Re: Am I asking the right people ?

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Thu, 28 Nov 2002 16:51:56 +0100,
I wrote:
> 
> 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.

as far as i've tested, my ews88mt works fine with the current cvs
release.  32bit/96kHz playback seems for 10min.

except for the distortion problem about two minutes with your app,
what kind of problem are you having?  i'd been on vacation so i
couldn't keep tracking the thread.

i'll be able to test the same program on my machine.


Takashi


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