Re: [Alsa-user] arecord: set_params:1239: Channels count non available

2014-03-17 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 17 March 2014 14:30, Roger wrote: > I keep getting the following error whenever specifying -c 1 or --channels=1, > or > specifying any number of channels less than two channels when using an ASUS > Essence STX soundcard and recording using the microphone line having a TRS > jack. (Whether usi

Re: [Alsa-user] Volume control range

2013-07-06 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 6 July 2013 07:04, Paul D. DeRocco wrote: > A few months ago, Clemens was kind enough to explain how to set a volume > control, given its name, using the snd_ctl_elem_value_xxx functions. By > experimenting on my Ubuntu system, it appeared that values from 0 to 0x > ran the master volume th

Re: [Alsa-user] [alsa-devel] Creative Sound Blaster Audigy SE Mic problem

2010-11-29 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 24 November 2010 13:38, Grega Fajdiga wrote: > Hello, > > I am using Ubuntu 10.10 with a Creative Sound Blaster Audigy SE. > > The snd_ca0106 module is loaded. What does this show? cat /proc/asound/cards It will tell me if the driver is recognised or not.

Re: [Alsa-user] Strange alsa behaviour

2010-09-05 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 2 September 2010 11:12, Cyril Russo wrote: > >  Hi, > >  I've an issue with my new Creative Audigy sound card. > I'm using a Debian Squeeze (with official 2.6.32-5-amd64 kernel) system. > I've done this step to ensure I'm using the latest version: > sudo module-assistant auto-install alsa (whic

Re: [Alsa-user] looking for pci sound card with wavetable

2010-07-15 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 15 July 2010 11:25, Arthur Marsh wrote: > > Thanks, I now have an: > > Creative Labs SB Audigy 2 ZS (SB0350) > > Apart from a few niggling issues: having to set the Audigy > Analog/Digital Output jack switch off to use analogue line-out, > the kmix "Output" settings being wider than what would

Re: [Alsa-user] looking for pci sound card with wavetable

2010-07-14 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 14 July 2010 09:24, Arthur Marsh wrote: > Hi, I picked up a Soundblaster Audigy SB0570 card, hoping that it would > have a wavetable synth like some of the EMU10K1/EMU10K2 based cards, > however it identifies as: > > CA0106 :00:09.0: found PCI INT A -> IRQ 5 > snd-ca0106: Model 100a Rev 000

Re: [Alsa-user] How to downmix 5.1 to stereo?

2010-07-04 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 4 July 2010 16:51, Manuel Reimer wrote: > James Courtier-Dutton wrote: >> Why would you need to downmix 5.1 to 2.0 ? >> Most Linux applications do the downmix for you. >> I.e. You tell it how many speakers you have, and it outputs the sound to >> them. >> e.g.

Re: [Alsa-user] How to downmix 5.1 to stereo?

2010-07-04 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 4 July 2010 13:45, Manuel Reimer wrote: Why would you need to downmix 5.1 to 2.0 ? Most Linux applications do the downmix for you. I.e. You tell it how many speakers you have, and it outputs the sound to them. e.g. The xine media player Kind Regards James ---

Re: [Alsa-user] no sound, audigy 2zs

2010-06-12 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 11 June 2010 18:31, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote: > Hi. > Now I've gotten the audigy 2zs as first soundcard. > I edited the /etc/modprobe.d/asound/alsa-base.conf file. > there i set option snd-hda-intel index=-2 > And alsactl init says that audigy is the card I'm using now, but no sound at > all

Re: [Alsa-user] How to request a soundcard to be supported in Alsa

2010-06-11 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 11 June 2010 20:09, Pandu Rakimanputra wrote: > Dear all alsa user > > It has been 4 month since my first email to this mailing-list and I still > searching to make my Focusrite Saffire 6 USB works. I've got nothing. So I > have a few question: > 1) Is there any spesific requirement/criteria

Re: [Alsa-user] WAV offset with ALSA

2010-01-20 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
2010/1/20 Dean Montgomery : > Why would the WAV be offset using ALSA but not OSS? > > See attached picture: > * top = alsa > * bottom = oss > > http://dean.sd73.bc.ca/mod/resource/view.php?id=21 > It might be a bug in the driver. You do not give any information regarding which sound card you have.

