2004-06-11 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Thu, 10 Jun 2004 15:47:07 -0400, Dave Phillips wrote: > > Greetings: > > Can someone explain why TiMidity eventually hogs the CPU at 95% or > more after running for a while (like 12 hours or more) ? I'm talking > about hogging the chip while TiMidity is idling, not playing. I'm using > i

Re: [linux-audio-dev] timidity++ live

2004-06-04 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Fri, 04 Jun 2004 14:25:01 -0400, Dave Phillips wrote: > > Takashi Iwai wrote: > > >I'm not sure in which situation it hogs the CPU on Dave's system. > >But, in general, it might be because of the sample interpolation. > >The recent timidity uses an ex

Re: [linux-audio-dev] timidity++ live

2004-06-04 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Fri, 04 Jun 2004 11:09:56 -0400, Dave Phillips wrote: > > Jens M Andreasen wrote: > > >On fre, 2004-06-04 at 02:52, Dave Phillips wrote: > >... > >... > > > > > >>The effects settings reduce CPU consumption. Btw, TiMidity will start to > >>hog the CPU after a while. > >> > >> > > > >A

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Problem modprobing latency-test module forthe latency benchmark: rtc -> no such device

2004-05-24 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Mon, 24 May 2004 11:12:10 -0400, Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote: > > > first of all, the module won't work for x86-64 (yet)... > > due to its stack-tracing, the module is dedicated for i386. > > > > (of course, any patches welcome ;) > > Yes, but I am running 32-bit version of Linux though. ah, then

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Problem modprobing latency-test module for the latency benchmark: rtc -> no such device

2004-05-24 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Sun, 23 May 2004 22:47:34 -0400, Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've been trying to benchmark my notebook with the latency-test. However, > after a successful compile, instructions tell me that I need to install the > latency-test module before running tests. Yet, if I do modprobe > l

Re: [linux-audio-dev] kernel 2.6.6 just out

2004-05-13 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 12 May 2004 15:22:06 +0200, Alfons Adriaensen wrote: > > On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 03:03:27PM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: > > > Jens M Andreasen hat gesagt: // Jens M Andreasen wrote: > > > > To reiterate the question: SuSE 9.0 or Mandrake 10.0? > > I've been using a standard SuSE 9.0 (

Re: [Agnula-Developers] Re: [linux-audio-dev] Request to audio

2004-05-12 Thread Takashi Iwai
fference being that we don't see it and we don't need to > > upload it > > Takashi Iwai summarized: > > 1. is the firmware binary is a program or a data? > > 2. can we force the h/w vendor to show the source code under GPL (if > >exists) in practic

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN} Aeolus

2004-05-05 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 5 May 2004 01:53:34 +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > > On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 05:50:10PM -0400, Jesse Chappell wrote: > > > The clthreads.h file in classlibs needs an #include > > to compile on my system (glibc 2.3.2, gcc-3.2.2). > > I'm somewhat surprised by this. My gcc is 3.3.1. The

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Request to audio related LiveCD packagers

2004-05-04 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Tue, 04 May 2004 11:03:10 +0200, Andrea Glorioso wrote: > > > "Jens" == Jens M Andreasen writes: > > > Hi! Am I the only one to believe that this firmware discussion > > is getting a bit out of touch? I mean, the firmware is not > > running inside a gnu system, right? It is r

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Request to audio related LiveCD packagers

2004-05-04 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Tue, 04 May 2004 11:08:28 +0200, Andrea Glorioso wrote: > > > so far, alsa-firmware package is released from the understanding > > of 1 as "data". but if someone insists it as program, yes, it > > can be a problem. > > And what's worse, the distinction between "program" and "d

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Request to audio related LiveCD packagers

2004-05-03 Thread Takashi Iwai
over that the firmware is actually non-free). sure, the correct distribution under GPL would be the best case, i.e. including the source code of the orignal assembly codes (if really exists). basically, it is a decision of the h/w vendor who provides the DSP binary, not by me. if the GPL is

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Request to audio related LiveCD packagers

2004-05-03 Thread Takashi Iwai
ween alsa-tools andalsa-firmware done > explicitly to allow distribution of alsa-tools for distros which > prefer not to distribute alsa-firmware? basically it was thought to decrease the size of the package. firmware data are rarely changed while alsa-tools programs are often updated. -- Takashi Iwai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>ALSA Developer - www.alsa-project.org

