From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Ranch Subject: Soundmodem hangs all USB keyboard or mouse input -- and soundmodem 0.16: fix the AFSK modulator for 300 baud operation Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:14:51 -0700 Message-ID: <4F80CA6B.4010204@trinnet.net> References: <1330736067.25864.15.camel@vortex> <4F51E964.9080605@bfs.de> <1330786027.2248.33.camel@vortex> <4F537D4A.6040507@bfs.de> <1330892180.2083.84.camel@vortex> <4F776E14.7090104@trinnet.net> <1333379832.2112.15.camel@vortex> <4F7B199F.3050104@trinnet.net> <1333647291.2605.34.camel@vortex> <1333741818.4064.20.camel@vortex> <4F7F7A2C.2030500@trinnet.net> <1333809855.2433.10.camel@vortex> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1333809855.2433.10.camel@vortex> Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Guido Trentalancia , t.sailer@alumni.ethz.ch, Linux Hams Hello Guido, Thomas, fellow Linux HAMs: I've CCed the Linuxhams group as I'm curious if any of you have any thoughts on why Soundmodem would be shutting down all USB-based keyboard and mouse functionality until the process is killed! In all my years of Linux, I've never need something like this. Very strange and any/all comments would be very much appreciated! Few points: 1) I've recently noticed a change on my system that when I run soundmodemconfig (patched or unpatched), and I go into the spectrum scope view, my USB keyboard and mouse stop responding! Though the spectrum scope continues to update, I can't type nor mouse around until I kill soundmodem via an out of band SSH connection! How weird! This Gateway NV57 laptop system is Centos6 (linux 2.6.32) running PulseAudio and Soundmodem using a USB soundcard (US Interface Navigator) which is configured to use ALSA natively (not OSS). - If I configure soundmodemconfig to use the on-motherboard soundcard, the keyboard and mouse continue to function when the spectrum scope is running! This makes me think this is a USB / kernel issue with soundmodem - I moved all my various USB devices to different port locations but there wasn't any improvement - I tried disconnecting and re-connecting the USB to kb+mouse adapter after the spectrum scope is running but that didn't help - The KB+mouse are actually PS/2 style devices connecting through a PS2 to USB adapter - I've unconfigured the PTT port in soundmodemconfig to reduce variables but that didn't have any change to the behavior - I'm not running a KVM or Xen enabled kernel - I've tried soundmodemconfig -S and that didn't allow the soundsystem to be found. Options -R and -M don't seem to be legal in soundmodemconfig though the man page says they are. - When I start soundmodem and try to show the spectrum display, I see the following on STDOUT: [root@hampacket2 dranch]# soundmodemconfig on_configtree_selection_changed config_select: cfg: hampacket chan: - selection: cfg: hampacket chan: - on_configtree_selection_changed config_deselect: cfg: hampacket chan: - selection: cfg: hampacket chan: Channel 0 Modulator: afsk Demodulator: afsk Modulator: parameter bps value 300 Modulator: parameter f0 value 1600 Modulator: parameter f1 value 1800 Modulator: parameter diffenc value 1 Demodulator: parameter bps value 300 Demodulator: parameter f0 value 1600 Demodulator: parameter f1 value 1800 Demodulator: parameter diffdec value 1 Minimum sampling rate: 11025 Audio IO: type alsa ALSA: Using sample rate 11025, sample format 2, significant bits 16, buffer size 5513, period size 165 ALSA: Using sample rate 11025, sample format 2, significant bits 16, buffer size 5513, period size 165 sm[3644]: audio: starting "plughw:1,0" Real sampling rate: 11025 sm[3644]: Opening PTT device "/dev/USI_PTT" -- - As a test, I tried using "padsp" to try things under OSS emulation but the /dev/dsp device isn't getting created. It looks like maybe soundmodem as asking for