Hi list, I have got no answers from the list, so I'm answering my own posting ...
See below. > Hi list, > > I posted a question relating distorted midi last week, and got the > recommendation to upgrade my 0.5.12a to 0.9.0. > > OK, I did so, I installed rc5, and it was a little adventure. > > configure, make, make install was easy so far. Also loading of the modules > was not a greater problem. But then I tried to unmute the channels. This > didn't work, neither with amixer nor with alsamixer. After fiddling around > for > quite a time I had the idea to use xmix, and aaahaaa, now I was able to > listen > CD. Then I read then manpage of amixer and alsamixer again and decided to > fiddle around with it's cmdline params. When calling "alsamixer -c 0" > alsamixer > also worked, with quite a lot more controls than before with 0.5. > > Then I thought I like to play a midifile, the main reason why I did this > whole work. sfxload worked, but "pmidi -l" and "pmidi -p" failed, because > it was > linked against the 0.5 libasound. So I thought to test playmidi, and this > worked, no dependencies against the old alsa. playmidi indeed produced > some > sound, but it was also distorted sound. But the way the distortion sounds, > is a > little bit different than with alsa 0.5. With 0.5 behaviour was so, that > after the first loading of the alsa modules and playing a midifile some > voices > are undistorted, but when more voices come to play, all gets distorted. > When > breaking the play and once again restarted playing the same midifile, all > voices were distorted from the begin. With 0.9 it's a little bit > different, > playing the same midifile again and again, the begin of the piece with > only few > voices is always undistorted, gets distorted when more voices come up. So > just > an obscure detail has changed. > > What I also noticed while fiddling around was, that alsactl wasn't > functioning properly. "alsactl store" also needs the card number (I have > only this SB > plugged into my box). This is different from 0.5, card number 0 hasn't to > be > supplied on the cmdline. "alsctl restore 0" doesn't work at all, it > produced > a error message (which I had not written down). > > Then I decided not to fiddle around longer with rc5, it gives me no real > benefit, only a greater amount of work (relinking of my existing apps > against > the new shared lib) which I'm not being inclined to do in the moment. So I > went > back to the deprecated 0.5.12a which works (for me) better than 0.9.0. > Midi > doesn't work in both cases, and with rc5 some other things are a bit > broken. > > Relating my midiproblem I have meanwhile noticed one thing, the IRQ > between > my network card and the SB card are shared. I have just plugged the SB > into > another slot, it didn't change the distorted midi, but I want to give it > an > exclusive IRQ. Maybe midi works then ;-) (or not :-( ) Meanwhile I have unplugged my NIC, and so resolved the potential IRQ collision, but that changed nothing, niente, nada. I don't have any ideas anymore what could be the cause of this problem. Now I think I'll stay with 0.5.12a and wait until the real 0.9.0 is released. And then give 0.9.0 a try. As long term Suse linux user I'm a little bit frustrated about the missing assistance in this list > > While testing I have not seen any useful messages, but I have cat'ted most > of the info in /proc/asound when 0.9 was installed into a file, maybe > thats of > interest for a listmember here. But I decided not to mail it into the > list. > > Maybe anybody of this list could give some hints, what I can to track this > problem down. Or if one of the alsa developers could spent some time and > assist me, that would be great. I'm not a programmer but patching, > compiling and > so on is not a real problem. And I want to get this midihardware inside > the SB > up and running :-). > > -- > +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ > NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen! > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm > Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! > http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user > -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen! ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
