Re: the State of Linux Audio

2015-07-16 Thread Nicolas George
L'octidi 28 messidor, an CCXXIII, Dan Ritter a écrit : > Try decoding your mp3 with mpg123 or mplayer. aplay doesn't know > what the format is, and is pushing the raw bitstream out. Exactly. > Try aplay -L to get a list of devices that alsa knows about. > > mplayer will take "-ao alsa:device="

Re: the State of Linux Audio

2015-07-16 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 12:30:33PM -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I read this with great interest because I lost sound some time ago and > don't know anything about it, or how to control it. > I'm running Xubuntu 14.04.4, on a brand-new ASUS Z97 Deluxe mobo, with both > HDMI monitors and onboard In

Re: the State of Linux Audio

2015-07-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I read this with great interest because I lost sound some time ago and don't know anything about it, or how to control it. I'm running Xubuntu 14.04.4, on a brand-new ASUS Z97 Deluxe mobo, with both HDMI monitors and onboard Intel sound chips. The monitors have no speakers, so the HDMI channel is

Re: the State of Linux Audio

2015-07-16 Thread Erwan David
Le 16/07/2015 20:36, Nicolas George a écrit : > L'octidi 28 messidor, an CCXXIII, Joel Roth a écrit : >> The snd_pcm_oss kernel module, when loaded, provides >> /dev/dsp for compatibility with OSS applications. > But as I explained, it loses most benefits from ALSA; aoss has that problem > less. >

Re: the State of Linux Audio

2015-07-16 Thread Nicolas George
L'octidi 28 messidor, an CCXXIII, Joel Roth a écrit : > The snd_pcm_oss kernel module, when loaded, provides > /dev/dsp for compatibility with OSS applications. But as I explained, it loses most benefits from ALSA; aoss has that problem less. > Calling mplayer with --ao=alsa should play via the d

Re: the State of Linux Audio

2015-07-16 Thread Joel Roth
t need that, maybe you don't need PA. I can't comment on whether PA provides any other audio processing, however there are many other ways to get a low-pass filter if you need one. I refer you to the Linux Audio Users mailing list, the authoritative source for linux audio questions. The Arc

Re: the State of Linux Audio

2015-07-16 Thread Martin Read
On 16/07/15 13:56, Nicolas George wrote: the authors should not be allowed near a keyboard. I find myself increasingly impatient with that kind of line (which, admittedly, I have sometimes succumbed to the temptation of in the past); it carries with it the distinctive odour of anti-rehabilita

Re: the State of Linux Audio

2015-07-16 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 16 July 2015 13:59:28 Nicolas George wrote: > I am sorry for you, but you could, and should, have just asked the question > instead of biting someone unrelated's head off. > > That is the second time, in as many threads we both intervene, that you > answer disparagingly to one of my mes

Re: the State of Linux Audio

2015-07-16 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 02:56:38PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > L'octidi 28 messidor, an CCXXIII, Mart van de Wege a écrit : > > As you said, that's your opinion. I like being able to easily switch my > > sound from speakers to a USB or Bluetooth device, for example. > > There is this, which is

Re: the State of Linux Audio

2015-07-16 Thread Nicolas George
Le septidi 27 messidor, an CCXXIII, Lisi Reisz a écrit : > Yes, but I am interested in how, being partuially sighted myself. I am sorry for you, but you could, and should, have just asked the question instead of biting someone unrelated's head off. That is the second time, in as many threads we b

Re: the State of Linux Audio

2015-07-16 Thread Nicolas George
L'octidi 28 messidor, an CCXXIII, Mart van de Wege a écrit : > As you said, that's your opinion. I like being able to easily switch my > sound from speakers to a USB or Bluetooth device, for example. There is this, which is less a matter of opinion: having the daemon just installed, even without u

Re: the State of Linux Audio

2015-07-16 Thread Martin G. McCormick
Joel Roth writes: > Hi Martin, > Pulse audio requires D-Bus, and D-Bus is the underlying RPC > mechanism of a large and controversial software stack > developed to support desktop applications. Thank you for this good and quick explanation. > > Apparently pulseaudio is unable to get D-Bus servi

Re: the State of Linux Audio

2015-07-16 Thread Mart van de Wege
Nicolas George writes: > Le septidi 27 messidor, an CCXXIII, Martin G. McCormick a écrit : >> The only reason I put pulseaudio on here was way back >> when I was running lenny and had no /dev/dsp. Someone suggested >> installing pulseaudio. I did. /dev/dsp came back and life >> marched on. >

Re: the State of Linux Audio

2015-07-15 Thread Joel Roth
inesse this dependency of D-Bus, or disable/remove pulseaudio. I've read but not tested apulse, a library that purports to presents a pulse audio API to applications such as skype that require them, relaying the audio to ALSA. If you have a choice, perhaps you can select linux audio applications tha

