Re: [Alsa-user] emu10k1 woes... only mono capture from aux

2006-01-23 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 23:52 -0600, Brian Dunn wrote: > I'm running alsa 1.0.10 on my SB Live! Value and i need some help with > capture settings. > my shoe-string budget studio features a soundcard with a blown line > in. I need stereo input so i can capture two live channels at the > same time in

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 24 January 2006 07:37, Bill Unruh wrote: > > ?? And how many such suits have there been? > You are maybe going to take on Microsoft and see if their tcp stack > contains any of your GPL code ( you after all cannot sue for anyone else). > What is "versin controll system" btw, MS used th

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 24 January 2006 07:37, Bill Unruh wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > On Tuesday 24 January 2006 07:04, Bill Unruh wrote: > >> On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Lee Revell wrote: > >>> On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 03:03 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > btw, where are sud

[Alsa-user] emu10k1 woes... only mono capture from aux

2006-01-23 Thread Brian Dunn
I'm running alsa 1.0.10 on my SB Live! Value and i need some help with capture settings. my shoe-string budget studio features a soundcard with a blown line in. I need stereo input so i can capture two live channels at the same time in ardour. I've wired up a head phone jack to the aux in port on

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 22:27 -0800, Bill Unruh wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Lee Revell wrote: > > > On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 06:02 +0200, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > >> I was talking about the moral/ideological issue. > >> > >> My point is that from moral/ideological point of view it doesn't make > >>

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Bill Unruh
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Tuesday 24 January 2006 07:04, Bill Unruh wrote: On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Lee Revell wrote: On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 03:03 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: btw, where are suddenly all this 'we need a fix binary abi' people are coming from? Unt

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Bill Unruh
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Lee Revell wrote: On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 06:02 +0200, Sergei Steshenko wrote: I was talking about the moral/ideological issue. My point is that from moral/ideological point of view it doesn't make sense to insist on OSS only in one case. It's not a moral or ideological is

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Bill Unruh
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Lee Revell wrote: On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 05:28 +0200, Sergei Steshenko wrote: " The difference is that the driver code is executed by the host CPU, while the firmware code is executed by the device " - kinda funny :-). OK, I propose to run a dual core or dual CPU computer.

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 24 January 2006 07:04, Bill Unruh wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 03:03 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > >> btw, where are suddenly all this 'we need a fix binary abi' people are > >> coming > >> from? > >> > >> Until ca 2 month ago they nev

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Bill Unruh
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Lee Revell wrote: On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 03:03 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: btw, where are suddenly all this 'we need a fix binary abi' people are coming from? Until ca 2 month ago they never spoke up, and suddenly in every forum or mailing lists are popping up peopl

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 06:02 +0200, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > I was talking about the moral/ideological issue. > > My point is that from moral/ideological point of view it doesn't make > sense to insist on OSS only in one case. It's not a moral or ideological issue, it's a technical one - there's

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 06:02 +0200, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > > I was trying to show that if we at all agree to live with closed > source > software, i.e. if agree to put extreme ideology aside, then we should > think > about finding a well defined place for closed source SW, so end users > will be

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 24 January 2006 05:02, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > I was talking about the moral/ideological issue. > > My point is that from moral/ideological point of view it doesn't make > sense to insist on OSS only in one case. > there is no moral issue. Only a technical one. drivers are run in ker

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Sergei Steshenko
I was talking about the moral/ideological issue. My point is that from moral/ideological point of view it doesn't make sense to insist on OSS only in one case. I do not argue with the definition of linking and its effect on GPL. I was trying to show that if we at all agree to live with closed so

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 05:28 +0200, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > " > The difference is that the driver code is executed by the > host CPU, while the firmware code is executed by the device > " > > - kinda funny :-). > > OK, I propose to run a dual core or dual CPU computer. > > One CPU would be for

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Sergei Steshenko
" The difference is that the driver code is executed by the host CPU, while the firmware code is executed by the device " - kinda funny :-). OK, I propose to run a dual core or dual CPU computer. One CPU would be for opens source software and the other - for closed source software. Now, are the

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 05:12 +0200, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > > > 1) we have an IDE drive separated from the CPU by IDE bus. The IDE drive > > > runs closed-source firmware, which is in terms of the controller inside > > > the > > > drive still software. There is no fuss about it; > > > > > > 2)

