[Alsa-user] SiS 7019

2007-02-10 Thread Big Wave Dave
Is anyone aware of any work being done to support the SiS 7019 chipset? I was able to find this post, but it is quite old. http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=17763958 Unfortunately I don' t know how to do the port to ALSA from the drive rmentioned, or I would try to help. I d

[Alsa-user] JavaSound and Alsa on Ubuntu desktop

2007-02-10 Thread Helge Fredriksen
Hello! We're trying to use ALSA for the purpose of grabbing sound bytes into java using the JavaSound API directly. However, sometimes we experience that the read() access to the device blocks infinitely. Then, also when we access the GUI controls of sound in the desktop, they sometimes freezes, a

Re: [Alsa-user] How do I set the default sound card?

2007-02-10 Thread Ronny Standtke
> >In the sound recording device section are two "USB Audio" entries. It is > > not visible which entry is the webcam and which one is the headset. In > > the evil operating system the entries have distinguishable and > > descriptive names ( Webcam, Headset). > > Then use 'lsusb -vv' and drown in

Re: [Alsa-user] How do I set the default sound card?

2007-02-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 10 February 2007 10:44, Ronny Standtke wrote: >Hi all, > >> Sounds like Redhat/Fedora's system-config-soundcard, that indeed can >> set the order. On Gentoo you can emerge that package. Also SuSE's YaST >> can do that. So i'd say this is distro-specific, not DE specific. > >OK, I downlo

[Alsa-user] USB soundcard that works OTB?

2007-02-10 Thread Jake B
Hi, I've finally given up getting my Dell Inspiron's built-in hda-intel soundcard to fully work. The mic input dies after suspend/resume. Heaven knows why. I'm using the latest alsa (14rc2), and this problem was noted as being fixed in the Alsa 13 changelog. Alsactl indicates that the soundcard's

Re: [Alsa-user] How do I set the default sound card?

2007-02-10 Thread Ronny Standtke
Hi all, > Sounds like Redhat/Fedora's system-config-soundcard, that indeed can > set the order. On Gentoo you can emerge that package. Also SuSE's YaST > can do that. So i'd say this is distro-specific, not DE specific. OK, I downloaded and installed Fedora Core 6. Indeed, there is this soundcard

[Alsa-user] Cannot get Dolby/DTS passthrough to work with HDA VIA VT82xx/ALC883

2007-02-10 Thread Gerrit Jan Baarda
Hello, I´ve been trying to get Dolby/DTS playback to work with my new media center for weeks. As it is, digital stereo sound works fine via toslink, but no Dolby/DTS. If play a testfile as follows: $ mplayer -ac hwdts SURROUNDTEST_011212.wav I get no sound, and mplayer says it can find a

Re: [Alsa-user] How do I set the default sound card?

2007-02-10 Thread Thomas Kuther
On Sa, 10.02.07 04:52 "Lee Revell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/10/07, Ronny Standtke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This stuff is not missing from Linux - it's just missing from KDE. > > > > > > If it really bugs you, switch to Gnome, click > > > "System->Preferences->Sound", and select th

Re: [Alsa-user] How do I set the default sound card?

2007-02-10 Thread Lee Revell
On 2/10/07, Ronny Standtke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This stuff is not missing from Linux - it's just missing from KDE. > > > > If it really bugs you, switch to Gnome, click > > "System->Preferences->Sound", and select the desired device from the > > "Default sound card" list. > > What version

Re: [Alsa-user] How do I set the default sound card?

2007-02-10 Thread Ronny Standtke
> This stuff is not missing from Linux - it's just missing from KDE. > > If it really bugs you, switch to Gnome, click > "System->Preferences->Sound", and select the desired device from the > "Default sound card" list. What version of Gnome do you use? First of all there is no "System" menu item h