On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 16:42, Benjamin Flaming wrote: Yes! Please! For instance, I'll bring up an example that I hoped would work, but for me it didn't. It sure would be nice if it did. When I use any OSS application, then all 26 software inputs on my HDSP 9652 get the stereo signal instead of just 2. This causes the signal to potentially get routed to many places based on how my hardware mixer is set up. It's most likely not working because I've made a mistake, but if this thread could turn into an answer for me, and then other examples of how to do things To get around this problem, Kai provided an example of how I might tell Alsa to only use two playback channels. My .asoundrc file today is: pcm.hdsp { type hw card 0 } ctl.hdsp { type hw card 0 } pcm_slave.hdsp { pcm "hw:0" channels 26 } pcm.playback_5_6 { type dshare slave hdsp ipc_key 314159265 # some unique number ipc_key_add_uid yes # "no" to let multiple users share it bindings { 0 5 1 6 } } pcm.dsp0 { type plug slave pcm.playback_5_6 } The hope here was that somehow OSS would find pcm.dsp0(I guess and then only use playback channels 5 & 6. It doesn't work. OS apps still find all 26 channels and cause me problems unless I adjust my routing. Anyway, maybe someone will see what I don't see and explain it to me so it will work. (If it can work.) Thanks, Mark

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 17:51, Florian Schmidt wrote: Oops. Yes, that was part of the solution, wasn't it?!?!? Yes, I tried it and it seg_faulted on 9 out of 10 apps that I tried. Possibly that's the root of this not working? Thanks for bring this item back up. - Mark

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Mark Knecht wrote: This should be: slave.pcm playback_5_6 HTH Clemens

Benjamin Flaming wrote: Well I tried to do this with the .asoundrc page in the online docs. Granted it is not completely uptodate re dmix/dsnoop plugin but that is why we have the user additions section. Can you have another look at that page (accessed via the soundcard matrix) and be more specific about what you feel is missing or not worded well? -- Patrick Shirkey - Boost Hardware Ltd. Http://www.boosthardware.com Http://www.djcj.org - The Linux Audio Users guide ======================================== Apparently upon the beginning of the barrage, the donkey broke discipline and panicked, toppling the cart. At that point, the rockets disconnected from the timer, leaving them strewn around the street. Tethered to the now toppled cart, the donkey was unable to escape before the arrival of U.S. troops. United Press International Rockets on donkeys hit major Baghdad sites By P. MITCHELL PROTHERO Published 11/21/2003 11:13 AM

At Tue, 02 Dec 2003 14:32:29 +0100, derek holzer wrote: yes, we're working on it. Takashi

On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 11:54:48PM +0900, Patrick Shirkey wrote: what about editing of the user submitted notes? when the number of submissions increases, it becomes harder to digest the information, some of it being better than others. Ideally it might be nice to integrate good comments into the body of the page. As its obviously far too much for Takashi and Jaroslav, how about assigning responsibility for this to someone who owns one of the cards. Eg i currently use the cmi8738 and would be willing to be editor for this card. I can imagine there might be problems with this, but.... cheers -- Tim Orford

On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 01:49:40 +0900 Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com> wrote: It looks good. One remark though: While it is obvious to the experienced computer user that the combobox is there to select a manufacturer it might not be obvious to a newbie.. Just put a little "Choose your card manufacturer and press 'go': " in front of the combobox.. Flo -- music: http://www.soundclick.com/bands/9/florianschmidt.htm

Patrick wrote: One small correction: IEC-958 is now called IEC-60958. Len Moskowitz Core Sound www.core-sound.com

Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com> writes: That's very much appreciated. The outdated soundcard matrix was one of the biggest drawbacks of the ALSA project, IMHO. BTW: Why does the selection of the manufacturer not stay in the field but returns to the first choice (AudioExcel) after I klick on Go? BTW2: In order to double check some information given below I tried the search from the main ALSA page. It gave me a 'Not Found' error :-( The following comments belong to the details of the RME Hammerfall DSP card family: Firmware: In the past there have been problems with different firmware versions, but different people got different results: i.e. there's a comment in the matrix from Johannes Taelman about him having to downgrade the firmware to version 10, while I made the experience the other way round: v10 did *not* work for me, v11 (0b) did. I have heard (but not tested myself) that the firmware problem is solved in the newest drivers, so I vote for *deleting* the existing firmware comments from the matrix in order not to confuse new users. As RME seems to change firmware from time to time I would find it helpful to tell new users how they can determine which version their card has (see below). Some important steps that I had missed on the path of setting up a RME Hammerfall DSP card (in my case a PCI interface and a multiface) on a Linux box using ALSA let me propose the following detail comments to the sound card matrix: * There are some really nice add-ons from Thomas Charbonnel for this card family in the alsa-tools package. * After loading the snd-hdsp module you *have to* call hdsploader from alsa-tools. The driver does not work without that step. * Things like un-muting, setting channel levels and channel routing is done in 'hdspmixer' from alsa-tools. * Settings like clock sync, sample rate and type of SPDIF in/out are set by the program called 'hdspconf' from the same package. * If you encounter problems it might be a good idea to mention the firmware version of your card when reporting/asking. Determine it with 'lspci -vv' Robert Epprecht

Robert Epprecht wrote : I vote for this too, and also to remove outdated comments about sr > 48000 Hz being unsupported. This is true only for multiface/digiface users. This step is not required for hdsp 96xx users. Or with amixer (we should consider non-gui users). The amixer matrix mixer syntax explanations should be kept (and enhanced for hdsp 9632 users : for the input parameter 0-15 = physical input, 16-31 = software output) Or with amixer, again. Nice one, thanks :) Thomas

derek holzer wrote : In fact the whole known bugs section is to be removed. Thomas

Robert Epprecht wrote: Will add this soon. Thanks will attempt a fix. -- Patrick Shirkey - Boost Hardware Ltd. Http://www.boosthardware.com Http://www.djcj.org - The Linux Audio Users guide ======================================== Apparently upon the beginning of the barrage, the donkey broke discipline and panicked, toppling the cart. At that point, the rockets disconnected from the timer, leaving them strewn around the street. Tethered to the now toppled cart, the donkey was unable to escape before the arrival of U.S. troops. United Press International Rockets on donkeys hit major Baghdad sites By P. MITCHELL PROTHERO Published 11/21/2003 11:13 AM

Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com> writes: Yes, I'm fine with it. Thank you. Robert Epprecht

Antti Boman wrote: Will add soon. -- Patrick Shirkey - Boost Hardware Ltd. Http://www.boosthardware.com Http://www.djcj.org - The Linux Audio Users guide ======================================== Apparently upon the beginning of the barrage, the donkey broke discipline and panicked, toppling the cart. At that point, the rockets disconnected from the timer, leaving them strewn around the street. Tethered to the now toppled cart, the donkey was unable to escape before the arrival of U.S. troops. United Press International Rockets on donkeys hit major Baghdad sites By P. MITCHELL PROTHERO Published 11/21/2003 11:13 AM