On Saturday 23 August 2008, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Saturday 23 August 2008, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>>> I am not sure I am reading this correctly - are you building your
>>> own kernels, and not using the Fedora ones?
>>
>> Yes Mikkel, been doing that for years, probably from about 2 weeks after I
>> installed RH5.1 all those years ago. I tried the fedora kernel again as a
>> test for something about 2 weeks ago, the test still failed and its
>> scheduler is _still_ broken. Pauses as long as 5 seconds while it does
>> something else.
>>
>> It got better early in the 2.6.26-rc series and has stayed good. I
>> usually build and install it about as quick as I see the notice from Linus
>> of a new -rcX patch on lkml.
>>
>> I wrote a couple of scripts to unpack and apply the patches and do the
>> 'make oldconfig' (from the previous kernels .config), and another to do
>> the build and install, leaving me with 2 minute session with vim to setup
>> grub.conf and reboot. Simple, painless, & maintains my local
>> configuration choices. Highly recommended by Dr. Gene. :)
>
>Someone with more knowledge of the differences between the stock
>kernel and the Fedora will have to comment on it, but I wounder if
>there is an option missing in your compile, or a patch that Fedora
>makes, that is giving you problems with Pulse Audio? PA is supposed
>to be a user-space daemon but maybe it needs hooks into the kernel
>for information, or operation...
>
All the info PA could possible need is sitting in /proc/asound:
[root@coyote ~]# uname -a
Linux coyote.coyote.den 2.6.27-rc4 #2 PREEMPT Thu Aug 21 01:33:47 EDT 2008
i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
[root@coyote ~]# cat /proc/asound/*
cat: /proc/asound/Audigy2: Is a directory
Ok...
----
[root@coyote ~]# ls /proc/asound/Audigy2/*
/proc/asound/Audigy2/emu10k1 /proc/asound/Audigy2/fx8010_tram_data /proc/asound/Audigy2/midi3
/proc/asound/Audigy2/fx8010_acode /proc/asound/Audigy2/id /proc/asound/Audigy2/oss_mixer
/proc/asound/Audigy2/fx8010_code /proc/asound/Audigy2/midi0 /proc/asound/Audigy2/spdif-in
/proc/asound/Audigy2/fx8010_gpr /proc/asound/Audigy2/midi1 /proc/asound/Audigy2/voices
/proc/asound/Audigy2/fx8010_tram_addr /proc/asound/Audigy2/midi2 /proc/asound/Audigy2/wavetableD1
/proc/asound/Audigy2/codec97#0:
ac97#0-0 ac97#0-0+regs
/proc/asound/Audigy2/pcm0c:
info oss sub0
/proc/asound/Audigy2/pcm0p:
info sub0 sub10 sub12 sub14 sub16 sub18 sub2 sub21 sub23 sub25
sub27 sub29 sub30 sub4 sub6 sub8
oss sub1 sub11 sub13 sub15 sub17 sub19 sub20 sub22 sub24 sub26
sub28 sub3 sub31 sub5 sub7 sub9
/proc/asound/Audigy2/pcm1c:
info oss sub0
/proc/asound/Audigy2/pcm2c:
info sub0
/proc/asound/Audigy2/pcm2p:
info sub0 sub1 sub2 sub3 sub4 sub5 sub6 sub7
/proc/asound/Audigy2/pcm3p:
info sub0
----
cat: /proc/asound/card0: Is a directory
Ok...
