Hallo, Alexander Feder hat gesagt: // Alexander Feder wrote: > It seems though there is lots to do before i can do that. > I've bought a M-Audio Audiophile 24/96 card which i've set up using Alsa. > Audio works fine when using the oss-emulation, but trying to access the > card directly (aplay -D hw:0,0, or using the alsa-xmms plugin or with ecasound) > fails with "Sample format non available". > Isn't that odd? I've thought alsa-oss-emulation would be just another > layer on top of what i would access when using aplay & co. .. Yes, that's true, but using device hw:0 bypasses all layers and directly tries to acces the Audiophile's hardware. And this hardware only supports a very specific format, which is not CD-quality but much higher. So to use it, you either nee to access hw:0 directly using that format or you let ALSA convert between formats for you. The device in ALSA, that does this conversion is called, surprise: "default". So you need a commandline like $ ecasound -i:alsa,default -o some.wav or $ aplay -D default some.wav xmms is best used in OSS mode, the ALSA plugin did always crash here. As the Audiophile has a somewhat strange mixer, you won't be able to change volume with xmms in OSS mode. I prefer alsaplayer now anyway, which is much cooler, because it can be remote-controled in various ways, for example from Pd. > Another problem i have is sequencing, actually midi as a whole. Neither > outputting with pmidi, playmidi or muse works. I'm quite sure i've put > all cables correctly into the Audiophile and my Yamaha CS1x > synth. Both cables (male-male) are 5 pin, the one that i've plugged into > the [in] in my soundcard and to [out] on my synth has 3 pins used (4,2,5 > - the three in the middle) and the other cable has all 5 pins used. I've > checked every combination with my ohm-meter, so there is no short-circuit. > All pins are mapped 1:1. > > 'pmidi -l' gives > 64:0 Rawmidi 0 - M Audio Audiophile M Audio Audiophile 24/96 MPU-401 > > trying to output a midi file with pmidi (which i have successfully outputted > using playmidi on a pc with an sb16 and oss, iirc) results in no audible > result. :/ (pmidi -p 64:0 test.mid) > > muse outputs something more interesting whenever a note should be played: > MidiAlsaDevice::putEvent(): midi write error, returns -19 expected 28: > No such device > Which i further find odd is that muse is not willing to start playing unless > i've first stepped into the config->audio system to apply the already activated > setting of No Audio. Before that the transport indicator will not move. Further > when i activate "Use Alsa" muse exits with the > "ALSA: Sample format not available" message. See above. But audio in Muse might be unstable, I always run Muse with audio disabled. > So does this mean i can't trust what /proc/asound/seq/clients and pmidi -l says? > or does that mean that at the other end, where my synth should be, is no > device attached? > > same problem in the other direction. muse does not receive any signals > from my cs1x. I've recorded with this cs1x successfully on another pc > with.. another os.. so i think the hardware works. > > I'm using Debian GNU/Linux Sid on an Athlon, alsa 0.9.1-2 (for base and libs). > The things i described both happen on vanilla 2.4.20 with the alsa drivers > coming with debian (also 0.9.1-2) and on a 2.4.20 WOLK-kernel (rc3) with > the integrated alsa-drivers. (these behave slightly different, for example > i can't set the DAC volume with envy24control with the wolk-kernel - the > sliders don't move. this works fine with the vanilla kernel.) > > what could i be doing wrong? or could it be that the soundcard itself is > broken? i have no other OS to falsify that.. :/ Well, unfourtunatly I cannot help much with this, sorry. It seems really strange, that midi isn't working. With my AP, I can use midi-in very well. I don't have gear that can read midi, though, so I never tested midi-out. ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__
