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[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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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

22 years, 9 months

[linux-audio-user] Stop Palladium and TCPA Now

by Seth Johnson

Hello folks, think you all probably will find this of considerable interest. AMI and Transmeta are planning to make chip that put content control on your computer at the hardware level, in a way that lets others turn things on and off on your computer, in a protected space entirely outside your control. Many details below: Seth Johnson Stop Palladium and TCPA now! Tell American Megatrends and Transmeta not to make chips that let others control your computer! Please use the following form to tell American Megatrends and Transmeta not to produce their AMIBIOS8 and TM5800 chips, and that you will boycott any technology that enables TCPA and Palladium technology on your computer: http://www.nyfairuse.org/action/palladium/ What's Going On: Last week, Intel, Microsoft, the RIAA and the MPAA announced their intention to force Palladium and TCPA into every personal computer on the planet. Palladium and TCPA are a different kind of DRM, worse than even the most invasive of previously proposed "content control" systems. Palladium and TCPA would hardwire your home computer so that these four entities and their partners would be able to run processes on your computer, entirely outside your control, indeed, without your knowledge. Below we answer some questions about DRM, Palladium, TCPA, and the boycott. New Yorkers for Fair Use What is DRM? DRM is the political, legal, contractual, economic, hardware, and software infrastructure designed and intended by a loose alliance of cartels and monopolies to take away your right to own and privately use a computer. No full DRM exists in the world today, though pieces of DRM have been successfully enacted into law and tiny bits of DRM hardware and software have been placed in some home movie playing and recording devices. Every single piece of DRM is meant to help attain the objective of the anti-ownership alliance: to get control of every personal computer in the world. Intel and Microsoft and RIAA and MPAA, by their own admission, have, to date, spent billions of dollars to force universal DRM on the entire world. Last week these four reiterated their intention to force DRM into every personal computer on the planet: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/15/business/15PIRA.html http://news.com.com/2100-1023-980671.html For more on DRM see: http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/10/21/1449250.shtml?tid=19 http://www.panix.com/~jays/what.is.drm.3 What is Palladium? "Palladium" is Microsoft's name for its proposed DRM system. No implementation of Palladium exists today, indeed no complete specification of Palladium exists today, but certain hardware which a Palladiated operating system requires is about to be placed in all personal computers, unless we stop Microsoft and its hardware and vendor partners, such as Intel, American Megatrends, Transmeta, Dell, and CompUSA. What will Palladium do? Palladium will enable a few large corporations and governments to run source secret, indeed, well-encrypted, code on home users' machines in such a way that the home user cannot see, modify, or control the running code. A Palladiated system is under the complete control of Microsoft at all times. Microsoft might allow some of its partners to run code on your machine, but no code will run on a Palladiated system without Microsoft's consent. The mechanics are as follows: only code that has been signed with a special Microsoft provided key will run. Microsoft will retain at all times the power to revoke any other entity's keys. In particular, no operating system will be able to boot without a key from Microsoft. So if Palladium is forced into every home computer, there will be no more free software. Microsoft will be able to spy on each and every keystroke, and mouse movement, and send encrypted messages from your machine to Microsoft headquarters. Microsoft will also be able to examine every file on your system. Your encryption programs will not work against Microsoft, or any other entities which have full power keys from Microsoft. But surely wily crackers and freedom-loving hackers around the world will be able to defeat Palladium by breaking it? No. Whether or not a few hackers are able to get around some versions of Palladium, most