Subject: Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA Users: What Bugs You Most? (Was: Recent Complaints

2004-01-22 Thread Stephen Stocker
> Jason Clouse wrote: > > Since I seem to have nominated myself to improve the documentation, it > would be helpful if ALSA users would tell me about their unfulfilled > dreams. What, are you crazy? :) Seriously, I don't envy you, but I'd be glad to help if I can. > 1. What does ALSA do that yo

[Alsa-user] Small break in alsa-kernel CVS

2004-01-22 Thread Stephen Stocker
Hi, The newest CVS won't install the snd module in my 2.4.18-ck4 kernel with the trusty SB16. I get an unresolved symbol sound_class. The break is in alsa-kernel/core/sound.c. It's rather unimportant to me at the moment, I'm just posting it for informational purposes. Take care,

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA Users: What Bugs You Most? (Was: Recent Complaints Threads)

2004-01-22 Thread Jeremy Baker
Jason Clouse wrote: Since I seem to have nominated myself to improve the documentation, it would be helpful if ALSA users would tell me about their unfulfilled dreams. 1. What does ALSA do that you wish it wouldn't? Nothing 2. What does ALSA NOT do that you wish it would? Let me capture soun

Re: [Alsa-user] Re: [Alsa-devel] Bugtracking system

2004-01-22 Thread Sam Vilain
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 00:32, Andreas Kuckartz wrote; > Comments?/Further suggestions? What about sub-sub-categories for attaching bugs to individual drivers? -- Sam Vilain, [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX, n: Anything which is subtly incompatible with everything else claming to be a UNIX. -

Re: [Alsa-user] What Bugs You Most?

2004-01-22 Thread Gene Heskett
>> I'll definitely second this! I spent about 8 hours yesterday >>trying to >> decipher the docs for .asoundrc. Please, someone, write _rigorous_ >> documentation, i.e. assume nothing, explain _all_ terms and make >>examples of >> each concept and construct explicit to that concept or construct

Re: [Alsa-user] snd-cs46xx and waveblaster connector on Terratec DMXFire 1024/SixPack 5.1+

2004-01-22 Thread Mark Eggers
I have the same issue with a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz card. I have the DB50XG working great on Windows/2000 (XG Gold, midiox, Cakewalk Pro 2004), but no such luck on the Linux side. Do we need more card info, or is the info there but the developers don't have the time. If the latter, I certainly

[Alsa-user] snd-cs46xx and waveblaster connector on Terratec DMXFire 1024/SixPack 5.1+

2004-01-22 Thread Rui Nuno Capela
Hi all, Sometime ago Florian Schmidt asked about this very issue: What chances do I have of success in using a daugtherboard like the my'ol'beloved Yamaha DB50XG, when attached to the onboard waveblaster connector of a snd-cs46xx driven board like Terratec's DMXFire 1024 and/or SiXPack 5.1+ ? Th

[Alsa-user] CD Digital In

2004-01-22 Thread atarimike
I'm trying to get audio CDs to play through using ALSA in 2.6.1 with emu10k1. I have the digital out of my dvd drive hooked up to the digital in of my audigy 2. Playing audio cds using KsCD doesn't make any sound. I've messed with all of the settings in alsamixer, but nothing seems to do

Re: [Alsa-user] What Bugs You Most?

2004-01-22 Thread Dave Edwards
On Thu. 2004-01-22, 10:45, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 08:17, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > Thus spake The Eye on Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 07:15:51AM CST > > > > 2. What does ALSA NOT do that you wish it would? > > > > > > can't think of anything right now .. A better documentation fo

[Alsa-user] echoaudio MONA on 2.6.1 kernel help!

2004-01-22 Thread Scott W. Edwards
Hello, I am looking for help installing an Echo Audio MONA card. I am using a Gentoo distro with the 2.6.1 kernel. I do not see any Echo cards listed in the 2.6.1 config menu. How does one go about installing the ALSA driver for the MONA with the 2.6.1 kernel.   Thank you, Scott    

Re: [Alsa-user] Another idea to help reduce user complaints

2004-01-22 Thread Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano
> had a quick look on google,freshmeat and sourceforge but I couldnt find it. Have > you got a url for it? http://www.suse.de/~mana/kalsatools.html -- Fernando > David Garcia wrote: > > About tabbed mixer interface, take a look at QAmixer. It allows to define > > a tabbed interface on a simple X

[Alsa-user] Howto upgrade/add sound card drivers to kernel 2.6.1

2004-01-22 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
Hi, I have kernel 2.6.1-mm5 that has alsa 1.0.1 (I believe) However it does not have all the card drivers. In particular, I want au88xx support. How do I get this driver in? I am thinking of the following two approaches. But I am clueless as to whether any one of them is correct or if it wil

Re: [Alsa-user] SOLVED! Cany *anyone* record from their mic inputs???]

