26 Feb
2003
26 Feb
'03
1:29 p.m.
Paul,
since you're on the line here (heh heh heh) i have a quick one to run
past you: my asound.state file looks just like what you described, but
i can only seem to get s/pdif out. it doesn't seem to like my dat at all.
now before i killed my win2k partition, i tested all of the hardware and
it was all happy and worked just fine. now it's not. i am using an
aeb8-i and an aeb8-o. does that change anything?
thanks for any assistance you can provide!
j.c.w.
Paul Davis wrote:
a) It looks
like the Hammerfall driver doesn't have a mixer interface, is
this correct ?
the hardware has no mixer.
b) It looks like the onboard audio chip is
controlled by an OSS driver, it
doesn't show up in the alsa drivers either, which is fine by me, since I'm
not going to use it. Is there any problem with OSS modules being loaded
at the same time as ALSA modules ?
shouldn't be a problem.
c) I bought the card so I could record optical
S/PDIF. The manual says I
need to tell the card that I want the ADAT1 Input source to be Optical
S/PDIF.
[ ... ]
Which I read as the Input source being ADAT
optical instead of S/PDIF.
How do I set it to S/PDIF ?
there are a couple of ways. alsactl is probably the most obvious:
% alsactl -f foo store
... edit "foo" ...
% alsactl -f foo restore
in the file "foo" generated by the first step, you will find lots of
stuff, including this:
control.5 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type ENUMERATED
comment.item.0 ADAT1
comment.item.1 Coaxial
comment.item.2 Internal
iface PCM
name 'IEC958 Input Connector'
value Coaxial
}
control.6 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
iface PCM
name 'IEC958 Output also on ADAT1'
value false
}
You will want yours to look like this:
control.5 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type ENUMERATED
comment.item.0 ADAT1
comment.item.1 Coaxial
comment.item.2 Internal
iface PCM
name 'IEC958 Input Connector'
value ADAT1
}
control.6 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
iface PCM
name 'IEC958 Output also on ADAT1'
value true
}
which will then do S/PDIF I/O over the ADAT1 connector.
using amixer is quicker but terser and you have to know/understand a
bit more to use it confidently.
d) the card came with a sub-D-connector that
connects to the card's 15 pin
port, which branches off two RCA jacks. I don't suppose these RCA jacks
provide an analogue output by any chance on which I can monitor for sound
?
no, they are for co-axial S/PDIF output. there is no analog I/O of any
kind on this card.
--p (hammerfall driver author and happy owner of 4 of them :)