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

[alsa-devel] OSS/4Front
by Ash Willis 21 Jun '07

21 Jun '07

Hi, Does anyone know if there's any kind of list showing a comparison of hardware support between ALSA and OSS/4Front? With the recent open sourcing of OSS, it would be nice to port code to ALSA for devices that are only currently covered by OSS. There has to be at least a few devices that we can grab support for, right? It may at least provide us with insight into a few bugfixes. Ash -- Get a Free E-mail Account at Mail.com! Choose From 100+ Personalized Domains Visit http://www.mail.com today

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[alsa-devel] Yamaha Cards
by derek＠darlingsong.net 21 Jun '07

21 Jun '07

Hi all, first post for me. I have a Yamaha DS2416 mixer card and Yamaha SW1000XG sound card that I would like to use onLinux (Fedora 6). I have used them on the "other" OS, along with ProTools, etc. Does anyone know if Linux drivers are available? I have looked around, and it seems not to be the case. any help would bve appreciated. Derekd Vancouver, BC

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[alsa-devel] No time for cs4624
by chris＠idlelion.net 21 Jun '07

21 Jun '07

I really wanted to work on the cs4624 suspend resume bug (#305), but there is no time, especially given the lack of technical information. I'm wondering if I were to lend or give a laptop that exhibits the problem to one of you alsa developers, if that would be useful and provide some impetus to fix the bug, or if it would just be a big pain? Opinions? Chris

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[alsa-devel] [1/2] 2.6.22-rc5: known regressions
by Michal Piotrowski 21 Jun '07

21 Jun '07

Hi all, Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.22-rc5. Feel free to add new regressions/remove fixed etc. http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions Unclassified Subject : Kernel hang on CMOS_READ References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/3/138 Submitter : Rodrigo Luiz <troops.of.doom(a)gmail.com> Status : Unknown Subject : Device hang when offlining a CPU due to IRQ misrouting References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/31/419 Submitter : Darrick J. Wong <djwong(a)us.ibm.com> Handled-By : Siddha, Suresh B <suresh.b.siddha(a)intel.com> Status : problem is being debugged ALSA Subject : snd-aoa causes badness in lib/kref.c:33 References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8513 Submitter : Ben Collins <bcollins(a)ubuntu.com> Handled-By : Takashi Iwai <tiwai(a)suse.de> Status : Unknown FS Subject : 2.6.22-rc4-git5 reiserfs: null ptr deref. References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/13/322 Submitter : Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap(a)oracle.com> Handled-By : Vladimir V. Saveliev <vs(a)namesys.com> Status : problem is being debugged PCI Subject : PCI setup hangs on Asus Notebook (nolapic helps) References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/14/161 Submitter : Malte Cornils <malte(a)cornils.net> Status : unknown Regards, Michal -- LOG http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/log/

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Re: [alsa-devel] Using aplay and arecord on an ARM
by Paul Kavan 20 Jun '07

20 Jun '07

On 6/20/07, Paul Kavan <pkavan(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Okay: > > Here is where I ran into troubles yesterday. I am working on configuring > alsa-utils. When I do: > > CC=arm-linux-gcc ./configure --target=arm-linux --with-versioned=no > --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu > > I get the error: > > grhuser@pcL7:$ CC=arm-linux-gcc ./configure --target=arm-linux > --with-versioned=no --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu > configure: WARNING: If you wanted to set the --build type, don't use > --host. > If a cross compiler is detected then cross compile mode will be used. > checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c > checking whether build environment is sane... yes > checking for gawk... no > checking for mawk... mawk > checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes > checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-strip... no > checking for strip... strip > checking whether NLS is requested... yes > checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt > checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt > checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext > checking for msgmerge... /usr/bin/msgmerge > checking for style of include used by make... GNU > checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... arm-linux-gcc > checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out > checking whether the C compiler works... yes > checking whether we are cross compiling... yes > checking for suffix of executables... > checking for suffix of object files... o > checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes > checking whether arm-linux-gcc accepts -g... yes > checking for arm-linux-gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed > checking dependency style of arm-linux-gcc... gcc3 > checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu > checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu > checking for ld used by GCC... > /home/grhuser/Linux_Builds/buildroot/build_arm/staging_dir/arm-linux-uclibc/bin/ld > checking if the linker > (/home/grhuser/Linux_Builds/buildroot/build_arm/staging_dir/arm-linux-uclibc/bin/ld) > is GNU ld... yes > checking for shared library run path origin... done > checking for CFPreferencesCopyAppValue... no > checking for CFLocaleCopyCurrent... no > checking for GNU gettext in libc... no > checking for iconv... no, consider installing GNU libiconv > checking for GNU gettext in libintl... no > checking whether to use NLS... no > checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... (cached) arm-linux-gcc > checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes > checking whether arm-linux-gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes > checking for arm-linux-gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none > needed > checking dependency style of arm-linux-gcc... (cached) gcc3 > checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c > checking whether ln -s works... yes > checking for ALSA CFLAGS... > checking for ALSA LDFLAGS... -lasound -lm -ldl -lpthread > checking for libasound headers version >= 1.0.12... not present. > configure: error: Sufficiently new version of libasound not found. > > I know there has to be a flag or something here I need to set. Does anyone > know what that might be? > > Paul > I think what occurs here is that the configure script is using my cross-compilers and associated libs in $HOME/Linux_Builds/buildroot/build_arm/staging_dir/ while the libs are actually given in $HOME/Linux_Builds/buildroot/build_arm/root/usr/lib/ I am looking at the README and INSTALL and do not see a solution to this. Does anyone have a solution to this? Thanks. Paul

