[Alsa-user] new intel8x0 driver in kernel + unneeded softvol workaround = crackly sound

2006-09-20 Thread kyle cronan
Hello everyone, Jjust wondering if someone can enlighten me on an unusual debugging experience... I use iec958 to output to some speakers that are at a set volume, so I painstakingly created this asound.conf file to make things work just right: pcm.!default { type softvol slave {

Re: [Alsa-user] new intel8x0 driver in kernel + unneeded softvol workaround = crackly sound

2006-09-20 Thread Clemens Ladisch
kyle cronan wrote: > Jjust wondering if someone can enlighten me on an unusual debugging > experience... I use iec958 to output to some speakers that are at a > set volume, so I painstakingly created this asound.conf file to make > things work just right: > ... Your asound.conf doesn't mention an

[Alsa-user] new hda-intel (was: intel8x0) driver in kernel + unneeded softvol workaround = crackly sound

2006-09-20 Thread kyle cronan
On 9/20/06, Clemens Ladisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > kyle cronan wrote: > > Jjust wondering if someone can enlighten me on an unusual debugging > > experience... I use iec958 to output to some speakers that are at a > > set volume, so I painstakingly created this asound.conf file to make > > th

Re: [Alsa-user] random selection of default card at boot

2006-09-20 Thread Robert Persson
On Mon, 2006-18-09 at 12:38 +0200, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > Robert Persson wrote: > > I've been having great difficulty making linux correctly choose the > > default sound card when it boots. I have a via thingy on the motherboard > > and a SB Live in a pci slot. I want the SB Live to be the defaul

[Alsa-user] output to analog and digital

2006-09-20 Thread wouter lists
Hi, I have 2 simple questions: How can I send the sound to analog and digital output at the same time? Both apart are working. And second: is it possible to upmix normal stereo to ac3? I have a receiver connected to my soundcard. Thanks, Wouter

Re: [Alsa-user] Audio drop-out with ac3 on iec958 during heavy SATA io

2006-09-20 Thread Dominique Dumont
Takashi Iwai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, you've seen the xrun detection there, so it's basically the > problem of other parts, such as disk contoller driver. That is, > something else takes too long time, and the irq for sound can't be > handled at the right time. ok. But then, why is th

Re: [Alsa-user] Audio drop-out with ac3 on iec958 during heavy SATA io

2006-09-20 Thread Dominique Dumont
Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does this help? > > # echo 64 > /sys/block/hdc/queue/max_sectors_kb > Replace hdc with sda or whatever the kernel calls your disk and repeat > for all disks. No change. > It's still a bug IMHO if this is needed, but might make your system > usable

Re: [Alsa-user] Audio drop-out with ac3 on iec958 during heavy SATA io

2006-09-20 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:35:35 +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote: > > Takashi Iwai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Well, you've seen the xrun detection there, so it's basically the > > problem of other parts, such as disk contoller driver. That is, > > something else takes too long time, and the irq

[Alsa-user] emagic emi26 dirver?

2006-09-20 Thread Till Wimmer
Hello anybody! I'm looking for a driver for my emagic emi2|6. I read that it has been removed from the 2.6.x kernel on debian. Where are the offcial sources for this driver and how can i install it on debian sarge? I'm using kernel 2.6.8-3-686. Any help would be much appreciated. Till ---

Re: [Alsa-user] C-Media USB soundcard (usb id 0d8c:000c) unable to get to work.

2006-09-20 Thread Jose Gilberto Torres
Lee, > On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 14:48 -0700, Jose Gilberto Torres wrote: > > aplay -D hw:1,0 ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Sounds/unhide.wav > > Playing WAVE > > '/home/torresj/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Sounds/unhide.wav' : > > Unsigned > > 8 bit, Rate 22050 Hz, Mono > > aplay: set_params:901: Sam

Re: [Alsa-user] Audio drop-out with ac3 on iec958 during heavy SATA io

2006-09-20 Thread Dominique Dumont
Takashi Iwai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, you've seen the xrun detection there, so it's basically the > problem of other parts, such as disk contoller driver. That is, > something else takes too long time, and the irq for sound can't be > handled at the right time. Another question: shoul

Re: [Alsa-user] What are all those devices?

2006-09-20 Thread Mario Rossi
Thanks for your answer, but I don't know much about digital audio component. On my laptop there are 1) integrated MIC (is it MIC1?) 2) integrated speakers 3) port for external MIC (is it MIC2?) 4) port for external speakers I've tried to record and play through the devices to guess what they corr

[Alsa-user] Card for recording

2006-09-20 Thread aluizio-neto
Hi guys, I realy need help, I use SB Audigy LS for broacasting live Radio and it was sounding realy bad, with a loud HISS and then I decided to try out the OSS driver. It sounds great but chops the signal frequently. I need to find a good sound card for recording over linux, I`m starting to thin

Re: [Alsa-user] What are all those devices?

2006-09-20 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 22:04 +0100, Mario Rossi wrote: > Thanks for your answer, but I don't know much about digital audio component. > On my laptop there are > > 1) integrated MIC (is it MIC1?) > 2) integrated speakers > 3) port for external MIC (is it MIC2?) > 4) port for external speakers > > I

[Alsa-user] strange period size behaviour

2006-09-20 Thread Tomas Carnecky
Without a .asoundrc, alsaplayer gives this: PERIOD_TIME: (21333 21334) I can play several sounds at the same time through dmix. But, with a .asounrc that has the following: cards.ICE1724.pcm.dmix.period_time 1024 (note that 1024 is the default value for dmix, so that shouldn't change anything),

Re: [Alsa-user] strange period size behaviour

2006-09-20 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 03:24 +0200, Tomas Carnecky wrote: > Without a .asoundrc, alsaplayer gives this: PERIOD_TIME: (21333 21334) > I can play several sounds at the same time through dmix. > > But, with a .asounrc that has the following: > > cards.ICE1724.pcm.dmix.period_time 1024 > > (note that

Re: [Alsa-user] What are all those devices?

2006-09-20 Thread Junji Umeno
Hi, I also use this Intel ICH4 on thinkpad R50e, I'm not sure about the reason why these 4 pcm interface is prepared by Alsa. I use plughw:0,0 for playback. plughw:0,0 and :0,3 for capture, so we can use 0 & 3 as duplex. alsa shows below. $cat /proc/asound/pcm 00-00: Intel ICH : Intel 82801DB-I

Re: [Alsa-user] What are all those devices?

2006-09-20 Thread Junji Umeno
In my case, alsamixer shows Intel 82801DB-ICH4 uses Analog Devices AD1981B as AC'97 Codec. Chip spec may serve as a reference. http://www.analog.com/en/prod/0,2877,AD1981B,00.html It uses two ADC circits , which can be shown as ADC and ADC2 in the '/proc/asound/pcm' And have one SPDIF port. What

[Alsa-user] Ensoniq 5880, anyone?

2006-09-20 Thread Brian
Anyone know where to find a "whitepaper" or similar document on the Ensoniq 5880? It is a PCI-based soundcard (yes, I know that Ensoniq was acquired by Creative Technologies in 1997). Their site only says that it is a "discontinued product", and as a result does not have anything available on

Re: [Alsa-user] strange period size behaviour

2006-09-20 Thread Tomas Carnecky
Lee Revell wrote: > You are mixing up period_time (which is in microseconds) with > period_size (which is in frames). period_time defaults to 125000. > > Why do you want to use an .asoundrc at all? > I want to set period size or time to a value so that the buffer is 16kb - because that's what