Re: the State of Linux Audio

2015-07-15 Thread Martin G. McCormick
The audio FAQ on the debian wiki does say that sometimes support for certain sound cards is removed from new kernels due to licensing issues. It is always possible that this is what happened but since there is a module right there in the only 3.x kernal on this system, I think that it is mo

Re: the State of Linux Audio

2015-07-15 Thread Martin G. McCormick
Nicolas George writes: > Le septidi 27 messidor, an CCXXIII, Lisi Reisz a e'crit : > > How are you getting these useful error meassages if sound isn't > working? Did > > oyu say atht you are sshing in from a working box? > > Usually, error messages are to be read on the screen. Martin wrote he r

Re: the State of Linux Audio

2015-07-15 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 11:56:45PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 15 July 2015 22:19:36 Nicolas George wrote: > > Le septidi 27 messidor, an CCXXIII, Lisi Reisz a écrit : > > > But possibly the only ones he would be able to use. He is blind. If he > > > is not sshing in from a computer w

Re: the State of Linux Audio

2015-07-15 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 15 July 2015 23:56:45 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 15 July 2015 22:19:36 Nicolas George wrote: > > Le septidi 27 messidor, an CCXXIII, Lisi Reisz a écrit : > > > But possibly the only ones he would be able to use. He is blind. If > > > he is not sshing in from a computer with sou

Re: the State of Linux Audio

2015-07-15 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 15 July 2015 22:19:26 Martin Read wrote: > On 15/07/15 21:44, Nicolas George wrote: > > In my opinion, PulseAudio is only good for messing things up. The > > features it brings are of doubtful usefulness for most users and the > > brittleness and complexity it introduces are very real.

Re: the State of Linux Audio

2015-07-15 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 15 July 2015 22:19:36 Nicolas George wrote: > Le septidi 27 messidor, an CCXXIII, Lisi Reisz a écrit : > > But possibly the only ones he would be able to use. He is blind. If he > > is not sshing in from a computer with sound, he must have something like > > a braille display, and t

Re: the State of Linux Audio

2015-07-15 Thread Martin Read
On 15/07/15 21:44, Nicolas George wrote: In my opinion, PulseAudio is only good for messing things up. The features it brings are of doubtful usefulness for most users and the brittleness and complexity it introduces are very real. For a contrasting angle on this, I've found Debian with PA to b

Re: the State of Linux Audio

2015-07-15 Thread Nicolas George
Le septidi 27 messidor, an CCXXIII, Lisi Reisz a écrit : > But possibly the only ones he would be able to use. He is blind. If he is > not sshing in from a computer with sound, he must have something like a > braille display, and they are expensive and limiting. Hence my question. Once again

Re: the State of Linux Audio

2015-07-15 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 15 July 2015 22:09:14 Nicolas George wrote: > Usually, error messages are to be read on the screen. Martin wrote he ran > commands and observed the output, we can deduce that the non-working sound > cards are definitely not the only output device available on this computer. But possib

Re: the State of Linux Audio

2015-07-15 Thread Nicolas George
Le septidi 27 messidor, an CCXXIII, Lisi Reisz a écrit : > How are you getting these useful error meassages if sound isn't working? Did > oyu say atht you are sshing in from a working box? Usually, error messages are to be read on the screen. Martin wrote he ran commands and observed the output,

Re: the State of Linux Audio

2015-07-15 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 15 July 2015 21:44:26 Nicolas George wrote: > If anything fails to work and does not print any useful error message, How are you getting these useful error meassages if sound isn't working? Did oyu say atht you are sshing in from a working box? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: the State of Linux Audio

2015-07-15 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 15 July 2015 20:44:14 Martin G. McCormick wrote: > one > of the neat things about Linux is that it isn't or at least > wasn't quite as picky about hardware. That was then. I used to laud that almost more than anything. Sadly no longer true. Though the kernel modules should still

Re: the State of Linux Audio

2015-07-15 Thread Nicolas George
Le septidi 27 messidor, an CCXXIII, Martin G. McCormick a écrit : > The only reason I put pulseaudio on here was way back > when I was running lenny and had no /dev/dsp. Someone suggested > installing pulseaudio. I did. /dev/dsp came back and life > marched on. This was a bad suggestion. /d

the State of Linux Audio

2015-07-15 Thread Martin G. McCormick
I'm the one who has been asking questions about getting an old Dell Dimension mother board with an on-board CS4236 sound card to work again after upgrading to wheezy. For years, I have had pulseaudio and alsa on this system and have also seen what I will describe as weirdness which

Re: [linux-audio-user] Kqemu module and realtime, rt-patches

2007-03-20 Thread Lee Revell
On 3/20/07, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there any conflicts here? Keep getting failure to open existing /dev/kqemu (regardless of permissions) with an rt-patched (Ingo) kernel. I would assume that most out of tree modules won't work with -rt, and even some in-tree stuff - for exam

Re: linux audio

2006-12-26 Thread operator
Debian.org linuxquestions.org phlak.org knopper.de Sycamorex wrote: >Hi guys >what are your favourite linux websites >(and linux audio websites)? >can you post them > >thank you > >marcin > > > >

linux audio

2006-12-26 Thread Sycamorex
Hi guys what are your favourite linux websites (and linux audio websites)? can you post them thank you marcin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [linux-audio-user] RE: RTC !??

