January 2010 - Alsa-devel - mailman.alsa-project.org

[alsa-devel] View alsa-lib plugins setup for any app?
by Eliot Blennerhassett 05 Dec '25

05 Dec '25

Greetings, running aplay -v will show the plugin chain setup. /proc/asound/card/pcm/* shows hw and sw params for the card driver when in use by any app Is there any way to show the alsa-lib plugin settings a-la aplay for an arbitrary application? thanks -- Eliot

4 8

[alsa-devel] Error patching file pcm_native.c
by Delusion's Master 20 Nov '24

20 Nov '24

Hi, first of all I apologize in case you receive multiple copies of this message, but I forgot to specify a subject in the original mail. I have a problem compiling the latest alsa driver snapshots. Specifically, it's a problem when patching pcm_native.c: [..] copying file alsa-kernel/core/info.c patching file info.c copying file alsa-kernel/core/pcm.c patching file pcm.c Hunk #3 succeeded at 739 (offset 2 lines). Hunk #5 succeeded at 954 (offset 2 lines). Hunk #7 succeeded at 1045 (offset 2 lines). copying file alsa-kernel/core/pcm_native.c patching file pcm_native.c Hunk #4 succeeded at 1544 (offset -25 lines). Hunk #5 succeeded at 2827 (offset 12 lines). Hunk #6 succeeded at 2878 (offset 10 lines). Hunk #7 FAILED at 2906. Hunk #8 FAILED at 2922. Hunk #9 succeeded at 2915 (offset -23 lines). Hunk #10 succeeded at 3036 (offset 10 lines). Hunk #11 succeeded at 3027 (offset -23 lines). Hunk #12 succeeded at 3074 (offset 10 lines). Hunk #13 succeeded at 3098 (offset -23 lines). Hunk #14 succeeded at 3143 (offset 10 lines). Hunk #15 succeeded at 3124 (offset -23 lines). Hunk #16 succeeded at 3214 (offset 10 lines). Hunk #17 succeeded at 3208 (offset -23 lines). Hunk #18 succeeded at 3271 (offset 10 lines). Hunk #19 succeeded at 3304 (offset -23 lines). Hunk #20 succeeded at 3386 (offset 10 lines). Hunk #21 succeeded at 3411 (offset -23 lines). Hunk #22 succeeded at 3456 (offset 10 lines). Hunk #23 succeeded at 3450 (offset -23 lines). Hunk #24 succeeded at 3525 (offset 10 lines). Hunk #25 succeeded at 3644 (offset -23 lines). 2 out of 25 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file pcm_native.c.rej make[2]: *** [pcm_native.c] Error 1 It's some days I get this, but I waited to report this since I thought it could be a temporary problem. My OS is Fedora 11 x86_64. Previous snapshots didn't give me this problem, but I can't say which one broke the compilation, since I usually try updated snapshots only at kernel updates. I searched for this error and the only relevant report I could find is this one: http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2009-April/016420.html a report from last April. What could the problem be? Thanks _________________________________________________________________ Invite your mail contacts to join your friends list with Windows Live Spaces. It's easy! http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx…

3 10

[alsa-devel] hda-intel missing mixer channels
by Orm Finnendahl 26 Aug '13

26 Aug '13

Hi, I sent this to alsa-user a week ago but didn't get any reply. Does anybody know, what is responsible for the missing faders? Did the driver change or is it some module loading mechanism in the distro which prevents the faders from showing up in alsamixer? This is so strange. Please help! -- Orm -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi everybody, after the last update of Ubuntu (intrepid to jaunty) on my Lenovo Ideapad my microphone input doesn't work anymore (neither internal nor external). I found out that alsamixer lacks quite a lot of faders in the newer kernel/module compared to the older one. Some of the faders now unavailable were crucial for Mic input to work on the older system so I'd very much like to get them back ;-) Some more infos: Soundcard: Intel 82801G (ICH7 Family) Chip: Realtek ALC269 Module: snd_hda_intel (in both kernels) Older kernel: Ubuntu stock 2.6.27-14-generic Newer kernel: Ubuntu stock 2.6.28-13-rt Is there any way to make the missing controls available or did the driver change and I have to compile the older driver for the new kernel? Yours, Orm

