[linux-audio-user] Getting alsaplayer to work with Audiophile

[Immanuel Litzroth]

>>>>> "Frank" == Frank Barknecht <fbar at footils.org> writes:

    Frank> Hallo, I have a M-Audio Audiophile card (snd-ice1712) in my
    Frank> box, and for month I cannot get alsaplayer to work with it
    Frank> in ALSA-mode. I currently use $ alsaplayer --version
    Frank> alsaplayer 0.99.70 from the unstable Debian package.

    Frank> But it didn't work with any prior version. Actually I like
    Frank> alsaplayer, because it runs very stable without dropouts,
    Frank> but in my case it doesn't deserve its name. This is the
    Frank> error I keep getting when starting alsaplayer ("-d
    Frank> default", "-d hw:0" all give the same):

    Frank> $ alsaplayer error on set_periods (13) Unavailable hw
    Frank> params: ACCESS: RW_INTERLEAVED FORMAT: S16_LE SUBFORMAT:
    Frank> STD SAMPLE_BITS: 16 FRAME_BITS: 32 CHANNELS: 2 RATE: 44100
    Frank> PERIOD_TIME: (11609 11610) PERIOD_SIZE: 512 PERIOD_BYTES:
    Frank> 2048 PERIODS: [1 13) BUFFER_TIME: (11609 148595)
    Frank> BUFFER_SIZE: [512 6553] BUFFER_BYTES: [2048 26212]
    Frank> TICK_TIME: 10000 error on set_periods (7) Unavailable hw
    Frank> params: ACCESS: RW_INTERLEAVED FORMAT: S16_LE SUBFORMAT:
    Frank> STD SAMPLE_BITS: 16 FRAME_BITS: 32 CHANNELS: 2 RATE: 44100
    Frank> PERIOD_TIME: (23219 23220) PERIOD_SIZE: 1024 PERIOD_BYTES:
    Frank> 4096 PERIODS: [1 7) BUFFER_TIME: (23219 148595)
    Frank> BUFFER_SIZE: [1024 6553] BUFFER_BYTES: [4096 26212]
    Frank> TICK_TIME: 10000 failed to configure output device...trying
    Frank> OSS

I have on the same card. I do not have the commandline here (at work)
but I found that there is a switch you can use to set the periods. I
use the plughw device and set the periods to 6. I will send you the
complete commandline tomorrow.
Immanuel

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