My system disk on this box failed recently, so I had to reinstall on a
different disk. It's been a while since I last set up alsa from scratch,
so I'm doubting myself and suspect that I've forgotten something (or,
perhaps, that alsa has changed recently in some way).
In my previous settup I think the alsasound init script loaded my
drivers on boot. This time I can't seem to get "/etc/init.d/alsasound
start" to work. It runs with no errors (no output at all, actually), but
the sound modules are not loaded.
I'm using debian woody, but I have none of the debian alsa packages
installed. My kernel is 2.4.19 with Robert Love's preempt patch and
Andrew Morton's Low latency patch. I've compiled and installed
alsa-0.9.0rc6-drivers, -lib and -utils. I can do "modprobe snd-ymfpci",
set the mixer and hear sounds with aplay.
after loading the drivers with modprobe
/etc/init.d/alsasound stop
works as expected, unloading the drivers.
This isn't urgent, since I can get sound using modprobe to load the
drivers. But, not having the init script working makes me suspect I've
forgotten something and if I forgot one thing I could have forgotten
others ....
anyway, any suggestions will be welcome.
Thanks,
Eric Rz.
Has anyone looked at/evaluated/considered/used the new VIA EPIA-M9000
motherboard
as the basis for interesting audio projects?
Best wishes,
Lloyd R. Prentice
Has anyone on the list got one of the Midiman DMAN PCI cards? They are
discontinued and are quite cheap now, but they are supported by ALSA and look
like they could be OK - if you only need up to 48KHz sample rate.
Cheers
Daniel
ZynAddSubFX is a opensource software synthesizer for
Linux.
It is available at :
http://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.net
or
http://sourceforge.net/projects/zynaddsubfx
News:
1.0.3 - small bugfixes: "Bypass Global Filter" from
ADnoteUI dissapears sometimes ;
removed the low amplitude noise produced by the
reverb;
if you "acconect" zynaddsubfx with aseqview no note
was processed a long time.
- added Notch Filter
- added the option to randomize the ressonance
function
- added VU-Meter
- Change the Insertion effect modes behaves (it
sounds a bit louder)
- Added to the project an external program
called Spliter that splits the
keyboard and alows you to play two instruments same
time. You can use this
program with ZynAddSubFX or any other synthesizer.
- Added a new function to OscilGen
Paul.
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Hi,
I'm trying to get my digital output (SPDIFF) to work. I have a Creative
SB Audigy. I managed to get the digital output to work with the OpenSource
emu10k1 drivers at sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/emu10k1/),
but I'm trying to switch to ALSA drivers, because the documentation with
mplayer suggested switching to them for AC3 passthrough functionality.
So, I built the ALSA stuff from CVS, and got the analog part to work fine.
However, the digital output is not working... Tweaking with the alsamixer
settings does not seem to help.
Currently, the XMMS output plugins I've tried to use are both Esound Output
Plugin 1.2.7 and the OSS Driver 1.2.7 (the former of which worked fine to
produce the digital output with the emu10k1 driver).
Does anyone have any idea how to get this working?
This is the sound portion of lsmod:
Module Size Used by Tainted: P
snd-pcm-oss 43492 1 (autoclean)
snd-mixer-oss 15288 1 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-emu10k1 79920 2 (autoclean)
snd-pcm 81472 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss snd-emu10k1]
snd-timer 15272 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm]
snd-util-mem 3096 0 (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1]
snd-hwdep 5760 0 (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1]
snd-rawmidi 18592 0 (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1]
snd-seq-device 6252 0 (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi]
snd-ac97-codec 37896 0 (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1]
snd 42572 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-util-mem snd-hwdep snd
and this is the sound portion of my modules.conf:
# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
post-install snd-emu10k1 /usr/sbin/alsactl restore
pre-remove snd-emu10k1 /usr/sbin/alsactl store
# module options should go here
options snd-emu10k1 index=0 extin=0x0fc3 extout=0x1f0f
# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
# card #1
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
Some versioning info:
- cat /proc/asound/version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 0.9.0rc6.
Compiled on Dec 1 2002 for kernel 2.4.20 with versioned symbols.
TIA,
Reinier.
>>Yeah, I'm up for this. I'm not too familiar with making ebuilds, but it
>>looks to be fairly straightforward. At the moment, I've just set up a
>>hierarchy under /opt, where I manually (configure, make) compile +
>>install stuff. The trouble with this is that not all packages give the
>>option to specify a location (--foo-lib=DIR), and assumes stuff is
>>installed in /usr (grrr :)
>
>Alrighty then. I've started to ask questions on the gentoo-user alias about
>how best to deal with cvs ebuilds. Once there there are some answers i'll
>put together a webpage for the files.
>
>I considered going down the /opt path ;-) but it just isn't the gentoo way!
Jon/Mike -
Greetings! I'm new to the list and a gentoo user. I've been playing with ebuilds. I made one for jack-cvs and, which I'll email it to you, and to anyone else who wants. I'm working on some others so if you find a place to throw them up I'd be happy to contribute.
Jonathan Kraut
jkraut1(a)nyc.rr.com
A number of people using the Rosegarden sequencer for MIDI (myself
included) are principally using it to drive ALSA soft synths such
as iiwusynth or timidity. Unlike (say) MusE, which allows you to
start and stop soft synths from the sequencer itself, Rosegarden
treats soft synths just like any other MIDI device: it knows
nothing special about them except the name that ALSA returns.
It's the user's responsibility to start and stop synths and ensure
that the right patches and so forth are available.
This makes for quite a bit of flexibility, but means that the
average user who runs a small number of synths but changes the
patch sets (soundfonts or whatever) frequently has a little bit
of a management problem in ensuring that the correct setup for a
given composition is always available.
What I imagine would be useful is a generic probably-GUI-driven app
that simply starts and stops soft synths, particularly synths that
are driven using the ALSA MIDI API, that output to JACK, and that
might not have GUIs of their own (admittedly the only one of those
I can think of right now is iiwusynth, but I'm sure there are others
and even if you only use iiwusynth you could have any number of
different soundfont configurations). As well as starting and
stopping synths on command, it might be able to store and recall a
selection of multi-synth studio setups of the user's design. It'd
be particularly neat if the soft-synth manager could itself be
driven remotely through some sort of MIDI control event.
Is there such a thing as this? (Anyone feel like writing one?) Is
there any other way of arranging synths and suchlike so that this
sort of application is not actually necessary, assuming that we want
to maintain the current arrangement where Rosegarden does not take
responsibility for running the synths itself?
Chris