something that PulseAudio cannot support (according to an strace): -- write(2, "utils/padsp.c: SNDCTL_DSP_CAPS\n", 31utils/padsp.c: SNDCTL_DSP_CAPS) = 31 write(2, "sm[4098]: ", 10sm[4098]: ) = 10 write(2, "audio: forcing half duplex mode\n", 32audio: forcing half duplex mode) = 32 write(2, "utils/padsp.c: SNDCTL_DSP_SETFRA"..., 50utils/padsp.c: SNDCTL_DSP_SETFRAGMENT: 0xffff0008) = 50 futex(0x817160, FUTEX_UNLOCK_PI_PRIVATE, 0) = 0 write(2, "utils/padsp.c: SNDCTL_DSP_SETFMT"..., 37utils/padsp.c: SNDCTL_DSP_SETFMT: 16) = 37 futex(0x817160, FUTEX_UNLOCK_PI_PRIVATE, 0) = 0 write(2, "utils/padsp.c: SNDCTL_DSP_STEREO"..., 36utils/padsp.c: SNDCTL_DSP_STEREO: 0) = 36 write(2, "utils/padsp.c: SNDCTL_DSP_SPEED:"..., 39utils/padsp.c: SNDCTL_DSP_SPEED: 11025) = 39 futex(0x817160, FUTEX_LOCK_PI_PRIVATE, 1) = 0 write(2, "utils/padsp.c: ss: s16le 1ch 110"..., 37utils/padsp.c: ss: s16le 1ch 11025Hz) = 37 futex(0x817160, FUTEX_UNLOCK_PI_PRIVATE, 0) = 0 write(2, "utils/padsp.c: unknown ioctl 0x0"..., 40utils/padsp.c: unknown ioctl 0x0000500e) = 40 write(2, "sm[4098]: ", 10sm[4098]: ) = 10 write(2, "audio: Error, cannot set nonbloc"..., 42audio: Error, cannot set nonblocking mode) = 42 <------------------------------------- write(2, "utils/padsp.c: freeing fd info ("..., 38utils/padsp.c: freeing fd info (fd=4)) = 38 write(2, "utils/padsp.c: Draining.\n", 25utils/padsp.c: Draining. -- I want to say soundmodem used to work on this specific machine with Pulse/Alsa on plughw1,0. I even tried starting up an older kernel but that didn't help. I don't see anything helpful in /var/log/messages, /var/log/Xorg.0.log, dmesg, etc. 2) I'm trying the newer soundmodem-0.16 patch iz6rdb submitted to Thomas for better 300BAUD performance but I thought you said you reverted one of these patches. I assume means I only need ONE of the patches. Which one should I NOT apply? Sampling rate fix: http://iz6rdb.trentalancia.com/en/soundmodem-0.16-use-a-minimum-samplerate-for-afsk-v5.patch Longer filters (I think it's this one you don't recommend now): http://iz6rdb.trentalancia.com/en/soundmodem-0.16-increase-rx-filters-parameters.patch 3) With the unpatched soundmodemconfig spectrum view, there isn't any waveforms in column #1 but I do see all spectrum filling in columns 2-8. With your patches applied, I see the upper frequencies of column 1 filled (50%) all the way through column 4. Columns 5-8 are completely empty. It's as if all the spectrum has been compressed into the first four columns with your patch. Is that expected? It seems to be due to the soundmodem-0.16-use-a-minimum-samplerate-for-afsk-v5.patch patch 4) With your patched soundmodem code running with a config of 1600/1800 mark/space, if I hit the PTT button say in the spectrum screen, I get one primary tone at 1700hz (according to the soundmodemconfig spectrum scope) and two very large harmonics on each side of it (1390hz, 1550, 1850, 1990). With the original soundmodem-0.16 code, I get one single tone at 1200hz and no harmonics 5) In soundmodemconfig under channel 0, do you know what the "differential encoding" option is for? 6) It seems I must apply the soundmodem-0.16-use-a-minimum-samplerate-for-afsk-v5.patch FIRST and if I don't, the other patch will fail to apply. Might be worth mentioning the order dependency on your website 7) - Your patch files are assuming unique directories (soundmodem-0.16-orig). You should probably make them be more generic and relative: --- soundmodem-0.16-orig/afsk/modem.c 2012-02-29 20:31:24.356287000 +0100 +++ soundmodem-0.16/afsk/modem.c 2012-03-03 19:14:07.696345582 +0100 to say --- afsk/modem.c 2012-02-29 20:31:24.356287000 +0100 +++ afsk/modem.c 2012-03-03 19:14:07.696345582 +0100 Sorry for the long email but lots of interesting stuff and I think including all the details always helps to come to a complete picture of the problem(s). 73s! --David KI6ZHD