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Request to audio related LiveCD packagers

2004-05-03 Thread Takashi Iwai
nce nor author mention (probably because > it's only 250 lines of code). I believe it was written by Takashi or > Jaroslav, and that this omission could be easily corrected. Can anyone > confirm this ? no, it was written by Chris Rankin. i believe he wouldn't disagree to add a GPL note. -- Takashi Iwai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>ALSA Developer - www.alsa-project.org

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] swh plugins release

2003-12-03 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 3 Dec 2003 14:54:44 +, Steve Harris wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 02:55:48PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > as far as i understand, there is no strict definition of behavior > > about type punning. with GCC, you can use a union as a workaround (as > >

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] swh plugins release

2003-12-03 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 3 Dec 2003 11:18:42 +, Steve Harris wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 10:41:05 +, Mike Rawes wrote: > > -O2 will include the -fstrict-aliasing flag for gcc, so it's turned on here. > > I've no idea what -O6 does (intel compiler, pgcc?). -O3 is the highest in the > > gcc documentat

Re: [linux-audio-dev] another kernel patch?

2003-12-01 Thread Takashi Iwai
At 29 Nov 2003 22:03:09 -0600, Jack O'Quin wrote: > > Roger Larsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > That's right. But, Paul and I have been working closely with this and > > > don't have much faith in the correctness of the 2.4 scheduler. > > > > Have you told kernel developers about this?

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: Linux VERSUS OSS ???

2003-10-17 Thread Takashi Iwai
At 16 Oct 2003 21:04:01 +0300, Jussi Laako wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 23:33, Paul Davis wrote: > > > yes, sure, so the docs could be better and make it easier for you to > > find out how to do this. but the point was that OSS offers *no* xrun > > control. xruns can't be detected in user spa

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Athlon64

2003-10-15 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:21:34 -0700, Tim Hockin wrote: > > I'm potentially in the market for a new box before end of year. Has anyone > found anything to show whether Athlon64 (or the high-end FX line) are worth > it for audio? Assume some legacy audio code under legacy OS :-/ i've been using AM

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: Linux VERSUS OSS ???

2003-10-14 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Tue, 14 Oct 2003 11:57:17 -0500 (GMT-05:00), Taybin Rutkin wrote: > > Defiant until the very end. Almost admirable. well, i wouldn't stop him keeping on programming with OSS API. surely we'll keep OSS API in the future, too. so, as long as he is satisfied, it doesn't matter :) but i'd not re

Re: [linux-audio-dev] LL-patch for SuSE kernel?

2003-09-15 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Mon, 15 Sep 2003 13:05:26 +0200, Uwe Koloska wrote: > > Takashi Iwai wrote: > >> > >>- what is the reason for starting the init without full > >>capabilities? (to use jackstart, I have to rebuild the kernel > >>with all capabilities se

Re: [linux-audio-dev] LL-patch for SuSE kernel?

2003-09-15 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Mon, 15 Sep 2003 11:04:05 +0200, Uwe Koloska wrote: > > Hello, > > Takashi Iwai wrote: > > > > yes, suse kernel (since 8.1) already includes most of the > > necessary changes. some parts are missing but they are on > > the rare code path, which has bee

Re: [linux-audio-dev] how hard could this be?

2003-09-12 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Fri, 12 Sep 2003 12:29:58 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > > http://news.harmony-central.com/Newp/2003/junXion-10.html > > the ALSA sequencer already provides 90% of the infrastructure > described. all that is needed is something to read from the game > controller and queue immediate MIDI events .

Re: [linux-audio-dev] LL-patch for SuSE kernel?

