Re: [Alsa-user] Problems with ALSA volume control on external DAC

2016-02-08 Thread Ivan Yonov
Hello, just a note to everyone interested in running Dr. DAC nano on Linux and ALSA. I wrote to ESI about this issue and got this answer: > Dr. DAC nano does not have any volume control or mixing functionality as it > provides a digital S/PDIF output mainly. The only way to control the volume >

Re: [Alsa-user] Problems with ALSA volume control on external DAC

2016-02-05 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Ivan Yonov wrote: > фев 05 08:09:06 petra kernel: usb 1-1: 17:1: cannot get min/max values for > control 2 (id 17) > фев 05 08:09:06 petra kernel: usb 1-1: 17:1: cannot get min/max values for > control 2 (id 17) This looks like a bug in your device's firmware. Regards, Clemens ---

Re: [Alsa-user] Problems with ALSA volume control on external DAC

2016-02-04 Thread Ivan Yonov
Hello, when doing $ alsactl restore it brings: ... Found hardware: "USB-Audio" "USB Mixer" "USB0a92:0054" "" "" Hardware is initialized using a generic method /usr/share/alsa/init/default:195: value write error: Invalid argument /usr/share/alsa/init/default:195: value write error: Invalid argumen

Re: [Alsa-user] Problems with ALSA volume control on external DAC

2016-02-04 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Ivan Yonov wrote: > On 28 January 2016 at 10:39, Clemens Ladisch wrote: >> amixer -c2 get PCM >> amixer -c2 get PCM,1 >> amixer -c2 get Line >> >> Which one fails? > > Each one returns this error: > amixer: Mixer hw:2 load error: Invalid argument Are there any messages in the system log whe

Re: [Alsa-user] Problems with ALSA volume control on external DAC

2016-02-04 Thread Ivan Yonov
Hello again, Still haven't found any solution to this issue. Is there any chance that this problem is caused by the dot in the name of the device: "Dr. DAC nano"? None of the other devices I have have dot in the name, and all they are working with no problems on ALSA. It is a blind shot, I just

Re: [Alsa-user] Problems with ALSA volume control on external DAC

2016-01-28 Thread Ivan Yonov
On 28 January 2016 at 10:39, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > Try: > amixer -c2 get PCM > amixer -c2 get PCM,1 > amixer -c2 get Line > > Which one fails? Each one returns this error: amixer: Mixer hw:2 load error: Invalid argument Thanks ---

Re: [Alsa-user] Problems with ALSA volume control on external DAC

2016-01-28 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Ivan Yonov wrote: > On 28 January 2016 at 10:28, Clemens Ladisch wrote: >> Does "amixer -c2 scontrols" or "amixer -c2 controls" work? > > $ amixer -c2 scontrols > amixer: Mixer hw:2 load error: Invalid argument > > $ amixer -c2 controls > numid=3,iface=MIXER,name='PCM Playback Switch' > numid=7,if

Re: [Alsa-user] Problems with ALSA volume control on external DAC

2016-01-28 Thread Ivan Yonov
Hello, On 28 January 2016 at 10:28, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > Ivan Yonov wrote: >> I'm using PulseAudio and also using MPD which uses exclusively my >> external USB DAC (ESI Dr. DAC Nano - hw:2,0) through ALSA. >> >> But I can not control the volume of the extrenal DAC with alsamixer. >> When tryi

Re: [Alsa-user] Problems with ALSA volume control on external DAC

2016-01-28 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Ivan Yonov wrote: > I'm using PulseAudio and also using MPD which uses exclusively my > external USB DAC (ESI Dr. DAC Nano - hw:2,0) through ALSA. > > But I can not control the volume of the extrenal DAC with alsamixer. > When trying to select the DAC it returns: > "cannot load mixer controls: Inva

Re: [Alsa-user] Problems with ALSA volume control on external DAC

2016-01-27 Thread Ivan Yonov
Hello Chris, list, On 27 January 2016 at 20:21, chris hermansen wrote: > Ivan and list > > On Jan 27, 2016 08:58, "Ivan Yonov" wrote: >> >> Hello, >> I'm using PulseAudio and also using MPD which uses exclusively my >> external USB DAC (ESI Dr. DAC Nano - hw:2,0) through ALSA. >> >> But I can no

Re: [Alsa-user] Problems with ALSA volume control on external DAC

2016-01-27 Thread chris hermansen
Ivan and list On Jan 27, 2016 08:58, "Ivan Yonov" wrote: > > Hello, > I'm using PulseAudio and also using MPD which uses exclusively my > external USB DAC (ESI Dr. DAC Nano - hw:2,0) through ALSA. > > But I can not control the volume of the extrenal DAC with alsamixer. > When trying to select the