Re: [Alsa-user] playing / recording mono on a stereo-only hardware

2010-01-31 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Jaroslav Kysela wrote: > On Sat, 30 Jan 2010, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > > On Sat, 30 Jan 2010, Jaroslav Kysela wrote: > > > > > Could you also try this sequence? > > > > > > # export LIBASOUND_COMPAT=1 > > >

Re: [Alsa-user] playing / recording mono on a stereo-only hardware

2010-01-30 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
4 BUFFER_TIME: 50 BUFFER_SIZE: 4000 BUFFER_BYTES: 8000 TICK_TIME: 0 Thanks Guennadi --- Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D. Freelance Open-Source Software Developer http://www.open-technology.de/ -- The Planet: dedicated and managed

Re: [Alsa-user] playing / recording mono on a stereo-only hardware

2010-01-30 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
.conf > and run ldconfig > > It probably will not solve your problem but make it unneccessary to type > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/ > every time. You meant /usr/local/lib, but this doesn't work on that distro - something has been optimised away in that busybox. Thanks Guenna

Re: [Alsa-user] playing / recording mono on a stereo-only hardware

2010-01-30 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010, Jaroslav Kysela wrote: > On Sat, 30 Jan 2010, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > > On Sat, 30 Jan 2010, Giuliano Pochini wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:59:48 +0100 (CET) > > > Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > > > &

Re: [Alsa-user] playing / recording mono on a stereo-only hardware

2010-01-30 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010, Giuliano Pochini wrote: > On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:59:48 +0100 (CET) > Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > > On Sat, 30 Jan 2010, Giuliano Pochini wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:44:43 +0100 (CET) > > > Guennadi Liakhovetski

Re: [Alsa-user] playing / recording mono on a stereo-only hardware

2010-01-30 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010, Giuliano Pochini wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:44:43 +0100 (CET) > Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > > > Try something simpler: > > > > > > arecord -v -Dplughw:0 -c1 -r44100 -fS16_LE out.wav > > > > > > It prints th

Re: [Alsa-user] playing / recording mono on a stereo-only hardware

2010-01-29 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010, Giuliano Pochini wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:34:41 +0100 (CET) > Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > > On Mon, 25 Jan 2010, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > > > > > Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > > > Is there a way to tell als

Re: [Alsa-user] playing / recording mono on a stereo-only hardware

2010-01-25 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
On Mon, 25 Jan 2010, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > Is there a way to tell alsa-lib to duplicate the mono-channel during > > playback and to mix recorded channels, if mono recording is requested? > > Yes, with the "plug" plugin. It shou

[Alsa-user] playing / recording mono on a stereo-only hardware

2010-01-22 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
o mix recorded channels, if mono recording is requested? Thanks Guennadi --- Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D. Freelance Open-Source Software Developer http://www.open-technology.de/ -- Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Confe

Re: [Alsa-user] [Q] on-board ISA card higher quality sound than VIA686?

2006-03-13 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
On Sun, 12 Mar 2006, Lee Revell wrote: > On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 00:42 +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > > > Well, _this_ difference everybody would here, but, well... > > I guess you are referring to recording with the OSS driver, as you said > that capture with AL

Re: [Alsa-user] [Q] on-board ISA card higher quality sound than VIA686?

2006-03-12 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
On Sun, 12 Mar 2006, Lee Revell wrote: > On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 21:19 +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > Hi > > > > Just a practical curiousity question - it seems to me that audio recorded > > from the line-in of an on-board es18xx ISA card has higher quality t

[Alsa-user] [Q] on-board ISA card higher quality sound than VIA686?

2006-03-12 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
- it's a headphone output of an md-player, but the disc and volume were the same. The software (apart from the driver, of course) is roughly the same - Debian Sarge, 2.6.15.4 kernel. Thanks Guennadi --- Guennadi Liakhovetski --- This S

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord under 2.6.15.4-rt17 ->overruns...

2006-03-10 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote: > As soon as I get a bug number from the ALSA bug tracker I'll add > SOUND_VIA82CXXX to my list of OSS drivers that should stay. Bug-ID 0001906: https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=1906 (requires login) Thanks Guennadi -

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord under 2.6.15.4-rt17 ->overruns...

2006-03-09 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
o compile any recent version of alsa-library against 2.4.x native alsa drivers. I might try some older version of alsa-lib. I'll try to put as much information as possible in the bug-report. Thanks Guennadi --- Guennadi Liakhovetski ---

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord under 2.6.15.4-rt17 ->overruns...

2006-03-09 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
kd -v -d oss". And then just put some load in the background + try to start ardour... With alsa I wasn't even able to start it. With oss it did run, and no xruns reported from jackd. Normal non-rt kernel. jackd started without --realtime. Ouch Thanks Guenna

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord under 2.6.15.4-rt17 ->overruns...

2006-03-07 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Lee Revell wrote: > On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 19:30 +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > > And my audio still doesn't work properly... > > Yes you've mentioned that several times. Ok, sorry, I just wanted to come to some resolution - either a fi

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord under 2.6.15.4-rt17 ->overruns...

