On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Gordon Miller wrote: > Hi > > All my snd_pcm_readi calls return too few frames. Also when I switch to > stereo, the sound is muted. I cannot change this by adjusting period & > buffer sizes. dsnoop is enabled by default. The documentation for > snd_pcm_readi says that the only way that the frame count can be short > is because of a signal or xrun. Well this clearly isn't the case. > > I think that direct snoop is the cause of this. Are there any remedies ? > because I am roundly SICK of being told that my application must be > wrong "because everyone else's works". I have spent the last 3 weeks > debugging an app - that always worked properly - because of the faulty > dsnoop implementation. > > It is abundantly clear that dsnoop is far from ready for use, but I am > prepared to put some work into this. > Whose idea was it to enable dsnoop by default, when it doesn't even work > ? I was quite happy with OSS. Changing everything to be alsa entailed a > lot of work, and I am beginning to think it was a complete waste of my time. > > ICE1712, 2.6.20.6 kernel, alsa 1.0.14rc1 Send us a clear example which configuration does not work as you expect. We need: a) simple test tool b) reproduce error with arecord c) debug output from snd_pcm_dump() before / while you read samples It might be that it's no dsnoop fault, but some other plugin on way screw samples / stream position. Your e-mail gives us nothing than "Houston, we have a problem". So it's almost useless. Jaroslav ----- Jaroslav Kysela <perex@xxxxxxx> Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer ALSA Project, SUSE Labs _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
