Just for the record, my EMI 2|6 played sound fine with a stock install of Mandrake 9.1 on a Compaq motherboard with builtin USB. I've found myself using Mandrake for hardware detection and generating usable configs that I then take over to a Gentoo system to do real work. There must be a better way but this is the best I can think at the moment.
Nick, I have the same PowerBook as you. The EMI is recognized by the kernel but I haven't installed ALSA yet. I'll keep the list updated. -l[e^2] ------------------------------ http://www.fallingforward.net/ people experimenting with music, art and technology On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, nick phillips wrote: > Thanks for the advice! This gets me a little further - aplay tells me > "Playing sound.wav - Signed 16 bit Little Endian, 44.1KHz, Mono." Then > it informs me "xrun - at least 0.074 ms long!" and then I get an error > message : > > Alsa lib pcm_hw.c:494:(snd_pcm_hw_start) - SNDDRV_PCM_IOCTL_START failed > : Broken pipe. > > And of course I get no sound. Perhaps something wrong with my alsa lib? > Or am I missing something here? > > thanks for any help! > > best, > Nick > > > > np wrote: > > > when i try to play anything through it (using aplay, pd, or xmms), i get an > > > error about 'invalid sample format.' taking a look at > > > /proc/asound/card1/stream0 i see that the card sample formats are S16_LE and > > > S24_LE with sample rates 44100, 48000, and 96000. i'm guessing i need some > > > way to convert from an acceptable sample format into one of these formats -- > > > could someone enlighten me as to how to do that? > > > > Use device name "plughw:1" instead of "hw:1": > > > > aplay -D plughw:1 something.wav > > > > > i tried using jackd but it spits out an error about unacceptable > > > sample formats too.. > > > > jackd should accept S16_LE, but maybe this isn't available with the > > default sample rate of 48000. > > > > > > HTH > > Clemens > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > > Welcome to geek heaven. > > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > > _______________________________________________ > > Alsa-user mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