----
[root@coyote ~]# ls /proc/asound/card0/*
/proc/asound/card0/emu10k1 /proc/asound/card0/fx8010_tram_data /proc/asound/card0/midi3
/proc/asound/card0/fx8010_acode /proc/asound/card0/id /proc/asound/card0/oss_mixer
/proc/asound/card0/fx8010_code /proc/asound/card0/midi0 /proc/asound/card0/spdif-in
/proc/asound/card0/fx8010_gpr /proc/asound/card0/midi1 /proc/asound/card0/voices
/proc/asound/card0/fx8010_tram_addr /proc/asound/card0/midi2 /proc/asound/card0/wavetableD1
/proc/asound/card0/codec97#0:
ac97#0-0 ac97#0-0+regs
/proc/asound/card0/pcm0c:
info oss sub0
/proc/asound/card0/pcm0p:
info sub0 sub10 sub12 sub14 sub16 sub18 sub2 sub21 sub23 sub25
sub27 sub29 sub30 sub4 sub6 sub8
oss sub1 sub11 sub13 sub15 sub17 sub19 sub20 sub22 sub24 sub26
sub28 sub3 sub31 sub5 sub7 sub9
/proc/asound/card0/pcm1c:
info oss sub0
/proc/asound/card0/pcm2c:
info sub0
/proc/asound/card0/pcm2p:
info sub0 sub1 sub2 sub3 sub4 sub5 sub6 sub7
/proc/asound/card0/pcm3p:
info sub0
----
cat: /proc/asound/card1: Is a directory
Ok
----
[root@coyote ~]# ls /proc/asound/card1/*
/proc/asound/card1/id /proc/asound/card1/intel8x0 /proc/asound/card1/oss_mixer
/proc/asound/card1/codec97#0:
ac97#0-0 ac97#0-0+regs
/proc/asound/card1/pcm0c:
info oss sub0
/proc/asound/card1/pcm0p:
info oss sub0
/proc/asound/card1/pcm1c:
info oss sub0
/proc/asound/card1/pcm2p:
info sub0
----
cat: /proc/asound/card2: Is a directory (and is midi stuff so I won't further
abuse the list)
0 [Audigy2 ]: Audigy2 - Audigy 2 Value [SB0400]
Audigy 2 Value [SB0400] (rev.0, serial:0x10011102) at
0x9000, irq 18
1 [nForce2 ]: NFORCE - NVidia nForce2
NVidia nForce2 with ALC655 at irq 21
2 [UART ]: MPU-401 UART - MPU-401 UART
MPU-401 UART at 0x330, irq 10
2: : timer
3: [ 2- 0]: raw midi
4: [ 2] : control
5: : sequencer
6: [ 0- 0]: hardware dependent
7: [ 0- 1]: raw midi
8: [ 0- 0]: raw midi
9: [ 0- 3]: digital audio playback
10: [ 0- 2]: digital audio playback
11: [ 0- 2]: digital audio capture
12: [ 0- 1]: digital audio capture
13: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback
14: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture
15: [ 0] : control
16: [ 0- 2]: hardware dependent
17: [ 0- 2]: raw midi
18: [ 0- 3]: raw midi
19: [ 1- 2]: digital audio playback
20: [ 1- 1]: digital audio capture
21: [ 1- 0]: digital audio playback
22: [ 1- 0]: digital audio capture
23: [ 1] : control
00-00: EMU10K1 (FX8010)
00-02: Emux WaveTable
0 snd_emu10k1
1 snd_intel8x0
2 snd_mpu401
cat: /proc/asound/nForce2: Is a directory
cat: /proc/asound/oss: Is a directory
00-03: emu10k1 : Multichannel Playback : playback 1
00-02: emu10k1 efx : Multichannel Capture/PT Playback : playback 8 : capture 1
00-01: emu10k1 mic : Mic Capture : capture 1
00-00: emu10k1 : ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback : playback 32 : capture 1
01-02: Intel ICH - IEC958 : NVidia nForce2 - IEC958 : playback 1
01-01: Intel ICH - MIC ADC : NVidia nForce2 - MIC ADC : capture 1
01-00: Intel ICH : NVidia nForce2 : playback 1 : capture 1
cat: /proc/asound/seq: Is a directory
G0: system timer : 1000.000us (10000000 ticks)
C0-0: EMU10K1 timer : 20.833us (1024 ticks)
P0-0-0: PCM playback 0-0-0 : SLAVE
