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Help with ALSA Needed...
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2006-11-06 23:48:23
Daniel Yek wrote:
> 
> At 01:02 PM 11/5/2006, Tony Espy wrote:
>>
>> i'm having problems getting splay to work with ASLA
on the Pepper Pad 
>> 3 ( AMD Geode / FC4-based system ).  i had this
working last week, but 
>> did a clean build on the cayenne_1_5_0 branch this
weekend and now i 
>> can't get MP3 playback to work via ALSA.

> If this is a Helix ALSA device-related problem, I'll
work with you to 
> resolve it.

daniel -

thanks for the detailed response!

> What is the version of your ALSA?
> rpm -q --info alsa-lib

on my FC4 destop, i'm running alsa-lib-1.0.10-3.RC4.

on the pepper pad, i'm running 1.0.11rc4.

> There were two check-ins 11 days ago to Helix ALSA
device code:
> http://lists.helixcommunity.org/pipe
rmail/audio-dev/2006-October/000776.html 
> http://lists.helixcommunity.org/pipe
rmail/audio-dev/2006-October/000775.html 

ok, i'd seen these checkins and was going to investigate
them next...

> Could you do the following steps to trouble-shoot the
problem?
> 
> 1. Check if your system's ALSA configuration is
working:
> speaker-test -c1 --device default

on both my desktop and the pepper pad, this produces pink
noise in the 
left channel.

> speaker-test -c2 --device default

for both platforms, the pink noise alternates back 'n forth
between the 
speakers.

> speaker-test -c2 --device default --rate 48000

same results as the last test.

> speaker-test -c2 --device default --rate 44100

no output.

> 2. A quick check if ALSA on your system is not set to
48000Hz Sampling 
> Rate.
> Change/Add the last line in this block to the relevant
file used by your 
> player:
> ~/.helix/HelixSDK_1_0:
> ~/.helix/HelixSDK_10_0:
> ~/.realplayerrc:
> ~/.hxplayerrc:
> AlsaVaryingSampleRate=1
> 
> Now, play a clip to check if this fixed the playback
using ALSA.

that did the trick!

how come this wasn't handled under the covers by ALSA??

thanks,
/tony

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