Sampling rate in ALSA rc6

Herodot · Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2003 5:33 am Post subject: Sampling rate in ALSA rc6

I just updated to rc6. There is obviously improved support for my Terratec card - ice1712. However, alsa has now decided that 48kHz is best for me, and I can't change it. With alsamixer the value seems static, eventhough there are other options in /etc/asound.state. Changing the default value there doesn't help either, it doesn't even affect alsamixer. So the value must be read from somewhere else - but where?

Also, I often run into this kind of circular annoyance:

Herodot · Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2003 5:45 am Post subject:

OK, I managed to set Arts to use 48000 Hz, so that takes care of all programs sending audio through that. Still, all the other problems remain...
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Chris W · Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2003 6:33 am Post subject:

I would guess that the snd-* modules are not unloading cleanly on alsasound stop: possibly the snd-pcm-oss and snd-mixer-oss modules. Have a look at the results of:

krinkle · Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2003 2:52 am Post subject: same problem

I have a midiman audiophile card (same driver ice1712) and i had the same problem (i think). It was stuck at 48khz, and everything would speed up if it wasn't at 48khz. after a few days and lots of browsing alsa archives, i think that it is alsa .9.0rc6 (the one in portage). one of the alsa developers said that there were bugs in the ice driver for that release. he also said that they were fixed in rc7. I am trying to get that installed right now, but i'm not all that experienced with this stuff, so it might take a while =) i'll let you know if i get it working. gluck
--Andrew

ps. anyone know if rc7 is cmoing to partage soon?

krinkle · Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2003 6:49 am Post subject: Got it working!

Just an update (i know it's kinda late in the thread, but it might help someone =). It is alsa rc6 (the one in portage as of now, feb. 5). You need to uninstall that version and get rc7 from the alsa web site (or wait for it in portage). After installing rc7, my card works and sounds great! best of luck!
--Andrew

Canuck · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2003 1:36 am Post subject: rc7 availability date?

As asked above, does anyone know when rc7 will be available in portage? I guess it would require an update of the alsa-driver ebuild and will that happen anytime soon (i.e. before or for the 1.4 release)?

Thanks

krinkle · Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2003 3:00 am Post subject:

There is an ebuild for rc8 (just came out) in portage, you just have to go to it manually (i imagine there is a more elegant way, just don't know how).
go to console, su up, then go to the /usr/portage/media-sound/alsa-drivers directory (or alsa-tools, alsa-utils). Then do 'env ALSA_CARDS='ice1712' emerge alsa-driver-0.9.0_rc8.ebuild'. that should take care of it, then go to the tools and utils directory and do the same thing. You need to run the ebuilds manually instead of just emerge alsa-whatever. Best of luck. Msg me if you have questions
--Andrew

Canuck · Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2003 2:19 pm Post subject:

Thanks krinkle, I'm compiling it right now. Hopefully it works...

Canuck · Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2003 2:28 pm Post subject:

Canuck

Well, it emerge "emerge -u alsa-driver-0.9.0_rc8.ebuild" worked, but that's as far as it got.
bart alsa-utils # emerge -u alsa-utils-0.9.0_rc8.ebuild
Calculating dependencies |
!!! all ebuilds that could satisfy ">=media-libs/alsa-lib-0.9_rc7" have been masked.
!!! (dependency required by "media-sound/alsa-utils-0.9.0_rc8" [ebuild])

!!! Error calculating dependancies. Please correct.

Oh well, I had installed all of the 0.9.0_rc8a packages from source on the ALSA website and I only did a "make uninstall" on the alsa-driver package so hopefully it's alright.

krinkle · Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2003 5:33 pm Post subject:

actually, i never use icq anymore... maybe i'll turn it back on, i just dind't have anyone who used it. Email would probably be best. And i've done a little more looking around. The reason that you are getting the error that portage couldn't satisfy the dependancy is becuase when emerging rc8 manually, you are not using the "stable" version. Portage needs an "unstable" (higher version number) package, so it tells portage to install it. Since you probably have portage set to use only stable, portage looks and sees that there are no stable packages to fulfil the request. So you can either manually emerge they alsa-lib ebuild (it's in /usr/portage/media-libs/alsa-lib), or i *think* you can add the line ACCEPT_KEYWORDS='~x86' in your make.conf. The problem with this is that it will want to upgrade all your software to unstable. I installed it just by running the ebuild manually
--Andrew