[alsa-devel] problem with usb-audio and oss emulation

[Kunal Singh]

Hi All,

	The first issue was resolved by disabling the "CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS_PLUGINS <http://lxr.linux.no/linux/+code=CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS_PLUGINS>".i.e. disable the OSS plug-in support under KernelConfigMenu->sound->alsa

	CAN SOME ONE PLEASE HELP ON THIS?
	(2) Once I connect the iPod to my target, I can not any more use the default sound card. I read on the oss-emulation tutorial that this could be a problem with "dsp_map". But I am not able to check the current settings.
	

Thanks and Regards,
Kunal


Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 20:10:11 +0530
From: Kunal Singh <kunal at singhkunal.com>
Subject: [alsa-devel] problem with usb-audio and oss emulation
To: alsa-devel at alsa-project.org
Message-ID: <483ACBCB.2020800 at singhkunal.com>
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Hi,

    I am working on a ARM based target with 2.6.23 Kernel.  My project 
involves streaming data from a USB-Audio Device (an iPod) and playing it 
back on the target. I am using OSS-emulation API to communicate with the 
audio devices.
    What I am able to do:
    (1) I have a sound card in my target. This is mapped to card0. I can 
open the "dsp" device and can playback any audio data on this.
    (2) I have enabled the usb-audio module support in kernel 
configuration.   When I connect iPod to the target, I can see a new card 
"card1" being added in the /proc/asound/ directory.
    (3) I can open the "dsp1" device and can read from it. When I 
connect a "USB-Analyzer" I can see some valid data being streamed to the 
target.

    However, I am stuck with following issues:
    (1) The data being received on the target (in user mode) is junk. I 
put some printfs in the function "retire_capture_urb" in file 
"/linux/sound/usb/usbaudio.c", and I can see that the "data" which I see 
through usb-analzyer is reaching till this point. However, there seem to 
be some problem with one of the "snd_pmc_oss_ReadN" functions in file 
"http://lxr.linux.no/linux/sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c". I am not able to 
exactly trace the problem, but I think that the "byte count" and "buffer 
address" being passed to snd-usb-audio is getting messed up some where. 
Has any one faced similar problems before?
    (2) Once I connect the iPod to my target, I can not any more use the 
default sound card. I read on the oss-emulation tutorial that this could 
be a problem with "dsp_map". But I am not able to check the current 
settings.
   
    Can some one give me some pointers for further debugging?

Thanks and Regards,
Kunal Singh
www.singhkunal.com