Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-multimedia (23 mails)

[Mel Steinberg <saxofon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I had the problem with the playback speed, also.  The problem was with 
the ALSA kernel driver that shipped with 8.0.  I found out from Takashi 
Iwai, from SuSE, on the   linux-audio-user newsgroup.

> At Fri, 26 Jul 2002 23:09:18 -0700,
> Mel Steinberg wrote:
>
> > I had the same trouble trying to record audio with Broadcast2000 
> > (with SuSE8.0), which I never had with Alsa 0.5.x.  Is there any 
> > chance that SuSE will put some Alsa and Alsa-Driver updates (as they 
> > do with new NVidia graphics drivers) on the YaST On-line Update 
> > service?  I'm "tarball-impaired,"  and when I downloaded and 
> > installed the latest Alsa and Alsa-Driver RPMs from your personal ftp 
> > area, following your directions, I wound up crashing the whole system 
> > (segfaults, etc.).  I reinstalled 8.0 with the "/" partition not 
> > reformatted, and got it all back, including datafiles.  The only 
> > damage was updated files being replaced with the originals 
> > (KDE3.0.1>3.0, etc.).  
>
>
>
> the problem is the update of alsa-driver because the alsa drivers are
> included in the kernel package.  that is, basically, you need to
> update the "kernel" package, which is really big.
> the update package on my ftp directory is a kind of hack (or
> workaround in the other word) from this perspective.
>
> btw, the latest package should be ok.  it looks like the alsa drivers
> were built with a wrong kernel tree for 8.0 system, although the
> kernel version is same.  please try the new packages again.
>
>
> Takashi

The updated ALSA packages are at 
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/alsa/8.0/i386

I couldn't find the instructions about installing it all (they've been 
moved), but I remember having to use the command line (not YaST2), and 
there was something that had to be removed after the kernal driver 
installation.  You might want to open the alsa-docs.rpm, first, to see 
if there are clear installation instructions.

Broadcast2000 is now running just fine.

             /mel Gary Counsellor wrote:

> Why would This happen
> I open grecord,  record "mary had a little lamb" in 
> 16bit pcm, 44100 stereo
>
> upon playback, everything is played rather quickly
>
> When I record at 
> 16bit pcm, 44100 mono
>
> everything plays back at like half speed or slower
>
> all sugestions, guesses and tea leaf readings greatly appreciated.
>