[Alsa-user] Suse being bought by Novell -- will this affect the development of Alsa?

2003-11-04 Thread Ivica Bukvic
Hi all, Just found about this one today. I think the title says it all? Any thoughts (namely Jaroslav, Takashi, and the rest of the core team)? Best wishes, Ivica Ico Bukvic, composer & multimedia sculptor http://meowing.ccm.uc.edu/~ico ---

[Alsa-user] question about libalsaplayer's functionality (and its possible incorporation in my app)

2003-10-24 Thread Ivica Bukvic
Hi all, I've tried contacting the maintainer of the project (Andy), but he never bothered to reply, so now I am taking this question to all of you out there that might have had exposure to this interesting library. Does anyone know what is the current status of the whole project anyhow? Any help on

[Alsa-user] Question regarding the alsa's audio latency benchmark

2003-10-06 Thread Ivica Bukvic
Hi all, I've had an interesting discussion with a professor and a distinguished member of the electroacoustic music community regarding audio latencies which made me realize that I did not understand the issue in its entirety. Hence, I looked around the net in order to educate myself. I soon stum

[Alsa-user] Re: More Midisport 2x2 troubles (help from the Alsa developers is greatly appreciated!)

2003-04-03 Thread Ivica Bukvic
matter is greatly appreciated! Sincerely, Ico > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:linux-audio-user- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ivica Bukvic > Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 7:24 PM > To: 'Clemens Ladisch'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL P

[Alsa-user] Re: More Midisport 2x2 troubles (help from the Alsa developers is greatly appreciated!)

2003-04-03 Thread Ivica Bukvic
--- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > halle.de] On Behalf Of Clemens Ladisch > Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 9:50 AM > To: Ivica Bukvic > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: More Midisport 2x2 troubles > > Ivica Bukvic wrote: > >

RE: [Alsa-user] More Midisport 2x2 troubles

2003-04-03 Thread Ivica Bukvic
Thanks for your help! However, I am a bit confused, since this feature with /dev/midi stuff worked like a charm just a couple weeks ago (ver. 0.9.1). So, did something change dramatically since? Can you also point me in the right direction where I can see a simple ALSA code to accessing the both

[Alsa-user] More Midisport 2x2 troubles

2003-04-02 Thread Ivica Bukvic
Hi all, I just upgraded to Mdk 9.1 and reinstalled all of the MIDI-related stuff, as well as the Alsa 0.9.2 (from sources, after uninstalling Mdk's RPM's). I also installed Fernando's modified alsasound script that enables smart unloading of snd- modules. The end result is that the midisport work

[Alsa-user] [ANN] RTMix software interactive multimedia interface version 0.7 released (3/10/03)

2003-03-10 Thread Ivica Bukvic
Hello fellow musicians, composers, multimedia sculptors, and developers! It is my pleasure to announce to you the newest release of RTMix version 0.7. New improvements include: *Internal error widget has been removed. *External Error Log now became a general purpose Console. *Added visuals fo

[Alsa-user] How does one alter the main mixer volume (or any other mixer level) in ALSA from a command line (via a simple system call)?

2003-03-05 Thread Ivica Bukvic
Hi all, I have this small question: Is it possible (I presume it is) to alter mixer settings in Alsa by invoking some kind of a system call using shell (i.e. how the RME hdsp can have its stuff altered)? If so, what is the range of values that describe the loudest and softest levels? Finally, a

[Alsa-user] [revisited] bug? with cs4205 and intel8x0 module

2003-03-05 Thread Ivica Bukvic
Hi all, A while ago I posted this message, although mixed with some other false assumptions of mine -- apologies for my ignorance( see: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg05286.ht ml thread) and then did the same thing just a couple days ago with the whole output log as requested (s

[Alsa-user] RE: [Alsa-devel] Interesting problem with hotplug and Midisport 2x2 on Mdk 9.0

