-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi,
This is a report on using alsa with several usb cards unlisted on the card matrix. If this sin't the right place to send it, please direct me to whatever is (but answer my question, for which this _is_ the right place :-). I tried the various Audiotrak (www.audiotrak.net) cards (luckily I found a store that let me bring my laptop and experiment). I used the 0.9.0_rc8 drivers with a 2.4.20-based kernel and the uhci usb driver, with twin intel 82801BA/BAM usb controllers. All the audiotrak cards are advertised as supporting the usb audio v1.0 spec. The main report is that the Maya5.1 (which I purchased) works perfectly out of the box. I only tested the first two analog outputs though (ie not the whole 5.1 scheme) as i don't have 6 speakers or hardware with optical in/out. The Optoplay, listed as '?' on the matrix, seemed to work OK, the drivers loaded but - no sound output. This is the same as the problem someone reported a coulpe of months ago - it only works at 24 bits, and while the driver loads, apps only try to open the device @ 16 bits, which doesn't work. (At least that's what I made of it. I don't know much about sound and AFAICS going from 16bit to 24bit would simply involve the driver padding the data with all-zero 8 bits. That probably is completely wrong or you'd be doing it already, and so allow device opens in 16bit when there is only hardware support for 24bit.) I also tried the Maya7.1, and it somehow managed to hang my usb bus! I didn't have the time or desire to do extensive testing, so I don't know what exactly happened, but after I inserted it, the usb mouse died, removing and reinserting usb devices didn't help, and there were no log messages about it all. Had to reboot to fix things. I hope that helps you, and that you might put at least the info on the maya5.1 in the card matrix (assuming you put reports from users there and not just things you try yourself). Now to my question. Now that I have this nice new usb card, how do I play cdaudio via it? I'm using a laptop and presumably the cd drive connects straight to the laptop's internal sound card, which I've had quite enough of. How can I go around that? Thanks, - -- Dan Armak Gentoo Linux developer (KDE) Matan, Israel Public GPG key: http://www.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+ckLqUI2RQ41fiVERArYEAJwNqFwuJMHuwtAGxbJ4zzhTjo/qBQCfRhmY +hqQrZLkhS+1MVbKRUhvZgU= =P0YU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open! Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and the chance of winning an Apple iPod: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
