13 Apr
2006
13 Apr
'06
2:10 p.m.
I just recently got an M-Audio 2496 card but am having problems with
it:)
Under Mandrake 10.1 the card seems to have been recognised OK and the
driver ICE1712 [Envy24] has been installed however no applications seem
to be able to find the card.
Going through Mandrake's own troubleshooting (as root) produces the
following:
[root@office folderol]# /sbin/chkconfig --list sound
sound 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
[root@office folderol]# /sbin/chkconfig --list alsa
alsa 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
[root@office folderol]# aumix -q
aumix: error opening mixer
[root@office folderol]# /sbin/fuser -v /dev/dsp
/dev/dsp: No such file or directory
[root@office folderol]#
I have also just got a copy of Suse 10 so tried that as well on a
spare hard drive. This time the card is fully recognised, and sound is
produced but is over-loud and distorted when running Amorok. Changing
volume levels doesn't seem to help, and the graphic display on Amorok
clearly shows clipping going on.
Can anyone suggest anything for either of these problems.
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F
13 Apr
13 Apr
2:34 p.m.
Folderol wrote:
I just recently got an M-Audio 2496 card but am having
problems with
it:)
Under Mandrake 10.1 the card seems to have been recognised OK and the
driver ICE1712 [Envy24] has been installed
Does it appear in /proc/asound/cards?
however no applications seem to be able to find the
card.
Is it listed in the output of "aplay -l"?
I have also just got a copy of Suse 10 so tried that
as well on a
spare hard drive. This time the card is fully recognised, and sound is
produced but is over-loud and distorted when running Amorok. Changing
volume levels doesn't seem to help, and the graphic display on Amorok
clearly shows clipping going on.
When Amarok decides to send clipped data to the sound card, the driver
cannot help.
Regards,
Clemens
6:09 p.m.
On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 18:34:33 +0200
Clemens Ladisch <clemens(a)ladisch.de> wrote:
This returns
aplay: device_list:200: no soundcards found...
I was very puzzled by this as an older version of Amorok used to work
fine under Mandrake, but I notice this uses the aRts engine (which
seems to not be available on Suse.
Folderol wrote:
I've never worked out how to do this. if I try to load the 'file' I
just get 100% cpu usage producing nothing.
I just recently got an M-Audio 2496 card but am
having problems with
it:)
Under Mandrake 10.1 the card seems to have been recognised OK and the
driver ICE1712 [Envy24] has been installed
Does it appear in /proc/asound/cards? however no
applications seem to be able to find the card.
Is it listed in the output of "aplay -l"? I have also
just got a copy of Suse 10 so tried that as well on a
spare hard drive. This time the card is fully recognised, and sound is
produced but is over-loud and distorted when running Amorok. Changing
volume levels doesn't seem to help, and the graphic display on Amorok
clearly shows clipping going on.
When Amarok decides to send clipped data to the sound card, the driver
cannot help. Regards,
Clemens
I am now in the nightmare situation of having a new soundcard which I
*know* should work (and be far better than the on-board audio) but
unable to use it on either OS :((
--
F
7:12 p.m.
On Thursday 13 April 2006 22:11, Folderol wrote:
This returns
aplay: device_list:200: no soundcards found...
I was very puzzled by this as an older version of Amorok used to work
fine under Mandrake, but I notice this uses the aRts engine (which
seems to not be available on Suse.
On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 18:34:33 +0200
Clemens Ladisch <clemens(a)ladisch.de> wrote:
Hi Folderol. Use cat.
cat /proc/asound/cards
cat /proc/asound/version
etc. Nigel.
Folderol wrote:
I've never worked out how to do this. if I try to load the 'file' I
just get 100% cpu usage producing nothing. I just recently got an M-Audio 2496 card but am
having problems with
it:)
Under Mandrake 10.1 the card seems to have been recognised OK and the
driver ICE1712 [Envy24] has been installed
Does it appear in /proc/asound/cards? however
no applications seem to be able to find the card.