2003-02-27 Thread Ivica Bukvic
Actually, now that I have reinstalled the src.rpm package of hotplug 8_26_2002 (from sourceforge), I do get both the 2 midi ports and audio (crashes still occur). I've now discovered two more interesting issues: 1) Upon booting and installing the midisport 2x2 for the first time (regardless whethe

[Alsa-user] Interesting problem with hotplug and Midisport 2x2 on Mdk 9.0

2003-02-27 Thread Ivica Bukvic
Hi all, This is my latest finding. Thanks to the script I got from Jaroslav, I am now able to hotplug my midisport 2x2 whenever I wish to do so. However, there is an interesting problem surrounding Mdk9.0. If I use the planet ccrma's hotplug ver. 2002_8_26 (by forcing upgrade of the mdk's), I get

RE: [Alsa-user] [lack of] dynamic detection/loading of modules

2003-02-27 Thread Ivica Bukvic
I presume I need to blacklist the snd-usb-audio/midi in the /etc/hotplug/blacklist for this to work? Also, do I need to make any other changes or as long as I put this script into the /etc/hotplug/ dir I am set? Thanks for the great script! (is this going to become a standard part of the alsa dr

[Alsa-user] Where to find more info on dmix?

2003-02-26 Thread Ivica Bukvic
I just read about the existence of dmix that apparently enables /dev/dsp sharing through software (please correct me if I am wrong). Does it poll both I and O or just O? (i.e. can the mic input be shared among several apps) Any help is appreciated! Sincerely, Ico -

[Alsa-user] RE: [Alsa-devel] [lack of] dynamic detection/loading of modules

2003-02-26 Thread Ivica Bukvic
> cat /proc/modules | grep '^snd' Thanks for the reply. A couple of questions: Where do you put this? How do you trigger it automatically upon connection of a hot-pluggable hw (if the stuff is blacklisted)? How can we make this user-friendly? (i.e. no user interaction -> plug 'n' use). Ico

[Alsa-user] [lack of] dynamic detection/loading of modules

2003-02-26 Thread Ivica Bukvic
Hi all, After several correspondence between the CCRMA's Linux audio guru Fernando and myself, I realized that Alsa really needs (as Fernando has pointed out) list of modules currently loaded that would enable users to simply plug in devices as needed and then have them immediately recognized by A

[Alsa-user] RE: [Alsa-devel] Midisport 2x2 spawns before Alsa, taking thedevice0 slot event though modules.conf puts snd-usb-midi as 3rd device ->result potential hardlocks when opening dsp

2003-02-25 Thread Ivica Bukvic
Thank you very much for your assistance! Ico > -Original Message- > From: Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 8:56 PM > To: Ivica Bukvic > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Alsa-devel] Mi

[Alsa-user] RE: Midisport 2x2 spawns before Alsa, taking the device0 slot event though modules.conf puts snd-usb-midi as 3rd device -> result potential hardlocks when opening dsp

2003-02-25 Thread Ivica Bukvic
Forgot to include my modules.conf, so here it is: #load hdsp mem before everything else options snd-hammerfall-mem enable=1 options snd-hdsp line_outs_monitor=1 alias net-pf-4 ipx alias autofs autofs4 probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi alias eth0 3c59x #alias sound-slot-0 i810_audio alias ieee139

[Alsa-user] Midisport 2x2 spawns before Alsa, taking the device0 slot event though modules.conf puts snd-usb-midi as 3rd device -> result potential hardlocks when opening dsp

2003-02-25 Thread Ivica Bukvic
Hi all, I was just wondering how can I force snd-usb-midi to assume device 2 slot, rather than the default 0 when spawning, since at boot time on my machine USB gets initialized before alsa and therefore if I have Midisport 2x2 hooked up, it ends up being my default /dev/dsp device (which actually

[Alsa-user] Alsa intel8x0 driver on Inspiron8200 and Kmix do not work

2003-02-24 Thread Ivica Bukvic
Hi all, Here's the problem I have (or I've been having for a long time now). I've successfuly installed the alsa's driver and the sound works ok. But, every time I open Kmix (since I am using KDE as my primary desktop) I can adjust all the levels, but the only available audio inputs are Main, L

