Re: [Dxr3-devel] Please Help (What you do is not shit! ;-)

[mike l. <lac...@gm...>]

On 12/18/06, Nicolas Boullis <nbo...@de...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 10:22:48PM +0800, mike lewis wrote:
> >
> > I have an old dxr3 lying around (well.. It's no lying around, its in
> > my PC). Which I'm trying to get working under Ubuntu.  I am very
> > pleased to report that after abit of fluffing around I can get it to
> > work the "old"  way (sound running under OSS).
> >
> > Ubuntu Edgy has 0.15. something as it's release build.  I found a bug
> > report stating that this release doesn't work so I've tried to use the
> > latest reslease (0.16.0).
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=342377
>
> For your information, I'm about to upload debian packages for 0.16.0.
> Would you like to give them a try?
>
Yes Please.  Just bear with me I'm new to debian! ;-).

>
> > I don't know anything about ALSA.  How can I get it so that under ALSA
> > I have a digital sound output working?
> >
> > By this, I mean when using oss I set audio mode 3, or d for digital or
> > ac3 passthrough.  How can this be achieved under ALSA??
>
> For the ALSA driver, I thought it was cleaner to define it as 2
> different devices: one for analog output and the other one for digital
> output. (But you still can use only one at a time.) Note that for
> correct working, you need to have EM8300.conf installed (in
> /usr/share/alsa/cards for Debian, I guess it is the same for Ubuntu).
>
> For analog output, you can use the "defaults:EM8300" device, and thanks
> to the ALSA magic, you automaticall get some software volume control.
>
> For digital output, it's "iec958:EM8300".
>
Aah.  Well.. I issues "make install" ;-).  I'm guessing that didn't
take care of it for me?  So I need to install EM8300.conf manually?
Are there any other steps required to lock the config in in in Alsa?

I noticed last night before I hit the sack; If I was running gnome
(gdm) when I loaded the modules; iec958 and another device were
available in it's "sounds" option in "prefferences.  But attempting to
playbay to the "other one" didn't work (now as I'm only hooked up
through digital it should not work right?) and the iec958 one returned
an error; something about negotiating codecs.  But alas; I'm sure once
I've installed the sound card config it should work right?

And wow.  Software volume control?  That is Magic! ;-).

While I have your attention; devices.

In this day and age aren't the distro's meant to create the devices
automagically?  I find I need to create the devices (devices.sh)
manually.  If I delete them, unload and reload the modules; the
devices stay away..  Is this normal?

Mike