Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 08:42:03 +0000 From: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Bill Blue <bblue@netoldies.com> Subject: Re: snd_emu10k1 driver Message-ID: <200609270842.03802.josh@tcbug.org> In-Reply-To: <op.tgjcp2b4zq5pz4@sovaio.netoldies.com> References: <op.tgjcp2b4zq5pz4@sovaio.netoldies.com>
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On Wednesday 27 September 2006 11:55, Bill Blue wrote: > Hi, > > Is this driver known to be 100% working? I'm running stable 6.2 p6 > right now and have this device driver installed (device sound and > device snd_emu10k1 compiled into the kernel) for use with a > Creative Live! card. Audio outputs work correctly, and the various > players will produce audio as expected via the PCM control. Line > input works as well. 'mixer' works as does KDE's kmix (they track > each other). I've also installed the driver via kldload at boot, > but it makes no difference. > > I'm unable to successfully record audio from the line input of this > Creative Live! card. Either using the generic /dev/dsp as the > recording source, or individual devices /dev/dsp0.0 and up, dspW0.0 > and up, or dspr0.4/5. There's just no audio there. > > For the recording software I've used Krec, ffmpeg, darkice and > streamTranscoder (the latter two feeding an icecast server). > 'mixer' has its recording device (=rec) set to line in, and I'm > feeding audio to line in (analog) and spdif in (digital). There's > no problem monitoring the 'line in' buss on the outputs, but > there's no audio on the record output device. > > dmesg shows the driver being installed, and cat /dev/sndstat shows > it is active on pcm0. If I cat /dev/sndstat with a higher > verbosity (set with sysctrl) it shows that the record devices > should be dsp0.4 and dsp0.5, line and mic in respectively. The man > page for snd_emu10k1 says the recording devices should be dspr0.4 > and dspr0.5 but only if they're driving a codec directly -- I'm not > sure what that means exactly. > > There's no sound daemons like esound or artsd running during these > tests. The ports being tested as an input device seem to open > correctly and show up as read devices in fstat. > > I've also tried the snd_emu10kx driver to no avail. > > Has anyone had experience using the Live! sound card and these > drivers? And if so, is recording correctly supported? > > I have other sound cards available, but none of them seem to have > driver support in FreeBSD. One is a Delta (Midiman) 410 with an > ICE1712 chip, and the other is a Turtle Beach TB400 (not a Santa > Cruz) with Vortex AU8830A2 chip. Both cards have analog and > digital ins and outs. > > Anyone with insight on any of this? > > --Bill I thought I'd try this out since I have a SB Live! 5.1, use the snd_emu10k1 driver and don't run artsd or esound but when I start krec the record button is greyed out! Using ffmpeg and the /dev/dsp device I was able to record just fine from the mic port on the card. I'm running 6.1-R-p6 -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel
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