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xyz
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 Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 3:49 am Post subject: Supported USB Sound Cards? |
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I'd like to buy a usb sound card for my Mac G5 running both ppc and ppc64(gentoo linux, kernel 2.6. , because the built-in sound function is not supported till now. Could some one recommend some usb sound cards of low profile that can run under my system?
Thank You
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terry
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| Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 2:21 pm Post subject: |
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In my case, I am using Xitel Hifi-Link DG2 with my iBook.
There is no problem, using that USB audio card under gentoo ppc.
I am not sure, but just I know most USB audio card supported by alsa. |
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jaspal kallar
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| Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 2:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Code: | cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [MP3 ]: USB-Audio - Sound Blaster MP3+
Creative Labs Sound Blaster MP3+ at usb-0001:0
2:0b.1-2, full speed |
I have a G5 (dual 1.8, rev A). The above sound card has worked well under KDE for me using alsa. |
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xyz
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| Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 4:37 am Post subject: |
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Thank you very much. I think I would buy the Sound Blaster MP3+.
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jaspal kallar
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| Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 2:43 pm Post subject: |
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some minor problems I rememeber about the Sound Blaster MP3+ card.
(1) If I want to use mplayer then I have to
kill artsd will the kill -9 (I don't know why).
But I only do this each time I start my kde session.
(2) I have the
| Code: | | media-libs/swfdec-0.2.2-r1 |
package installed for flash. Often on the command line I have to kill the swf_play process with kill -9 (again I don't know why).
(3) I haven't as yet managed to put a audio cd in the dvd-r/cd-rw drive and play songs directly from the drive. Again I don't know why.
I use my card for playing mp3's on my hard drive, listening to real player streams and watching dvd's via xine and/ir mplayer.
Apart from the above the mp3+ works good although you were not clear what you are going to use the card for. |
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xyz
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| Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 3:04 pm Post subject: |
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jaspal kallarï¼Thank you for your kindness.
I just bought one, and tried on my gentoo 2004.2 ppc64 system. There are some problems:
The sound card recognized by the system, I used the kernel support of alsa module, and installed alsa-utils. I could play wav file by aplay. But in gnome and kde I would only get noise when I played mp3 or video files by mplayer or xine. Is your system also ppc64? What did you select options of sound in the kernel? What players you used to play mp3? In my case xmms's broken, I got "segmentation fault" when I tried to play mp3 files.
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xyz
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| Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 2:49 am Post subject: |
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Now it's ok for playing mp3 using xmms and rhythmbox. But the sound is still noise when I play video(avi, mpeg, wmv) by mplayer or xine.
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jaspal kallar
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| Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 10:40 am Post subject: |
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I have the 32bit Gentoo on my G5.
I have the following for my .asoundrc file in my home directory (I don't know if you need this!)
| Code: | pcm.usb-audio {
type hw
card 0
}
ctl.usb-audio {
type hw
card 0
}
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My /etc/modules.d/alsa looks like
| Code: | # ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
##
## IMPORTANT:
## You need to customise this section for your specific sound card(s)
## and then run `update-modules' command.
## Read alsa-driver's INSTALL file in /usr/share/doc for more info.
##
## ALSA portion
alias snd-card-0 snd-usb-audio
## alias snd-card-1 snd-ens1371
## OSS/Free portion
## alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
## alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1
##
# OSS/Free portion - card #1
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
## OSS/Free portion - card #2
## alias sound-service-1-0 snd-mixer-oss
## alias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm-oss
## alias sound-service-1-12 snd-pcm-oss
alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss
alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss
alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss
# Set this to the correct number of cards.
options snd cards_limit=1
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| Code: | Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
<M> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
<M> Sequencer support
<M> Sequencer dummy client
<M> OSS Mixer API
<M> OSS PCM (digital audio) API
[ ] OSS Sequencer API
[*] Verbose printk
[*] Debug
[ ] Debug memory
[*] Debug detection
Generic devices --->
PCI devices --->
ALSA PowerMac devices --->
ALSA USB devices --->
Generic devices
<M> Dummy (/dev/null) soundcard
< > Virtual MIDI soundcard
< > MOTU MidiTimePiece AV multiport MIDI
< > UART16550 - MIDI only driver
< > Generic MPU-401 UART driver
ALSA PowerMac devices
<M> PowerMac (AWACS, DACA, Burgundy, Tumbler, Keywest)
ALSA USB devices
<M> USB Audio/MIDI driver |
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xyz
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| Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 2:24 am Post subject: |
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Thank you. I got xine and totem working as expected but no luck for mplayer.
Thank you aagain. |
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mrPr0ky
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