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Sergei Steshenko
I do not see the point - malfunctioning hardware, regardless of openness or closeness of driver, can render the system unusable. So what ? My point was about interaction of open and closed source software. I still believe there is a discrimination (PCI <-> IDE attitude). By the way, both IDE dr

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 04:49 +0200, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > Regarding > > " > firmwares are not drivers. Firmwares are an entity of their own. Please > inform > yourself about firmwares and what they do and where they live and compare > them to drivers. And there are many firmware hacks or ope

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 24 January 2006 03:22, Bill Unruh wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > On Tuesday 24 January 2006 02:43, Bill Unruh wrote: > >> On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > >>> On Tuesday 24 January 2006 02:15, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > " > The

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Sergei Steshenko
Regarding " firmwares are not drivers. Firmwares are an entity of their own. Please inform yourself about firmwares and what they do and where they live and compare them to drivers. And there are many firmware hacks or open firmwares if you use a search engine of your choice. ". Specifically,

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 04:39 +0200, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > Regarding > > " > kernel > developers made it clear that the days of them tolerating proprietary > drivers are numbered. > " > > I am sorry I do not have time at the moment to try XEN (I've already > expressed this idea). > > The idea

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 24 January 2006 03:22, Bill Unruh wrote: > > > btw, X11 was able to talk to hardware without any kernel-drivers. > > But it has to talk via the video card drivers which are kernel drivers I > would assume. > you may read up about Xfree86 3.6 and voodoo cards. There was no need for ker

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Sergei Steshenko
Regarding " kernel developers made it clear that the days of them tolerating proprietary drivers are numbered. " I am sorry I do not have time at the moment to try XEN (I've already expressed this idea). The idea is: 1) in a user machine there will be at least two kernels running - the main one

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Bill Unruh
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Tuesday 24 January 2006 02:43, Bill Unruh wrote: On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Tuesday 24 January 2006 02:15, Sergei Steshenko wrote: " The Linux developers DO NOT WANT to make it possible to write closed source drive

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 03:03 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > Newsflash: the userland abi&api is fix. There is nothing to whine > about. > Yes. No one is trying to tell Nvidia & co "you must open your libGL implementation if you want your hardware supported". The way forward is, as Arjan va

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 03:03 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > btw, where are suddenly all this 'we need a fix binary abi' people are > coming > from? > > Until ca 2 month ago they never spoke up, and suddenly in every forum > or mailing lists are popping up people, most of them posting for th

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 24 January 2006 02:52, Bill Unruh wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 17:34 -0800, Bill Unruh wrote: > >> Well, I also think that is a mistake. A Write once would also be far > >> more > >> stable as far as Linux itself is concerned. If every time th

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 17:52 -0800, Bill Unruh wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Lee Revell wrote: > > > On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 17:34 -0800, Bill Unruh wrote: > >> Well, I also think that is a mistake. A Write once would also be far > >> more > >> stable as far as Linux itself is concerned. If every tim

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 24 January 2006 02:43, Bill Unruh wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > On Tuesday 24 January 2006 02:15, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > >> " > >> The Linux developers DO NOT WANT to make it possible to write closed > >> source drivers. Many consider it a violation o

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Bill Unruh
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Lee Revell wrote: On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 17:34 -0800, Bill Unruh wrote: Well, I also think that is a mistake. A Write once would also be far more stable as far as Linux itself is concerned. If every time the kernel changes you have to worry whether or not your driver is brok

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Sergei Steshenko
Probably the sysadmin was right - http://search.synopsys.com/search?q=linux+kernel+version&spell=1&site=www&output=xml_no_dtd&client=www&access=p&proxystylesheet=www shows mostly 2.4.* kernels. I didn't read every link, but that's what I see at first glance. Only in 2005 SYNOPSYS announced supp

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Bill Unruh
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Tuesday 24 January 2006 02:15, Sergei Steshenko wrote: " The Linux developers DO NOT WANT to make it possible to write closed source drivers. Many consider it a violation of the GPL. " - GPL allows to run commercial closed source programs u

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 17:34 -0800, Bill Unruh wrote: > Well, I also think that is a mistake. A Write once would also be far > more > stable as far as Linux itself is concerned. If every time the kernel > changes you have to worry whether or not your driver is broken, it > makes > for highly unstabl

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 17:34 -0800, Bill Unruh wrote: > > > > He is also incorrect about wireless, there are plenty of wireless > > chipsets with open drivers. > > Then why all the closed source firmware? I also recall reading that > the FCC > demanded closed source setting of the frequencies to pr