2 3

[alsa-devel] [ASoc] TDM over one SSC channel on AT91 possible?
by Friedrich Lobenstock 24 Jun '11

24 Jun '11

Hello! The background: I'm just designing an ATMEL AT91RM9200 based board which got two TLV320AIC33 on board. It is either possible to hook up the two TLV320AIC33 to a separate SSC (synchronous serial control) channel each or use one SSC channel and configure it for TDM (time division multiplex) mode. There is already a driver for TLV320AIC14k/TLV320AIC2k in the development tree, so adding support for the TLV320AIC33 should be feasible. What I'm not sure about is the fact if ASOC is prepared for using channels, especially SSC, in TDM mode. Is the core ASOC structure prepared to handle that? Would we be better off instantiate one drive twice each time with different parameters for the SSC channel? Thanks for any feedback. -- MfG / Regards Friedrich Lobenstock _________________________________________________________ SCOTTY Group Austria GmbH a SCOTTY Group plc company, http://www.scottygroup.com/ _________________________________________________________

4 3

[alsa-devel] Conexant CX20561 - Microphone problems
by Shawn Starr 19 Apr '11

19 Apr '11

Hello ALSA developers, I am having problems with the microphone on the following hardware this is on a Lenovo W500 laptop. Card: HDA Intel Chip: Conexant CX20561 (Hermosa) Here is the problems im noticing: 1) If I use ALSA 'default' with the microphone I get noise interference on output [high/low/high/low]. If I switch this to use the "ALSA Capture on HDA Intel [CONEXANT Analog] I get interference except it is the standard 60Hz electrical noise [steady noise] 2) Using the internal/external microphones gives an inconsistent volume. It also does not seem to work with the microphone cutting out so much. I need to adjust Digital + another microphone but it still drops capturing. Alsamixer shows: Digital/Docking Microphone/External Microphone/Internal Microphone Here is the module options I give to the sound driver: options snd-intel-hda enable_msi=1 power_save=10 power_save_controller=true model=laptop index=0 Assuming power saving/controller causes the microphone to cut out or not. 3) I'm now aware that this card has no pinouts for PCM capture https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502293 Thanks for any help, Shawn.

2 12

[alsa-devel] CA0110 taints kernel
by Vedran Miletić 13 Apr '11

13 Apr '11

Hi, I experience frequent kernel crashes with 2.6.31 and CA0110. I know this card doesn't work, and there is no problem with that; however, it crashing non-stop is not very nice. Also, card doesn't get any controls (and I believe it does get some controls when it's the only card using HDA driver, that is when I disable onboard one). dmesg is here: http://pastebin.com/m7c53562f lspci: 02:00.0 PCI bridge: Creative Labs Device 7006 (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=02, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=64 Memory behind bridge: fe900000-fe9fffff Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [60] MSI: Enable- Count=1/16 Maskable- 64bit+ Capabilities: [80] Subsystem: Creative Labs Device 0010 Capabilities: [90] Express PCI/PCI-X Bridge, MSI 00 Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting Kernel modules: shpchp 03:00.0 Audio device: Creative Labs [SB X-Fi Xtreme Audio] CA0110-IBG Subsystem: Creative Labs Device 0018 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16 Memory at fe9fc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 3 Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel Any ideas? -- Vedran Miletić P.S. Please CC me, as I'm not subscribed to mailing list at the moment.

2 2

[alsa-devel] idt STAC927x adat supported (sigmatel HDA codec) ?
by Eric 03 Mar '11

03 Mar '11

Is the ADAT output of the IDT (sigmatel) STAC927x HDA codec supported in alsa ? If not could someone please try to add this incredibly nice feature in the existing alsa driver ? Thank you very much

4 13

[alsa-devel] davinci-i2c,pcm updates
by Troy Kisky 27 Sep '10

27 Sep '10

This patch set is against git://git.alsa-project.org/alsa-kernel.git but the last patch in series won't compile until the sram allocator patch is available.