people will not be able to. There are two reasons most people will not be able to escape the All Seeing Eye and Invisible Hand of Palladium. First, Palladium is not like the absurdly weak systems called "DRM" today. Palladium is both hardware and software, and the software is locked to the hardware in a manner completely different from today's weak DRM systems. The design of Palladium allows for defense in depth, and even one layer of Palladium is harder to crack than any DRM ever seen before. Second, under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of the United States of America, it is illegal to try to see what Palladium is doing. It is also illegal to modify the hardware of a Palladiated system. And it is a felony to sell advice on how to disable Palladium or its supporting hardware. It is hard enough today to get vendors to sell computers with a free operating system already installed. Once Microsoft and Intel have forced Palladiated hardware into every personal computer, it will be impossible to run a free OS. The very act of booting a free OS will be outlawed by application of the DMCA to a Palladiated computer. But there are no Palladium systems available today. So how can you boycott Palladium? We are boycotting the hardware that Palladium needs. Before Palladium is rolled out, Palladium-enabling hardware must be placed in most of the world's personal computers. Right now such hardware is being placed in computers meant for home and business use without the buyer being told. Our boycott is aimed at stopping Palladium-enabling hardware from being secretly forced into every personal computer in world. We intend to stop Palladium before we cease to own the computers in our own houses and offices. The main Palladium-enabling hardware is called a "TPM" for Trusted Platform Module. The TPM hardware will support, in addition to Palladium, many different systems which take control of the computer away from the user and give control to large corporations and government entities. The TCPA, the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance, is the standards organization for the TPM. The founding Alliance members are Compaq, HP, IBM, Intel and Microsoft. Since 1999, the year TCPA was founded, about one hundred more companies have joined the TCPA. The Alliance has published a formal specification of the TPM. The TCPA's FAQ http://www.trustedcomputing.org/docs/Website_TCPA%20FAQ_0703021.pdf seeks to allay the natural suspicions of computer buyers about what the TPM does. Unfortunately the FAQ is inaccurate on the most important issues. For example, the claim is made that a computer with a working TPM will remain under the final, ultimate, and complete control of the user. But, as explained above, this is simply untrue. So what exactly are you doing? We refuse to buy any computer with a TPM inside and we ask you to refuse to buy any computer with a TPM inside. We use the term "TPM" to include TPM-like devices, whether in a separate chip, in the BIOS chip, or even in the cpu. This means that we ask buyers of personal computers to find out whether the computer has a TPM or a TPM-like device inside. We will shortly provide buyers of home computers with methods for telling whether or not a computer has a TPM inside. Is it possible to be more specific today? Yes. We call for a boycott of the just announced American Megatrends AMIBIOS8: http://www.ami.com/ami/showpress.cfm?PrID=118 http://www.ami.com/products/product.cfm?ProdID=127&CatID=6&SubID=14 http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/09/166251&tid=99 http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/17/1430214&mode=thread&… and the just announced Transmeta TM5800 cpu: http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article.php/1569201 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/14/1719220&mode=thread&tid=161 Where can I find out more about Palladium, TCPA, and DMCA? For Palladium see: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/%7Erja14/tcpa-faq.html http://wintermute.homelinux.org/miscelanea/TCPA%20Security.txt http://discuss.microsoft.com/SCRIPTS/WA-MSD.EXE?A2=ind0301b&L=wmtalk&T=0&O=… http://www.theregus.com/content/4/25378.html http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0208.html#1 http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=152 For TCPA and the TPM see: http://www.trustedcomputing.org For the DMCA see: http://www.nyfairuse.org/analysis/dmca.must.be.repealed.xhtml http://anti-dmca.org http://www.nyfairuse.org/dmca.xhtml