P0-0-1: PCM capture 0-0-1 : SLAVE
P0-0-2: PCM playback 0-0-2 : SLAVE
P0-0-4: PCM playback 0-0-4 : SLAVE
P0-0-6: PCM playback 0-0-6 : SLAVE
P0-0-8: PCM playback 0-0-8 : SLAVE
P0-0-10: PCM playback 0-0-10 : SLAVE
P0-0-12: PCM playback 0-0-12 : SLAVE
P0-0-14: PCM playback 0-0-14 : SLAVE
P0-0-16: PCM playback 0-0-16 : SLAVE
P0-0-18: PCM playback 0-0-18 : SLAVE
P0-0-20: PCM playback 0-0-20 : SLAVE
P0-0-22: PCM playback 0-0-22 : SLAVE
P0-0-24: PCM playback 0-0-24 : SLAVE
P0-0-26: PCM playback 0-0-26 : SLAVE
P0-0-28: PCM playback 0-0-28 : SLAVE
P0-0-30: PCM playback 0-0-30 : SLAVE
P0-0-32: PCM playback 0-0-32 : SLAVE
P0-0-34: PCM playback 0-0-34 : SLAVE
P0-0-36: PCM playback 0-0-36 : SLAVE
P0-0-38: PCM playback 0-0-38 : SLAVE
P0-0-40: PCM playback 0-0-40 : SLAVE
P0-0-42: PCM playback 0-0-42 : SLAVE
P0-0-44: PCM playback 0-0-44 : SLAVE
P0-0-46: PCM playback 0-0-46 : SLAVE
P0-0-48: PCM playback 0-0-48 : SLAVE
P0-0-50: PCM playback 0-0-50 : SLAVE
P0-0-52: PCM playback 0-0-52 : SLAVE
P0-0-54: PCM playback 0-0-54 : SLAVE
P0-0-56: PCM playback 0-0-56 : SLAVE
P0-0-58: PCM playback 0-0-58 : SLAVE
P0-0-60: PCM playback 0-0-60 : SLAVE
P0-0-62: PCM playback 0-0-62 : SLAVE
P0-1-1: PCM capture 0-1-1 : SLAVE
P0-2-0: PCM playback 0-2-0 : SLAVE
P0-2-1: PCM capture 0-2-1 : SLAVE
P0-2-2: PCM playback 0-2-2 : SLAVE
P0-2-4: PCM playback 0-2-4 : SLAVE
P0-2-6: PCM playback 0-2-6 : SLAVE
P0-2-8: PCM playback 0-2-8 : SLAVE
P0-2-10: PCM playback 0-2-10 : SLAVE
P0-2-12: PCM playback 0-2-12 : SLAVE
P0-2-14: PCM playback 0-2-14 : SLAVE
P0-3-0: PCM playback 0-3-0 : SLAVE
P1-0-0: PCM playback 1-0-0 : SLAVE
P1-0-1: PCM capture 1-0-1 : SLAVE
P1-1-1: PCM capture 1-1-1 : SLAVE
P1-2-0: PCM playback 1-2-0 : SLAVE
cat: /proc/asound/UART: Is a directory
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.17.
============================
Now that I have abused the list with info overload just to prove it is all
there for the picking, if it would just pick the choices already indicated by
that and the contents of /etc/modprobe.conf telling it the hierarchy it
should use. But no, it thinks it knows better. Or something.
That is the point I'm trying to make, there is more than enough info there for
PA to work rather nicely, so why does it pick card1 as the only choice? The
fact that it is not working at the instant is immaterial, and probably
because I've plugged the cables in wrong the last time I was working on it.
As its (card1 above) setup for skype, & skype has now been compromised, I
personally could care less, I just want the card *I* have assigned to be the
default "card0" to work.
And that doesn't really seem like too much to ask. To me, if it doesn't, its
broken and to be removed, which I just did.
Now, with PA ripped out it seems I have more stuttering sound than before on
cnn.com, but it is playing. As is a local .mp4 I made with kino a couple of
days ago when I send mplayer after it, but its not playing in FF, either
version. However, mplayer is set as the default player for .mp4's in
kcontrol. I probably have missed something else though.
Thanks Mikkel.
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Cheers, Gene
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