Re: [Alsa-user] Recent Complaints Threads

2004-01-20 Thread Noah Roberts
Jason Clouse wrote: On 2004-01-20 09:51:52 -0800 Stuart Felenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If one wants handholding and the type of support to walk through traces , debugs, etc Perhaps there's a disconnect here? I don't think anybody is asking for "support." What they're doing is saying

Re: [Alsa-user] just my 2c from an 8233a owner

2004-01-20 Thread Noah Roberts
Renai wrote: Hi all, I had no expectations of ever getting the on-board sound to work under linux when I first bought my VIA motherboard with 8233A sound card. The only scenario where it works for me is with a 2.4.22 kernel and ALSA 0.9.0rc6. I was quite surprised when it did. I guess I hav

Re: [Alsa-user] shittiness

2004-01-19 Thread Noah Roberts
Matthew Geddes wrote: On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 15:35, Noah Roberts wrote: I guess you could say its stable, but it sure doesn't seem very useable to me. I am quite good at getting things to work, even when they don't want to, but nothing I do can make ALSA functional so just how u

Re: [Alsa-user] shittiness

2004-01-19 Thread Noah Roberts
Erik Steffl wrote: Richard Kimber wrote: On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 14:12:45 -0800 Noah Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Erik Steffl wrote: so while you are pretty much right that alsa is not easy to configure, it's not easy to figure out what is supported for particular cards etc. it

Re: [Alsa-user] shittiness

2004-01-19 Thread Noah Roberts
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 08:21 am, Richard Kimber wrote: particular cards etc. it's all work in progress. Maybe it's not for you at this time (that's not elitist remark, alsa simply does not provide what you want _at this time_) I wonder then, why does it have a 1.x

Re: [Alsa-user] shittiness

2004-01-19 Thread Noah Roberts
Erik Steffl wrote: so while you are pretty much right that alsa is not easy to configure, it's not easy to figure out what is supported for particular cards etc. it's all work in progress. Maybe it's not for you at this time (that's not elitist remark, alsa simply does not provide what you w

Re: [Alsa-user] via82xx driver problem for versions past 0.9.0rc6

2004-01-18 Thread Noah Roberts
Renai wrote: hi all, I'm trying to run the latest alsa 1.01 driver on my on-board via8233a card. The driver, libraries and utilities all compile fine, I followed all of the instructions in the documentation, and all of the modules load fine. However, no sound! And yes, I've checked to make sur

Re: [Alsa-user] shittiness

2004-01-16 Thread Noah Roberts
Jason Clouse wrote: I forgot one more thing that could be fixed: simplify. The strong point of Linux is that there are 1001 ways to do anything. And the weakness of Linux is that there are 1901 ways to do anything. End users like simplicity. They want power, it's true, but they don't want

Re: [Alsa-user] Re: Multiple apps having access to sound device

2004-01-13 Thread Noah Roberts
Phil Dibowitz wrote: p z pointed me to dmix here: http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=DmixPlugin which seems to be exactly what I was looking for. I've redefined the "default" device in my ~/.asoundrc and now if I use alsaplayer, more than one of them can play at the same time... yet

Re: [Alsa-user] Re: Soundcard problems.

2004-01-09 Thread Noah Roberts
Pawel Wrona wrote: Noah Roberts wrote: Maybe you could try version 0.9.0r6 and tell me if you have the same behaviour? Is there a special patch I need to apply to compile against the 2.6.0 kernel? I think that you need to use kernel from the 2.4 series. I have a 2.4.22 kernel and

Re: [Alsa-user] Re: Soundcard problems.

2004-01-08 Thread Noah Roberts
Pawel Wrona wrote: Maybe you could try version 0.9.0r6 and tell me if you have the same behaviour? Is there a special patch I need to apply to compile against the 2.6.0 kernel? make[1]: Entering directory `/home/nroberts/alsa-driver-0.9.0rc6/acore' gcc -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE=1 -I/home/nrobert

Re: [Alsa-user] Soundcard problems.

2004-01-08 Thread Noah Roberts
Clemens Ladisch wrote: Noah Roberts wrote: I have compiled the 2.6.0 kernel with alsa enabled. It isn't working. I am not getting any errors from any command. Here is output of amixer: Simple mixer control 'Master',0 Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [off] Front Right

[Alsa-user] Soundcard problems.

2004-01-07 Thread Noah Roberts
I have compiled the 2.6.0 kernel with alsa enabled. It isn't working. I am not getting any errors from any command. Here are some outputs to view: debug.sh ALSA Audio Debug v0.0.6 - Wed Jan 7 21:45:33 PST 2004 http://alsa.opensrc.org/?aadebug Kernel -