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[linux-audio-user] rme hamerfall setup - pd hangs then quits was UPDATE insmod errors - rme hammerfall multiface UPDATE

by rob canning

hi and thanks for the help so far!, the hdsp module is loaded /sbin/lsmod: snd-hdsp 46732 0 (autoclean) cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [default ]: H-DSP - Hammerfall DSP RME Hammerfall DSP + Multiface at 0xfeae0000, irq 5 the motherboards intel sound chip has now disappeared but thats ok... i ran alsaconf again and now and everything seems a lot healthier the hdsploader works (the red Host light is now off) as does hdspconf and hdspmixer so everything looks fine but when i start pd it hangs for about 20 seconds and then outputs the following errors, then quits. input channels = 2, output channels = 2 device name hw:0; channels in 2, out 2 audio buffer set to 50 opening sound input... using non-interleaved audio input Sample width set to 4 bytes ALSA: set input channels to 14 ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:324:(snd_pcm_hw_hw_params) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_HW_PARAMS failed: Device or resource busy snd_pcm_hw_params (input): Device or resource busy pd: pcm.c:4887: snd_pcm_sw_params_current: Assertion `pcm->setup' failed. Pd: signal 6 socket receive error: Connection reset by peer (104) Aborted sorry about this! rob

21 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-user] zipper noise during playback

by Dave Phillips

Greetings: I've already written to the usual lists about this problem, but as yet I've read no solution. During playback of audio in JACK apps (Snd, Ardour, SC3) the sound wil often start out fine but after a few minutes it begins to distort in a "zipping" fashion, like it's out of sync with itself. After a few minutes it returns to stability. It's starting to be a real problem for me, so I thought I'd ask here again if anyone else has experienced this problem and what did you do to fix it. Here's the system: Planet CCRMA RH 9 w. kernel 2.4.24-ll ALSA 1.0.1 JACK 0.94 SBLive Value gForce2 w. nVidia driver XFree86 4.3.0 The machine is no screamer, an 800 MHz Duron, but I haven't had this problem with it before. I have suspicions about the nVidia card and driver, and I'm also wondering about moving the SBLive to another slot. Any and all advice on this problem will be vastly appreciated. Btw, I don't have the problem during playback from XMMS or xine. Best regards, dp

21 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-user] RE: Should I Bother Learning Csound?

by Peter Groves

On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 linux-audio-user-request(a)music.columbia.edu wrote: | From: Dave Phillips <dlphilp(a)bright.net> | Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Should I Bother Learning Csound? | Considering the low cost of each of these systems, why not try them | all ? You might also want to consider Common Lisp Music, a Lisp-based | system. Btw, both CLM and SC3 are very much object-oriented languages, | while Csound and RTcmix are modeled after more procedural languages. Well, that would be ideal, but I'm trying to get the most power for the smallest amount of time spent learning it. Given all the comments, I think I will give Csound a shot. I use java at work, so I'm used to using a crappy language just because it has good libraries. When writing similar code over and over, I have resorted to writing my own template/preprocessor before. If I really end up liking what csound can do, but hate the language constructs, I might go down that road. I think I might have seen something like that done already Python, but I can't recall where right now. | Finally I would urge the beginner to make a real study of some other | language, i.e., C/C++, Java, whatever, along with learning a sound & | music programming language. That assumes the time for such study, but | consider it time well spent, you'll learn a lot by the inevitable | comparisons. | agreed.

21 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-user] Re: UPDATE insmod errors - rme hammerfall multiface UPDATE

by rob canning

Hi Thomas, hdsploader cand find my card for some reason: hdsploader: [root@localhost robcanning]# hdsploader hdsploader - firmware loader for RME Hammerfall DSP cards Looking for HDSP + Multiface or Digiface cards : Card 0 : Intel ICH5 at 0xfebfb800, irq 5 yet lspci -vv reveals: 03:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: Xilinx Corporation RME Hammerfall DSP (rev 32) Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping+ SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 64 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 5 Region 0: Memory at feae0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] thanks, rob

21 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-user] Links for 'Made with Linux' music

by Daniel James

Hello all, On the GNU/Linux Centre stand at Sounds Expo 2004 (London, 10-12 Feb) I'm planning to take along a laptop with some DJ software, and I was going to take my typical DJ set music with me. But - I thought - why not take some 'Made with Linux' music instead! Apart from our own stuff, I'd like to take along as much music made by the community as possible. So please send me links for your oggs and mp3s, offlist if you like - any genre is fine. Cheers Daniel

21 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-user] Noob...Latency, Mandrake and Dell questions...