2006-02-07 Thread David Baron
> > Saw something interestic in my logchecks: > > kernel: Generic RTD Driver v1.07 > > > > If I take this one off, the "real" one will modprobe :-) > > Question is, who is loading genrtc BEFORE /etc/modules gets > > referenced? > > Actually, I tried commenting it there and ... the error message > >

Re: [linux-audio-user] RE: RTC !??

2006-02-06 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 16:47 +0200, David Baron wrote: > Saw something interestic in my logchecks: > kernel: Generic RTD Driver v1.07 > > If I take this one off, the "real" one will modprobe :-) > Question is, who is loading genrtc BEFORE /etc/modules gets > referenced? > Actually, I tried comment

Re: [linux-audio-user] RTC !??

2006-02-04 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 21:55 +0200, David Baron wrote: > This has been in my /etc/modules from the start. For a while now, (most > recent?) 2.6 kernels, this will not load "device not found". Since it did not > seem to effect anything, I just let it be. (Note I have both a rtc.ko and > rtcgen.ko

Re: [linux-audio-user] RE: 2.6.15 alsa problem

2006-02-01 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 01 February 2006 01:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Made a kernel with alsa sound support compiled in! I also compiled in > > the > > "generic" devices. Result: NO UNDEFINED. My three (a set ncards = 3) > > became > > dummy, virmidi and the ensonic. The ensonic did not play, however,

Re: [linux-audio-user] RE: 2.6.15 alsa problem

2006-01-31 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 20:09 +0200, David Baron wrote: > > Made a kernel with alsa sound support compiled in! I also compiled in > the > "generic" devices. Result: NO UNDEFINED. My three (a set ncards = 3) > became > dummy, virmidi and the ensonic. The ensonic did not play, however, but > the >

Re: [linux-audio-user] RE: 2.6.15 alsa proble

2006-01-28 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 26 January 2006 23:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Newer kernels boot with many undefines. They seem to correspond to stuff > > > in the sound core modules. Do I now need to explicitely load these or > > > soundcore.ko on boot up (i.e. placing them in /etc/modules--somewhere > > > al

Re: [linux-audio-user] RE: 2.6.15 alsa problem

2006-01-26 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 21:55 +0200, David Baron wrote: > >Also a problem in 2.6.14. I am not using udev or devfs but have explicitely > >created /dev nodes (old fashioned way and far far too many entries, but ... > >always worked before). > > >Newer kernels boot with many undefines. They seem to

Re: [linux-audio-user] RE: 2.6.15 alsa problem

2006-01-26 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 21:55 +0200, David Baron wrote: > >Also a problem in 2.6.14. I am not using udev or devfs but have explicitely > >created /dev nodes (old fashioned way and far far too many entries, but ... > >always worked before). > > >Newer kernels boot with many undefines. They seem to

Re: [linux-audio-user] 2.6.15 alsa problem

2006-01-26 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 21:30 +0200, David Baron wrote: > Also a problem in 2.6.14. I am not using udev or devfs but have explicitely > created /dev nodes (old fashioned way and far far too many entries, but ... > always worked before). > > Newer kernels boot with many undefines. They seem to corr

Re: [linux-audio-user] MIDI problems on latest alsa from Sid

2004-12-22 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 06:31:33PM +0200, David Baron wrote: modprobe.conf -- where did it go? If it is not there, how did everything get To bed, I hope. ;-) /etc/modprobe.conf doesn't exist anymore. Debian uses the directory /etc/modprobe.d/, where you can put your module configuration files. Sha

Re: [linux-audio-user] MIDI problems on latest alsa from Sid

2004-12-22 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 22 December 2004 17:13, Florian Schmidt wrote: > On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 16:43:56 +0200 > > David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 22 December 2004 16:11, Florian Schmidt wrote: > > > possible solution: > > > > > > modprobe snd_seq_midi > > > > This indeed go MIDI going! T

Re: [linux-audio-user] MIDI problems on latest alsa from Sid

2004-12-22 Thread Florian Schmidt
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 16:43:56 +0200 David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 22 December 2004 16:11, Florian Schmidt wrote: > > possible solution: > > > > modprobe snd_seq_midi > > This indeed go MIDI going! Thanks. > > Question now is: What is happening on bootup (since I never need