Re: [Alsa-user] emu 0404 usb problems

2009-01-26 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Clemens Ladisch wrote: > Aleksander Kamenik wrote: >> Since the upgrade from Fedora 9 to Fedora 10, the EMU 0404 USB card does >> not work any more. > > Only in PulseAudio? > >> The alsa version changed form .17 to 19. > > There have been no relevant changes in either the ALSA driver or > alsa-

Re: [Alsa-user] Digital bit perfect ouptut with ALSA

2008-12-15 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Paulo Moura Guedes wrote: > For my case where I connect to the Benchmark DAC1 via USB (which supports > 24bit 96khz), does my sound card have any influence in the process? > No. If the sound card does 24bit 96khz, and the original sound file is 24bit 96khz, ALSA will not touch/modify the samples

Re: [Alsa-user] Digital bit perfect ouptut with ALSA

2008-12-12 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Paulo Moura Guedes wrote: > I'm trying to get bit perfect output out of my linux box, but I can't find > much > info on the web. I'm using ALSA. > > Some questions: > > - does Linux/ALSA features dynamic sample rates? > - is it possible to set the bit-depth? (in my case to 24 bit) > - what othe

Re: [Alsa-user] Audigy2 recording level much too low - an (one and half) year later

2008-12-01 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Zbigniew Baniewski wrote: > Hallo, > > Over a year ago I've reported the problem with very low microphone input > sensitivity, while recording using Audigy2, what is making this card unusable > for VoIP. > > At that time, I've received a tip (thanks again), to fix it by introducing > a line: > >

Re: [Alsa-user] Emu 1212M on Debian Lenny

2008-10-27 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Dominique Pautrel wrote: > I'm nearly sure (but need to be prouved) that 1212M and 1820M use the > same base : E-MU 1010 PCI card, with I/O ADAT and I/O SPDIF, so 10 > inputs and 10 outputs, plus firewire port and a plug who look like an > RJ45 port. > > The 1212M has a daughter board, E-MU 0202 I

Re: [Alsa-user] Any way to count samples written out to the ADC?

2008-05-29 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
2008/5/28 Paul Adolph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 9:04 AM, James Courtier-Dutton > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 2008/5/28 Paul Adolph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> Is there any way to divine a count of samples that leave the ALSA ring >

Re: [Alsa-user] Any way to count samples written out to the ADC?

2008-05-28 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
2008/5/28 Paul Adolph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Is there any way to divine a count of samples that leave the ALSA ring > buffer during playback? My application requires that I send a callback > when a buffer-full of data is actually played for it to do A/V sync > correctly. Right now I'm doing math t

Re: [Alsa-user] Distributing alsa-settings

2008-04-17 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 17/04/2008, Helge Fredriksen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Why can't I just copy my tweaked file to the distributions /var/lib/alsa > directory so that it is default after the system is installed? Would the > alsa system somehow "find out" that it isn't the real one, and just > overwrite it w

Re: [Alsa-user] Metallic recording in cs46xx on Thinkpad T22

2008-03-12 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 11/03/2008, Gadi Oron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I ran over a lot of Internet search and could not find any clue to this > issue. > > I am trying to record sound on an old Thinkpad T22 that uses the cs46xx > sound driver. > > Each time you start to record you have a 10% chance

Re: [Alsa-user] RME AES-32 questions

2008-03-04 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Tue, 4 Mar 2008 15:03:15 +, > James Courtier-Dutton wrote: >>> > Now that we have these dB gain levels, we could potentially set all >>> > mixer controls to 0dB, i.e. not gain and not attenuation, with only >>> > the master

Re: [Alsa-user] RME AES-32 questions

2008-03-04 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 04/03/2008, John Sigler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > > > John Sigler wrote: > > > >> I have an RME AES-32 PCI board. > >> http://www.rme-audio.de/en_products_hdsp_aes32.php > >> > >> When I bo

Re: [Alsa-user] RME AES-32 questions

2008-03-03 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 03/03/2008, John Sigler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (I'll try answering some of my questions.) > > > John Sigler wrote: > > > I have an RME AES-32 PCI board. > > http://www.rme-audio.de/en_products_hdsp_aes32.php > > > > > [...] > > > > > When I boot, every channel has its volume set to 0.

Re: [Alsa-user] EMU 0404 USB little problems

2008-02-14 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 13/02/2008, Stancu Adrian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I recently acquired this interface and compiled the latest stable > versions (1.0.16) of alsa-driver, alsa-firmware, alsa-lib and > alsa-utils. > > For the moment, I can achieve playback through this interface. > However, I h

Re: [Alsa-user] High-pitched squeal from audiophile card

2008-01-30 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 31/01/2008, Wade Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm running the guitars into the 1/4" Line ins on the Xenyx mixer. The > mixer does not have Hi-Z instrument inputs, but the line inputs have > adjustable gain that lets me get a respectable sound without using a > preamp or amp line-out. So

Re: [Alsa-user] emu1212m

2008-01-24 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Christopher Aitken wrote: > I'm having trouble initializing the emu1212m pci soundcard in alsa in > ubuntu 7.1. > > I got help on another list but we have gone as far as we can there. Are > there any known issues getting this card recognized in ubuntu? > > Chris > Please send more details. e.