2006-03-07 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > in drivers/pci/quirks.c: > > /* > * VIA Apollo KT133 needs PCI latency patch > * Made according to a windows driver based patch by George E. Breese > * see PCI Latency Adjust on > http://www.via

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord under 2.6.15.4-rt17 ->overruns...

2006-03-06 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
00 00 00 00 00 00 e0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 41 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 So, bit 4 is not set... I added busarb to the printk above and it prints 0xd2. Why is it reset to 0x42 again later??? Found nothing in drivers/ide/pci/via82cxxx.c... I could re

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord under 2.6.15.4-rt17 ->overruns...

2006-03-05 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
f the box dies - it's your fault, Lee:-) > If it still does not work then file a bug report. After BIOS test... Thanks Guennadi --- Guennadi Liakhovetski --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting lang

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord under 2.6.15.4-rt17 ->overruns...

2006-03-04 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
On Sat, 4 Mar 2006, Lee Revell wrote: > On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 18:36 +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > Just checked recording with nice -n -20 arecord... on another system > > (2 x P2/400MHz, 128MB RAM) under load - no overruns even without > > realtime. Is it VIA?...

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord under 2.6.15.4-rt17 ->overruns...

2006-03-04 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
forgot to say that one has to interrupt it or start "bounded":-) I first thought I just had to wait, so, it ran for some time... Don't know if too much or too little. Anyway, here goes: 0.0 748745 0.1 914 0.2 13 0.3 2 0.4 3 0.5 7 1.2 1 1.3 4 1.4 3 6.5

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord under 2.6.15.4-rt17 ->overruns...

2006-03-04 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
On Sat, 4 Mar 2006, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > On Sat, 4 Mar 2006 14:32:35 +0100 (CET) Guennadi Liakhovetski <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Another question - to further eliminate possible arecord / alsa-library > > bugs, if I try another recording programs (brec

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord under 2.6.15.4-rt17 ->overruns...

2006-03-04 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
-4.0.2 to exclude local library / tool / distribution / kernel config breakage - same. Another question - to further eliminate possible arecord / alsa-library bugs, if I try another recording programs (brec, ardour + jackd,...) would they all report xruns? Thanks Guennadi --- Guennadi Lia

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord under 2.6.15.4-rt17 ->overruns...

2006-03-03 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Lee Revell wrote: > On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 00:13 +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Lee Revell wrote: > > > > > Try enabling latency tracing in the kernel config and see what you get > > > in /proc/latency_trace. >

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord under 2.6.15.4-rt17 ->overruns...

2006-03-02 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
ook at it tomorrow - some more googling will be needed - never tried it before. Thanks Guennadi --- Guennadi Liakhovetski --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mob

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord under 2.6.15.4-rt17 ->overruns...

2006-03-02 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Lee Revell wrote: > On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 22:41 +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > > > One more thing comes to mind. Lee, you would remember - there were > > some > > reports of "time ls" taking variable time under 2.6.15, un

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord under 2.6.15.4-rt17 ->overruns...

2006-03-02 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
straight away? I guess, I'll try latency-tracing first. Thanks Guennadi --- Guennadi Liakhovetski --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Atten

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord under 2.6.15.4-rt17 ->overruns...

2006-03-02 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Lee Revell wrote: > On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 22:16 +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > One doubt, though - setting SCHED_FIFO and raising the priority > > doesn't do > > mlock, can that be a problem? I do have 512MB RAM... No, after getting

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord under 2.6.15.4-rt17 ->overruns...

2006-03-02 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Lee Revell wrote: > On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 22:14 +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > > > Ok, I was running a rt-kernel right now, otherwise just started > > This is with all IRQ priorities left at the defaults? Exactly. > > arecord

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord under 2.6.15.4-rt17 ->overruns...

2006-03-02 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Lee Revell wrote: > On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 21:19 +0100, fons adriaensen wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 09:03:29PM +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > > > > chrt -f -p 50 `pidof "IRQ 5"` > > > chrt -f 40 arecord -t wav -f cd

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord under 2.6.15.4-rt17 ->overruns...

2006-03-02 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Lee Revell wrote: > On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 21:57 +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Lee Revell wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 21:03 +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > > > Hi all > > > > >

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord under 2.6.15.4-rt17 ->overruns...

2006-03-02 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Lee Revell wrote: > On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 21:03 +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > Hi all > > > > I am puzzled... I do: > > > > chrt -f -p 50 `pidof "IRQ 5"` > > chrt -f 40 arecord -t wav -f cd -d 600 test.wav > >

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord under 2.6.15.4-rt17 ->overruns...

2006-03-02 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, fons adriaensen wrote: > On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 09:03:29PM +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > > chrt -f -p 50 `pidof "IRQ 5"` > > chrt -f 40 arecord -t wav -f cd -d 600 test.wav > > > > and if there's accidentally an update

[Alsa-user] arecord under 2.6.15.4-rt17 ->overruns...

2006-03-02 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
know why it cannot (reliably) work. Is arecord a bad choice? I know it has some parameters to control buffers, intervals, but it wasn't obvious to me which one(s) can be critical for the task. Thanks Guennadi --- Guennadi Liakhovetski -