2004-01-22 Thread Vladislav Grinchenko
John, great news. Since you got it figured out, can you post your /etc/asound.state file. If you don't have one, to create it, please, execute: % alsactl store BTW, it would be really helpful if everyone who has responded to John's initial request with positive responses posted their *w

[Alsa-user] Yamaha DS XG (YMF744) digital input

2004-01-22 Thread m b
Hello there, first of all please keep in mind I am a newbie to Linux.(since a few days) I have a problem with the soundcards digital input I` m using SuseLinux 8.1, with alsa-driver v0.9.0rc3 Configurating of the Soundcard itself wasn` t any problem, yast2 was doing this. But there wasn`t any

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA has Alzheimers

2004-01-22 Thread William M. Quarles
Florian Schmidt wrote: On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 11:37:08 +0100 Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Argh! This is really beginning to annoy me! Whenever I shut down or reboot Mandrake (9.2), ALSA forgets all mixer settings. When I start up again, everything is reset to 0 volume and all that can be muted

Re: [Alsa-user] What Bugs You Most?

2004-01-22 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 08:17, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > Thus spake The Eye on Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 07:15:51AM CST > > > 2. What does ALSA NOT do that you wish it would? > > > > can't think of anything right now .. A better documentation for .asoundrc > > would be really nice, not in the "what do I n

Re: [Alsa-user] Another idea to help reduce user complaints

2004-01-22 Thread Alexander Macdonald
had a quick look on google,freshmeat and sourceforge but I couldnt find it. Have you got a url for it? David Garcia wrote: About tabbed mixer interface, take a look at QAmixer. It allows to define a tabbed interface on a simple XML file and make correspond UI controls on the interface to the alsa

Re: [Alsa-user] Another idea to help reduce user complaints

2004-01-22 Thread David Garcia
About tabbed mixer interface, take a look at QAmixer. It allows to define a tabbed interface on a simple XML file and make correspond UI controls on the interface to the alsa mixer controls without further programing. It lacks a lot of soundcards models but you should add more supported soundcard

[Alsa-user] alsa on 2.6.1 with isapnp cards?

2004-01-22 Thread Bill Kearney
Anyone out there succeeded in getting 2.6.1 with alsa to recognize and properly use ISA cards setup using PNP? This on a RH9 box (using apt-get). I've had a devil of a time wrestling with getting the cards recognized. Does alsaconf have the ability to probe for OPTI9xxx cards? Thanks, Bill Kear

Re: [Alsa-user] Another idea to help reduce user complaints

2004-01-22 Thread Alexander Macdonald
I've been thinking about making something exactly like that. I've got coursework to hand in tmrw, but I'm gonna start on the weekend and see what I can whip up [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had another idea: The alsamixer utility exposes a lot of controls to the end user, and on a card that has a l

Re: [Alsa-user] asoundrc and clt interfaces

2004-01-22 Thread Lindsay Haisley
Thus spake Scott Barnes on Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 10:45:49AM CST > On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 10:56, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > > > * If I could find some way to route gnome sounds to hw:0,1 then I could > > > >swap channels and all would be OK, since I don't really need a per-app > > > >volume c

Re: [Alsa-user] asoundrc and clt interfaces

2004-01-22 Thread Scott Barnes
On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 10:56, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > > * If I could find some way to route gnome sounds to hw:0,1 then I could > > >swap channels and all would be OK, since I don't really need a per-app > > >volume control for gnome event sounds other than the gnome alsa mixer. > > > >

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA Users: What Bugs You Most?

2004-01-22 Thread Florian Schmidt
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 10:17:08 -0600 Lindsay Haisley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll definitely second this! I spent about 8 hours yesterday trying > to decipher the docs for .asoundrc. Please, someone, write _rigorous_ > documentation, i.e. assume nothing, explain _all_ terms and make > example

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA Users: What Bugs You Most?

2004-01-22 Thread Lindsay Haisley
Thus spake The Eye on Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 07:15:51AM CST > > 2. What does ALSA NOT do that you wish it would? > > can't think of anything right now .. A better documentation for .asoundrc > would be really nice, not in the "what do I need to write to achieve X" > sense, that is, partially, presen

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA Users: What Bugs You Most?

2004-01-22 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 19:59, Jason Clouse wrote: > > 2. What does ALSA NOT do that you wish it would? > > MIDI: > 1) Alsa does not name MIDI devices in a way that makes sense to > composers. Alsa should be able to display a marketing name for a MIDI > device. It should be able

Re: [Alsa-user] asoundrc and clt interfaces

2004-01-22 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Lindsay Haisley wrote: > The control interface for the front speakers is 'PCM',0, can be assigned to > an alsa ctl with: > > ctl.main { >type hw >card 0 > } > > ... but I can find no way to link level control for the rear speakers > defined in amxer as 'PCM',1 and 'Surround'1 with a ctl spe

[Alsa-user] more pcm test program weirdness

2004-01-22 Thread Florian Schmidt
Hi, i tried the pcm test program from the alsa-lib test program and it fails for quite a few transfer modes... Before i go into details on that i have to say that everything else i use alsa for works very nicely: playing music via xmms' alsa plugin; watching movies with mplayer and the alsa9 outp

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA Users: What Bugs You Most?