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[alsa-devel] Kernel 2.6.21 M-Audio Delta 1010L
by Suso Comesaña 20 Jun '07

20 Jun '07

Hello... My name is Suso Comesaña...I have 2 computers with a M-Audio card Delta 1010L...the problem is the following one: With kernel 2.6.17-2-multimedia-486... I can record sounds perfectly... but, kernel 2.6.21... I cannot record nothing... You have some idea?... You need that she sends some information to you? Tanks... Suso Comesaña. Peatón. susobaco(a)yahoo.es Usuario de Musix, GNU-Linux, basada en Debian/Knoppix. 100% Software Libre. ¡Descubre una nueva forma de obtener respuestas a tus preguntas! Entra en Yahoo! Respuestas. LLama Gratis a cualquier PC del Mundo. Llamadas a fijos y móviles desde 1 céntimo por minuto. http://es.voice.yahoo.com ____________________________________________________________________________________ ¡Descubre una nueva forma de obtener respuestas a tus preguntas! Entra en Yahoo! Respuestas. http://es.answers.yahoo.com/info/welcome

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[alsa-devel] Output levels on SBLive! 5.1 on ALSA vs WIndows
by ChernYue Kwok 20 Jun '07

20 Jun '07

Hello, I am using an SBLive! 5.1 sound card (emu10k1 chipset) with 6 channel output. Due to the nature of my work, I need to be able to play sound through all 6 channels at the same output level to an amplifier. Using Linux and the emu10k1 ALSA driver, I measured output voltage levels on an oscilloscope while playing a sine wave on all 6 channels, and I got three different output voltage amplitudes for the front, rear and center/subwoofer channels. Repeating the same test with the same card on WIndows using the Creative SBLive drivers from their website, I am able to get the same output voltage amplitude on all 6 channels. For both tests, all output levels in the relevant mixers were set to their maximum levels. I would like to know if this output normalizing 'feature' of the SBLive Windows driver can be found in the emu10k1 ALSA driver, or in any other ALSA driver. Failing that, is there any other solution to set output levels in the driver, or am I doomed to twiddle in alsamixer to get the output levels that I want? Thanks in advance.

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[alsa-devel] Using aplay and arecord on an ARM
by Paul Kavan 20 Jun '07

