[Alsa-user] ESI maya 44

2006-03-02 Thread Zach Visagie
hi I need to get the ESI Maya 44 (not audiotrak, though their very similar) working on my favourite operating system (linux of course). Can anyone help me out? I got it for such a good deal I couldn't pass it by, but now I truly dislike having to actually use my win xp installation. I am even wil

Re: [Alsa-user] Edirol UA-5 mixer questions

2006-03-02 Thread Clemens Ladisch
PMG wrote: > Hello, I have been having problems with the alsamixer. It seems usb > devices like my Edirol UA-5 don't have mixer elements. The UA-5 has hardware mixer controls that are not accessible by software. > Anyway, I've been having VERY VERY low input from microphones when > recording. I

Re: [Alsa-user] ESI maya 44

2006-03-02 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Zach Visagie hat gesagt: // Zach Visagie wrote: > I need to get the ESI Maya 44 (not audiotrak, though their very > similar) They are the same devices. Really. It's just a different branding. It should work plug and play if you blacklist the OSS driver (add "audio" to /etc/hotplug/black

Re: [Alsa-user] Edirol UA-5 mixer questions

2006-03-02 Thread PMG
--- Clemens Ladisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > PMG wrote: > > Hello, I have been having problems with the > alsamixer. It seems usb > > devices like my Edirol UA-5 don't have mixer > elements. > > The UA-5 has hardware mixer controls that are not > accessible by > software. > > > Anyway, I'v

Re: [Alsa-user] ESI maya 44

2006-03-02 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Frank Barknecht hat gesagt: // Frank Barknecht wrote: > Zach Visagie hat gesagt: // Zach Visagie wrote: > > > I need to get the ESI Maya 44 (not audiotrak, though their very > > similar) > > They are the same devices. Really. It's just a different branding. > It should work plug and pl

[Alsa-user] arecord under 2.6.15.4-rt17 ->overruns...

2006-03-02 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
Hi all I am puzzled... I do: chrt -f -p 50 `pidof "IRQ 5"` chrt -f 40 arecord -t wav -f cd -d 600 test.wav and if there's accidentally an updatedb running in the background, I get lots of "Overrun!!! (at least xxxms long)", where xxx can be hundreds of milliseconds. Software: Debian Sarge (s

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord under 2.6.15.4-rt17 ->overruns...

2006-03-02 Thread fons adriaensen
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 09:03:29PM +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > chrt -f -p 50 `pidof "IRQ 5"` > chrt -f 40 arecord -t wav -f cd -d 600 test.wav > > and if there's accidentally an updatedb running in the background, I get > lots of "Overrun!!! (at least xxxms long)", where xxx can be hun

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord under 2.6.15.4-rt17 ->overruns...

2006-03-02 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 21:03 +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > Hi all > > I am puzzled... I do: > > chrt -f -p 50 `pidof "IRQ 5"` > chrt -f 40 arecord -t wav -f cd -d 600 test.wav > That should Just Work - what happens if you leave the IRQs alone and just try arecord? Please post the conten

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord under 2.6.15.4-rt17 ->overruns...

2006-03-02 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, fons adriaensen wrote: > On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 09:03:29PM +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > > chrt -f -p 50 `pidof "IRQ 5"` > > chrt -f 40 arecord -t wav -f cd -d 600 test.wav > > > > and if there's accidentally an updatedb running in the background, I get > > lots o

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord under 2.6.15.4-rt17 ->overruns...

2006-03-02 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 21:19 +0100, fons adriaensen wrote: > On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 09:03:29PM +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > > chrt -f -p 50 `pidof "IRQ 5"` > > chrt -f 40 arecord -t wav -f cd -d 600 test.wav > > > > and if there's accidentally an updatedb running in the background, I g

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord under 2.6.15.4-rt17 ->overruns...

2006-03-02 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Lee Revell wrote: > On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 21:03 +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > Hi all > > > > I am puzzled... I do: > > > > chrt -f -p 50 `pidof "IRQ 5"` > > chrt -f 40 arecord -t wav -f cd -d 600 test.wav > > > > That should Just Work - what happens if you leave t

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord under 2.6.15.4-rt17 ->overruns...

2006-03-02 Thread fons adriaensen
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 09:32:00PM +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > This is what "chrt -f 40 arecord" does, isn't it? SCHED_FIFO with static > priority 40, should be enough... Should be :-) Sorry, I overlooked the second command. -- FA ---

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord under 2.6.15.4-rt17 ->overruns...

2006-03-02 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 21:57 +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Lee Revell wrote: > > > On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 21:03 +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > > Hi all > > > > > > I am puzzled... I do: > > > > > > chrt -f -p 50 `pidof "IRQ 5"` > > > chrt -f 40 arecord -t wav -

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord under 2.6.15.4-rt17 ->overruns...

2006-03-02 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Lee Revell wrote: > On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 21:57 +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Lee Revell wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 21:03 +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > > > Hi all > > > > > > > > I am puzzled... I do: > > > > > > > > chrt -

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord under 2.6.15.4-rt17 ->overruns...