2003-09-12 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:46:36 +0200, Uwe Koloska wrote: > > Hello, > > is there anyone with a version of the LL-patch for SuSE kernels? > (I use 8.2 with 2.4.20). Some hunks of the patch are always in > the SuSE kernel (sometimes with small changes as other variable > names) -- and this lead m

Re: [linux-audio-dev] The outline of Timidity

2003-09-12 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 10 Sep 2003 16:45:36 +0530 (IST), Ravishankar K.H wrote: > > Thanks for the reply, > > Initially I could able to tweak the parameters like MAX_VOICES and get > timidity working on Simputer (You might have heard about it). But when I > tried to go through the actual code and modify it for

Re: [linux-audio-dev] The outline of Timidity

2003-09-12 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 10 Sep 2003 03:58:27 -0700, Juan Linietsky wrote: > > On Monday 08 September 2003 23:10, Ravishankar K.H wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Can anybody give me a link/document which gives the details about Timidity > > code. Since, I have recently started working on audio software > > (particularly, T

[linux-audio-dev] Re: [Alsa-devel] [ANN] MidiSport and Tascam firmware loader 0.1

2003-08-29 Thread Takashi Iwai
Hi, At Wed, 27 Aug 2003 20:53:48 +0200, Martin Langer wrote: > > > Firmware loaders for Midiman and Tascam USB MIDI devices > > These packages allow you to use Midiman's MidiSport USB MIDI interfaces and > Tascam's USB Audio interfaces with Linux. These devices require a firmware > download bef

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Linux 2.6 not a latency panacea?

2003-08-14 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Thu, 14 Aug 2003 02:48:40 +0200, Christian Henz wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 03:09:10PM -0700, Joshua Haberman wrote: > > I am distressed. It was my understanding that the 2.5/2.6 kernel branch > > was undergoing significant scheduler and latency work, and that 2.6 > > would eliminate

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Linux 2.6 not a latency panacea?

2003-08-14 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Thu, 14 Aug 2003 02:55:28 +0300 (EEST), Kai Vehmanen wrote: > > For example, one new approach to the problem SCHED_SOFTRR, see: > http://www.xmailserver.org/linux-patches/softrr.html > http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0307.1/1729.html > > It's unlikely to get something like this e

Re: [OT] Re: [linux-audio-dev] Linux 2.6 not a latency panacea?

2003-08-14 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Thu, 14 Aug 2003 16:27:37 +0200, Robert Jonsson wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I also found 2.6.0-test[123] to be less responsive than 2.4.x-ll, or even > > > stock 2.4.x. I've also experienced XMMS dropouts under load (for example > > > compiling Muse) > > > > > > Some behaviour I've noticed is that

[linux-audio-dev] Re: [Alsa-devel] [ANN] hdspmixer-1.1

2003-07-28 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Mon, 28 Jul 2003 11:24:06 +0200, I wrote: > > Hi Thomas, > > At Sun, 27 Jul 2003 17:44:57 +0200 (CEST), > Thomas Charbonnel wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > This is already a bugfix release : > > > > * Fixes a typo for Digiface and H9652 cards in HDSPMixerSelector.cxx > > (caused a cras

[linux-audio-dev] Re: [Alsa-devel] [ANN] hdspmixer-1.1

2003-07-28 Thread Takashi Iwai
Hi Thomas, At Sun, 27 Jul 2003 17:44:57 +0200 (CEST), Thomas Charbonnel wrote: > > Hi, > > This is already a bugfix release : > > * Fixes a typo for Digiface and H9652 cards in HDSPMixerSelector.cxx > (caused a crash on startup) > * Fixes a menu messing bug in Submix handling >

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Echo Darla/Gina/Layla/... on Linux

2003-03-21 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Thu, 20 Mar 2003 17:08:23 -0500, Paul Davis wrote: > > >Anyway, I believe this goes for a bunch of other cards as well, so no > >news here, really. > > there are plans to try to generalize the "firmware" loading for ALSA > drivers to load stuff from a regular file. the wavefront driver does >

Re: [linux-audio-dev] new realtime scheduling policy

2003-03-21 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Tue, 18 Mar 2003 12:23:55 -0500, Paul Davis wrote: > > >Anyway, I think this patch has its place on linux-kernel. It will most likely > >be rejected but it shows that people are interested in these issues... > >(Who knows Ingo might get another bright idea... :-) > > i agree, but i also raise

Re: [linux-audio-dev] MIDI Clock and ALSA seq

2003-02-14 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Fri, 14 Feb 2003 14:02:45 +, Steve Harris wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm trying to hack up a quick app that sends MIDI clock pulses in sync > with a ringbuffer playback. > > I've got it reading MIDI (thanks to Matthias' great exmaple code), but I > cant figure out how to send MIDI clock pulse

[linux-audio-dev] [Survey] sounds on mobos / notebooks with "headphone" as master

2003-02-14 Thread Takashi Iwai
g: 1. the name of the device (mobo, notebook) 2. whether "master" is connected to any jack? 3. output of "lspci -xv" (of the multimedia entry only) 4. output of "lspci -nv" (of the multimedia entry only) 5. ac97 codec name (found in /proc/asound/card0/ac97#0) thanks in adv

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: why is no-one responding are you all just a bunch of &*^%&^%^& wits???