Re: [Alsa-user] Getting a driver to support alsa natively

2008-01-05 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Adrian McMenamin wrote: > On 05/01/2008, Sergei Steshenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 22:13:59 + >> "Adrian McMenamin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> On 05/01/2008, Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> You also need to find some way to c

Re: [Alsa-user] Getting a driver to support alsa natively

2008-01-05 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Sergei Steshenko wrote: > On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 22:13:59 + > "Adrian McMenamin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> On 05/01/2008, Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> You also need to find some way to confirm or deny that alsa-lib is >>> trying to open the right files. >>> >>>

Re: [Alsa-user] Audigy 1 - wired sounds, comp reboot and not working now

2007-12-08 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Lukas Zapletal wrote: > Its dead after power off/on. Thanks for help. > > Have you tried: 1) power off the system. 2) Unplug power supply to system 3) open box and remove Audigy 1 card from its PCI slot 4) Insert the Audigy 1 card back into its PCI slot. (This is called reseating the card) 5)

Re: [Alsa-user] Audigy 1 - wired sounds, comp reboot and not working now

2007-12-06 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Lukas Zapletal wrote: > Hello, > > I was listening some MP3 file and doing some CPU-intensive > computations today and sudendly the music turned to stream of wired > sounds. The computer was slow a bit, after some seconds my Ubuntu > Linux rebooted. After the reboot I cannot see my Audigy 1 card i

Re: [Alsa-user] E-MU 1010m, ESI Juli@, M-Audio "Audiophile" or ... ?

2007-11-27 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Paolo Saggese wrote: > Hi everybody, > > after your kind suggestions, I have done some search in the "pro" > and "semi-pro" sound card arena to find a suitable and affordable > card for my needs. > > In the end, I have found a few possible candidates. According to > the manufacturer specs, all

Re: [Alsa-user] Bitperfect Ears

2007-11-26 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Rene Herman wrote: > On 25-11-07 04:18, Mark Constable wrote: > >> There are a few online hearing test sites around, here >> is one with 16/44.1 wavs. I can't hear 12kHz-0dB.wav :-( >> >> http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/music/dB/loudness.html > > Word of warning -- the outcome here will significantl

Re: [Alsa-user] X-Fi Xtreme Audio SB0790

2007-11-07 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 07/11/2007, ICom D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I try this card on opensuse 9.3, no sound at all. It is possible to > make it work? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> lspci > 06:02.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy LS > We should be able to get this working with the snd-ca010

Re: [Alsa-user] Re : Re : Problem with emu 0404 PCI, and alsa 1.0.15rc*

2007-11-05 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
fx wrote: > Hi > > Despite your efforts, it still doesn't work for me (with the latest daily > snapshot dated from 11/5) ... :( > > Compilation works fine, but I still have that message loading the module : > > [ 46.643271] ACPI: PCI Interrupt :01:08.0[A] -> Link [APC1] -> GSI 16 > (leve

Re: [Alsa-user] Re : Re : Problem with emu 0404 PCI, and alsa 1.0.15rc*

2007-11-04 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
fx wrote: > Hi :) > > Any news about this bug ? > > Thanks :) > -fx > Update commited to hg repository today. Update will be in alsa-driver 1.0.16rc1 James - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping

Re: [Alsa-user] emu 0404 usb

2007-10-18 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Aleksander Kamenik wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using the daily snapshot from 18 oct. > > I am able to get sound when using plughw:0,0 and only for 44100Hz. > Although the wiki, dated 7. Oct, says: > > "The support for the EMU USB cards has started, and basic support is now > in the latest alsa hg. It o

Re: [Alsa-user] Re : Re : Problem with emu 0404 PCI, and alsa 1.0.15rc*

2007-10-12 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
fx wrote: > Hi James > > Here is the result of lspci -vn | grep -1 0401 : > > 01:08.0 0401: 1102:0004 (rev 03) > Subsystem: 1102:4002 > > My 0404 is one of the first marketed here in France, I can unplug it, and > give > you some info I can read on the card. > > Thanks for your help :) >

