Nigel,
Yes, I am using KDE. I have now read the alsactl man page, and run (as
sudo ) 'alsactl store'
When I restart X/KDE (ctrl-alt-back) my sound cuts off as KDE
initializes, indicating that the capture channel is unmuted.
But if I then bring up a console and run 'alsactl restore' - even as a
normal user, sound output returns.
(I am running mpd at bootup, so it is pretty obvious when the sound
stops / starts)
As an aside, mpd rocks for playing mp3 files. I usually 'control' it
with phpmp from my web browser.
Thanks for the reply.
aloha,
dave
PS: I have to send to the list from mutt, because google mail seems to
put 'questionable headers' into my messages, which gets 'em suspended.
So if the threading is funny, that's why.
On 8/31/05, nigel henry <cave.dnb(a)tiscali.fr> wrote:
Hi Dave. Are you using KDE by any chance, as it's likely to change
mixer settings after alsactl has restored your settings. Nigel.
More Music - 100% built and bred in a GNU/Linux environment:
http://www.gregwilder.com/media/vyserhad.ogg
(Warning - large file 17M - over 10 minutes of music)
App list:
Csound (about 85% of the DSP done here)
Cecilia (csound front end)
PVC (phase vocoding)
SMS (now CLAM)
Vspace (spatial sound processing tools)
SND (editor +)
Mix Views (editor +)
Audacity (before Ardour was stable)
Digital sources were largely culled from the sound library at the
Eastman Computer Music Center.
Enjoy!
Greg Wilder
www.gregwilder.com
Nigel,
Thank you. Your suggestion to disable KDE/KMIX's restore setting was
right on. Turning that off let's me reboot, etc. with lots of sound.
In a totally unrelated matter, I have lost all of the Kcontrol Modules
from my K-button menu, except for one to configure my nonexistent
digital camera. - Any thought on that one?
Thanks.
aloha,
dave
Hi Dave. I don't know if you've fixed it, but if not try the following.
Later versions of KDE. 3.3, 3.4 have a menu bar on Kmix with a settings
menu item. If the menubar's not there, right click on Kmix, then show
menubar. Next. Settings/config Kmix, and theres probably a checked box
for "load volumes at startup" . Just uncheck the box. Earlier versions of
KDE like on FC1 have the mixer config stuff in. Control centre/sound &
multimedia/mixer. And the load volumes at setup checkbox is there. HTH
Hi,
I have managed to get alsa running correctly on an SIS/snd_intel8x0
system.
One thing that bothers me is that I need to go in by hand and 'mute' the
capture monitor channel by hand anytime I reboot.
(I am using Mepis 3.3 on an AMD Athlon with kernel 2.6.11
I see messages at boot time from /etc/init.d/alsa
Setting up ALSA.../etc/init.d/alsa: Warning: 'alsactl restore' failed
with error message 'alsactl: set_control:894: warning: name mismatch
(Master Playback Volume/Center Playback Switch) for control #2
alsactl: set_control:896: warning: index mismatch (0/0) for control #2
alsactl: set_control:1015: bad control.2.value.0 content'. done.
... Can someone explain how I can correctly save the settings that
alsactl restore is using?
Thanks.
--
aloha,
dave
"... the point where I could see the forest and the trees - where there
was simultaneously Clarity, which comes through a feeling for the
individual elements (the notes), and Density, which comes through a
feeling for the whole (the chord). And I found this balance point to
occur most often when there were not quite three layers of something. I
came to nickname this my 'Law of Two-and-a-half.'"
http://www.ps1.org/cut/volume/murch.html
Greetings:
I've switched my laptop back to Planet C's RH9 and its 2.4.26 kernel.
The machine is much happier now.
However, a problem has come up that did not exist on a former
identical installation: My PDAudioCF card is not recognized when I 'cat
/proc/asound/cards'. lsmod shows this report:
[dlphilp@localhost dlphilp]$ lsmod |grep pdaudio
snd-pdaudiocf 10980 0 (unused)
snd-ak4117 7196 0 [snd-pdaudiocf]
snd-pcm 85952 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pdaudiocf snd-ak4117
snd-usb-audio snd-cs4231-lib]
snd 48708 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss
snd-seq-dummy snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi snd-opl3-synth snd-seq-instr
snd-pdaudiocf snd-ak4117 snd-usb-audio snd-virmidi snd-seq-virmidi
snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-cs4232 snd-opl3-lib snd-hwdep
snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-cs4231-lib snd-pcm snd-timer]
ds 8776 2 [snd-pdaudiocf serial_cs pcnet_cs]
pcmcia_core 57504 0 [snd-pdaudiocf serial_cs pcnet_cs ds
yenta_socket]
But catting proc shows only:
[dlphilp@localhost dlphilp]$ cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [CS4231 ]: CS4231 - CS4231
CS4231 at 0x534, irq 5, dma 1&0
1 [VirMIDI ]: VirMIDI - VirMIDI
Virtual MIDI Card 1
2 [M2x2 ]: USB-Audio - Midisport 2x2
Midiman Midisport 2x2 at usb-00:07.2-1.2, full speed
I added these lines to /etc/modules.conf :
alias snd-card-3 snd-pdaudiocf
alias sound-slot-3 snd-pdaudiocf
I also tried manually loading snd-pdaudiocf, it seemed to work all
right and reported no error. Nevertheless, no PDAudioCF card appears in
/proc/asound. The card's little blue light is on, indicating that the
card is recognized by the PCMCIA system, but something else is wrong
somewhere. Any suggestions ?
Best,
dp
Are there any known issues with csound on AMD64? I'm running Ubuntu 5.04
AMD64, using the provided csound 4.23 package. Csound appears to work fine
*except* that it doesn't generate proper wave files. Looking at the raw
data in audacity, it appears the header is there, but possibly incorrect
(test.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data is what the file command reports).
The actual sound data in the file looks okay. Anyone have any ideas?
Couldn't find anything in the ubuntu bugzilla.
--
Tyler Eaves
<tylere(a)mailshack.com>
I have wine20040505.1-i586 (also the -devel package) installed.
I already got fst working on ubuntu i386.
On suse 9.3 (x86_64) the configure script can't include 'windef.h', even
if it is inside /usr/incude/wine/windows.
Running:
./configure --prefix=/usr --with-wine-include=/usr/include/wine
i get:
checking for windef.h... configure: error: Could not find the Wine
headers (windef.h)
c.