2003-02-13 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:49:08 -0500, Paul Davis wrote: > > when ardour is in a state where i believe (rightly or wrongly) that a > reasonably typical target user can sit down and just use it without > encountering bugs when recording a typical 12-32 track piece, there > will be binaries. don't for

[linux-audio-dev] Re: [Jackit-devel] usetsched: RT-priority changer library

2003-02-06 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 05 Feb 2003 13:07:59 -0500, Paul Davis wrote: > > >i wrote a small helper library which allows applications to change > >their realtime-priority without having root privilege. > > > >the method is similar like utempter library: the library forks and > >execs the checker program which is s

[linux-audio-dev] usetsched: RT-priority changer library

2003-02-05 Thread Takashi Iwai
Hi, i wrote a small helper library which allows applications to change their realtime-priority without having root privilege. the method is similar like utempter library: the library forks and execs the checker program which is set as setuid-root. then the checker proves the invoking applicatio

Re: [linux-audio-dev] calling snd_seq_open in dynamically linked code

2003-01-27 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Sun, 26 Jan 2003 01:08:44 +, Dave Griffiths wrote: > > I'm getting errors when I call snd_seq_open in a plugin, which go away in a >standalone test app: > > ALSA lib dlmisc.c:100:(snd_dlsym_verify) unable to verify version for symbol >snd_config_hook_load > ALSA lib conf.c:2655:(snd_conf

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Linux Audio Hardware Selection

2003-01-24 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Fri, 24 Jan 2003 08:09:44 -0500, Paul Davis wrote: > > the other alternative that many of us here like rather a lot is JACK > (http://jackit.sf.net/), which provides a different model: data > sharing between applications, shared access to hardware, > sample-synchronous execution of all applicat

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Remedy for long compile times

2002-11-29 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Thu, 28 Nov 2002 22:46:17 -0500 (EST), Taybin Rutkin wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Robert Jonsson wrote: > > > I thought I would share some info about some utilities I found recently > > with regards to overly painful compile times. > > One tool I have used successfully is compilercache.

[linux-audio-dev] [ANN] TiMidity++ now on sourceforge

2002-10-31 Thread Takashi Iwai
Hi, the development tree of the latest TiMidity++ was moved onto sourceforge now. http://sourceforge.net/projects/timidity/ there is a cvs branch, "R2_12_0_pre1b", which includes bunch of enhancement patches. the patches sent on the timidity developer ML (in japanese) are (occasionally)

Re: Crappy Soundchips [was Re: [Alsa-user] Re: [linux-audio-dev] ]Re: image problem...

2002-10-23 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 23 Oct 2002 15:16:08 +0200, Werner Schweer wrote: > > On Wednesday 23 October 2002 11:51, Takashi Iwai wrote: > ... > > > - SB AWE models (ugh, crap!) > > > - Yamaha YMF7xx/DS-XG (some have reported that these work ok, > > > but in any case

Re: [Alsa-user] Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: image problem [was Re: [Alsa-devel] help for a levelmeter]

2002-10-23 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 23 Oct 2002 00:07:22 +0300 (EEST), Kai Vehmanen wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Peter L Jones wrote: > > > I don't want to have to learn about DSPs and stuff to be able to identify a > > _good_ sound card. I've currently got a shortlist for my next machine: > > * MidiMan Delta Audioph

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Patches for TiMidity++

2002-10-02 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Fri, 27 Sep 2002 22:57:15 +0100, Peter L Jones wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've tried to subscribe to Eric A Walsh's TiMidity mailing list but it doesn't > appear to be working... (or there's too little latency in my patience...) > So... would anyone be even vaguely interested in... > > a) an

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Sweep 0.5.0 -- Scrubby's surprise

2002-08-16 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Fri, 16 Aug 2002 07:25:03 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 11:06:33 -0400 > Dave Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, Conrad: > > > > A quick question: I have libsndfile 0.0.28 installed here, I need it > > because Ardour doesn't yet utilize 1.0.0. Is ther

[linux-audio-dev] Re: SoundIN-bug in ALSA (PPC) - USB driver ?

