Re: Am I asking the right people ?

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Wed, 27 Nov 2002 10:46:53 +0100 (CET),
Jaroslav wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Bruce Paterson wrote:
> 
> > Am I sending these queries about the operation of alsa through the API 
> > to the right place ?  I'm trying to use alsa for a real scientific
> > application and I'm starting to worry it simply isn't ready yet.
> > 
> > I don't pretend to be a developer of alsa drivers themselves, and I'd 
> > hoped I didn't need to become one.  I understand alsa needs many people 
> > debugging it and finding problems to make it bulletproof (afterall there 
> > would be a myriad of different possible configurations people can use).
> > 
> > However, the silence I get in reply to queries is golden (unlike the
> > distortion I'm getting from the soundcard) !
> > 
> > It's possible I'm not using the alsa API in the way intended and 
> > bringing the problems upon myself, but please, somebody tell me !
> > 
> > It would be a real blow to the progress of linux in this company if all 
> > the alsa work had to be scrapped.
> > 
> > Apologies for the frustrated tone.
> 
> Sorry, I haven't EWS88 on my table. It seems that the problem is with the 
> DAC initialization, but it's difficult to debug these things without 
> hardware. Perphaps, if you can gather information about wiring of 
> electrical components on this soundcard, I can look to datasheets what can 
> be wrong.

this hardware is out of my box atm, but i can check it tomorrow.


ciao,

Takashi


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