2004-01-22 Thread The Eye
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 03:14:28PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Thu, 22 Jan 2004 14:15:51 +0100, > The Eye wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:59:05PM -0500, Jason Clouse wrote: > > > 1. What does ALSA do that you wish it wouldn't? > > > > I own a Terratec EWX 24/96 card, which uses the

Re: [Alsa-user] asoundrc and clt interfaces

2004-01-22 Thread Lindsay Haisley
Thus spake Clemens Ladisch on Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 09:26:31AM CST > Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > The control interface for the front speakers is 'PCM',0, can be assigned to > > an alsa ctl with: > > > > ctl.main { > >type hw > >card 0 > > } > > > > ... but I can find no way to link level cont

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA Users: What Bugs You Most?

2004-01-22 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Thu, 22 Jan 2004 14:15:51 +0100, The Eye wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:59:05PM -0500, Jason Clouse wrote: > > 1. What does ALSA do that you wish it wouldn't? > > I own a Terratec EWX 24/96 card, which uses the ice1712 driver. While > most things work fine, there still is the problem (a

[Alsa-user] Another idea to help reduce user complaints

2004-01-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I had another idea: The alsamixer utility exposes a lot of controls to the end user, and on a card that has a lot of controls, it can be a little intimidating trying to figure them all out. Normally I'm not a real big fan of dumbed-down interfaces, but in this case we have a model already - the t

Re: [Alsa-user] 5.1 - Analogue - Philips Soundcard

2004-01-22 Thread Andreas Kuckartz
> Has anyone been able to setup a Philips Sonic Edge 5.1 > Soundcard in Alsa yet? [...] it is not on the list of currently > supported hardware. > It is a cheap and widely available card however, > at least here in the UK, and was wondering if anyone > was working on support. Did you ask Philips?

Re: [Alsa-user] API: Some questions about functions

2004-01-22 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Mariusz Bo¿ewicz wrote: > The first question is: what is a main idea of snd_pcm_hw_params_any > function? A snd_pcm_hw_params_t structure contains not only one configuration but a set of possible configurations. Calling snd_pcm_hw_params_any initializes this structure to contain all possible conf

Re: [Alsa-user] 5.1 - Analogue - Philips Soundcard

2004-01-22 Thread Clemens Ladisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Has anyone been able to setup a Philips Sonic Edge 5.1 Soundcard > in Alsa yet? Not AFAIK. It depends on what chip it uses. It would be interesting to know what lspci says about it. I guess it's some proprietary chip which nobody knows anything about. Regards, Cleme

Re: [Alsa-user] "Forking" the input sound stream to OSS/Free emulation.

2004-01-22 Thread Florian Schmidt
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 16:48:15 -0500 (EST) "Jason M. Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm in the process of trying to get ALSA up and running on an RH9 > The encoders (Helix, from real, and darkice (for ogg encoding)), > support OSS/Free style devices. So, is there a way to fork the input

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA Users: What Bugs You Most?

2004-01-22 Thread The Eye
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:59:05PM -0500, Jason Clouse wrote: > 1. What does ALSA do that you wish it wouldn't? I own a Terratec EWX 24/96 card, which uses the ice1712 driver. While most things work fine, there still is the problem (at some stage one of the devs, don't remember who, said it was du

Re: [Alsa-user] Re: [Alsa-devel] Bugtracking system

2004-01-22 Thread Andreas Kuckartz
> In case the proposal is accepted and nobody has connections to the > maintainers of kernel.org I would volunteer to ask the bugzilla.kernel.org > maintainer to add a new Category "Sound" with a small number of Components > (suggestions?). I have asked the maintainer of bugzilla.kernel.org and he

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA has Alzheimers

2004-01-22 Thread Florian Schmidt
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 11:37:08 +0100 Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Argh! > > This is really beginning to annoy me! Whenever I shut down or reboot > Mandrake (9.2), ALSA forgets all mixer settings. When I start up > again, everything is reset to 0 volume and all that can be muted is > muted.

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA has Alzheimers

2004-01-22 Thread Tommi Sakari Uimonen
> This is really beginning to annoy me! Whenever I shut down or reboot > Mandrake (9.2), ALSA forgets all mixer settings. When I start up again, > everything is reset to 0 volume and all that can be muted is muted. alsactl store saves the current settings to /etc/asound.state alsactl restore ret

[Alsa-user] ALSA has Alzheimers

2004-01-22 Thread Daniel
Argh! This is really beginning to annoy me! Whenever I shut down or reboot Mandrake (9.2), ALSA forgets all mixer settings. When I start up again, everything is reset to 0 volume and all that can be muted is muted. Please help, I'm getting gray-haired here! Daniel

Re: [Alsa-user] DMIX documentation

2004-01-22 Thread Myk
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 08:43:45 +0100 Movi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I specialize in building Debian systems (usually unstable) since in > Poland there is a rush to be "legal" (the truth is that the police > and some workplaces are sending police to check on workers/students > homes if th

[Alsa-user] DMIX documentation

2004-01-22 Thread Movi
Hi! I specialize in building Debian systems (usually unstable) since in Poland there is a rush to be "legal" (the truth is that the police and some workplaces are sending police to check on workers/students homes if they own legal software. If they do not, they pay 3x the worth of the pirated soft