2006-03-02 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Lee Revell wrote: > On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 21:19 +0100, fons adriaensen wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 09:03:29PM +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > > > > chrt -f -p 50 `pidof "IRQ 5"` > > > chrt -f 40 arecord -t wav -f cd -d 600 test.wav > > > > > > and if there's ac

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord under 2.6.15.4-rt17 ->overruns...

2006-03-02 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 22:14 +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Lee Revell wrote: > > > On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 21:57 +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > > On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Lee Revell wrote: > > > > > > > On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 21:03 +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: >

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord under 2.6.15.4-rt17 ->overruns...

2006-03-02 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 22:16 +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > One doubt, though - setting SCHED_FIFO and raising the priority > doesn't do > mlock, can that be a problem? I do have 512MB RAM... No, after getting > a > couple of those overruns swap use is still 0. Forget about SCHED_FIFO and

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord under 2.6.15.4-rt17 ->overruns...

2006-03-02 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Lee Revell wrote: > On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 22:14 +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > > > Ok, I was running a rt-kernel right now, otherwise just started > > This is with all IRQ priorities left at the defaults? Exactly. > > arecord -t wav -f cd /tmp/test.wav > > > > as

[Alsa-user] 1.0.11rc3 on 2.4.19 on old Caldera

2006-03-02 Thread Jim Gleason
All, I am having trouble getting a Soundblaster live 24-bit to work. I have built 1.0.11rc3 (drivers, libs, utils) on a 2.4.19 kernel running on a very old Caldera system with limited updates (the card worked fine on my debian/testing machine). (I don't have a choice on the system.) I had to mo

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord under 2.6.15.4-rt17 ->overruns...

2006-03-02 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 22:30 +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Lee Revell wrote: > > > On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 22:14 +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > > > > > Ok, I was running a rt-kernel right now, otherwise just started > > > > This is with all IRQ priorities left

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord under 2.6.15.4-rt17 ->overruns...

2006-03-02 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Lee Revell wrote: > On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 22:16 +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > One doubt, though - setting SCHED_FIFO and raising the priority > > doesn't do > > mlock, can that be a problem? I do have 512MB RAM... No, after getting > > a > > couple of those overruns

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord under 2.6.15.4-rt17 ->overruns...

2006-03-02 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Lee Revell wrote: > Try enabling latency tracing in the kernel config and see what you get > in /proc/latency_trace. This will take a while, compiling. And, sorry, it's rt16, not rt17. > Is this a laptop? No. > Is ACPI enabled? Yes. Should I disable it straight away? I gu

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord under 2.6.15.4-rt17 ->overruns...

2006-03-02 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 22:41 +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > One more thing comes to mind. Lee, you would remember - there were > some > reports of "time ls" taking variable time under 2.6.15, unlike "time > ls | > cat" on LKML... Didn't read it too attentively then - was it a > principle

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord under 2.6.15.4-rt17 ->overruns...

2006-03-02 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Lee Revell wrote: > On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 22:41 +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > > > One more thing comes to mind. Lee, you would remember - there were > > some > > reports of "time ls" taking variable time under 2.6.15, unlike "time > > ls | > > cat" on LKML... Didn'

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord under 2.6.15.4-rt17 ->overruns...

2006-03-02 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 23:14 +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Lee Revell wrote: > > > On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 22:41 +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > > > > > One more thing comes to mind. Lee, you would remember - there were > > > some > > > reports of "time ls" takin

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord under 2.6.15.4-rt17 ->overruns...

2006-03-02 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Lee Revell wrote: > Try enabling latency tracing in the kernel config and see what you get > in /proc/latency_trace. Ok, it failed - it stayed empty. I tried echo 2 > /proc/sys/kernel/trace_enabled gettimeofday(0,1) gettimeofday(0,0) still it stayed empty. Will look at it t

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord under 2.6.15.4-rt17 ->overruns...

2006-03-02 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 00:13 +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Lee Revell wrote: > > > Try enabling latency tracing in the kernel config and see what you get > > in /proc/latency_trace. > > Ok, it failed - it stayed empty. I tried > > echo 2 > /proc/sys/kernel/trace_enabl

[Alsa-user] .asoundrc config

2006-03-02 Thread Haraldur Jóhannesson
Is it possible config .asoundrc with mono dmix pcm So the following would play the wav file in only left speaker aplay -D testpcm monofile.wav and then config another pcm for the right speaker. Any ideas about how can I do? Best Regards Halli ---

Re: [Alsa-user] .asoundrc config

2006-03-02 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 23:41 +, Haraldur Jóhannesson wrote: > Is it possible config .asoundrc with mono dmix pcm > > So the following would play the wav file in only left speaker > aplay -D testpcm monofile.wav > > and then config another pcm for the right speaker. > > Any ideas about how ca

[Alsa-user] Re: [Alsa-devel] 1.0.11rc3 on 2.4.19 on old Caldera

2006-03-02 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Jim Gleason wrote: > I am having trouble getting a Soundblaster live 24-bit to work. I have > built 1.0.11rc3 (drivers, libs, utils) on a 2.4.19 kernel running on a > very old Caldera system with limited updates (the card worked fine on my > debian/testing machine). (I don't have a choice on the