Re: [linux-audio-user] MIDI problems on latest alsa from Sid

2004-12-22 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 22 December 2004 16:11, Florian Schmidt wrote: > possible solution: > > modprobe snd_seq_midi This indeed go MIDI going! Thanks. Question now is: What is happening on bootup (since I never needed to explicitely modprobe this before? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [linux-audio-user] MIDI problems on latest alsa from Sid

2004-12-22 Thread Florian Schmidt
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 16:07:29 +0200 David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Please show us the output of > > > > amidi -l > #amidi -l > DeviceName > hw:0,0ES1371 > hw:1,0,0 UM-1 MIDI 1 > hw:2,0MPU-401 UART MIDI ok > > > aconnect -io > # UART MIDI > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ aconnect -

Re: [linux-audio-user] MIDI problems on latest alsa from Sid

2004-12-22 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 22 December 2004 14:36, Florian Schmidt wrote: > On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 14:19:55 +0200 > > David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyone having problems here. My devices no longer show up. Audio works > > fine. > > > > Note that > > 1. /proc/asound/cards shows ALL devices > > 2. cat /

Re: [linux-audio-user] MIDI problems on latest alsa from Sid

2004-12-22 Thread Florian Schmidt
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 14:19:55 +0200 David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone having problems here. My devices no longer show up. Audio works fine. > > Note that > 1. /proc/asound/cards shows ALL devices > 2. cat /dev/midi# show events from the keyboard. The keyboard is through a > USB >

Re:[linux-audio-user] Finale in Linux

2004-12-02 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 02 December 2004 19:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi, I'm new here. i don't know if it is ot, but i risk... > Does anybody know how to make finale 2000/2003 work with wine? > I tried, it works, shows all the buttons ok, but the notes are still > symbols. I believe the problem is that

Re: [linux-audio-user] Virtual Mixing Desk

2004-07-20 Thread RickTaylor
Olivier, > > But about color scale squares, just imagine how compact it can get : 8 > > tracks with 4 levels each, that's 32 little square on a gtk drawing > > area. I believe white to black would be very efficient, and rolling over > > a level or adjusting it, the status bar would get you some

Re: [linux-audio-user] Mellotron

2004-07-20 Thread RickTaylor
Ryan, > It's not *impossible* I bet someone with a lot of patience could set > some reasonable loop points. The mellotron is a neat sounding > instrument, I'd be really excited to have digital copies of the original > tape loops. But each of these key presses is about a minute long and > the mell

Re: [linux-audio-user] Virtual Mixing Desk

2004-07-20 Thread RickTaylor
Stefan, > that sounds almost like blenders "slide buttons" .> > they basically like that (if it doesn't get mangled): > > /\ > |< 0.800 >| > \/ > > you can: > a: click on the edges to change the value step by step (ctrl+click for > larger steps) > b: click and move y

Re: [linux-audio-user] Virtual Mixing Desk

2004-07-20 Thread RickTaylor
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > How 'bout those little number like they use in high endish graphics programs? > > ...Where you have a row of numbers that it looks like they pulled out of a slot > > machine and you can either click on them and enter a new number, use the up and > > down arrows on

Re: [linux-audio-user] Virtual Mixing Desk

2004-07-18 Thread RickTaylor
> On Sun, 2004-07-18 at 20:12, R Parker wrote: > > > R Parker wrote: > > > colorful approach : > > > A little square which is white for 0, black for 1, > > > and taking a scale of > > > gray colors for intermediate values. You'd ajust it > > > the same way as a > > > knob, pressing the mouse but

Re: [linux-audio-user] sequencers in Debian Woody

2002-04-08 Thread Frank Barknecht
Juha Erkkila hat gesagt: // Juha Erkkila wrote: > about a month ago i upgraded my system from Debian Potato to Woody, > looking forward to see all the interesting sound applications people > have been writing, and which ones of those have been packaged for > Debian. overall, i've been fairly happ

Re: [linux-audio-user] sequencers in Debian Woody

2002-04-08 Thread Frank Barknecht
Eric Dantan Rzewnicki hat gesagt: // Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: > I'm not very familiar with the protocol for asking debian package > maintainers to change things. What would it take to have the > Soundtracker, Ecasound and Timidity debian packages converted to alsa > 0.9.x? I think, but I may

Re: [linux-audio-user] sequencers in Debian Woody

2002-04-07 Thread Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
Juha Erkkila wrote: > > i admit i could look a little deeper into muse, but so far i've > preferred ALSA 0.5, because Soundtracker, Ecasound and Timidity in > Woody are compiled for 0.5, and i'm quite probably going to use these > apps a lot (i know that at least Ecasound can be compiled for ALSA