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

2008-03-12 Thread Gadi Oron
Yes, I heard your sample and it is quite similar. I think our best shot in the short term is to find how to reset the sound chip. I noticed that after loading the kernel modules the first run is allways ok. So if you could reset the chip just before it would do the job. I've found a subroutine in

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

2008-03-12 Thread Rene Herman
On 12-03-08 18:02, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > Can you post a .wav recording of the sound to a url somewhere. > We then might be able to tell what is wrong. Did you see my post of such? http://members.home.nl/rene.herman/cs4624-bad-capture.wav > My first idea is that the sound card is feedin

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

2008-03-12 Thread Gadi Oron
Hi Thank you for the link, I've learned quite a lot from it, but more or less I've tried all the tricks there - no results. Any other ideas? On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 5:18 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Gadi Oron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sadly, I've alre

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

2008-03-12 Thread Gadi Oron
Hi again James > What recording application are you using? I've had issues where audacity > would give me that metalic sound and ardour+jackd would not. > And vice versa. Depending on versions and whatnot. I am writing a software that does some simple recording, but I debug this issue using a s

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

2008-03-12 Thread Gadi Oron
Hi, I've sent you a sample where I recorded myself saying 1-2-3... You should get it by email from yousendit.com, but it can also be accessed through: http://download.yousendit.com/131D402A36DD84AA Concerning the alsamixer hypothesis - I am quite doubtful since I've played quite a lot with it.

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] Metallic recording in cs46xx on Thinkpad T22

2008-03-11 Thread vsobreip
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Gadi Oron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sadly, I've already tried all of these to no avail. > > The only thing I can't do is to have the soundcard have it's own IRQ - I > allways get "yenta" together with it. > > Someone knows how to disable it or change it's IRQ? >

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

2008-03-11 Thread Rene Herman
On 11-03-08 08:24, Gadi Oron wrote: > 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 of having the > recording completely distorted and having a metallic sound. When you > look at the waveform it l

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

2008-03-11 Thread James Shatto
> Sadly, I've already tried all of these to no avail. What recording application are you using? I've had issues where audacity would give me that metalic sound and ardour+jackd would not. And vice versa. Depending on versions and whatnot. Beyond that I really can't offer any more insight w

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

2008-03-11 Thread Gadi Oron
Hi James, thank you for the reply. >> Each time you start to record you have a >> 10% chance of having the recording completely >> distorted and having a metallic sound. > > I know that sound. And it is quite ugly. On my snd-hda-intel board(nVidia MCP61), I have to increase the number of periods

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

2008-03-11 Thread James Shatto
> Each time you start to record you have a > 10% chance of having the recording completely > distorted and having a metallic sound. I know that sound. And it is quite ugly. On my snd-hda-intel board(nVidia MCP61), I have to increase the number of periods to overcome this sound. default of 2 i

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

2008-03-11 Thread Gadi Oron
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 of having the recording completely distorted and having a metallic