[Alsa-user] ALSA (linux2.6) support for ARM platform?

2008-01-03 Thread Sarick Jiang
Hi folks, >From the technical report "What's new in Linux 2.6", http://free-electrons.com/doc/linux26.pdf It says: ALSA replaced OSS. However, ALSA still incompatible with the ARM platform. Made x86 architecture related assumption that conflicts with ARM caching mechanisms. Plain audio playback c

Re: [Alsa-user] two apps using sound

2008-01-03 Thread James Shatto
> Apps that use the old OSS API block the soundcard if your sound device > lacks hardware mixing. > > Upgrade to the latest Flash plugin which uses ALSA and software mixing > will work. Also try starting firefox with aoss. Note that aoss will not be wrapping any child instances (pop-ups) launch

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

2008-01-03 Thread Jim Duda
Well, I've learned the dsp_map=3 switch does indeed do something. Changing it's value causes an "oss" file to appears under pcm2p, pcm3p, based upon this switch. However, I never get sound out the spdif port. How does this work anyways? How does the pcm get converted to a digital stream out t

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

2008-01-03 Thread Adrian McMenamin
On 03/01/2008, Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 3, 2008 3:04 PM, Adrian McMenamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 03/01/2008, Jonathan Stowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 19:48 +, Adrian McMenamin wrote: > > > > On 03/01/2008, Erik Slagter <[EMAIL PROTEC

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

2008-01-03 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 15:50:06 -0500 "Lee Revell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The problem is almost certainly an incorrect cross compile that causes > ALSA to look for config files in the build host path rather than the > target path. But I don't know how to verify this without strace. > > Is

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

2008-01-03 Thread Adrian McMenamin
On 03/01/2008, Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 3, 2008 3:04 PM, Adrian McMenamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 03/01/2008, Jonathan Stowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 19:48 +, Adrian McMenamin wrote: > > > > On 03/01/2008, Erik Slagter <[EMAIL PROTEC

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

2008-01-03 Thread Adrian McMenamin
On 03/01/2008, Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 3, 2008 3:04 PM, Adrian McMenamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 03/01/2008, Jonathan Stowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 19:48 +, Adrian McMenamin wrote: > > > > On 03/01/2008, Erik Slagter <[EMAIL PROTEC

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

2008-01-03 Thread Lee Revell
On Jan 3, 2008 3:04 PM, Adrian McMenamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 03/01/2008, Jonathan Stowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 19:48 +, Adrian McMenamin wrote: > > > On 03/01/2008, Erik Slagter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Please try "aplay -Dhw0,0 file" th

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

2008-01-03 Thread Adrian McMenamin
On 03/01/2008, Jonathan Stowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 19:48 +, Adrian McMenamin wrote: > > On 03/01/2008, Erik Slagter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Please try "aplay -Dhw0,0 file" the device syntax is mandatory afaik. If > > > that works you can start building

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

2008-01-03 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 19:48 +, Adrian McMenamin wrote: > On 03/01/2008, Erik Slagter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Please try "aplay -Dhw0,0 file" the device syntax is mandatory afaik. If > > that works you can start building a proper alsa config file with all > > kinds of useful stuff on t

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

2008-01-03 Thread Adrian McMenamin
On 03/01/2008, Erik Slagter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please try "aplay -Dhw0,0 file" the device syntax is mandatory afaik. If > that works you can start building a proper alsa config file with all > kinds of useful stuff on top of that. > > Does this $ aplay -Dhw0,0 /aine-email.wav ALSA lib

Re: [Alsa-user] two apps using sound

2008-01-03 Thread Lee Revell
On Jan 3, 2008 1:49 PM, Alexander Saydakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > Please help me to understand if this is a fundamental issue in Alsa or just a > misconfiguration in my system. > > Symptoms: > > Amarok or Mplayer can not initialize sound after watching a clip from Youtube > in Firef

[Alsa-user] two apps using sound

2008-01-03 Thread Alexander Saydakov
Hi! Please help me to understand if this is a fundamental issue in Alsa or just a misconfiguration in my system. Symptoms: Amarok or Mplayer can not initialize sound after watching a clip from Youtube in Firefox. It takes closing the Firefox to release the sound system. Fedora 7 with kernel 2

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

2008-01-03 Thread Erik Slagter
Adrian McMenamin wrote: > # aplay -L > null > Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture) > > # aplay /aine-email.wav > Playing WAVE '/aine-email.wav' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 8000 Hz, Mono > ALSA lib pcm_plug.c:773:(snd_pcm_plug_hw_refine_schange) Unable to > find an usabl