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

by Frank Barknecht

Hallo, I have a M-Audio Audiophile card (snd-ice1712) in my box, and for month I cannot get alsaplayer to work with it in ALSA-mode. I currently use $ alsaplayer --version alsaplayer 0.99.70 from the unstable Debian package. But it didn't work with any prior version. Actually I like alsaplayer, because it runs very stable without dropouts, but in my case it doesn't deserve its name. This is the error I keep getting when starting alsaplayer ("-d default", "-d hw:0" all give the same): $ alsaplayer error on set_periods (13) Unavailable hw params: ACCESS: RW_INTERLEAVED FORMAT: S16_LE SUBFORMAT: STD SAMPLE_BITS: 16 FRAME_BITS: 32 CHANNELS: 2 RATE: 44100 PERIOD_TIME: (11609 11610) PERIOD_SIZE: 512 PERIOD_BYTES: 2048 PERIODS: [1 13) BUFFER_TIME: (11609 148595) BUFFER_SIZE: [512 6553] BUFFER_BYTES: [2048 26212] TICK_TIME: 10000 error on set_periods (7) Unavailable hw params: ACCESS: RW_INTERLEAVED FORMAT: S16_LE SUBFORMAT: STD SAMPLE_BITS: 16 FRAME_BITS: 32 CHANNELS: 2 RATE: 44100 PERIOD_TIME: (23219 23220) PERIOD_SIZE: 1024 PERIOD_BYTES: 4096 PERIODS: [1 7) BUFFER_TIME: (23219 148595) BUFFER_SIZE: [1024 6553] BUFFER_BYTES: [4096 26212] TICK_TIME: 10000 failed to configure output device...trying OSS Yeah, "trying OSS", you wimp! ;) Has anyone with an Audiophile alsaplayer working? ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__

22 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-user] soundfonts, iiwusynth and smurf

by Levi Burton

Hello, I am currently using alsa 0.9rc7 with oss emulation, oss sequencer, virmidi and ens1371. I have a ens1371 soundcard. I would like to create my own soundfonts using smurf and play them with iiwusynth. Does anyone have some insight into the best way to proceed with this process (workflow, devices etc etc). I am a little overwhelmed by the amount of options there are for doing this. Thanks! -Levi

22 years, 2 months

RE: [linux-audio-user] Re: [Alsa-devel] Please explain Alsa Interface MIDI numbering PLEASE!

by Mark Knecht

> > 0 'Timer ' > > 1 'Announce ' > >client 64: 'External MIDI 0' [type=kernel] > > 0 'MIDI 0-0 ' > > 32 'MIDI 0-1 ' > >client 72: 'External MIDI 1' [type=kernel] > > 0 'Midisport 2x2 Port 0' > > 1 'Midisport 2x2 Port 1' > > 2 'Midisport 2x2 Port 2' > > 3 'Midisport 2x2 Port 3' > >[mark@Godzilla mark]$ > > > > > > The above information is certainly a bit more readable, but it seems > >to still be, at the least, inconsistent. > > > >1) For client 64, which is an HDSP 9652, there are two rawmidi ports. > >However, the info above says they are labeled '0' and '32'. Should they > >not be 0 & 1? If this is an error, then what needs to be fixed? The HDSP > >9652 driver? > > no, the port numbers are 0 and 32, but in the name, its 0 and 1. Well, OK, I guess I don't understand the meaning of 'ports' then. The HDSP only has two sets of in and out connectors. Are these not ports? Or does the Alsa spec think that each 'port' is somehow combination of a MIDI connector and a channel or something? How is it that a single input uses up 32 port number? (HDSP 9652 MIDI 1 seems to go from port 0 to port 31, and I guess #2 goes from 32-63.) > > >2) Why does the HDSP 9652 not tell me its name like the MidiSport does? > > its using a copy of some generic ALSA code that just calls the ports > "MIDI C P" where C=card number and P=physical port number. i'll change > this when i add the fixes for the mixer and the h/w names. > This would be very helpful. Thanks!

