Re: [Alsa-user] Best supported cards?

2008-01-02 Thread James Shatto
> Here's what I have not been able to get to work: > Full duplex, Not sure about the full duplex part, as not all cards are full duplex. My M-Audio Delta 44 says Full Duplex on the box. And seems to be just that. My laptop(ATI IXP) on the other hand can do full duplex, BUT... there's some ble

Re: [Alsa-user] Best supported cards?

2008-01-02 Thread Darrell Bellerive
I bought the M-Audio Audiophile 2496 PCI card based upon recommendations on this mailing list several years ago. Some people seem to have it working fine, but despite days of trying to configure it, I have never gotten it to work to it's full potential. If you understand the intricacies of soun

Re: [Alsa-user] Why won't this card work?

2008-01-02 Thread Adrian McMenamin
On 02/01/2008, Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think you need to revert to the 100% working setup then change one > thing at a time. > > Lee > That wasn't really an option. But I did look at the file permissions for the device directory and they were severely messed up. So I have spent

[Alsa-user] OSS out SPDIF Port SoundBlaster Live!

2008-01-02 Thread Jim Duda
Can anyone explain how I can get the PCM sound normally sent through /dev/dsp to route out through the SPDIF port on a SoundBlaster Live! (emu10k1)? I've seen one posting which claims that all I need to do is add "options snd-pcm-oss dsp_map=3" to modprobe.conf. Unfortunately, that doens't see

Re: [Alsa-user] Why won't this card work?

2008-01-02 Thread Lee Revell
On Jan 2, 2008 12:51 PM, Adrian McMenamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 02/01/2008, Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 2, 2008 12:44 PM, Adrian McMenamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Yes, it worked very well! I think this is some sort of > > > userland/alsa-lib problem. Th

Re: [Alsa-user] Why won't this card work?

2008-01-02 Thread Adrian McMenamin
On 02/01/2008, Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 2, 2008 12:44 PM, Adrian McMenamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Yes, it worked very well! I think this is some sort of > > userland/alsa-lib problem. The driver hasn't changed, but alsa-lib has > > > > But cat file > /dev/dsp does

Re: [Alsa-user] Why won't this card work?

2008-01-02 Thread Lee Revell
On Jan 2, 2008 12:44 PM, Adrian McMenamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, it worked very well! I think this is some sort of > userland/alsa-lib problem. The driver hasn't changed, but alsa-lib has > But cat file > /dev/dsp does not touch alsa-lib at all. Did anything else change on the system

Re: [Alsa-user] Why won't this card work?

2008-01-02 Thread Adrian McMenamin
On 02/01/2008, Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 2, 2008 12:38 PM, Adrian McMenamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 02/01/2008, Adrian McMenamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 02/01/2008, Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Jan 2, 2008 12:01 PM, Adrian McMenamin <[E

Re: [Alsa-user] Why won't this card work?

2008-01-02 Thread Lee Revell
On Jan 2, 2008 12:38 PM, Adrian McMenamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 02/01/2008, Adrian McMenamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 02/01/2008, Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jan 2, 2008 12:01 PM, Adrian McMenamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I'm afraid there is no strace

Re: [Alsa-user] Why won't this card work?

2008-01-02 Thread Adrian McMenamin
On 02/01/2008, Adrian McMenamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 02/01/2008, Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 2, 2008 12:01 PM, Adrian McMenamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm afraid there is no strace on this machine - it's only a Sega > > > Dreamcast and I'm not sure if strac

Re: [Alsa-user] Why won't this card work?

2008-01-02 Thread Adrian McMenamin
On 02/01/2008, Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 2, 2008 12:01 PM, Adrian McMenamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm afraid there is no strace on this machine - it's only a Sega > > Dreamcast and I'm not sure if strace has ever been built for it :( > > > > It's worth a try to build i

Re: [Alsa-user] Why won't this card work?

2008-01-02 Thread Lee Revell
On Jan 2, 2008 12:01 PM, Adrian McMenamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm afraid there is no strace on this machine - it's only a Sega > Dreamcast and I'm not sure if strace has ever been built for it :( > It's worth a try to build it. strace works on lots of non-x86 platforms... Lee -

Re: [Alsa-user] Why won't this card work?

2008-01-02 Thread Adrian McMenamin
On 02/01/2008, Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 2, 2008 10:39 AM, Adrian McMenamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But I also clearly did not have a fully working alsa userland install. > > I had alsa-lib working but the utils were messed up in some way. > > > > Now I am not sure what

Re: [Alsa-user] Why won't this card work?

2008-01-02 Thread Lee Revell
On Jan 2, 2008 10:39 AM, Adrian McMenamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But I also clearly did not have a fully working alsa userland install. > I had alsa-lib working but the utils were messed up in some way. > > Now I am not sure what is up - as it looks like the kernel side works > but the userla

Re: [Alsa-user] Why won't this card work?

2008-01-02 Thread Erik Slagter
Adrian McMenamin wrote: > On 02/01/2008, Erik Slagter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Adrian McMenamin wrote: >> >> Your device probably isn't capable of reproducing phone-format audio. >> > It is!. It used to play this sample without any problem (but only > using oss emulation - aplay wouldn't work)

Re: [Alsa-user] Why won't this card work?

2008-01-02 Thread Adrian McMenamin
On 02/01/2008, Erik Slagter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adrian McMenamin wrote: > > >> aplay -L onmly reports pseudo-devices defined in software (afaik) > >> (asound.conf etc.) > >> > >> Using aplay -Dhw:0,0 it should work, and probably also using the default > >> device which gives you dmix and c

Re: [Alsa-user] Why won't this card work?

2008-01-02 Thread Erik Slagter
Adrian McMenamin wrote: >> aplay -L onmly reports pseudo-devices defined in software (afaik) >> (asound.conf etc.) >> >> Using aplay -Dhw:0,0 it should work, and probably also using the default >> device which gives you dmix and conversion. > > I get this: > > $ aplay -Dhw:0,0 aine-email.wav > P

Re: [Alsa-user] Why won't this card work?

2008-01-02 Thread Adrian McMenamin
On 02/01/2008, Erik Slagter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adrian McMenamin wrote: > > aplay -L reports: > > > > $ aplay -L > > null > > Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture) > > > > while aplay -l reports the card exists > > > > $ aplay -l > > List of PLAYBACK Ha

Re: [Alsa-user] Why won't this card work?

2008-01-02 Thread Erik Slagter
Adrian McMenamin wrote: > aplay -L reports: > > $ aplay -L > null > Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture) > > while aplay -l reports the card exists > > $ aplay -l > List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices > card 0: AICA [AICA], device 0: AICA PCM [AICA PCM] >