Re: [Alsa-user] Re : Re : Problem with emu 0404 PCI, and alsa 1.0.15rc*

2007-10-11 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
fx wrote: > Hi > > No idea ? Still no succes, I don't even know where to begin :( > > Thanks > -fx > The driver is not recognizing your sound card. Maybe you have some new variant I don't know about. Please post the output of: lspci -vn | grep -1 0401 James --

Re: [Alsa-user] Re : Problem with emu 0404 PCI, and alsa 1.0.15rc*

2007-10-08 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
>> > > cat /proc/asound/version > cat /proc/asound/cards > and lsmod - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files

Re: [Alsa-user] Problem with emu 0404 PCI, and alsa 1.0.15rc*

2007-10-08 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
fx fxd wrote: > Hi all > > I've a problem with my EMU 0404 PCI soundcard, my OS is an ubuntu festy, > upgraded to gutsy. > I tried with 1.0.15 from rc1 to rc3 (emu 0404 pci is officialy supported by > this release) > > > Compilation works fine, but when I try to launch alsamixer, I've this mes

Re: [Alsa-user] emu 1212M PCI is sharp

2007-09-14 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 14/09/2007, Chris Aitken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks! Right when everything worked right I got a call from a charity. > I just had to give them something - Instant Karma! > No, No, give me the money ;-) Only joking. James -

Re: [Alsa-user] emu 1212M PCI is sharp

2007-09-14 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 14/09/2007, Chris Aitken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My new emu 1212M PCI soundcard is playing music a semitone higher than > it should. This is not a new problem - it's been that way since I > installed the soundcard (which was only a couple of weeks ago). I just > gave a bass guitar lesson an

Re: [Alsa-user] Creative EMU-1616

2007-09-07 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Tim Ashman wrote: > I've trying to find out if any drivers exist for this external audio > processor/sound card. It is the PCMCIA card driven one made for a laptop. I > see from alsa's website that some similar emu units show as covered but not > this one. > > thanks. > > tim > The emu1616

Re: [Alsa-user] EMU 1212M PCI

2007-08-30 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Chris Aitken wrote: > I installed fedora 7 so I'd have the kernel and alsa I need for the EMU > 1212M PCI soundcard. I installed the card. I tried opening alsa mixer to > see if the soundcard is recognized and got: > > alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device > Pleas

Re: [Alsa-user] snd-emu20k1

2007-08-28 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Spike wrote: > On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:23:29 +0100 > James Courtier-Dutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Spike wrote: >>> I was wondering if any of the ALSA developers knew anything about a >>> possibly existing snd-emu20k1 module. >> There is no

Re: [Alsa-user] snd-emu20k1

2007-08-27 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Spike wrote: > I was wondering if any of the ALSA developers knew anything about a > possibly existing snd-emu20k1 module. There is no such snd-emu20k1 module, there never has been. If anyone has one, please post it! - This

Re: [Alsa-user] ]Alsa-user] Sound card doesn't work (fwd)

2007-08-17 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
J M Needham wrote: > I already posted on LAU, and they sent me here. The below illustrates the > problem. I'm new to this list, so I would appreciate any help and I > apologise in advance for any breaches of etiquette. > > Hi, anyone, > > Sorry if this is annoying, I just don't get what to do. >

Re: [Alsa-user] SPDIF ac3/a52 pass through on Audigy 4, with Fedora 4 & 7

2007-08-11 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Arthur Yarwood wrote: > I'm having a nightmare getting ac3 pass through to work. I had this > problem originally with Fedora 4, then I upgraded (thinking it was down > to old drivers etc) to Fedora 7 and I'm still getting the very same > problem. > Currently, AC3 pass through is not supported

Re: [Alsa-user] Help configuring the E-MU 1820m

2007-07-23 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Hi, > > I'm the owner of a second-hand EMU-1820m card, now supported in alsa > thanks to James Courtier-Dutton efforts. I've mostly used it for analog > & digital multi channel output so far. > > Today I've decided to use it

Re: [Alsa-user] alsa diagnostic

2007-06-21 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Blue I wrote: > hello everybody, > I want to have some logs about a command "aplay something" not performing > well. > > I am currently trying to help someone on a Debian forum, about sound issues, > probably alsa related. > I still wait from some answers from this user, but I already have some > q

Re: [Alsa-user] Recommendation Sought - Linux Dist and Soundcards

2007-06-21 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Mo wrote: > Greetings. > > I am once again, hoping to build a system that will support recording > multiple input streams from two or more soundcards. > > Has anyone implemented more than one PCI soundcard, for recording > purposes? > > If so, would you tell me what distro you are using, and what >