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 03:33 +0200, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > The programs are userspace. > > The argument of 2.4.* <-> 2.6.* was given by a sysadmin, I do not > know to which extent the sysadmin was competent. > > However, he said it was the cause of not upgrading company > RHEL-servers to 2.6.*

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Bill Unruh
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Lee Revell wrote: On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 02:59 +0200, Sergei Steshenko wrote: We have already discussed this, here's yet another opinion: http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/23/214258 -> " This is why we need a kernel api and abi We need a consistant and s

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Sergei Steshenko
The programs are userspace. The argument of 2.4.* <-> 2.6.* was given by a sysadmin, I do not know to which extent the sysadmin was competent. However, he said it was the cause of not upgrading company RHEL-servers to 2.6.* kernel. On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:25:08 -0500 Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 24 January 2006 02:15, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > " > The Linux developers DO NOT WANT to make it possible to write closed > source drivers. Many consider it a violation of the GPL. > " > > - GPL allows to run commercial closed source programs under a > GPL'ed OS. That is, it doesn't pro

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 03:15 +0200, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > SYNOPSYS and Cadence VLSI-related tools are a few examples, though, > as far as SYNOPSYS is concerned, only 2.4.* (and NOT 2.6.*) kernels > are supported because the former are considered to have stable API. The API exported to userspac

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 03:15 +0200, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > " > The Linux developers DO NOT WANT to make it possible to write closed > source drivers. Many consider it a violation of the GPL. > " > > - GPL allows to run commercial closed source programs under a > GPL'ed OS. That is, it doesn't p

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Sergei Steshenko
" The Linux developers DO NOT WANT to make it possible to write closed source drivers. Many consider it a violation of the GPL. " - GPL allows to run commercial closed source programs under a GPL'ed OS. That is, it doesn't prohibit this. SYNOPSYS and Cadence VLSI-related tools are a few examples

Re: [Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 02:59 +0200, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > We have already discussed this, here's yet another opinion: > > http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/23/214258 -> > > " > This is why we need a kernel api and abi > (Score:2) > by Billly Gates (198444) Alter Relationship on Tues

[Alsa-user] stable APIs and ABIs

2006-01-23 Thread Sergei Steshenko
We have already discussed this, here's yet another opinion: http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/23/214258 -> " This is why we need a kernel api and abi (Score:2) by Billly Gates (198444) Alter Relationship on Tuesday January 24, @02:03AM (#14544582) (http://www.livejournal.com/users/sin

Re: [Alsa-user] Need Linux driver for Audigy 2 Platinum eX

2006-01-23 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 19:22 -0500, Jeremy Baker wrote: > Please help this newbie find and install a Linux driver for the sound > card: creative sound blaster Audigy 2 Platinum eX > Any help would be great. Should work with the emu10k1 driver. Lee --

Re: [Alsa-user] Need Linux driver for Audigy 2 Platinum eX

2006-01-23 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Jeremy Baker wrote: Please help this newbie find and install a Linux driver for the sound card: creative sound blaster Audigy 2 Platinum eX Any help would be great. -- Jeremy Baker SBN 634 337 College Hill Johnson, VT 05656 The ALSA snd-emu10k1 kernel module should work fine. James ---

[Alsa-user] Need Linux driver for Audigy 2 Platinum eX

2006-01-23 Thread Jeremy Baker
Please help this newbie find and install a Linux driver for the sound card: creative sound blaster Audigy 2 Platinum eXAny help would be great. -- Jeremy BakerSBN 634337 College HillJohnson, VT 05656

Re: [Alsa-user] Midi support on ATIIXP

2006-01-23 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 21:38 +0100, Harold Aling wrote: > Harold Aling wrote: > > I own a Asus P4R800-V Deluxe motherboard which has an on board ATI IXP > > sound card. I used to have this sound card disabled because I have > > also a Terratec EWS88 MT/D 10in 10out card. I bought myself a cheap >

Re: [Alsa-user] Midi support on ATIIXP

2006-01-23 Thread Harold Aling
Harold Aling wrote: I own a Asus P4R800-V Deluxe motherboard which has an on board ATI IXP sound card. I used to have this sound card disabled because I have also a Terratec EWS88 MT/D 10in 10out card. I bought myself a cheap gameport/mpu midi in and out cable and I now want to use the mpu on