2002-07-04 Thread Takashi Iwai
At 04 Jul 2002 01:04:39 -0700, Alexander Carot wrote: > > Hej, > > I just bought a Quattro Audio interface which runs wonderfully under MAC > OS 9 but under Linux there's trouble with the soundin.When recording I > get lot of strange noise and "dropouts". > I'm running a version that is about 7

Re: [linux-audio-dev] help with bigendian unsigned long long

2002-05-13 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Thu, 09 May 2002 07:10:03 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > > >> i am reading a little endian unsigned long long (64 bit integer) as > >> two LE 32 bit units. i know how to do this on a LE host. can someone > >> tell me how to byte swap and OR them together to form the correct > >> value if the host

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [Alsa-devel] ALSA homepage redesign

2002-04-19 Thread Takashi Iwai
Hi, At Thu, 18 Apr 2002 21:32:07 +0200, Thierry Vignaud wrote: > > Fred Gleason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Is it perhaps time for an alsa-0.9.rc1 many people will be > > > frightened off by the beta designation, and certainly mislead into > > > thinking that 0.5 is the "safer" option.

Re: [linux-audio-dev] best method for timing

2002-04-18 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 17 Apr 2002 09:14:32 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > > >the best way is to retrieve the corresponding macro (e.g. get_cycles) > >for each architecture from asm/timex.h, and merge it into your > >source (or create a local header file). > > "#include " > > doesn't tell you where the header liv

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [OT] seriously screwed up Gtk installation ?FOLLOW-UP

2002-04-18 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Thu, 18 Apr 2002 10:29:24 +, Nick D wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 02:57:35 -0400 > Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > http://www.gentoo.org/ > > > > Gentoo seems to like the cutting edge; you can even > > try your hand at a gcc-3.x built system. > > :)) > with full optimisation,

Re: [linux-audio-dev] best method for timing

2002-04-17 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Tue, 16 Apr 2002 19:14:27 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > > Sure (thanks to Kai for pointing out > > -- > > #include > >... >cycles_t cycles = get_cycles(); >... > > --

[linux-audio-dev] Re: [Alsa-devel] RFC: Preemption on interrupt in Linux kernel

2001-12-12 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Tue, 11 Dec 2001 17:34:34 -0500, Paul Davis wrote: > > >I'm thinking for the benefits that low latency audio applications will > >have from preemption of running task in favour of the waiting task just > >at end of interrupt handler execution (instead of end of time slice). > > > >I don't beli

[linux-audio-dev] Re: more bad low latency results

2001-11-16 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Fri, 16 Nov 2001 09:39:23 +0100, Maarten de Boer wrote: > > Takashi Iwai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think 2.4.14 or 15pre are ok, too. The same LL patch should work. > > I applied the 2.4.15pre1AA patch on 2.4.14 (with some very small > modifications), a

[linux-audio-dev] Re: [Alsa-devel] latencytest results webpage

2001-11-16 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Fri, 16 Nov 2001 10:26:23 +0100, Maarten de Boer wrote: > > Hello, > > I am thinking of setting up a webpage, where people can post > their latencytest results, so we can keep an inventory of > the several combinations, categorising on: > > - processor > - SMP > - kernel version > - kernel

[linux-audio-dev] Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: more bad low latency results

2001-11-15 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Thu, 15 Nov 2001 19:17:19 +0100, Maarten de Boer wrote: > > > Or, will you try AA patches? It's not a bad idea, since the current > > (vanilla) VM is based on Andrea's code. Linus still doesn't include > > all his patches. > > Yes, I will try the AA patches, though I am not very sure which

[linux-audio-dev] Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: more bad low latency results

2001-11-15 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Thu, 15 Nov 2001 18:16:44 +0100, Maarten de Boer wrote: > > > I've used this setting: > > > > echo 6 > /proc/sys/vm/vm_scan_ratio > > echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/vm_mapped_ratio > > echo 4 > /proc/sys/vm/vm_balance_ratio > > Uuhh... I don't have these files... > $ ls /proc/sys/vm/ > bdflush kswap

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: more bad low latency results

