Re: [Alsa-user] Bose audio

2007-11-20 Thread James Shatto
> I don't see it in the aplay -l, but lsusb confirms its existence. Does it show up in /proc/asound/cards ? - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdm

[Alsa-user] Bose audio

2007-11-20 Thread sujit sinha
I have this Bose audio. It comes with its external sound card (USB). I am using gutsy and the Alsa that came with it. Most of the time, 5 out of 10, the external sound card is not picked up. I don't see it in the aplay -l, but lsusb confirms its existence. seems like a driver problem to me. An

Re: [Alsa-user] How can I determine volume level from data?

2007-11-20 Thread Bill Unruh
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, william estrada wrote: > Bill, > > You are right, I don't know what I am doing. I am not knowledgeable enough > to ask the right questions. I'm looking for a reference about what the data > returned by the sound device means. I found this: > > http://www.cs.odu.edu/~wild

Re: [Alsa-user] How can I determine volume level from data?

2007-11-20 Thread william estrada
Bill, You are right, I don't know what I am doing. I am not knowledgeable enough to ask the right questions. I'm looking for a reference about what the data returned by the sound device means. I found this: http://www.cs.odu.edu/~wild/cs477/Fall97/mm1.htm But it does not completely ans

Re: [Alsa-user] "hw" or "plughw"

2007-11-20 Thread Bill Unruh
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, stan wrote: > Vladimir Mosgalin wrote: >> Hi paul blakeley! >> >> On 2007.11.20 at 12:26:29 +, paul blakeley wrote next: >> >> >>> Can someone please explain the differences between these? What impact >>> they have on the application? >>> >> >> plughw supports much more

Re: [Alsa-user] "hw" or "plughw"

2007-11-20 Thread stan
Vladimir Mosgalin wrote: > Hi paul blakeley! > > On 2007.11.20 at 12:26:29 +, paul blakeley wrote next: > > >> Can someone please explain the differences between these? What impact >> they have on the application? >> > > plughw supports much more sample formats / channel configuration

Re: [Alsa-user] "hw" or "plughw"

2007-11-20 Thread Vladimir Mosgalin
Hi paul blakeley! On 2007.11.20 at 12:26:29 +, paul blakeley wrote next: > Can someone please explain the differences between these? What impact > they have on the application? plughw supports much more sample formats / channel configurations than underlying hardware supports natively, and

Re: [Alsa-user] "hw" or "plughw"

2007-11-20 Thread Julien Claassen
Hi! As I remember: hw directly accesses the card, which does plughw. But: If you have say a four-channel card configured at 48kHz, the player will try to open four channels at 48kHz. Where plughw, does some automatic conversion. i don't know, if it also looks up the number of channels, and o

[Alsa-user] Half sampling rate with hdsp9632

2007-11-20 Thread Andreas U. Trottmann
Hello, I am trying to get a Hammerfall HDSP 9632 card to work under Linux. So far, I got success - however, whenever I record anything, it appears the sampling rate that is used to record is actually half the sampling rate specified. For example, arecord -d 2 -D hdsp_adat -f S16_LE -c 2 -r 480

[Alsa-user] "hw" or "plughw"

2007-11-20 Thread paul blakeley
Can someone please explain the differences between these? What impact they have on the application? If I need to drive the sound card directly should I use 'hw'? - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challe

Re: [Alsa-user] Fwd: Microphone not recording properly on ALC883, Acer 3103WLMi

2007-11-20 Thread Boris
Yes this is true. I have put fix found on net for this but after reboot recording is still freezing after few second. I have even stop VMware server but recording is still freezing. It seems that something else interfere sound card but I do not know how to find that. What info could I pass here for