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

2008-03-04 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:57:15 +, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > > 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 attenu

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 output control being set to a lower value s

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

2008-03-04 Thread John Sigler
Takashi Iwai wrote: > hdspm driver still doesn't support TLV dB information. > In addition, rme9652/hdsp/hdspm drivers use control elements in a > non-standard way for indirect accessing, so each mixer value isn't > visible in amixer or alsactl. Hello Takashi, Can you tell whether the hdspm driv

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

2008-03-04 Thread John Sigler
James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > Some time ago, there was no way to tell, from user space, if 100% > or 50% was 0db, -50dB or +50dB. As a result, the safest value to > use was the minimum value being either 0% or mute. That has changed > with alsa 1.0.16, as dB gain information is now available. I'

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

2008-03-04 Thread Takashi Iwai
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 output control being set to a lower value so as to avoid > > >

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 boot, every channel has its volume set to 0. > >> > > >> http://lxr.

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

2008-03-04 Thread John Sigler
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 boot, every channel has its volume set to 0. >> >> http://lxr.linux.no/linux/sound/pci/rme9652/hdspm.c#L3396 >> http://lxr.linux.no/linux/sou

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] RME AES-32 questions

2008-03-03 Thread John Sigler
(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. > Is this done by the board's firmware? http://lxr.linux.no/linux/sound/pci/rme

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

2008-02-29 Thread John Sigler
John Sigler wrote: I used amixer to change the volume. I've attached the output of amixer and amixer contents in case they are relevant. Regards. Simple mixer control 'Line Out',0 Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Mono Mono: Playback [on] Simple mixer control 'AES

[Alsa-user] RME AES-32 questions

2008-02-29 Thread John Sigler
Hello, I have an RME AES-32 PCI board. http://www.rme-audio.de/en_products_hdsp_aes32.php I installed the main board only (not the daughter board) which gives me 8 mono in's and 8 mono out's (4 male + 4 female XLR connectors). My kernel is 2.6.22.1-rt9 (compiled from source). I have set the f