26 Sep
2003
26 Sep
'03
3:58 p.m.
This sounds a bit like what Mark Knecht was describing that was happening
with his HDSP
he downgraded the HDSP firmware from rev 68 to rev 65...
----- Original Message -----
From: <BrbrOfSvl(a)aol.com>
To: <linux-audio-user(a)music.columbia.edu>
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 12:25 PM
Subject: [linux-audio-user] HDSP and "play"
Hi,
Matt again. So if you remember I have this problem where my hdsp freezes
any time
I use play (or any app that utilizes the play program, like maybe
(?) audacity...). When I use play, it plays the soundfile, but afterward, I
can't open any programs that would use my soundcard (some open but say it
can't find the device or that the device is in use). When I run "ps aux"
there's no indication of play being there. However, when I run play and it
gets to the end of the soundfile, I hear what sounds like an amp clip, and I
get this:
/usr/bin/play: line 205: 1686 Segmentation fault sox $volume $fopts
$fopts2
"$filename" $arch_defines $device $effects
The 1686 before the Segmentation fault seems to change depending on the
soundfile
(1802 is another I've had)... I'm not really sure what that number
is. So I opened up my /usr/bin/play in vi to see what was in line 205 (I've
displayed the last bit of the program):
# If name is "rec" then record else assume user is wanting to play
# a sound file.
if [ "$program_name" = "rec" ]; then
# Don't send data to stdout if they are reading from it.
if [ "$filename" = "-" ]; then
echo "Send break (control-c) to end recording" 1>&2
else
echo "Send break (control-c) to end recording"
fi
sox $volume $arch_defines $fopts $device $fopts2 "$filename" $effects
else
sox $volume $fopts $fopts2 "$filename" $arch_defines $device $effects
fi
Line 205 is the final fi, but the line above that is the one that appears
in the
"error" message I get running play. Is there something in that line
(or the rest of the program) that I should change to get it to work with my
hdsp? I have an onboard nVidia soundcard that works with play just fine,
and aplay works fine with both cards. Is it a problem in the play program,
or maybe the alsa hdsp driver I'm using? Another thing I noticed is that
when I use play, the signal is being sent to all the channels on the
hdspmixer, whereas when I use aplay, it sends it just to the first two.
What gives?
Also, when this happens, I've been rebooting the machine... is there a way
maybe to restart alsa instead?
Thanks,
Matt