22 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-user] Planet CCRMA Cmucl can't find core

by Larry Troxler

Before diving into my particular question, I want to say that planet CCRMA is great! the documentation is superb - - Just wondering if there is a quick, easy answer for this - the problem is that after installing cmucl from planet CCRMA using apt-get, it doesn't run: ~ ~ ~ root@dhcp-25-2 root]# lisp Could not open file "/usr/lib/cmucl/lisp.core". Maybe you should run "update-alternatives --config cmucl-core" as root? open: No such file or directory [root@dhcp-25-2 root]# ~ ~ ~ [root@dhcp-25-2 root]# rpm -qa | grep cmucl cmucl-3.1.4-1 [root@dhcp-25-2 root]# rpm -qi cmucl Name : cmucl Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 3.1.4 Vendor: (none) Release : 1 Build Date: Fri 20 Dec 2002 04:01:30 PM EST Install date: Sat 15 Feb 2003 09:06:10 PM EST Build Host: nando.stanford.edu Group : Development/Languages Source RPM: cmucl-3.1.4-1.src.rpm Size : 944001 License: see /usr/share/doc/cmucl/copyright Signature : (none) Packager : Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando(a)ccrma.stanford.edu> URL : ftp://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/cmucl Summary : The CMUCL lisp compiler and development system. Description : CMUCL is a free implementation of the Common Lisp programming language which runs on most major Unix platforms. It mainly conforms to the ANSI Common Lisp standard (http://www.cons.org/cmucl/) This is the basis package for CMUCL. It contains the base image with the compiler, PCL (CLOS), and the tty based debugger. ~ ~ ~ Best Regards Larry Troxler

22 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-user] is ext3 ok for real-time / low-latency?

by Larry Troxler

Well, since my installation (mostly RedHat 7.1) was getting to be a big mess, with bits and pieces from different places, I decided the best way to get a working C++ compiler was to get a new drive and do a fresh redhat 8.0 installation :-) My immediate question: is ext3 bad news for real-time work? I saw some linux-audio-dev list messages from people who were having freezes using it. Should I convert my filesystem back to ext2 (assuming there is a way) or not? Which one in theory (assuming no bugs which seems to be the cause for the freeze) should be better for low-latency work? Thanks in advance! Larry Troxler

22 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-user] Please explain Alsa Interface MIDI numbering PLEASE!

by Mark Knecht

Hi, I'm having a great deal of confusion about how Alsa is handling my MIDI hardware. This is spilling over into unintended consequences in Rosegarden that I think none of us understand. Couple someone with some background in this please explain? Thanks. I have two 2-port MIDI devices on this system. One is an RME HDSP 9652 with two MIDI ports, and the other is a hot pluggable MidiSport 2x2. I attach two screen shots of kaconnect, one with and one without the 2x2 plugged in. My questions: 1) In the screen shot "without_2x2.png" I see two read ports and two write ports. Please explain why they are called 64:0 External MIDI 0 64:32 External MIDI 0 Why is my HDSP given the apparent name '64'? Why the :0 and :32? I would have thought :0 and :16 would make more sense from a channel numbering point of view, or :0 and :1 from an interface point of view. What's going on? 2) In the screen shot "with_2x2.png" I've plugged in the MidiSport 2x2. New devices show up in kaconnect. However, instead of showing 2 read ports and 2 write ports, I am getting 4 read ports and no write ports. Please explain why the MidiSport is given the names 72:0 External MIDI 1 72:1 External MIDI 1 72:2 External MIDI 1 72:3 External MIDI 1 Shouldn't this be just :0 and :1 for both the read and write ports? I get the feeling that BOTH of the drivers for these devices are hosed. What's up with these things? I do not understand why Alsa gives these devices numbers in the first place, nor how the numbers are assigned. How can I change the names that are displayed so that "64:0 External MIDI 0" shows the name "HDSP 9652 Port 1" "64:32 External MIDI 0" shows the name "HDSP 9652 Port 2" "72:0 External MIDI 1" shows the name "MidiSport 2x2 Port A" "72:1 External MIDI 1" shows the name "MidiSport 2x2 Port B" Thanks very, very much in advance, Mark

22 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-user] (perhaps) stupid question regarding ln -s and binaries

by Ivica Bukvic

Hi all, For the longest time I've had this problem and even though I've used Linux for over 5 years, I never bothered figuring this out until now. So it may sound kinda pathetic that I still don't know the solution to this sort of a trivial problem, but here it goes anyhow: Let's say I install an app from sources and the binary built depends at runtime on some stuff found in the subdirs of the source package. So, when I execute binary by doing ./binary-name inside its original dir (where it was built), it works like a charm, but if I move the whole install dir (with sources) to let's say /usr/local/ and then do ln -s /usr/local/appname/binary /usr/local/bin/binary (thus creating a soft link into a bin dir that's in my path) the binary fails because the app now cannot find the needed subdirs any more. Now, this is obviously not the case with the apps that have good "make install" routines, but for some odd reason there is quite a number of apps which when built simply give out this kind of a problem. The apps that do exhibit this kind of issue are usually built by a simple ./configure make make install (if available -- usually not) So, my question is how do I make the binary aware where its stuff lies if its config script ~/.config-file does not reveal such settings, and if I don't want to put app's dir into my path which to me seems a bit clumsy? In another words, how can I link it to a bin dir and still have it work as it is supposed to (i.e. to be aware of what Windows refers to being app's "working dir"? Any help on this matter is greatly appreciated! Sincerely, Ico