Re: [Alsa-user] High pitched noise from M-Audio USB Transit

2006-01-23 Thread Bill Unruh
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Chris wrote: On 23 Jan 2006, at 18:49, Bill Unruh wrote: On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Chris wrote: On 23 Jan 2006, at 18:35, Bill Unruh wrote: On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Chris Birkinshaw wrote: On 21 Jan 2006, at 15:24, Chris Birkinshaw wrote: I have a M Audio Transit USB sounca

Re: [Alsa-user] High pitched noise from M-Audio USB Transit

2006-01-23 Thread Chris
On 23 Jan 2006, at 18:49, Bill Unruh wrote: On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Chris wrote: On 23 Jan 2006, at 18:35, Bill Unruh wrote: On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Chris Birkinshaw wrote: On 21 Jan 2006, at 15:24, Chris Birkinshaw wrote: I have a M Audio Transit USB souncard, and have found a high pitched no

Re: [Alsa-user] High pitched noise from M-Audio USB Transit

2006-01-23 Thread Bill Unruh
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Chris wrote: On 23 Jan 2006, at 18:35, Bill Unruh wrote: On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Chris Birkinshaw wrote: On 21 Jan 2006, at 15:24, Chris Birkinshaw wrote: I have a M Audio Transit USB souncard, and have found a high pitched noise comes out of my speakers when starting

Re: [Alsa-user] High pitched noise from M-Audio USB Transit

2006-01-23 Thread Chris
On 23 Jan 2006, at 18:35, Bill Unruh wrote: On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Chris Birkinshaw wrote: On 21 Jan 2006, at 15:24, Chris Birkinshaw wrote: I have a M Audio Transit USB souncard, and have found a high pitched noise comes out of my speakers when starting jackd. This noise is not apparent w

Re: [Alsa-user] High pitched noise from M-Audio USB Transit

2006-01-23 Thread Bill Unruh
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Chris Birkinshaw wrote: On 21 Jan 2006, at 15:24, Chris Birkinshaw wrote: I have a M Audio Transit USB souncard, and have found a high pitched noise comes out of my speakers when starting jackd. This noise is not apparent when simply playing through the device using a

Re: [Alsa-user] High pitched noise from M-Audio USB Transit

2006-01-23 Thread Chris Birkinshaw
On 21 Jan 2006, at 15:24, Chris Birkinshaw wrote: I have a M Audio Transit USB souncard, and have found a high pitched noise comes out of my speakers when starting jackd. This noise is not apparent when simply playing through the device using alsaplayer. Has anyone else got this? Has anyon

[Alsa-user] als4000 gameport problem - digital joystick

2006-01-23 Thread John Harding
I've been trying off and on over the past 4 years (more off than on) trying to get my Logitech Wingman Extreme Digital 3D joystick to run on my als4000 gameport and hardware. This hardware and joystick combination worked flawlessly under Win98 and Win2000, but has never worked under linux start

[Alsa-user] M-audio USB audio devices

2006-01-23 Thread chgans
Hi all, Does anyone use an M-audio device like MobilePre or FastTrack with success? I've read in some archives that some peoples have try to use them, but i have not find any clear feedback. Some talks about firmware loading, others talks about usb compliance problem... I plan to use it with a l

[Alsa-user] alsa usb audio on arm platform

2006-01-23 Thread Jonas Norberg
Hello, I am trying to get a usb audio compatible sound card to work on the kwikbyte kb9202 (www.kwikbyte.com) development board. It is a board based on the at91rm9200 circuit which has an arm920t core. I am running kernel 2.6.13 and I have the alsa usb audio device drivers compiled into the kernel

[Alsa-user] Midi support on ATIIXP

2006-01-23 Thread Harold Aling
I own a Asus P4R800-V Deluxe motherboard which has an on board ATI IXP sound card. I used to have this sound card disabled because I have also a Terratec EWS88 MT/D 10in 10out card. I bought myself a cheap gameport/mpu midi in and out cable and I now want to use the mpu on the ATI IXP sound car

Re: [Alsa-user] alsa usb audio on arm platform

2006-01-23 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Jonas Norberg wrote: Hello, I am trying to get a usb audio compatible sound card to work on the kwikbyte kb9202 (www.kwikbyte.com) development board. It is a board based on the at91rm9200 circuit which has an arm920t core. I am running kernel 2.6.13 and I have the alsa usb audio device drivers