[Alsa-user] problems with Midisport 2x2

2003-02-24 Thread Ivica Bukvic
-Original Message- From: Ivica Bukvic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 3:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: problems with Midisport 2x2 Hi all, I've got a small problem with my Midisport 2x2 MIDI interface. Whi

[Alsa-user] interesting info regarding hdsp behavior

2003-01-26 Thread Ivica Bukvic
Hi all, I've been messing with hdsp and found out an interesting issue. After installing the driver for the first time onto the xp machine I also had no sound coming out of the soundcard even though totalmix app showed levels to be up. After clicking on the levels and/or moving them a bit, suddenl

[Alsa-user] CS4205 (snd-intel8x0) missing recording inputs

2002-11-17 Thread Ivica Bukvic
This driver seems to be notorious right now with its features (or better lack thereof). When using Alsa driver for the above-mentioned driver found in many of the current laptops, not all inputs can be selected for recording. For instance, line-in is available as an input source, but mic-in surpris

[Alsa-user] Problem compiling alsa-lib 0.9.0rc3 on MDK 9.0

2002-10-14 Thread Ivica Bukvic
Hi all! These are the errors I came up against compiling either CVS or the latest official rc3 version. I do not know the guts of the alsa to be able to fix it myself, so I would greatly appreciate any help I can get on this matter: creating cache ./config.cache checking host system type... i6

[Alsa-user] Suse 8.0 Alsa CVS compile problem (possibly snd-hammerfall-mem problem?)

2002-05-19 Thread Ivica Bukvic
Hi all, I am having an odd problem with the ALSA cvs compile on SUSE 8.0. I am trying to do this in order to get the hdsp driver. However, whenever I compile the driver it stores all the modules in the /lib/modules/2.4.18-4GB/ folder assuming that my kernel is 2.4.18-4GB. However, when I open the

[Alsa-user] CS4205 -- personal conclusion: avoid these laptops (for now)...

2002-05-06 Thread Ivica Bukvic
Hi all! I've just finished messing with the Inspiron 8200, and after 2 weeks of messing with it and 4 different OS's (Deb, Mdk, RH/beta, and currently Suse), I can say that this card is simply not ready to be used seriously for the pro audio with Alsa. Here's the final breakdown of everything I l

[Alsa-user] Question regarding the CS4205 driver (used in all current Dell notebooks)

2002-05-03 Thread Ivica Bukvic
Hi all, I've been trying to get the Crystal Sound (CS4205) notebook (Dell Inspiron 8200) soundcard to work with both OSS and Alsa (although I would prefer to get Alsa working rather than OSS), but it seems that both drivers have insufficient info about this card to get it to work. I did get it to

[Alsa-user] Update regarding CS4205 (Dell Inspiron 8200) driver problem, any help would be appreciated!

2002-05-02 Thread Ivica Bukvic
Hi all, I've been messing with the drivers and kernels and eventually installed the latest RH 7.2.93 (Beta a.k.a. Skipjack) with 2.4.18 kernel. Here's the scoop. With OSS Free the thing only does non-duplex stuff. With OSS/Commercial, it can run 2 concurrent operations (through Artsd it can ev

[Alsa-user] RE: [Alsa-devel] Question regarding the CS4205 driver (used in all current Dell notebooks)

2002-04-30 Thread Ivica Bukvic
to do with this since 4100 series still run only P3's. 3) pester people on this message board some more ;-) 4) Give up on it Any help is utmostly appreciated! Ico > -Original Message- > From: Stuffed Crust [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 8:21 AM

[Alsa-user] Question regarding the CS4205 driver (used in all current Dell notebooks)

2002-04-29 Thread Ivica Bukvic
Hi all, I've been trying to get the Crystal Sound (CS4205) notebook (Dell Inspiron 8200) soundcard to work with both OSS and Alsa (although I would prefer to get Alsa working rather than OSS), but it seems that both drivers have insufficient info about this card to get it to work. I did get it to

[Alsa-user] What is the current status of the alsa sound server (signal polling)?