by Russell Hanaghan

Hi folks, I have been using Linux for about 2 years now. Started with MDK 8.0 and have mostly stuck with them. Using 9.2 now.I'm not a command line expert at any measure. In fact, if not for the vast improvements in the GUI I would not have the time to get anywhere with linux. I started awhile ago hunting around for audio apps spured by Austin Acton's "Mandrake 9.1 Audio workstation how to" advertised in the Mandrake emails. I figured out how to setup URPMI and found apps like Jack, Ardour (Since, like 8 releases ago) Rosegarden, Fluidsynth and a vast surprising variety of other cool audio stuff. I thank "Thac" for his efforts on the "Thac's RPMS" pages as he keeps the Mandrake packages for the audio stuff up to current release more than any other repository I've found.(I never seem to have much success at building from source). Anyway, my biggest headache is getting my laptop fine tuned to work at it's best with Linux Audio under Mandrake. I have used Win XP and Cakewalk Sonar since its release and I get fairly solid performance out of it. I use it live for it's midi playback capabilities. (Save midis to Sonar format maintaining mix, edit data easily, etc.) I would one day like to use Linux instead but "Live" is where the rubber meets the road! Cant afford to have crashes and glitches in the middle of a show. I also use Sonar for recording. As promising as Ardour is, I just dont have the time to figure out everything. Sorry if that seems non contributing but it's just the way it is. I can promise that when it is sorted, I WILL pay/contribute financially to have it, if it meets my needs. Sure would like to see the inbuilt midi capabilities in it. But I know the focus is on the general recording and editing side and thats cool. Must be a lot of work! I want to try using a spare laptop for live fx processing (Over vocals on a PA)at this point. Some of the LADSPA plugs seem very cool (Gverb for one) and I can get Jack-realtime working but dont know if it's working as good as it could. I have been messing with Ecamegapedal with Jack. So heres my stuff: Dell CPxJ 650mhz, 256megs Ram, 20 gigHD (5400RPM I think) I installed Andrew Mortens(??) Multimedia kernel RPM and it boots fine...although I dont know where the scheduling is sitting or if it is even making a difference. The Dell Latitude has a Maestro3 PCI audio accelerator chip. (Not real high end I know but works sufficiently well with Sonar XL) If I set Jack parameters in Qjackctl any lower than 1024 I get Xrun mayhem. (at 44100) I have also tried this running from consoles as root and it does not seem to make much difference. Am I expecting too much? Anyway, sorry for such a long post but I was told in the Ardour users list that this was where I should ask all this stuff... I do luv linux (it's kinda addictive) and would like to completely sever the umbilical from Bill someday. :) thanks for any help in advance.

21 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-user] Re: UPDATE insmod errors - rme hammerfall multiface UPDATE

by Thomas Charbonnel

rob canning wrote : > hi fernando, thomas, list, > > thanks very much for your help, i feel like i may be getting close now but am still having problems... > > i did an apt get install on the new kernel set it asd default with GRUB > > when i do alsaconf i no longer get the insmod errrors but i do still get: > > [root@localhost robcanning]# /usr/sbin/alsaconf > /usr/sbin/alsaconf: line 120: modinfo: command not found > /usr/sbin/alsaconf: line 127: modinfo: command not found > /usr/sbin/alsaconf: line 135: modinfo: command not found > > when i start alsasound > [robcanning@localhost robcanning]$ /etc/rc.d/init.d/alsasound start > ALSA driver already running > Sound driver snd-hdsp is already loaded > > > when i start alsamixer > Card: Intel ICH5 ││ Chip: Analog Devices AD1985 ││ Item: Master > > and with the -c 1 argument > [robcanning@localhost robcanning]$ /usr/bin/alsamixer -c 1 > No mixer elems found > > > my modules.conf file looks like this (i have commented out the oss stuff): > > # --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- > # --- ALSACONF verion 1.0.1 --- > alias char-major-116 snd > alias char-major-14 soundcore > #alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss > #alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss > #alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss > #alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss > #alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss > alias snd-card-0ntitlntitled 1ntitled 1ed 1 snd-hdsp > alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0 > # --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- > post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || : > pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || : > alias sound-slot-1 snd-hdsp > post-install sound-slot-1 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || : > pre-remove sound-slot-1 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || : > # -- Keep modules from being autocleaned > add options -k snd-card-0 > > when i run the audio software pd the Hamerfall is listed in its audio devices but when i change to it from the default (intel) it crashes with: > > input channels = 2, output channels = 2 > alsa: changing output device to agree with input device > device name hw:1; channels in 2, out 2 > audio buffer set to 50 > ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1055:(snd_pcm_hw_open) open /dev/snd/pcmC1D0c failed: No such > device > snd_pcm_open (input): No such device > ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1055:(snd_pcm_hw_open) open /dev/snd/pcmC1D0p failed: No such > device > snd_pcm_open (output): No such device > ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:494:(snd_pcm_hw_start) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_START failed: Bad file > descriptor > audio I/O stuck... closing audio > > ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:751:(snd_pcm_hw_close) close failed > : Bad file descriptor > snd_pcm_close (input): Bad file descriptor > Segmentation fault > [robcanning@localhost robcanning]$ pd_gui: pd process exited > > > when i do a dmesg i see the lines > ALSA ../../alsa-kernel/pci/rme9652/hdsp.c:5054: card initialization pending : waiting for firmware > PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.5 to 64 > intel8x0: clocking to 48000 > > the red Host light is permanantly on on the front of the card - it was never like this with a pcmcia card on windows - should that light turn off on linux with a pci card? > Hi Rob, You have to initialize the iobox running the hdsploader command. After that you should run hdspmixer (a totalmix clone) that will set the default levels. You'll also want to check hdspconf (windows/mac control panel clone). All this tools are part of the alsa-tools package. Hdsploader also need the alsa-firmware package to be installed. I believe tha Planet installs all this automatically. Note that you can't use alsamixer with the hdsp, but you can use amixer. (googling for hdsp+linux should lead you to more information on this) Note also that the card can only play 24/32 bits non-interleaved streams. If you want to play 16 bits and/or interleaved files you have to use the alsa-lib's plug layer. Here are a few examples : aplay -Dhw:X,0 32or24bits.wav aplay -Dplughw:X,0 16bits.wav where X is the hdsp alsa card number. Thomas