Is it listed in the output of "aplay -l"? I have
also just got a copy of Suse 10 so tried that as well on a
spare hard drive. This time the card is fully recognised, and sound is
produced but is over-loud and distorted when running Amorok. Changing
volume levels doesn't seem to help, and the graphic display on Amorok
clearly shows clipping going on.
When Amarok decides to send clipped data to the sound card, the driver
cannot help. Regards,
Clemens
I am now in the nightmare situation of having a new soundcard which I
*know* should work (and be far better than the on-board audio) but
unable to use it on either OS :((
14 Apr
14 Apr
4:58 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] New sound card problems - getting longer - Pah!
On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 23:12:29 +0200
Nigel Henry <cave.dnb(a)tiscali.fr> wrote:
On Thursday 13 April 2006 22:11, Folderol wrote:
OK Thanks. It seems that the system doesn't think there is a soundcard
there, although MCC says there is and the driver is installed for it!
BTW I gave up on Suse completely in the end - too many problems. I then
used the spare disk to do a fresh install of Mdk with the new card
installed (I've know Mdk to get upset by hardware changes in the past).
However that gave exactly the same result with a basic install and no
messing about, so presumably Mdk 10.1 is just too old for this card. I
was waiting for a more stable Mdr (2007 maybe) before doing an upgrade
of my main system.
However...
I have managed to get my greasy little paws on a copy of Demudi. This
installed perfectly and in no time at all I was admiring the
considerably improved output quality of the new card, and able to make
clean recordings AND use if for MIDI with no messing about. I've been
able to get Rosegarden controlling softsynths and my external synths.
This sounds very nice, but I haven't worked out how to record the
results yet!
But...
I really dislike the gnome desktop. It seems incredibly flaky if you
try to alter the configuration at all - visions of Windows policies.
Also I've never used debian before and am finding it very strange. How
do you install an alternative window manager etc? I'm used to ROX, ROX
Session and OroboROX and so far I have had no success getting those on
the system.
So...
My current position is that I have one HD with my general working OS on
it, and swap it over with another if I want to play (very carefully)
with audio. This tends to put a crimp on any creative activity for
either!
--
F
On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 18:34:33 +0200
Clemens Ladisch <clemens(a)ladisch.de> wrote:
Hi Folderol. Use cat.
cat /proc/asound/cards
cat /proc/asound/version
etc. Nigel. Folderol wrote:
I've never worked out how to do this. if I try to load the 'file' I
just get 100% cpu usage producing nothing. I just recently got an M-Audio 2496 card but am
having problems with
it:)
Under Mandrake 10.1 the card seems to have been recognised OK and the
driver ICE1712 [Envy24] has been installed
Does it appear in /proc/asound/cards?
20 Apr
20 Apr
9:25 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] New sound card problems - getting longer - Pah!
On Friday 14 April 2006 21:01, Folderol wrote:
On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 23:12:29 +0200
Nigel Henry <cave.dnb(a)tiscali.fr> wrote:
Hi Folderol. I use KDE, and very occasionaly Gnome. I looked on synaptic on my
Debian Sarge install for window managers, and found Oroborus. Description
below from synaptic.
A lightweight themeable windowmanager for X
Oroborus is a small and simple window manager which does exactly what
it says it does, manage windows. There is no fancy doc, clip, wharf, or a
root menu for that matter. These utilities can be provided by other programs
such as "deskmenu". Oroborus has support for Gnome and session management,
or can be run as a stand-alone window manager. This package has also been
compiled with Xinerama support.
Oroborus is small, about 50Kb at the time of this package. It has full
keyboard control and is very themeable.
The version shown is 2.0.13-1 (my comment)
I doubt whether this is installable from the Debian stable repo onto your
Demudi install, but anyway, here's the URL for /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
On Thursday 13 April 2006 22:11, Folderol wrote:
OK Thanks. It seems that the system doesn't think there is a soundcard
there, although MCC says there is and the driver is installed for it!