2002-04-18 Thread Ivica Bukvic
Hi all! A while ago I was inquiring about the current status of the .asoundrc documentation, as well as the feasibility of creating "mock" devices that would allow polling of the audio i/o resources of the soundcard whose driver's limitations and/or hardware limitations currently do not support ha

RE: [Alsa-user] RE: [Alsa-devel] more RME 9652 Hammerfall problems

2002-04-07 Thread Ivica Bukvic
Sorry, not yet, but will be up very soon. I was busy attending a conference and other matters, so hopefully I will have it ready in a couple of weeks (probably sooner, but don't want to make any promises that I cannot hold). Ico -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

[Alsa-user] RE: [Alsa-devel] question regarding latest CS4205 laptop soundcard driver

2002-02-27 Thread Ivica Bukvic
> 1a) Get Abramo to post (or point to) detailed information on using a >"share" PCM device > > 1b) Get Abramo or Jaroslav to post (or point to) detailed information >on setting up libaoss (specifically, how to map /dev/dspN to a specific >ALSA PCM device) > > 2) edit your ~/.asoundrc

[Alsa-user] RE: [Alsa-devel] question regarding latest CS4205 laptop soundcarddriver

2002-02-27 Thread Ivica Bukvic
> And who is going to organise this effort? No seriously you are talking about Jack. > > It is the combined knowledge of the LAD community who have been debating the concept >for the past 5 years and are now writing the code. If you haven't joined the mailing >list for jack then you should. AF

[Alsa-user] RE: [Alsa-devel] question regarding latest CS4205 laptop soundcard driver

2002-02-26 Thread Ivica Bukvic
> > *There is esd, which is outdated and simply crappy. > > *There is artsd, which is better, but not good enough, and again, the > > app must be made to be aware of it in order to utilize it. > > *There is JACK project which has a huge potential but none of its > > effects are again universal, no

[Alsa-user] RE: [Alsa-devel] question regarding latest CS4205 laptop soundcard driver

2002-02-26 Thread Ivica Bukvic
> > P.S. What about Yamaha/Intel 753 chip that is found in the Toshiba > > Satellite 5005's? > > All yamaha 75x should be supported with the alsa 'ymfpci' driver. Yes, but does it include hardware mixing? I do not mean to be hammering this issue into the ground, but Linux OS as an audio worksta

[Alsa-user] RE: [Alsa-devel] question regarding latest CS4205 laptop soundcard driver

2002-02-26 Thread Ivica Bukvic
P.S. What about Yamaha/Intel 753 chip that is found in the Toshiba Satellite 5005's? Thanks for your assistance! Ico > -Original Message- > From: Patrick Shirkey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 2:25 AM > To: Ivica Bukvic; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

[Alsa-user] question regarding latest CS4205 laptop soundcard driver

2002-02-25 Thread Ivica Bukvic
Hi all! I have a quick question regarding the latest CrystalClear soundcard that is found in Dell Inspirons and other laptops (model name CS4205). My understanding is that the maker of this DSP chip is rather Linux friendly, so my question is does the driver for this soundcard (which I believe i

[Alsa-user] Question regarding current ESS Maestro 3M soundcard support

2002-02-11 Thread Ivica Bukvic
Hi all! I have an Dell Inspiron 8K and my question is whether the current Maestro M3 chip is fully supported or does it currently only furnish SB16 compatibility mode (I might be talking nonsense here, but this is what I heard a while ago, or something like it and my understanding is that the cur

[Alsa-user] re: Hammerfall woes

2002-02-05 Thread Ivica Bukvic
> Try jack (jackit.sf.net) it will help you in part with what you want. > latest ardour CVS requires this. > > _J Thanks for your help. But isn't it true that the app has to be "jack-aware" in order to utilize it as a software downmixing tool? For instance, I am greatly interested in running m

