I'm a developer who spends most of his time in Python writing web apps but I know my way around C. I've been using Linux for over 10 years now and I thought it's time to get serious about making Linux work for the hardware I use. I'm self-employed now, so I don't have to deal with any legal departments and can help out to my heart's desire. Disclaimer: I intend to learn how to help debug these issues and hack on some fairly low-level pieces of software and get a clear sense of how hardware really works. Mostly this is a "scratch-my-own-itch" thing, but it's always bothered me that I've never truly understood what happens below the KDE interface. I recently bought a Gigabyte 880GM-USB3 motherboard. http://www.gigabyte.us/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3412#sp I think "Realtek ALC892" describes the hardware for audio. I'm running Fedora 13 with KDE which seems to have alsa 1.0.23 running. I don't know much about hardware or audio, but I do know that it's not working 100% for me with this motherboard. There are two issues that stand out. First, with my older motherboard, I could control the various output and input levels of the channels. With this motherboard, I only have one channel "Internal Audio Analog Stereo". This board is supposed to support up to Dolby 7.1 surround sound. I want to make this computer my hub for all my devices. Obviously this isn't possible. Second, I never really got MIDI working, at least not that I recall in my 10 years of Linux. I know MIDI is possible, I just don't know what it takes. I've been playing with musescore which apparently plays the notes over MIDI so you can hear what you wrote, which would be nice. RTFM is certainly acceptable advice, if you can show me which FM is preferred. I'll also write some documentation if it helps. -- Jonathan Gardner jgardner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