2001-11-15 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Thu, 15 Nov 2001 17:28:19 +0100, Maarten de Boer wrote: > > > There are VM tuning parameters in /proc/sys/vm/vm_*_ratio files. > > Lowering these values tend to bring better latency results. > > Any recommended reading about this? I've used this setting: echo 6 > /proc/sys/vm/vm_scan_ratio

[linux-audio-dev] Re: more bad low latency results

2001-11-15 Thread Takashi Iwai
Hi, At Thu, 15 Nov 2001 12:35:16 +0100, Maarten de Boer wrote: > > Takashi Iwai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hmm, I'm using an Athlon 600 MHz and got promising results even with > > it. You can find the results (on different conditions) under > > ht

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: more bad low latency results

2001-11-14 Thread Takashi Iwai
Hi, At Wed, 14 Nov 2001 11:40:35 +0100, Maarten de Boer wrote: > > I did not get any reaction on one of my previous mails, so I send it > again. There have been numerous reports on this list about good LL, > and now I find it very frustrating I can not get it myself. Please > help me out! I'd re

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: [linux-audio-dev] minimum tick time

2001-11-06 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Tue, 06 Nov 2001 19:10:20 +0100, Abramo wrote: > > Takashi Iwai wrote: > > > > Hi Maarten, > > > > At Tue, 6 Nov 2001 17:12:01 +0100, > > Maarten de Boer wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I am trying to get low lat

Re: [linux-audio-dev] minimum tick time

2001-11-06 Thread Takashi Iwai
Hi Maarten, At Tue, 6 Nov 2001 17:12:01 +0100, Maarten de Boer wrote: > > Hello, > > I am trying to get low latency with alsa. > I have kernel 2.4.13 with the preemptive patch and the > alsa-driver/utils/patches/rtc-2.4.9.dif patch applied. > In the kernel configuration, I turned on RTC and > P

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Fwd: kalsatools available for download

2001-10-29 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Sat, 27 Oct 2001 18:24:51 +0200 (CEST), Reiner Klenk wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > >Two new KDE applications for ALSA are available for download on > > > > ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mana > > > >The 7.2 and 7.3 directories o

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Fwd: kalsatools available for download

2001-10-29 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Sat, 27 Oct 2001 14:28:26 +0200, Vincent Touquet wrote: > > >cut< > > >Are there versions of these without the KDE-requirement? I don't have KDE > >installed and I don't see, why it is necessary to have KDE required. > > Frank Barknecht > > Hm, me neither (model - view - controller separatio

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Fwd: kalsatools available for download

2001-10-29 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Sat, 27 Oct 2001 13:28:41 +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: > > Takashi Iwai hat gesagt: // Takashi Iwai wrote: > > > From: "Dr. Matthias Nagorni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: kalsatools available for download > > > > Two new KDE ap

[linux-audio-dev] Fwd: kalsatools available for download

2001-10-26 Thread Takashi Iwai
Hi, here is the official annoucement about kalsatools, including kladspa. the contents on ftp.suse.com will be available within a few hours.. Takashi Two new KDE applications for ALSA are available for download on ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mana The 7.2 and 7.3 directories offer RPMs for

Re: [linux-audio-dev] dreamcast audio dev

2001-10-19 Thread Takashi Iwai
Hi Maarten, At Fri, 19 Oct 2001 11:15:25 +0200, Maarten de Boer wrote: > > Hello, > > As you may have heard, SEGA discontinued the Dreamcast, > and you can buy them really cheap now. Looking at the > specs, I realized that the Dreamcast would be a great > standalone box for audio applications.

Re: [linux-audio-dev] huge latency peaks with 2.4.10-smp kernel

2001-10-19 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Thu, 18 Oct 2001 14:21:37 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > > in the meantime, a small but focused group has provided ways to avoid > the behaviour that Kai reported. linus has indicated that he's happy > with the goal of low latency, but he doesn't want "hacks" to fix > it. despite the fact that it

Re: [linux-audio-dev] kladspa?

2001-10-19 Thread Takashi Iwai
Hi, At Tue, 16 Oct 2001 20:01:41 +0100, Steve Harris wrote: > > Anyone know anything about kLADSPA? Its linked off SuSE's music apps page > and theres a screenshot > (http://www.suse.de/de/products/suse_linux/i386/images/kladspa.png), but a > search on google doesn't show up anything else. > >

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