22 years, 2 months

Re: [linux-audio-user] Alsa with OPL3-SA2 on Asus Laptop

by Chris Bray

Thanks all for your kind replies, I'm on digest so please forgive me for replying to them all at the same time. > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 21:15:45 +0100 > From: Frank Barknecht <fbar(a)footils.org> > To: "'linux-audio-user(a)music.columbia.edu'" > <linux-audio-user(a)music.columbia.edu> > Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Alsa with OPL3-SA2 on Asus Laptop > Reply-To: linux-audio-user(a)music.columbia.edu > > Hallo, > Chris Bray hat gesagt: // Chris Bray wrote: > > > I've been trying for a couple of days now to get > > any sound from my laptop (rebadged Asus L7000, > > Slackware 8.1, vanilla 2.4.20) and seem to be > > getting nowhere fast. > > > > isapnp.conf contains all the settings that Windows > > is using and everytime I try to get it running with > > > > modprobe snd-opl3sa2 (or snd-card-opl3sa2) > > > > I get > > "Yamaha OPL3-SA Soundcard not found or device busy" > > Are you sure that you have an OPL3-chip inside? > According to http://www.muenster.de/~akorves/asus_l7g_de.html (in > German) the Asus L7000 has an Intel ICH 8x0, AC'97 Codec. You > need the snd-intel8x0 module then. > > ciao > -- > Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__ Sorry, it is an L7300, my bad. It's quite old and not listed on the asus site anymore. (Celeron 400, 96mb, 10Gb, 13.3" TFT) ISAPNP detects it as a OPL3SA2 and so does Win98. > > --__--__-- > > Message: 4 > Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 19:35:09 -0500 > From: Dave Phillips <dlphilp(a)bright.net> > To: linux-audio-user(a)music.columbia.edu > Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Alsa with OPL3-SA2 on Asus Laptop > Reply-To: linux-audio-user(a)music.columbia.edu > > Hi Chris: > > If you can access the machine's BIOS when you boot it up perhaps you > can retrieve some more detailed information regarding the > audio chipset > and its configuration. No, the bios is very basic, doesnt let you do anything with audio. Not even turn it off. > > For completeness sake I have to ask: how did you configure > ALSA ? Did > you build and install the entire package ? Were there any > problems with > it ? I used ./configure --with-isapnp=yes && make && make install didnt specify any particular cards is there anything else I should have done > > --__--__-- > > Message: 5 > Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 19:55:39 -0500 > From: "Gustavo Zamorano S." <gzsuniq(a)cableonda.net> > To: linux-audio-user(a)music.columbia.edu > Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Alsa with OPL3-SA2 on Asus Laptop > Reply-To: linux-audio-user(a)music.columbia.edu > > > Chris: > Did you run alsaconf that is under the alsa-driver-0.9.0rc6/utils > directory ?. It should recognize what chip you have and modify > /etc/modules.conf accordingly... > GZS > No, I'll try that when i get back to the machine, I did run snddevices (?) or something, as suggested in the README, but that didnt seem to make any headway.

22 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-user] Alsa with OPL3-SA2 on Asus Laptop

by Chris Bray

Hi All; I've been trying for a couple of days now to get any sound from my laptop (rebadged Asus L7000, Slackware 8.1, vanilla 2.4.20) and seem to be getting nowhere fast. I've tried OSS/Free and Alsa (0.9.0rc2 and 0.5.12a) and can't seem to get anything working. OSS just hangs as I modprobe the module, no log entries or anything I can find. isapnp.conf contains all the settings that Windows is using and everytime I try to get it running with modprobe snd-opl3sa2 (or snd-card-opl3sa2) I get "Yamaha OPL3-SA Soundcard not found or device busy" Can anyone please help me as I'm getting to the end of my patience! I am a bit of a newbie so if anyone has any ideas what I could have missed then please let me know. Chris Bray (Frustrated)

