If it helps, http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=0aab8c6c7ffa187cba3e7df168806e936dbf82fb On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 3:16 AM, Jonathan Gardner <jgardner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > -- Jonathan Gardner jgardner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
