BUG: ALSA crashes if aplay is running to often at the same time

Hello,

I experienced a problem with ALSA when someone send me a lot of IM's
per GAIM with little time between them. GAIM launches aplay and plays
this nice "new message" sound. And when called this many times ALSA
crashes, i.e. all programs using sound output freeze, ps aux too and
i have to reboot using the sysrq key.

My sound-card is a Sound Blaster Live Platinum.

Sincerely Yours,
Florian.

BTW: If I can help somehow, please ask.

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surround51 problems.

Hi,

Has something changed in alsa-lib recently.
I am using the latest alsa-cvs, and I cannot get surround51 to work.
All these work:
speaker-test -c2 -Dfront
speaker-test -c2 -Dcenter_lfe
speaker-test -c2 -Drear
But the following fails and only outputs a distorted sound to the front
right speaker irrespective of the speaker it should come out of.
speaker-test -c6 -Dsurround51

James

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Re: surround51 problems.

James Courtier-Dutton wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Has something changed in alsa-lib recently.
> I am using the latest alsa-cvs, and I cannot get surround51 to work.
> All these work:
> speaker-test -c2 -Dfront
> speaker-test -c2 -Dcenter_lfe
> speaker-test -c2 -Drear
> But the following fails and only outputs a distorted sound to the 
> front right speaker irrespective of the speaker it should come out of.
> speaker-test -c6 -Dsurround51
>
> James
>
>
In addition to the above. alsa-lib-1.0.10rc1 works fine.
If one applies the attached patch (diff between 1.0.10rc1 and current
CVS) one gets the problems I describe above.

James

Only in /u/alsacvs/alsa-lib/doc: doxygen
diff -ur --exclude-from=ignore alsa-lib-1.0.10rc1/include/config.h /u/alsacvs/alsa-lib/include/config.h
--- alsa-lib-1.0.10rc1/include/config.h	2005-10-01 22:00:20.000000000 +0100
+++ /u/alsacvs/alsa-lib/include/config.h	2005-10-01 21:33:40.000000000 +0100
 <at>  <at>  -88,6 +88,8  <at>  <at> 

snd-maestro3 mic problem

Hello!

If I want to use the microphone with my soundcard [0], I have to switch
mic Select once (From 1 to 2) and then it works. Then I can switch back to
Mic1 and it still works.

What's the reason I first have to play with alsamixer and that it does not
work from start?

Sincerly,

Nico

P.S.: Please CC me, I am not subscribed.

[0]: 0000:00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1988 Allegro-1 (rev 12)

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Re: no Sound with SiS965L / Realtek ALC655

Takashi Iwai <tiwai <at> suse.de> writes:

> > yesterday i have build a minor patch against  alsa intel8x0.c  nearly
> > alsa 1.0.10-rc1.
> > I have removed 2 checks for the AC97 codec ready status. And it works now.
> > 
> > The status will go later to ready, if you start a play.
> 
> The latest version has already a workaround for this kind of problem.
> Specify buggy_semaphore=1 module option.

why not autoenable this option when encountering known buggy cards?

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Re: [ALSA - driver 0001203]: mtpav driver locks X on 64 bit native system

Hi Takashi, 

I tested the patch. I still get a hard lock when activating the driver
through any sequencer. 

cheers

Allan 

On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 15:22 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Thu, 22 Sep 2005 02:03:37 +1000,
> Allan Klinbail wrote:
> > 
> > Sorry I haven't been on for a little while... how do I apply this patch?
> 
> Copy the mail as a text file (as it is), and run the patch on your
> alsa-kernel tree (with -p1 option).
> 
> 
> Takashi
> 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 18:56 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > > At Thu, 08 Sep 2005 12:36:33 -0400,
> > > Lee Revell wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 16:36 +1000, Allan Klinbail wrote:
> > > > > Is any work being done on this... 

Re: Change processname for dmix/dsnoop process

On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 16:41:10 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> Well, changing the process name in run time is very tricky on Linux. In
> other words: no proper way.

Are you sure? I thought there was a syscall for it.

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Re: Hercules PC DJ Console (Windows Edition) information

On 9/29/05, Eric Shattow <lucent <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/29/05, Clemens Ladisch <clemens <at> ladisch.de> wrote:
> > Eric Shattow wrote:
> > > I tried the above patch, and applied it to debian alsa-source package
> > > 1.0.9b4, and now the DJ Console is recognized.
> > >
> > > However, using amidi -d -p hw:2,0,n  does not yield any output when
> > > moving the controls.
> >
> > Probably the devices user a different protocol than I was assuming.
> > Please uncomment the DUMP_PACKETS line near the top of usbmidi.c and
> > show any "received packet" lines that end up in the system log.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Clemens
> >
> >
>
> I tried your suggestion for DUMP_PACKETS and there was no output with
> 1.0.9b4+patches. I will now try CVS with the above usbquirk.h patch
> and #define DUMP_PACKETS to see what happens:
>
> Sep 29 13:54:18 [kernel] input: USB HID v1.10 Joystick [Hercules
> Hercules DJ Console] on usb-0000:00:02.1-3
> Sep 29 13:54:18 [kernel] input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Hercules Hercules
> DJ Console] on usb-0000:00:02.1-3
> Sep 29 13:54:18 [kernel] input: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [Hercules
> Hercules DJ Console] on usb-0000:00:02.1-3
> Sep 29 13:54:18 [kernel] snd-usb-audio: probe of 2-3:1.5 failed with error -5

Re: surround51 problems.

James Courtier-Dutton wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Has something changed in alsa-lib recently.
> I am using the latest alsa-cvs, and I cannot get surround51 to work.
> All these work:
> speaker-test -c2 -Dfront
> speaker-test -c2 -Dcenter_lfe
> speaker-test -c2 -Drear
> But the following fails and only outputs a distorted sound to the 
> front right speaker irrespective of the speaker it should come out of.
> speaker-test -c6 -Dsurround51
>
> James
>
>
In addition to the above. alsa-lib-1.0.10rc1 works fine.
If one applies the attached patch (diff between 1.0.10rc1 and current 
CVS) one gets the problems I describe above.

James

Only in /u/alsacvs/alsa-lib/doc: doxygen
diff -ur --exclude-from=ignore alsa-lib-1.0.10rc1/include/config.h /u/alsacvs/alsa-lib/include/config.h
--- alsa-lib-1.0.10rc1/include/config.h	2005-10-01 22:00:20.000000000 +0100
+++ /u/alsacvs/alsa-lib/include/config.h	2005-10-01 21:33:40.000000000 +0100
 <at>  <at>  -88,6 +88,8  <at>  <at> 

Re: [ALSA - driver 0001203]: mtpav driver locks X on 64 bit native system

Sorry , it actually looks liek the patch failed .. but no errors were
reported but also patch didn't seem to do anything .....

I copied the text beginning with "Index", saved it to
alsa-driver/alsa-kernel and then applied patch -p1, is that the correct
process?

On Sat, 2005-10-01 at 23:23 +1000, Allan Klinbail wrote:
> Hi Takashi, 
> 
> I tested the patch. I still get a hard lock when activating the driver
> through any sequencer. 
> 
> cheers
> 
> Allan 
> 
> On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 15:22 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Thu, 22 Sep 2005 02:03:37 +1000,
> > Allan Klinbail wrote:
> > > 
> > > Sorry I haven't been on for a little while... how do I apply this patch?
> > 
> > Copy the mail as a text file (as it is), and run the patch on your
> > alsa-kernel tree (with -p1 option).
> > 
> > 
> > Takashi
> > 
> > >