22 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-user] demudi-base config (Newbie)

by tim hall

Hello I'm almost as new to Debian and Linux as I am to DeMuDi, so I've kind of dropped myself in at the deep end I guess. I've successfully installed the demudi-2.4.18 kernel, which I must say was remarkably smooth i.e. my system still works jus as well as it did before I installed the new kernel. Well done to whoever packaged that up! However, when I get to the point of configuring demudi-base it comes up with: modprobe: Nothing to load ??? Specify at least a module or a wildcard like \* and then it hangs. I'm confused. Where should I specify these modules? Also my system can't find any opti92x module does this mean I have to go find/download one? I've been running the bluepoint/OPTi soundcard with mad16 semi-succesfully up to this point. modprobe won't load seq-oss either which makes me suspect I have conflicts with my modules (?) :-/ I will admit to being only about half-way through all the available documentation, which _is_ mighty, _especially_ if I was compiling it. I don't suppose anything like a straightforward demudi install HOWTO exists just yet (I guess you're all flat out with current developments). My eyes are going familiarly wiggly with on-screen reading, so I thought I'd dash off a quick email just to see if the list could give me any obvious pointers. forgive me if I'm being an utter twink here. If so, even a brief RTFM response would probably give me a significant clue. I include the results of my most recent lsmod & dmesg just to illustrate the point. yours hopefully tim hall tim(a)glastonburymusic.org.uk ******************************************************************************** Module Size Used by Not tainted parport_pc 22056 1 (autoclean) lp 6336 0 (autoclean) parport 22976 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp] serial 44064 0 (autoclean) opl3 11112 0 (unused) smc-ultra 5024 0 (unused) 8390 5920 0 [smc-ultra] ipv6 123424 -1 mad16 7392 0 (unused) ad1848 20896 0 [mad16] isa-pnp 28168 0 [serial smc-ultra ad1848] sb_lib 32480 0 [mad16] uart401 6080 0 [mad16 sb_lib] sound 52620 0 [opl3 mad16 ad1848 sb_lib uart401] soundcore 3492 5 [sb_lib sound] af_packet 11528 0 (unused) rtc 5528 0 (autoclean) ext2 30784 3 (autoclean) ide-disk 6624 4 (autoclean) ide-probe-mod 8080 0 (autoclean) ide-mod 130892 4 (autoclean) [ide-disk ide-probe-mod] ext3 56864 0 (autoclean) jbd 35272 0 (autoclean) [ext3] unix 13316 44 (autoclean) Linux version 2.4.18-586-demudi (free@leporello) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #1 Tue Oct 15 11:19:17 CEST 2002 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000003000000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) On node 0 totalpages: 12288 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 8192 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=demudi ro root=301 Initializing CPU#0 Detected 133.637 MHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 266.24 BogoMIPS Memory: 43976k/49152k available (808k kernel code, 4792k reserved, 196k data, 192k init, 0k highmem) Dentry-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 000001bf 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0 Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled. CPU: After vendor init, caps: 000001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: After generic, caps: 000001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Common caps: 000001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Intel Pentium 75 - 200 stepping 0c Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb210, last bus=0 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing hardware on bus (00:00) Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers. Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds. Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured block: 128 slots per queue, batch=32 RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize Cronyx Ltd, Synchronous PPP and CISCO HDLC (c) 1994 Linux port (c) 1998 Building Number Three Ltd & Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096) Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM RAMDISK: cramfs filesystem found at block 0 RAMDISK: Loading 2580 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... |/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/done. Freeing initrd memory: 2580k freed VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem). Freeing unused kernel memory: 192k freed NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. Journalled Block Device driver loaded Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx PIIX3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 PIIX3: chipset revision 0 PIIX3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0x9000-0x9007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0x9008-0x900f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio hda: ST31720A, ATA DISK drive hdc: FX800S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: 3331852 sectors (1706 MB), CHS=3305/16/63 Partition check: hda: [PTBL] [826/64/63] hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 > ext3: No journal on filesystem on ide0(3,1) Adding Swap: 98748k swap-space (priority -1) Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: Card 'SMC EtherEZ (8416)' isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total ad1848/cs4248 codec driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 ad1848: No ISAPnP cards found, trying standard ones... MAD16 audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 CDROM Disabled. Joystick port enabled. IPv6 v0.8 for NET4.0 IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver smc-ultra.c: Presently autoprobing (not recommended) for a single card. smc-ultra.c: ISAPnP reports SMC EtherEZ (8416) at i/o 0x240, irq 10. smc-ultra.c:v2.02 2/3/98 Donald Becker (becker(a)cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov) eth0: SMC EtherEZ at 0x240, 00 00 C0 D1 23 E0,assigned IRQ 10 programmed-I/O mode. YM3812 and OPL-3 driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen, Rob Hooft 1993-1996 Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A

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