21 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-user] Re: Re:UPDATE insmod errors - rme hammerfall multiface UPDATE

by rob canning

hi fernando, thomas, list, thanks very much for your help, i feel like i may be getting close now but am still having problems... i did an apt get install on the new kernel set it asd default with GRUB when i do alsaconf i no longer get the insmod errrors but i do still get: [root@localhost robcanning]# /usr/sbin/alsaconf /usr/sbin/alsaconf: line 120: modinfo: command not found /usr/sbin/alsaconf: line 127: modinfo: command not found /usr/sbin/alsaconf: line 135: modinfo: command not found when i start alsasound [robcanning@localhost robcanning]$ /etc/rc.d/init.d/alsasound start ALSA driver already running Sound driver snd-hdsp is already loaded when i start alsamixer Card: Intel ICH5 ││ Chip: Analog Devices AD1985 ││ Item: Master and with the -c 1 argument [robcanning@localhost robcanning]$ /usr/bin/alsamixer -c 1 No mixer elems found my modules.conf file looks like this (i have commented out the oss stuff): # --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- # --- ALSACONF verion 1.0.1 --- alias char-major-116 snd alias char-major-14 soundcore #alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss #alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss #alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss #alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss #alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss alias snd-card-0ntitlntitled 1ntitled 1ed 1 snd-hdsp alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0 # --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || : pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || : alias sound-slot-1 snd-hdsp post-install sound-slot-1 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || : pre-remove sound-slot-1 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || : # -- Keep modules from being autocleaned add options -k snd-card-0 when i run the audio software pd the Hamerfall is listed in its audio devices but when i change to it from the default (intel) it crashes with: input channels = 2, output channels = 2 alsa: changing output device to agree with input device device name hw:1; channels in 2, out 2 audio buffer set to 50 ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1055:(snd_pcm_hw_open) open /dev/snd/pcmC1D0c failed: No such device snd_pcm_open (input): No such device ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1055:(snd_pcm_hw_open) open /dev/snd/pcmC1D0p failed: No such device snd_pcm_open (output): No such device ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:494:(snd_pcm_hw_start) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_START failed: Bad file descriptor audio I/O stuck... closing audio ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:751:(snd_pcm_hw_close) close failed : Bad file descriptor snd_pcm_close (input): Bad file descriptor Segmentation fault [robcanning@localhost robcanning]$ pd_gui: pd process exited when i do a dmesg i see the lines ALSA ../../alsa-kernel/pci/rme9652/hdsp.c:5054: card initialization pending : waiting for firmware PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.5 to 64 intel8x0: clocking to 48000 the red Host light is permanantly on on the front of the card - it was never like this with a pcmcia card on windows - should that light turn off on linux with a pci card? thanks again, rob www.robcanning.utvinternet.com

21 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-user] Using SF2 files in Timidity

by Dominic Genest

Hello, How can we tell Timidity to use a particular sf2 file ? Thanks Dom -- Dominic Genest Étudiant 3e cycle Département d'Informatique et de Génie Logiciel Université Laval 97010111

21 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-user] ALSA, 2.4 kernels and a vx222

by Torleiv Ringer

Hi, We have a couple of machines that we are having problems with. Has anyone been able to sucessfully use a Digigram VX222 with the ALSA drivers? What kernel should I use? Patches? We are getting hard lockups of our system. We have turned off all power management. It seems to be a problem with activity on either the sound card driver and/or the NIC driver (e100). The board is an Intel S845WD1-E. At this point if we do not come up with a solution by next week, the higher ups are going to make us use Win2k. Ugh. -- Torleiv Ringer Broadcast Systems Analyst Minnesota Public Radio http://www.mpr.org

21 years, 5 months

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