BTW I gave up on Suse completely in the end - too many problems. I then
used the spare disk to do a fresh install of Mdk with the new card
installed (I've know Mdk to get upset by hardware changes in the past).
However that gave exactly the same result with a basic install and no
messing about, so presumably Mdk 10.1 is just too old for this card. I
was waiting for a more stable Mdr (2007 maybe) before doing an upgrade
of my main system.
However...
I have managed to get my greasy little paws on a copy of Demudi. This
installed perfectly and in no time at all I was admiring the
considerably improved output quality of the new card, and able to make
clean recordings AND use if for MIDI with no messing about. I've been
able to get Rosegarden controlling softsynths and my external synths.
This sounds very nice, but I haven't worked out how to record the
results yet!
But...
I really dislike the gnome desktop. It seems incredibly flaky if you
try to alter the configuration at all - visions of Windows policies.
Also I've never used debian before and am finding it very strange. How
do you install an alternative window manager etc? I'm used to ROX, ROX
Session and OroboROX and so far I have had no success getting those on
the system. On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 18:34:33 +0200
Clemens Ladisch <clemens(a)ladisch.de> wrote:
Hi Folderol. Use cat.
cat /proc/asound/cards
cat /proc/asound/version
etc. Nigel. Folderol wrote:
> I just recently got an M-Audio 2496 card but am having problems
> with it:)
>
> Under Mandrake 10.1 the card seems to have been recognised OK and
> the driver ICE1712 [Envy24] has been installed
Does it appear in /proc/asound/cards?
I've never worked out how to do this. if I try to load the 'file' I
just get 100% cpu usage producing nothing.
So...
My current position is that I have one HD with my general working OS on
it, and swap it over with another if I want to play (very carefully)
with audio. This tends to put a crimp on any creative activity for
either!
It's been a few days. Have you got the recording sorted out now?
Nigel.
9:48 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] New sound card problems - getting longer - Pah!
On Friday 21 April 2006 00:24, Nigel Henry was like:
I doubt whether this is installable from the Debian
stable repo onto your
Demudi install, but anyway, here's the URL for /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
Huh? Why ever not?
If you are using A/DeMuDi-1.2.1 install from sarge/stable repo
If you are using A/DeMuDi-1.3.x install from etch/testing repo
I have been using Openbox + fbpanel + ROX from Debian with DeMuDi for the last
three years. Seeing as how DeMuDi is simply a customised way of installing
Debian for audio use, I would be highly surprised if it does not work. I had
better write this custom desktop HOWTO that I have been meaning to do for
ages. Folderol, please let us know how you get on with this.
--
cheers,
tim hall
http://glastonburymusic.org.uk/tim
23 Apr
23 Apr
12:11 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] New sound card problems - getting longer - Pah!
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 00:48:15 +0100
tim hall <tech(a)glastonburymusic.org.uk> wrote:
I had
better write this custom desktop HOWTO that I have been meaning to do for
ages.
Yes you better had :)
Folderol, please let us know how you get on with this.
As I am now subscribed the the Agnula list it would probably be best
for me to continue this over there. As it is now entirely Demudi-centric
it might get a bit boring for the other people here.
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F
9:36 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] New sound card problems - getting longer - Pah!
On Sunday 23 April 2006 16:11, Folderol was like:
Right. You've asked for it now. ;)
Excellent. :)
--
cheers,
tim hall
http://glastonburymusic.org.uk/tim
I had
better write this custom desktop HOWTO that I have been meaning to do for
ages.
Yes you better had :) Folderol,
please let us know how you get on with this.
As I am now subscribed the the Agnula list it would probably be best
for me to continue this over there. As it is now entirely Demudi-centric
it might get a bit boring for the other people here.
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