Re: [Alsa-user] per host .asoundrc on shared $HOME

2007-06-07 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 07/06/07, Brian J. Murrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 14:36 +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > > So, you can see, simply having a /etc/asound.conf file instead of a > > .asoundrc file will give you your host specific functionallity. > > But

Re: [Alsa-user] per host .asoundrc on shared $HOME

2007-06-07 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 06/06/07, Brian J. Murrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a shared home dir on multiple machines. I have a .asoundrc file > for my local workstation but it contains stuff that is local to this > machine. When I go to another machine the stuff that's in my > ~/.asoundrc is not relevant. >

Re: [Alsa-user] So what's up with the EMU 0404 Firmware (added in 1.0.14_rc4)

2007-05-23 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Lennart Melzer wrote: > Hi there, > > I'd like to know what's the matter with this firmware. I own a EMU 0404 > and have been waiting for support of this card since I changed to Linux > *g*. I recently read, a firmware has been added to the latest RC of > ALSA. I downloaded the dirver, firmware

Re: [Alsa-user] Trying to get AC3 passthrough to work (nforce4)

2007-05-17 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Wesley Lemke wrote: > > Does AC3 passthrough work with this hardware? If so, what do I need > to do > to get > it working? ac3 passthru does not work on this hardware under Linux. - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Ex

Re: [Alsa-user] xine and alsa mixer

2007-05-09 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > Hi! > > Do I understand well, xine strongly demands a mixer alsa-control from > alsa? And at case such control doesn't exist (say, for 'hdsp' alsa driver), > xine is unusable with alsa. Is it so? > This is not true. xine can use a user defined control name for the mixer

Re: [Alsa-user] Emu 1212m

2007-05-01 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
xavier larrode wrote: > Hi all, > It seems that the driver 1.4 from rc1 are now handling the Emu 1212m. > So i tried to follow the instruction on this page : > http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php?company=Creative+Labs&card=E-MU+1212m.&chip=CA0102%2C+FPGA&module=emu10k1-fpga >

Re: [Alsa-user] E-MU 040 USB Soundcard supported?

2007-04-16 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Chris Stranex wrote: > Hi > > I just wanted to check to see if the E-MU 040 USB Soundcard is > supported by > ALSA? I checked the soundcard matrix but it wasn't mentioned there and my > google-fu seems to have failed me :) > > Thanks > Neither the E-MU 0404 or 0202 USB sound cards are supported in

Re: [Alsa-user] E-MU 1212m connections

2007-04-09 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Branan Riley wrote: > Hi, > > I've been trying to find a card that handles digitial I/O and works > under linux. The E-MU 1212m looks promising, I just wanted to verify > that ALSA will handle 5.1 input and output through the optical > connections on the card. > > Thanks in advance, > Branan >

Re: [Alsa-user] audigy2zs spdif_in + ac3 capture

2007-02-14 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > Can I set spdif input on audigy2zs in bit accurate mode? > Becouse, if i use > arecord -D hw0,0 -f dat -t raw > ac3 data lost... > pcm wav recordings fine, ac3 wav have incorrect data... > On Windows ac3 decode from spdif input works fine > hardware, but on linux I

Re: [Alsa-user] RES: best alsa driver solution for kernel 2.4.26

2007-02-03 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
> > On 2/2/07, José Renato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I got this error when compiling the alsa-driver-1.0.13 onto kernel > > 2.4.26 with gcc-2.96: > > Is there any chance that you could use a newer compiler? - Using Tomca

Re: [Alsa-user] Trying to improve my alsa/pulseaudio/mythtv setup

2007-02-02 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 02/02/07, Andy Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I suppose I could have just asked here or on pulseaudio list first off > will using pulseaudio allow me to have 2.0/5.1 audio with a software > mixer that myth will be able to control, and still output via the S/PDIF > but where would the fun b

Re: [Alsa-user] No sound on digital (spdif) output

2007-01-15 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Peter Andersson wrote: > Hi, > I'm probably making a stupid newbe mistake but i can't get my digital sound > working. I'm using the alsa drivers included in the 2.6.19.1 kernel and the > sound works with the "regular" analog out. > This is the output of aplay -l > > Please refer to: https://bu

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA can only use default - Not hw:0,0 hw1,0 etc.

