Re: [Alsa-user] redirect ALSA output - no sound card?

2008-04-25 Thread William R. Zwicky
Nick Byrne wrote: > I would like to capture output from an arbitrary application which > outputs to ALSA and allow this data to be read by my application. Can i > do this with ALSA and if so how? > This guy seems to be doing something similar: http://rudd-o.com/archives/2007/10/19/the-ultimat

Re: [Alsa-user] software for MCP61

2008-04-25 Thread James Shatto
> I have a new mother-card with a MCP61 > module and the Linux OS is Suse 10.2. > Alsa driver is the 1.0.13.22 version. I have that on one of my machines. It should use the snd-hda-intel module(s). And you should run at least alsa version 1.0.14. There were some mixer additions in 1.0.15 iirc

Re: [Alsa-user] Trying to get arecord/aplay to work with M-Audio

2008-04-25 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:23:06 +0200 Takashi Iwai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:19:38 +0200, > I wrote: > > > > At Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:58:50 +0100, > > Rene Herman wrote: > > > > > > On 26-03-08 23:57, Bill Unruh wrote: > > > > > > > On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Helge Fredriksen wro

Re: [Alsa-user] Problems with compilation 1.0.16 drivers with kernel 2.6.25

2008-04-25 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 04:24:58PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:27:48 +0200, > Zbigniew Baniewski wrote: > > > > I've got a problems trying to compile 1.0.16 drivers with kernel 2.6.25. > > HG version should work with 2.6.25. Not at all. :( The same problem's still here.

Re: [Alsa-user] MAudio 2496 left-channel crackling

2008-04-25 Thread Matt Garman
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 06:00:01PM +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote: > ok. It you have "lucky time when there's no crackling", then it is > probably a bad solder joint on your card. > > Check the biggest components, they tend to be badly soldered. (I > have repaired the display on my Yamaha DSP-A1 j

Re: [Alsa-user] MAudio 2496 left-channel crackling

2008-04-25 Thread Dominique Dumont
Matt Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 04:19:43PM +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote: >> Matt Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > I forgot to mention, and don't know that this makes any >> > difference, but the crackling problems seemed to have developed >> > within the l

Re: [Alsa-user] MAudio 2496 left-channel crackling

2008-04-25 Thread Matt Garman
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 04:19:43PM +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote: > Matt Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I forgot to mention, and don't know that this makes any > > difference, but the crackling problems seemed to have developed > > within the last couple weeks or so. For the first month to

Re: [Alsa-user] Sound Quality: difference in digital outputs? optical vs coax? discrete vs integrated?

2008-04-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 7:13 AM, Matt Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 06:29:30PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > In my experience there is no comparison between my Benchmark DAC1 > > and the D/A in our home theater. In one case the DAC1 is a $1K > > converter driven by

Re: [Alsa-user] MAudio 2496 left-channel crackling (was: Sound Quality: difference in digital outputs? optical vs coax? discrete vs integrated?)

2008-04-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 7:10 AM, Matt Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 06:17:32AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Any reason to suspect it's gotten damaged? I have an M-Audio 2496 > > and I've never had any trouble like you're experiencing. > > Nope, I bought it new, and

Re: [Alsa-user] Problems with compilation 1.0.16 drivers with kernel 2.6.25

2008-04-25 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:27:48 +0200, Zbigniew Baniewski wrote: > > I've got a problems trying to compile 1.0.16 drivers with kernel 2.6.25. HG version should work with 2.6.25. See the download page about HG version. Takashi --

Re: [Alsa-user] Trying to get arecord/aplay to work with M-Audio

2008-04-25 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:19:38 +0200, I wrote: > > At Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:58:50 +0100, > Rene Herman wrote: > > > > On 26-03-08 23:57, Bill Unruh wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Helge Fredriksen wrote: > > > > > >> Ok, here's what I found out: > > >> > > >> Since these cards seem to lack th

Re: [Alsa-user] Trying to get arecord/aplay to work with M-Audio

2008-04-25 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:29:18 -0700 (PDT), Bill Unruh wrote: > > On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Rene Herman wrote: > > > On 26-03-08 23:57, Bill Unruh wrote: > > > >> On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Helge Fredriksen wrote: > >> > >> > Ok, here's what I found out: > >> > > >> > Since these cards seem to lack the s

Re: [Alsa-user] MAudio 2496 left-channel crackling

2008-04-25 Thread Dominique Dumont
Matt Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I forgot to mention, and don't know that this makes any difference, > but the crackling problems seemed to have developed within the last > couple weeks or so. For the first month to six weeks I had and used > it, I don't recall any crackling. And even s

Re: [Alsa-user] Trying to get arecord/aplay to work with M-Audio

2008-04-25 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:58:50 +0100, Rene Herman wrote: > > On 26-03-08 23:57, Bill Unruh wrote: > > > On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Helge Fredriksen wrote: > > > >> Ok, here's what I found out: > >> > >> Since these cards seem to lack the support for doing frequency conversion > >> in > >> HW, you simpl

Re: [Alsa-user] Sound Quality: difference in digital outputs? optical vs coax? discrete vs integrated?

2008-04-25 Thread Matt Garman
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 06:29:30PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > In my experience there is no comparison between my Benchmark DAC1 > and the D/A in our home theater. In one case the DAC1 is a $1K > converter driven by a spdif cable. In the other case it's a $300 > Sony receiver with probably a $20 D/

Re: [Alsa-user] MAudio 2496 left-channel crackling (was: Sound Quality: difference in digital outputs? optical vs coax? discrete vs integrated?)

2008-04-25 Thread Matt Garman
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 06:17:32AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Any reason to suspect it's gotten damaged? I have an M-Audio 2496 > and I've never had any trouble like you're experiencing. Nope, I bought it new, and only a couple months ago at that. I forgot to mention, and don't know that this ma

Re: [Alsa-user] MAudio 2496 left-channel crackling (was: Sound Quality: difference in digital outputs? optical vs coax? discrete vs integrated?)

2008-04-25 Thread Mark Knecht
Matt, For the most part I agree with your analysis. If the card is only making noise in the left channel then it seems more likely (to me anyway) that the card itself might be having problems. Bad clocking would presumably cause noise in both channels. Any reason to suspect it's gotten damag

[Alsa-user] MAudio 2496 left-channel crackling (was: Sound Quality: difference in digital outputs? optical vs coax? discrete vs integrated?)

2008-04-25 Thread Matt Garman
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 09:43:33PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > One, the crackling of my MAudio 2496. I'm just assuming that > > the inside of my case has a lot of RF interference, so digital > > coming out of the PC seems like a good way to get away from > > that. > > Crackling is not caused by

[Alsa-user] software for MCP61

2008-04-25 Thread COUTANT Pierre
Hello, I have a new mother-card with a MCP61 module and the Linux OS is Suse 10.2. Alsa driver is the 1.0.13.22 version. There is no sound (installation of nVidia module impossible). What software can I install for a correct function ? Thank you. Pierre COUTANT ---

Re: [Alsa-user] Sound Quality: difference in digital outputs? optical vs coax? discrete vs integrated?

2008-04-25 Thread Keith Owens
Rene Herman (on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:18:11 +0200) wrote: >On 24-04-08 21:13, Matt Garman wrote: > >> A specific question: if using digital output, is there a difference >> (sound quality-wise) between optical/toslink and coaxial? Say my >> soundcard can output both via optical and coax, and my am