Re: No dmix with HDSP Multiface

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Mon, 28 Mar 2005 16:12:48 -0500,
Janina Sajka wrote:
> 
> [1  <text/plain; us-ascii (7bit)>]
> Takashi Iwai writes:
> > At Wed, 23 Mar 2005 10:59:08 -0500,
> > Janina Sajka wrote:
> > > 
> > > Takashi Iwai writes:
> > > > At Tue, 22 Mar 2005 13:05:10 -0500,
> > > > Janina Sajka wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > I have 1.0.9RC1 compiled and installed--but cannot get dmix to work. Am
> > > > > I going about it wrong? Or are there still known issues with dmix using
> > > > > RME hardware? Mine is a HDSP Multiface. Here's what I get:
> > > > >... snip snip ...
> > >  
> > > > The dmix PCM definition was slightly changed recently.  It no longer
> > > > takes SLAVE argument but CARD, DEV and SUBDEV.  For hw:0,0, it's like
> > > > 	dmix:CARD=0,DEV=0,RATE=48000
> > > > 
> > > > The default card and device are both 0, and the default rate is 48000,
> > > > in the case above, you don't need to pass arguments.  Just run like
> > > > 
> > > > 	% aplay -Dplug:dmix foo.wav
> > > 
> > > Still no sound, though:
> > > 
> > > #aplay -Dplug:dmix Any_Dream_Will_Do.wav
> > > ALSA lib pcm_direct.c:741:(snd_pcm_direct_initialize_slave) unable to
> > > install hw params
> > 
> > You need to specify FORMAT=S32_LE in the case of HDSP.
> > Add the following to ~/.asoundrc:
> > 
> > mydmix {
> > 	type plug
> > 	slave.pcm "dmix:FORMAT=S32_LE"
> > }		
> > 
> > 
> > Takashi
> Regret to say still no response:
> 
> aplay -Dplug:dmix Any_Dream_Will_Do.wav
        ^^^^^^^^^^^
        -Dmymix

BTW, the above definition was wrong.  It must be like:

pcm.mydmix {
	type plug
	slave.pcm "dmix:FORMAT=S32_LE"
}


Takashi


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