2007-01-13 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Johan Spee wrote: > Hi, > > I have Debian Etch on an ASUS P5B system with an onboard sound-card > (hda-intel) and a Terratec Phase 22 card in a PCI slot (ice1724). > I have added the following lines to /etc/modprobe.d/sound : > alias snd-card-0 snd-ice1724 > options snd-ice1724 index=0 > alias snd

Re: [Alsa-user] currently available ALSA-supported Soundblasterwith HW mixing and synth?

2007-01-02 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Arthur Marsh wrote: > As someone who bought a SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 model SB 0220 purely to > get MIDI playback via on-board hardware synth working on this PII-266 > machine, I appreciate all the efforts of people such as yourself to make > it work. > > If there are any alternatives to the Sou

Re: [Alsa-user] currently available ALSA-supported Soundblasterwith HW mixing and synth?

2007-01-02 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Sebastian Schäfer wrote: > Unfortunately the Audigy 4 is no longer available (at least not in > Germany). The only currently available soundcard from Creative is the > X-Fi, but there are no drivers available for it. > > Best regards, > Sebastian > > On Di, 2007-01-02 at 12:26 +1030, Arthur Marsh

Re: [Alsa-user] E-MU 1212m ADC capture

2007-01-01 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
nick thomas wrote: > Hi! I'm using an E-MU 1212m card with ALSA. I'm using Linux 2.6.19.1 > (vanilla), and alsa-driver 1.0.14rc1. The DAC and MIDI ports work. > However, I can't seem to get the ADC to work; it just records silence. > All volume levels are unmuted and turned up. Is this expected > b

Re: [Alsa-user] spdif output and mono audio

2006-12-30 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 30/12/06, Andrew Lyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am using iec958 spdif output on gigabyte ga-965-ds3 motherboard with > onboard hda-intel, kernel 2.6.18.6 alsa 1.0.13, I dont have a > asound.conf or asoundrc. Most of my sound is coming from mythtv (ac3 > and dts passthru enabled), th

Re: [Alsa-user] Creative Audigy 2 PCMCIA and onboard Speakers?

2006-12-17 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Q wrote: > Hi, does anyone know if it is possible to get my laptop onboard speakers > working with my Audigy 2 PCMCIA sound card? If so, how can I do this? > Currently everything else works as as expected - however it is > impractical to always have to carry a set of external speakers around >

Re: [Alsa-user] analog and digital out

2006-12-06 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
wouter lists wrote: > Hi all, > > I would like my soundcard to play to the analog and digital out at the > same time. The reason is that my PC is connected via analog to my TV > and the digital out is connected to my surround receiver. So I don't > have to turn my receiver on when I want to watch

Re: [Alsa-user] Two sound card, want to play Line from A to speakers on B

2006-12-04 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
darfy wrote: > Hello, > > I've got two soundcard properly configured (A and B). I've connected > something to Line of A, and I want it to hear it on speakers connected to B. > > I've searched for a solution all the day, playing with .asoundrc, but I > didn't manage... Can you help me finding a

Re: [Alsa-user] Driver status of the Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live 24-bit external 7.1 USB?

2006-11-15 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Jan Ries wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to purchase a (good) usb soundcard for a laptop. > The technical specs the 'Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live 24-bit external 7.1 > USB' fit my needs. > Yet there is the Problem with the driver support. > The alsa-soundcard-matrix > (http://alsa-project.org/alsa

Re: [Alsa-user] CA0106 - no sound

2006-10-28 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Gary Dawes wrote: >> Write error: -5,Input/output error >> xrun_recovery failed: -5,Input/output error >> Transfer failed: Operation not permitted >> Which user are you using to test with? Try running speaker-test as root.

Re: [Alsa-user] CA0106 - no sound

2006-10-28 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 28/10/06, Gary Dawes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just instaled an audigy SE 7.1, which uses the ca0106 module. I've > upgraded alsa to 1.0.13rc3. But I have no sound. I'm using analogue > Please post the output of: cat /proc/asound/cards cat /proc/asound/version amixer -

Re: [Alsa-user] Understanding ALSA Mixer

2006-10-23 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Mr. Shawn H. Corey wrote: > Lee Revell wrote: >> No, it's not. Master is the main output volume control. PCM controls >> the level of sound output from applications (as opposed to mic/line in, >> cd, etc). Windows calls it "Wave". > > OK, why, if it's turn up too loud, does it produce crappy so

Re: [Alsa-user] Still trying to get Creative Audigy card working under FC5

2006-10-21 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Jack Orenstein wrote: > James Courtier-Dutton wrote: >> Jack Orenstein wrote: >>> I'm getting no sound from my Creative Labs SB Audigy LS card, on an >>> FC5 machine (kernel 2.6.15-1). ... >>> /proc/asound/cards says: >>> >>> 0 [CA0106