8 44

[alsa-devel] [PATCH 2.6.32.3] hda_intel: ALSA HD Audio patch for Intel Cougar Point DeviceIDs
by Seth Heasley 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

This patch adds the Intel Cougar Point (PCH) HD Audio Controller DeviceIDs. Signed-off-by: Seth Heasley <seth.heasley(a)intel.com> --- linux-2.6.32.3/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c.orig 2010-01-06 15:07:45.000000000 -0800 +++ linux-2.6.32.3/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c 2010-01-07 13:10:28.000000000 -0800 @@ -116,6 +116,7 @@ "{Intel, ICH9}," "{Intel, ICH10}," "{Intel, PCH}," + "{Intel, CPT}," "{Intel, SCH}," "{ATI, SB450}," "{ATI, SB600}," @@ -2648,6 +2649,8 @@ { PCI_DEVICE(0x8086, 0x3a6e), .driver_data = AZX_DRIVER_ICH }, /* PCH */ { PCI_DEVICE(0x8086, 0x3b56), .driver_data = AZX_DRIVER_ICH }, + /* CPT */ + { PCI_DEVICE(0x8086, 0x1c20), .driver_data = AZX_DRIVER_ICH }, /* SCH */ { PCI_DEVICE(0x8086, 0x811b), .driver_data = AZX_DRIVER_SCH }, /* ATI SB 450/600 */

2 5

Re: [alsa-devel] Patchmix-style application for EMU cards
by Camilo Polymeris 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

Hello > That is more or less what I had figured out, but it how are playback_1 to > > _16 channels routed to DSP0-15? It seems that it depends on the setting > of > > Front, Surround, LFE, etc. mixer controls. If they are turned up, I > don't > > understand what happens, sound to playback channels appears on various > DSP > > buses, at different levels. > > Really? Well, I didn't much experiment with surround mode. In source code, > I > can see that there are up to playback 8 channels at hw:0,0 with can be > controlled by faders in alsamixer. I tried surround40 and surroun51 on my > emu1616m and it worked as expected. The channles were mapped to first > couple > of DSP ports in a correct order. In fact this should work the same as > audigy > does, except the result is passed to DSP ports instead of physical > outputs. > On my card, playback channels 1 & 2 (hw:0,3) appear on all DSP busses associated with surround. Say you turn up the "Side" fader in alsamixer, channels 1 & 2 will appear at the relevant DSPs (6-7, I think) Whatever, for now I am just keeping all surround controls down (that is, Front, Surround, Center, Side & LFE). > Anyway, I think if there is another layer of routing done in audigy DSP, > it > shouldn't be used in EMU specific application. Or at least not for now. > The > most important thing is to provide all the switches and FPGA routing > scheme > for each EMU model. Or, to be precise, three routing schemes for each EMU > model, because for "double speed" (e.g. 96kHz) and "quadro speed" (e.g. > 192kHz) modes of operation the numebr of both physical and virtual > channels > changes. > I think the switches and enums for the card models are rather trivial, one can handle it with a customized version of qamix (done with a simple XML file), for example. A separate application would not be necessary for only that. > > If I turn the Front/Surround/LFE/etc. faders down, I can mix playback > > channels to DSP using the "Multichannel PCM Send/Routing/Volume" faders, > in > > a more or less intuitive way, besides that routing values do not map > > directly to DSP buses (i.e. 14-15 map to DSP0-1, but 2-3 map to DSP2-3). > Handling of this controls motivated me to write the application in the first place. No sound at all will appear if I don't set the appropiate controls for each playback channel: Multichannel PCM Volume (full), Multichannel PCM Send (an index of 8 controls, the first 4 select the target DSP) & Multichannel PCM Send Volume (again faders 0-3 of 8) By the way, only DSP0-7 work in this way. I have no idea how to make DSP8-31 work. On which card you did tested it? The driver was primary written for the > 1820M/1212M V1, so some things may not work well on other models and need > to > be fixed. I have a 1212m, don't know which version, but I think it's V1-- it does have firewire. I am using driver version 1.0.16. Thanks, Camilo.

3 3