20 Jun '07

Liam: I have managed to get the alsa-libs and aplay, arecord, and speaker-test on my board, but I am unsure how to get them to play. I have tried making the device nodes and am using a simple alsa.conf, but still no joy. I am sure there is something simple I am missing. Trying to find some documentation on this. I am assuming there is some disconnect between the interface and my conf file. I have my alsa.conf file in /usr/share/alsa/ and it is: pcm.!default { type hw card 0 } pcm.hw { type hw card 0 device 0 subdevice 0 } ctl.!default { type hw card 0 } ctl.hw { type hw card 0 } ctl.w6811 { type hw card 0 } pcm.w6811 { type hw card 0 device 0 subdevice 0 } ctl.!default = ctl.w6811 pcm.!default = pcm.w6811 ctl.hw { @args[ CARD ] @args.CARD { type string default "0" } type hw card $CARD } pcm.hw { @args[ CARD DEV SUBDEV ] @args.CARD { type string default "0" } @args.DEV { type integer default 0 } @args.SUBDEV { type integer default 0 } type hw card $CARD device $DEV subdevice $SUBDEV } I have some /proc/ entries: /proc/asound $ ls GRHEKW6811 cards pcm version card0 devices timers /proc/asound $ cat cards 0 [GRHEKW6811 ]: W6811 - GRH_EK_W6811 GRH_EK_W6811 (W6811) /proc/asound $ cat devices 0: [ 0] : control 16: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback 24: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture 33: : timer /proc/asound $ cat pcm 00-00: W6811 W6811-PCM-0 : : playback 1 : capture 1 /proc/asound $ cat timers G0: system timer : 10000.000us (10000000 ticks) P0-0-0: PCM playback 0-0-0 : SLAVE P0-0-1: PCM capture 0-0-1 : SLAVE /proc/asound $ cat version Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.14rc4 (Wed May 09 09:51:39. Now, into GRHEKW6811 (which takes me to card0) I get a pcm0c and pcm0p directory. Using cat info, I get: /proc/asound/card0/pcm0c $ cat info card: 0 device: 0 subdevice: 0 stream: CAPTURE id: W6811 W6811-PCM-0 name: subname: subdevice #0 class: 0 subclass: 0 subdevices_count: 1 subdevices_avail: 1 /proc/asound/card0/pcm0c $ cd ../pcm0p/ /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p $ cat info card: 0 device: 0 subdevice: 0 stream: PLAYBACK id: W6811 W6811-PCM-0 name: subname: subdevice #0 class: 0 subclass: 0 subdevices_count: 1 subdevices_avail: 1 I then did: mknod -m 666 /dev/snd/pcm0p c 116 0 mknod -m 666 /dev/snd/pcm0c c 116 0 However, when I try speaker-test, I get: /usr/lib/bin $ ./speaker-test -D pcm0p speaker-test 1.0.14 Playback device is pcm0p Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 1 channels Using 16 octaves of pink noise ALSA lib pcm.c:2144:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM pcm0p Playback open error: -2,No such file or directory Same for default: /usr/lib/bin $ ./speaker-test -D default speaker-test 1.0.14 Playback device is default Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 1 channels Using 16 octaves of pink noise ALSA lib pcm.c:2144:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default Playback open error: -2,No such file or directory When I try aplay -l and arecord -l, I get: /usr/lib/bin $ ./aplay -l aplay: device_list:204: no soundcards found... /usr/lib/bin $ ./arecord -l arecord: device_list:204: no soundcards found... I am at a loss here. Anyone have any advice, pointers, tips, etc...... Thanks. Paul -- *************************************** Paul David Kavan Project Engineer GRH Electronics, Inc. 402-734-4900 pkavan(a)gmail.com ***************************************

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[alsa-devel] ALSA always writes _whole_ periods, right?
by Joachim Förster 20 Jun '07

20 Jun '07

Hi ALSA devs, I have a quick question regarding the filling of the usual ring buffer in RAM (used by sound controllers via DMA), just to be really sure: Is it true, that ALSA always writes (via mmap'ing) _whole_ periods? I took snd-dummy and modified it to use "ack()" method and tried to confirm, if the above is true _without_ memory mapping (classical read/write). It seem's to be true, ALSA is "filling up" the last (not always complete) period - e.g. if the played wav file is not a multiple of periodsize in length. But well, with mmap, I cannot see the copying action (done by ALSA library, right?) ... so, thus my question ;-) . Thanks, Joachim

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[alsa-devel] Surround problems with cs46xx
by Vasilis Manwlopoulos 20 Jun '07

20 Jun '07

Hi, Sorry for bothering the list again, but I have major problems with the surround 5.1 sound. I have manually compiled/installed th latest alsa-1.0.14 drivers but nothing improved. I am using Ubuntu 7.04 and my soundcard is the Hercules Fortissimo III. This is, as far as I know by reading on Internet, supported by the module snd-cs46xx in ALSA. I have enabled the surround sound by creating the following .asoundrc file. pcm.!default { type plug slave.pcm "surround51" slave.channels 6 route_policy duplicate } The problem is that sound pauses whenever I try to do something "heavy" such as opening a new firefox window or generally another app. Also, there are delays and echo between the front and the rear speakers from time to time. I think that the problem is that, this alsa setup(meaning surround5.1 and the specific soundcard) places a heavy load on the cpu. There are 99% cpu usage times when the only thing active is a player playing a "normal bitrate" mp3. When I delete the .asoundrc file and I switch to default stereo sound using only the 2 front speakers the problems disappear. Can anyone suggest anything about this? Thanks in Advance V.Manolopoulos

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