Re: [Alsa-user] Still trying to get Creative Audigy card working under FC5

2006-10-21 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Jack Orenstein wrote: > I'm getting no sound from my Creative Labs SB Audigy LS card, on an > FC5 machine (kernel 2.6.15-1). The same card produced sounds under FC4. > I've written to this mailing list about this problem, and based on a > response from James Courtier-Dutt

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA CA0106 regression: no sound with SB Audigy LS and kernel 2.6.18

2006-10-21 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Gunter Ohrner wrote: > Hi! > > With all previous kernels I used (up to 2.6.17.11) this card worked fine. > With 2.6.18 it stops working, it's still correctly recognized but doesn't > output any sound, no matter what mixer settings I choose. BTW, the mixer > settings / available channels differ sig

Re: [Alsa-user] no sound on fedora 5 - creative soundblaster sb0410

2006-10-18 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Dirk Kämmerer wrote: > with a kernel update to 2.6.18-1.2200.fc5 no sound available ? what's > going wrong ? any hints or help ? > > Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0 > Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined > Playback channels: Mono > Mono: Playback [on] That means it is trying to use the dig

Re: [Alsa-user] SB Audigy SE (ca0106): no sound and no /dev/dsp

2006-10-16 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Matteo "Dargor" Modesti wrote: > > The strange thing is that if i launch alsamixer i have these controls: > > IEC958 > IEC958 Center/LFE > IEC958 Front > IEC958 Rear > IEC958 Unknown > Analog Center/LFE > Analog Front > Analog Rear > Analog Side > CAPTURE feedback > Digital Capture Source > Share

Re: [Alsa-user] E-mu 1212m support in HG

2006-10-16 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Matt Bucknall wrote: > Sorry for being dim, I've not installed ALSA before. I've downloaded the > latest HG snapshot > (http://suse.inode.at/projects/alsa/snapshot/driver/alsa-driver-hg20061014.tar.bz2) > and tried to configure with --use-cards=emu=emu10k1, but the script > complains saying 'er

Re: [Alsa-user] E-mu 1212m support in HG

2006-10-15 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Matt Bucknall wrote: > Hello, > > Apparently, James has committed initial support for the E-mu 1212m into the > HG repository. I am unable to find it in there. Can someone please direct me > to it? I assume I'm looking for emu10k1-fpga? > > Thanks, > Matt. > > Just use the snd-emu10k1 modul

Re: [Alsa-user] Trying to get sound from FC5 + Audigy

2006-10-12 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Jack Orenstein wrote: > I have a Linux box with a Creative Labs Audigy sound card. Running RH9 > and FC4, sound worked fine. With FC5 it does not. Googling reveals > that this is a common problem, and identified many > different fixes involving alsa. I've been unable to get any of these > to work.

Re: [Alsa-user] configuring ALSA driver to avoid invertion

2006-10-04 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 03/10/06, Andrew Gaydenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use ICE1724 ALSA driver for Terratec Aureon 7.1 Space card. Almost > all is fine, big thanks to developers! Nevertheless, I have noticed > both default (line out) and plug:spdif devices'es outputs are inverted. > Is it possible to configur

Re: [Alsa-user] Few questions regarding emu10k + p16v

2006-09-30 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Vladimir Mosgalin wrote: > Hi everybody. > > I have Audigy 2 ZS card and alsa driver 1.0.11 (from fc 2.6.16 kernel). > I was trying to experiment with p16v, and noticed a few things. > I'm using analog output. > > 1) Distiortion / clipping. Regular playback sound fine at master/pcm @ >100%. H

Re: [Alsa-user] Audigy2 ZS PCMCIA - no mic?

2006-09-22 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 21/09/06, Marcin Lewandowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have Audigy2 ZS PCMCIA card. I use emu10k1 driver from gentoo > alsa-driver-1.0.13_rc2. I can play sound but I have problems with > capture. I turned all things in mixer to 100% level and I can't record > anything. In Windows it

Re: [Alsa-user] switch between two soundcards

2006-09-19 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Jürgen Herrmann wrote: > hi! > > i have a laptop with an intel8x0 based audio chip and from time to > time i want to use my usb soundcard. is there a way to unload the > intel8x0 driver and insert the snd-usb-audio instead of it? > > my goal is that applications can always use alsa hw:0:0 without

Re: [Alsa-user] Best card for recording?

