April 2007 - Alsa-devel - mailman.alsa-project.org

[alsa-devel] dereferencing pointer error in app but not in lib
by intellij 03 Apr '07

03 Apr '07

In the library, like pcm.c I can code like const char *snd_pcm_name(snd_pcm_t pcm) { return pcm->name; } At the same time, the same code in the application causes "dereferencing pointer to incomplete type" error. Note, the compiler does not tell that there is no such field in the pcm structure. It just thinks that the name has another type. Which one? thank you.

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[alsa-devel] PCM low level - need help
by ODINOT Jean-Marc ETRALI 02 Apr '07

02 Apr '07

Hi Alsa gurus, I've to write an alsa driver for a custom card. I readed "writing an alsa driver" and other paper about alsa and drivers. Well I got a result, but not as good as I think it's possible with alsa. My card have 30 output slots (and 7 input slots), can be 8Khz or 16Khz (same rate for every slots), 16bits little endian by sample, can have one or more sample for each slot (same for every slots) in a frame, an hardware IT every frame (a frame is 30 slots :-). The purpose is to get, for each IT, a frame with all the datas. IT -> frame [channel1][channel2][channel3]...[channel30] channelX [sample1][sample2]...[sampleN] sampleX [16bitsle] At this time, I've something like a frame if I use channel30 with speaker-test -c30, but if I use channel1, alsa give me a buffer with many samples for channel1. And, just after oppening, I get an extra word. BTW I use .copy to get the buffer. My questions: -why the extra word (can I avoid it?)? -how set the buffer len to always have all my channels (used or not)? -is it possible to have more than a sample by channel contiguous? Think's it's all for today, but maybe your answers will give me more ideas :-) Thanx for replies (and please, forgive my awful english :-(, JM ********************************* This message and any attachments (the "message") are confidential and intended solely for the addressees. Any unauthorised use or dissemination is prohibited. Messages are susceptible to alteration. France Telecom Group shall not be liable for the message if altered, changed or falsified. If you are not the intended addressee of this message, please cancel it immediately and inform the sender. ********************************

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Re: [alsa-devel] [Alsa-devel] [i8x0] docking station audio-out ceased to work
by Takashi Iwai 02 Apr '07

02 Apr '07

At Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:57:32 +0100, Andreas Happe wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 18:53 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > Interesting. Usually AC97-SPSA specifies the AC97 slot for SPDIF > > output. The full (= 3) means the slot 10/11, 0 means slot 3/4. > > IIUC, AC97-SPSA must be 3 for docking station output working? > > If i remember correctly - but I was on holiday before the hardware > stopped to work (it was either set to 0 or 3, but I think that it was > 3). > > > If yes, try to set spdif_aclink=1 with the latest driver (HG > > version)... > > do you mean alsa-driver or alsa-kernel? I'm somehow reluctant to replace > my distribution's userspace utilities with self-compiled stuff (while i > would happily build a custom kernel). You need both trees to compile the driver. > BTW: a short link to a tutorial howto build hg kernels (or against what > kernel release). I checked it out, copied over the sound/ directory and > rebuild my 2.6.21-rc4 kernel. Copying to Linus kernel may work in most cases but sometimes not since alsa-kernel repo is updated for mm tree. The building HG driver is easy. Clone (both) repos, and run hgcompile script instead of configure. See alsa-driver/INSTALL. Takashi

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[alsa-devel] how does hw:0, 1 eventually get mapped to /dev/snd/controlC0 and company? is this on the wiki somewhere?
by John Utz 02 Apr '07

02 Apr '07

how does this work? an explicit explanation would be great, but i'd even settle for a vague handwavy one at this point.

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