[Alsa-user] RE: Hammerfall woes

2002-02-05 Thread Ivica Bukvic
> >As far as the ardour is concerned, when I start it with -D rme9652 -i 8 > >-o 8 flags, and press play it only plays a quick "click-like" snippet of > >a sound and immediately stops (no xruns reported). Why is this happening > >(I am using the 4-6 days old CVS version)? > > no idea. your descri

[Alsa-user] re: Hammerfall woes

2002-02-05 Thread Ivica Bukvic
> if this is the problem i think it is, you don't need to reboot. in > ardour/jack, just stopping+restarting the PCM streams would generally > clear it. > > i have had this problem from time to time as well. i am still, after 2 > years of working with the hammerfall, unsure of what causes it.

[Alsa-user] More woes with the RME 9652 soundcard

2002-02-05 Thread Ivica Bukvic
It seems I have been celebrating too early. Here's the scoop on my current issues: I have finally managed to produce sound with the darn thing, but every so often now I get sporadic "crackle" out of the output, as well as complete distortion of the sound, almost as if the pitch is constantly osc

[Alsa-user] RE: [Alsa-devel] more RME 9652 Hammerfall problems

2002-02-02 Thread Ivica Bukvic
Ico > -Original Message- > From: Jeremy Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 7:46 PM > To: Ivica Bukvic > Cc: 'Jeremy Hall' > Subject: Re: [Alsa-devel] more RME 9652 Hammerfall problems > > the 14:0 means it is upset with line 1

[Alsa-user] Re: Problem with RME9652 Hammerfall ALSA driver (question for Steve Harris)

2002-02-02 Thread Ivica Bukvic
I noticed your post regarding the IRQ issue. How did this issue manifest itself when you tried to use the Hammerfall card? Could you still install (modprobe) the driver without any problems, or was it preventing you from doing even that? Could you please give me more info so that I can see if this

[Alsa-user] RE: [Alsa-devel] more RME 9652 Hammerfall problems

2002-02-02 Thread Ivica Bukvic
An update: I tried changing to what Paul recommended and here's what I got: My .asoundrc: pcm.rme9652 { type hw card 1 } ctl.rme9652 { type hw card 1 } pcm.dsp1 { type plughw card 1 } The error is now gone (the " _toplevel_:15:0:Unexpected char ALSA lib conf.c:2452:" one), but here's the output

[Alsa-user] RE: [Alsa-devel] more RME 9652 Hammerfall problems

2002-02-02 Thread Ivica Bukvic
version of an .asoundrc file from someone who uses RME soundcard. Thank you! Sincerely, Ico > -Original Message- > From: Jeremy Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 10:45 PM > To: Ivica Bukvic > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subjec

[Alsa-user] more RME 9652 Hammerfall problems

2002-02-01 Thread Ivica Bukvic
First off, thanks all for your assistance. I'm a bit closer to getting this darn thing working. Upon being instructed by Paul Davis, I did the following things: #alsactl -f foo store 1 (because my Hammerfall is currently seen as the second card) I edited foo file, and changed the following:

[Alsa-user] Problem with RME9652 Hammerfall ALSA driver -- any help would be greatly appreciated!

2002-01-31 Thread Ivica Bukvic
Hi all! I just finished installing the new RME Hammerfall in one of the studio's Linux boxes. The install went fine and I managed to load the driver. The problem is that I cannot get the mixer to have any "elements" (or "elems" as the alsamixer calls them) which thus makes the card un-openable ev

[Alsa-user] what is the state of latency issue in the latest beta release of ALSA driver in regards to MIDI and DSP? (and other questions)

2001-10-11 Thread Ivica Bukvic
Hi, I've just been wondering as to what is the current achievable latency with the latest alsa driver (0.9.8beta) when it comes to MIDI data? I do understand that kernel plays an important role in this so, my question pertains to the 2.4.8 kernel and up. Also, is there any plans to introduce low-l