22 years, 9 months

Re: [linux-audio-user] Need help - hardware recommendations

by linuxmedia4＠netscape.net

Hartmut Noack <symposion(a)onlinehome.de> wrote: > Hi Bryan, <CHOP> > 1) try Soundblaster 1024 Live! Player ( NOT SB Live 501 !!) > the card uses a professional EMU-Chip witch is formidably > supported by alsa, so midi-functions should work properly... > even though the cards D-A-Encoders are far from being excellent > they work smooth enough to serve very well for demos in average > HIFI-Sound. AND: the card should be available for less than $60,- What would the main differences be in the (above) 2 cards. I have a SB Live! 5.1 and don't seem to have any problems with it. But if there is any major differences, I would be curious what they are. Thanks, Rocco __________________________________________________________________ The NEW Netscape 7.0 browser is now available. Upgrade now! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/

22 years, 9 months

[linux-audio-user] Using Terratec DMX 6Fire

by Sergi Roig

Hi, I'm new to the list so... hi to all. I decided to migrate 100% to linux from windows recently, just because I did't want to depend on commercial software anymore. I checked those hundreds of projects at sourceforge / freshmeat, and though that would fit my needs. I didn't say it would be easy though... :-P Mainly, besides normal desktop applications (OpenOffice, internet browser, and so on), I use my computer to transfer my old vynils to CD. My soundcard is a Terratec DMX 6Fire 24/96, which is exactly what I need (high resolution recording + preamplified phono input); the problem is that I can't manage to find out how the envy24control and alsamixer work. I don't know how to select the phono input for recording, and usually when I play music (even a CD or mp3 using xmms) it sounds distorted, kind of too "saturated". Is anyone using the same card? Would anyone give me a hand please? Thanks! Sergi _________________________________________________________________ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963

22 years, 9 months

[linux-audio-user] ecasound 2.2.1 released

by Kai Vehmanen

1. A short summary of changes The JACK slave mode code has been completely rewritten. As a new feature it is now possible to use libsamplerate for resampling. Using JACK has been made more user-friendly as ecasound can now automatically configure the runtime parameters to match the current server settings. And thanks to build system and signal handling updates, it's now possible to compile ecasound for win32 under Cygwin. --- 2. What is ecasound? Ecasound is a software package designed for multitrack audio processing. It can be used for simple tasks like audio playback, recording and format conversions, as well as for multitrack effect processing, mixing, recording and signal recycling. Ecasound supports a wide range of audio inputs, outputs and effect algorithms. Effects and audio objects can be combined in various ways, and their parameters can be controlled by operator objects like oscillators and MIDI-CCs. A versatile console mode user-interface is included in the package. Ecasound is licensed under the GPL. The Ecasound Control Interface (ECI) is licenced under the LGPL. --- 3. Changes since last release * If configured with JACK-support, ecasound will now fetch the correct buffer size and sampling rate parameters from the JACK server when connecting a chainsetup with JACK inputs or outputs. In other words you don't have to manually match these settings between the JACK server and ecasound. * Support for Erik de Castro Lopo's libsamplerate resampling library added. If libsamplerate is not installed, ecasound will fall back to the old resampling algorithm. * Rewritten the code that handles JACK slave-mode operation. Ecasound is now able to more quickly and reliably follow transport state and position changes, as initiated by the current JACK timebase master. * Ecasound for Windows! :) With help of the Cygwin environment, you can now compile win32 ecasound binaries straight from the standard source package. As of 1.3.1, Cygwin also contains basic /dev/dsp emulation, so even audio playback works. * Fixed many, more or less serious, bugs. The most annoying ones were incorrect handling of the '-t' option, excessive DBC warnings with JACK inputs and outputs and failing to properly reset the terminal after a CTRL-C while in interactive mode. Full list of changes is available at <http://www.wakkanet.fi/~kaiv/ecasound/history.html>. --- 4. Interface and configuration file changes None. --- 5. Contributors Patches Junichi Uekawa (build system) Kai Vehmanen (various) Bug Hunting (items closed) Janne Halttunen (2) Eric Amundsen (1) Antti Boman (1) William Goldsmith (1) Andrew Reilly (1) Oliver Thuns (1) --- 6. Links and files Web sites: http://www.eca.cx http://www.eca.cx/ecasound Source packages: http://ecasound.seul.org/download http://ecasound.seul.org/download/ecasound-2.2.1.tar.gz Related sites: http://jackit.sf.net (JACK) http://www.mega-nerd.com/SRC (libsamplerate) http://www.cygwin.com Distributions with maintained ecasound support: Agnula - http://www.agnula.org Debian - http://packages.debian.org/stable/sound/ecasound.html http://packages.debian.org/unstable/sound/ecasound2.2.html DeMuDi - http://www.demudi.org FreeBSD - http://www.freebsd.org/ports/audio.html Gentoo Linux - http://www.gentoo.org PLD Linux - http://www.pld.org.pl PlanetCCRMA - http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software SuSE Linux - http://www.suse.de/en Contrib Packages for Distributions: Mandrake - http://rpm.nyvalls.se/sound9.0.html Note! Distributors do not necessarily provide packages for the very latest ecasound version. -- http://www.eca.cx Audio software for Linux!

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