2006-09-19 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 18/09/06, aluizio-neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi guys, > I`ve recently realised (with your help) that the sound card I work with is > not fully supported by ALSA and I`m about to buy a new one. > The thing I need the most is the Analog Capture in. I use Fedora Core 5 and I > would like t

Re: [Alsa-user] Creating 4 mono virtual devices

2006-09-16 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Marcin Lewandowski wrote: > Hi, > > I have 3 devices in my notebook. > > hw:0,0 <- internal soundcard > hw:1,0 <- usb soundcard > hw:2,0 <- pcmcia soundcard > > I need to create something like 4 virtual soundcards from hw:1 and hw:2 > but with only 1 channel per each of them. Something like: >

Re: [Alsa-user] BUFFER SIZE HELP! SoundBlaster Audigy SE SB0570 & alsa-driver-1.0 .11 & snd-ca0106

2006-08-22 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Laborde Ludovic wrote: > Hello, > > Just for my information, it's very important for me, to understand if it's > possible to increase the buffer size up to 65536. > And understand, if the limitation is due to the driver or hardware sound > card. > > Sometime, depend which computer is used, i have 6

Re: [Alsa-user] BUFFER SIZE HELP! SoundBlaster Audigy SE SB0570 & alsa-driver-1.0 .11 & snd-ca0106

2006-08-22 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Laborde Ludovic wrote: > Hello, > > I have Sound Blaster Audigy SE and when a launch this code, my buffer is > 2046. > > Can you test this for me and you return your SizeBuffer ? > > Because i think that my buffer it's too small. > > > Regards > > > > > > File SizeBuffe

Re: [Alsa-user] Suitable PCMCIA sound card working with ALSA

2006-08-16 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Zbynek Houska wrote: > James Courtier-Dutton wrote: >> Zbynek Houska wrote: >>> James Courtier-Dutton wrote: >>> >>>> Zbynek Houska wrote: >>>> >>>>> Is there any PCMCIA card known to be fully supported in ALSA? >>>&g

Re: [Alsa-user] Suitable PCMCIA sound card working with ALSA

2006-08-16 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Sergei Steshenko wrote: > Also, there was a recent thread in which a user was asked about chips > on the card, and the developer confirmed that the card should be supported > - which means another card with the same name, but different chips, may > be not supported. > Please stop this FUD. That

Re: [Alsa-user] Suitable PCMCIA sound card working with ALSA

2006-08-16 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Sergei Steshenko wrote: > Also, there was a recent thread in which a user was asked about chips > on the card, and the developer confirmed that the card should be supported > - which means another card with the same name, but different chips, may > be not supported. > Please stop this FUD. That

Re: [Alsa-user] Suitable PCMCIA sound card working with ALSA

2006-08-16 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Zbynek Houska wrote: > James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > >> Zbynek Houska wrote: >> >>> Is there any PCMCIA card known to be fully supported in ALSA? >>> I have on my laptop HDA Intel card, but it is so unstable and crappy so >>> I would like t

Re: [Alsa-user] Suitable PCMCIA sound card working with ALSA

2006-08-16 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Zbynek Houska wrote: > Is there any PCMCIA card known to be fully supported in ALSA? > I have on my laptop HDA Intel card, but it is so unstable and crappy so > I would like to bypass it. > I saw king of Audigy2 PCMCIA card, but was unsure if it works with ALSA. > > Zbynek > See the sound card m

Re: [Alsa-user] Audigy2 ZS no Center/LFE [Solved]

2006-08-14 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Nathan Caldwell wrote: > Well isn't that just strange, I reboot into windows to test, and now I > have 5.1 from ALSA as well...hmmm > > Thanks for taking the time to try to figure this out James, I'm really > not sure what was going on because I didn't do anything different than > when I normally r

Re: [Alsa-user] Audigy2 ZS no Center/LFE

2006-08-13 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Nathan Caldwell wrote: > On 8/12/06, James Courtier-Dutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Thank you for the list of chips. >> This confirms what I thought regarding the chips of the card. >> The current alsa driver should work fine with your sound card. >> Plea

Re: [Alsa-user] Audigy2 ZS no Center/LFE

2006-08-12 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Thank you for the list of chips. This confirms what I thought regarding the chips of the card. The current alsa driver should work fine with your sound card. Please attach the output of amixer contents There must be a mixer control out of place. James

Re: [Alsa-user] Audigy2 ZS no Center/LFE

2006-08-09 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Nathan Caldwell wrote: > On 8/9/06, James Courtier-Dutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 25/07/06, Nathan Caldwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On 7/20/06, James Courtier-Dutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> Nathan Caldwell wrote: &

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