ALSA 1.0.0rc1 released

ALSA 1.0.0rc1 released

[Takashi Iwai]

Hi,

today we reached ALSA 1.0.0rc1 release.
as its name stands, this is the "release candidate" for 1.0.0.
if no show-stopper bug is reported, we'll release 1.0.0 really
soon.

this version includes the following fixes since the last 1.0.0-pre3
release.

Drivers:
- fixed OSS emulation on kernel.  quake and wine should work now.
- fixed intel8x0 PCM.
- fixed the compilation on 2.2 kernels.
- fixed the second line-in on live drive.
- pnp detection of interwave STB is fixed.
- usb usx2y drivers updated.  USB224 is still disabled.
- usb bus and ids are shown in cardx/usb* proc files.

Others:
- the data path of hdsploader is fixed.
- hdspmixer updates.
- legacy probing of alsaconf is fixed.
- some bugs in aplay are fixed (infinte loop, click noise).


regarding quake: it's known that quake3 doesn't work properly if the
soundcard doesn't support the proper sample rate.  it's maybe a bug of
quake3 itself.  wine should be ok.


--
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Re: ALSA 1.0.0rc1 released

[Edouard Gomez]

Takashi Iwai (tiwai@suse.de) wrote:
> - fixed OSS emulation on kernel.  quake and wine should work now.

I just want to confirm 1.0.0rc1 fixed it for me with a VIA8235 +
ALC650rev2 (asus A7V8X mobo). Great work.

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Re: ALSA 1.0.0rc1 released

[Mark Knecht]

Hi,
   I want to report that I've built alsa-1.0.0rc1 under Gentoo with q
2.4.20-r7 kernel. Thanks to Thomas Charbonnel for the help with the
ebuilds. If any other Gentoo users need the ebuilds, then contact me off
list.

   Unfortunately this release does not impact my loud glitch/pop noise
on the HDSP 9652 when using OSS applications. The results are the same
as I reported over the last few weeks.

   I have not run significant Alsa audio yet to talk about how that's
working. The OSS fix was the one I was most hoping for, and I haven't
had many Alsa problems anyway.

- Thanks,
Mark

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 05:54, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> today we reached ALSA 1.0.0rc1 release.
> as its name stands, this is the "release candidate" for 1.0.0.
> if no show-stopper bug is reported, we'll release 1.0.0 really
> soon.
> 
> this version includes the following fixes since the last 1.0.0-pre3
> release.
> 
> Drivers:
> - fixed OSS emulation on kernel.  quake and wine should work now.
<SNIP>



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Re: ALSA 1.0.0rc1 released

[Steve deRosier]

We went ahead and added code to our alsa client software to cleanly 
return to a PCM value of 0 and then stuffed a full buffer worth of 0s 
into the buffer before closeing the PCM in order to solve our pop 
problem.  I'm not sure how the OSS emulation stuff works since we don't 
use it, but maybe it could use this same treatment?  I'm assuming we 
don't want to change OSS client programs to fix it, so that would leave 
something in the emulation layer that should be changed.  Perhaps OSS 
automagically does this cleanup?  Mark, have you tried using the real 
OSS?  Do the pops happen with OSS?

Also, it seems strange to have to do this in client programs when the 
problem is with specific cards/chipsets not doing their own cleanup. 
Maybe the drivers of the cards should do the cleanup so the client 
software doesn't have to know what card they're running on?  Just 
putting this forward for discussion, not voluteering to do the work 
(I've already got my hands full with the serial MIDI driver, thanks). :)

- Steve

Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
>    I want to report that I've built alsa-1.0.0rc1 under Gentoo with q
> 2.4.20-r7 kernel. Thanks to Thomas Charbonnel for the help with the
> ebuilds. If any other Gentoo users need the ebuilds, then contact me off
> list.
> 
>    Unfortunately this release does not impact my loud glitch/pop noise
> on the HDSP 9652 when using OSS applications. The results are the same
> as I reported over the last few weeks.
> 
>    I have not run significant Alsa audio yet to talk about how that's
> working. The OSS fix was the one I was most hoping for, and I haven't
> had many Alsa problems anyway.
> 
> - Thanks,
> Mark
> 
> On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 05:54, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>today we reached ALSA 1.0.0rc1 release.
>>as its name stands, this is the "release candidate" for 1.0.0.
>>if no show-stopper bug is reported, we'll release 1.0.0 really
>>soon.
>>
>>this version includes the following fixes since the last 1.0.0-pre3
>>release.
>>
>>Drivers:
>>- fixed OSS emulation on kernel.  quake and wine should work now.
> 
> <SNIP>
> 
> 
> 
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Re: ALSA 1.0.0rc1 released

[Mark Knecht]

On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 10:16, Steve deRosier wrote:
> We went ahead and added code to our alsa client software to cleanly 
> return to a PCM value of 0 and then stuffed a full buffer worth of 0s 
> into the buffer before closeing the PCM in order to solve our pop 
> problem.  I'm not sure how the OSS emulation stuff works since we don't 
> use it, but maybe it could use this same treatment?  I'm assuming we 
> don't want to change OSS client programs to fix it, so that would leave 
> something in the emulation layer that should be changed.  Perhaps OSS 
> automagically does this cleanup?  Mark, have you tried using the real 
> OSS?  Do the pops happen with OSS?

No, I haven't tried real OSS. I'm fairly new to Linux audio and have
never used anything other than Alsa in all it's glory. I don't know how
OSS would be installed under Gentoo. I don't see any ebuilds for it. I
presume it will work if I build it from source by hand, but that does
sound like a lot of work.

In my current case the pops only happen with OSS emulation under Alsa.
All files that create pops using OSS emulation work perfectly if I use
any native Alsa app to play them, so I really don't think it's the
source material itself. 

I wish I didn't have to use OSS at all. Has anyone accomplished getting
all types of web-based multi-media to work just using Alsa? Any
mime.type files to lead the way?

- Mark



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Re: ALSA 1.0.0rc1 released

[Patrick Shirkey]

Mark Knecht wrote:
>
> I wish I didn't have to use OSS at all. Has anyone accomplished getting
> all types of web-based multi-media to work just using Alsa? Any
> mime.type files to lead the way?
> 

I have recently been running all sorts with mplayer. at least all the 
sorenson codec I could find plus mpegs and .wmvs. all through the alsa 
driver.

If you want help setting it up let me know. It has taken me a while to 
get it right.





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Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA 1.0.0rc1 released

[Takashi Iwai]

At Thu, 04 Dec 2003 10:52:16 +0100 (CET),
Pierre Lorenzon wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I tried to compile the drivers of release candidate 1.0.0rc1
> and got the following error :

already fixed on cvs.
rc2 will be released soon.


Takashi


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