[Alsa-user] snd_1968 - Diamond MX400 and SPDIF output

2006-05-02 Thread Big Wave Dave
All, First... I'm a newbie to the list... sorry if I'm not following proper protocol. I CAN be taught. I have a Diamond Multimedia Monster Sound MX400 soundcard. It runs great with the automatically chosen snd-es1968 driver. This is also the driver suggested on the ALSA Soundcard Matrix. The

[Alsa-user] configuring 2 soundcards ...

2006-05-02 Thread Weevil
hello,i'd like to know how to configure 2 soundcards. i've got an ac97 on a hp compaq nx 6125 laptop working fine now. i plan to add an audigy2 zs pcmcia and would like to switch back and forth in a simple way. running slack 10.2thanks Enrich your life at Yahoo! Canada Finance

[Alsa-user] Duplex & Surround sound on Turtle Beach Santa Cruz (cs46xx)

2006-05-02 Thread Samuel Theobald
Hi, I'm trying to get my Turtle Beach Santa Cruz (cs46xx) to record 2 channels and playback 4 channels (front & rear) simultaneously with jack (using qjackctl to get jack going) My sound card works fine in 2 channel capture, 2 channel playback using hw0. The driver doesn't let me use 4 channels w

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA mplayer error

2006-05-02 Thread Doug
Takashi, I applied the patch to my /etc/alsa/cards/ICH4.conf and rebooted I get the same error from mplayer and a similar error from Xine: ALSA lib confmisc.c:1107:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition 'cards.ICH4.pcm.iec958.4:CARD=0,AES0=2,AES1=130,AES2=0,AES3=2' ALSA lib conf.c:3492:(_s

[Alsa-user] DTS/AC3 on ALC850 working, but not simple stereo

2006-05-02 Thread Adam Hirsch
Hey, folks. Got a weird one, here. I've got an ALC850 with an optical SPDIF out, running to my receiver. I'm running linux 2.6.12-10-amd64-k8 (Ubuntu "Breezy") and the built-in alsa 1.0.9a packages which come with Ubuntu. My goal is to have all sounds sent through the optical SPDIF to my receiv

Re: [Alsa-user] Missing mixer item "Headphone": Regression in Linux from 2.6.14.7 to 2.6.15

2006-05-02 Thread Erik
Clemens Ladisch wrote: Erik wrote: In the upgrade from Linux 2.6.14.7 to Linux 2.6.15 the mixer item "Headphone" was lost. This kernel added a "headphones only" workaround for the Inspiron 8600 that removes the headphone controls and controls the HP volume with the master controls.

Re: [Alsa-user] Missing mixer item "Headphone": Regression in Linux from 2.6.14.7 to 2.6.15

2006-05-02 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Erik wrote: > In the upgrade from Linux 2.6.14.7 to Linux 2.6.15 the mixer item > "Headphone" was lost. This kernel added a "headphones only" workaround for the Inspiron 8600 that removes the headphone controls and controls the HP volume with the master controls. > The biggest problem with this r

Re: [Alsa-user] config questions, definitions

2006-05-02 Thread Clemens Ladisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > (1) what do soundcore and snd do? > > I assume one provides the ALSA api, but what about the other? soundcore provides functions for allocating OSS devices, so it's used by both the OSS drivers and by ALSA's OSS emulation. snd is the basic module of the ALSA framework

Re: [Alsa-user] driver for nVidia Corporation MCP51 AC97 (snd-intel8x0) NOT working

2006-05-02 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Rob Kampen wrote: > --- lsmod > snd_intel8x0 68201 0 > cx88_alsa 48585 3 > > --- /etc/modprobe.conf > alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0 > options snd-intel8x0 index=0 > > --- /proc/asound/modules > 0 cx88_alsa > > it appears the device

Re: [Alsa-user] .asoundrc for 3 cmipci to create 1 multichannel-device

2006-05-02 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Rolf Gassner wrote: > (@admin: no need to review my mail anymore - I wrote it 2 days earlier > with the same content, before subscribing to the list :-) There is no moderator ... > As I am trying to use 18 channels for wavefield synthesis, I bought 3 > cheap 5.1 soundcards with the C-Media CM87

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA mplayer error

2006-05-02 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Mon, 01 May 2006 10:56:00 -0700, Doug wrote: > > How can I resolve this error? > > ALSA lib confmisc.c:1107:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition > 'cards.ICH4.pcm.iec958.4:CARD=0,AES0=2,AES1=130,AES2=0,AES3=2' > ALSA lib conf.c:3492:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer > retu

Re: [Alsa-user] .asoundrc for 3 cmipci to create 1 multichannel-device

2006-05-02 Thread Matthias Koenig
Hi Rolf, Rolf Gassner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Unfortunately, this config-file doesn't work at all, the device "hw:1" > doesn't seem to exist. > Can anyone help me with the use of multiple soundcards for playback? Well, I don't know much about the fancy things in the .asoundrc, but just for