Re: Alsa and the ice1724 chipset

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Mon, 1 Sep 2003 09:43:56 -0400,
Joel Hill wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 15:07:32 +0200
> Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:
> 
> > At Fri, 29 Aug 2003 21:49:34 -0400,
> > Joel Hill wrote:
> > > 
> > > I was wondering if you wrote this driver and if so why it is that i can loud the modules no problems alsamixer can change the dac's etc but i get no sound and xmms alsaplayer and aplay all hang 
> > 
> > what card is that?
> > are you sure that no other apps block the pcm device?
> > 
> > it's working fine on terratec aureon and m-audio revolution boards.
> > 
> > 
> > Takashi
> Thankyou for your reply Takashi
> 
> i have a m-audio revolution and i have a santa cruz cs46xx in the machine with the revo card i can use the cs46xx based card but the ice1724 just causes freezes lockups etc, only reason i have both of them in here at the same time is because i need sound while i fix this ice1724 issue. i can use alsamixer to mix both cards with alsamixer -c 0 or -c 1, aplay hang's xmms says 'sample format not available for playback: invalid argument' mplayer see's the device but locks after it detects the card, once again the santa cruz cs46xx based doesnt show these problems at all so i dont understand.

ice1724 doesn't support 16bit format.
try to use plughw instead of hw layer if you use ALSA native apps.


Takashi


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