[PlanetCCRMA] setting up new system with Delta 1010LT + Intel HDA

[Stephen Stubbs]

Hello Bruce,

May I suggest that you install Fedora 11.  Then go to the Fedora home page and join the forum.  A lot of installation problems are handled there.  I'm on the Windows laptop now and can't confirm the exact places, but look for the HowTo from Danger Mouse.  He has a site where you can add all sorts of non-free applications (like a complete MPlayer setup, Flash Player for Firefox, etc.).  Danger Mouse has worked out all the issues.  You simply select what you want from his list and then his script pulls everything in (including any needed repositories) and installs it.  You may have to reboot.  Then the function/program  is good to go.

Then check the archives of this list to see exactly what you need to do to add the PlanetCCRMA Fedora 11 repository.  Fernando told me how to do it a few months ago.  I think I may have just used the Fedora 10 file path, changed all references to Fedora 11, and got into the repository.

Sorry I can't be more specific, but that should give you some pointers.  For myself on Fedora 10, I loaded up everything ALSA with that one exception of Do Not load the ALSA-Pulse connection package, then removed everything that was PulseAudio that I could.  But as I said in the prior post, Fedora 11, ALSA, and PulseAudio seem to playing nice with each other.  So start working with Fedora 11 since it won't be that much longer before Fedora 10 is no longer actively supported.  (Fedora only actively supports the most recent 3 versions.)

Good Luck,
Stephen.




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From: Bruce Elliott <belliott4488 at verizon.net>
To: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando at ccrma.Stanford.EDU>
Cc: planetccrma at ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Sent: Tue, November 24, 2009 9:02:20 PM
Subject: Re: [PlanetCCRMA] setting up new system with Delta 1010LT + Intel HDA


  
Well, I was hoping desktop sounds, firefox and others who use Pulse Audio (about which I know nothing, BTW) would be able to use the built-in HDA card and the speakers I have hooked to it (and that the 1010LT would handle only audio to or from JACK-aware applications).  I'm not sure what's happening when I select various 'Output Devices' on the KDE System Settings | Multimedia dialog and click the '>Test'  button.  I get sound from the HDA card when I select it, but I also get sound from it when I select PulseAudio or the Delta 1010LT.

Here's a possible clue: when I first tried testing the PulseAudio output device, I got a momentary pop-up error message (from the KDE task bar, at the lower right corner of the desktop) saying that PulseAudio was not working and the sound processor (ALSA?) was reverting to the default device, i.e. the HDA card.  I haven't been able to get the message to reappear, but maybe it doesn't repeat after the first notification (?), in which case maybe I just missed a similar message the first time I tested the Delta 10101LT.  It seems like that could explain why I get sound from the HDA card when I test the Delta 1010LT.

In any case, I think I need to learn about PulseAudio, ALSA, and how they live together on the same system in order to trouble-shoot the system side of my sound setup.

- Bruce




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From: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando at ccrma.Stanford.EDU>
To: Bruce Elliott <belliott4488 at verizon.net>
Cc: planetccrma at ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Sent: Tue, November 24, 2009 4:26:36 PM
Subject: Re: [PlanetCCRMA] setting up new system with Delta 1010LT + Intel HDA

On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 09:57 -0800, Bruce Elliott wrote:
>  <snip>
> 
> I'm still getting no sound from things like Firefox plugins, but I'll
> go to a generic Linux forum to try and solve that - at least the
> "serious" stuff seems to be working.

Good to know. 

You can't use jack and have firefox doing stuff in the same soundcard
(there's a trick for that of course :-)

Desktop sounds, firefox and others use Pulse Audio for sound. So to try
that first stop jack. You have to see which card Pulse Audio is using.
In fc10 I _think_ that was pavucontrol (there might be a problem with
pulseaudio recognizing the 1010lt in fc10). See what that shows...

-- Fernando


> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> From: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando at ccrma.Stanford.EDU>
> To: Bruce Elliott <belliott4488 at verizon.net>
> Cc: planetccrma at ccrma.Stanford.EDU
> Sent: Tue, November 24, 2009 2:16:31 AM
> Subject: Re: [PlanetCCRMA] setting up new system with Delta 1010LT +
> Intel HDA
> 
> On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 08:10 -0800, Bruce Elliott wrote:
> >  <snip>
> > 
> > First, I need to get my cards set up right.  I have an M-Audio Delta
> > 1010LT card, which I'd like to use for working with music and the
> > Intel HDA card built in to the motherboard, which I'd be happy to
> use
> > for things like system notifications and other incidental sounds.
> > Here is what the system tells me about the cards:
> > 
> > # cat /proc/asound/cards
> >  0 [Intel          ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
> >                      HDA Intel at 0xf9200000 irq 22
> >  1 [M1010LT        ]: ICE1712 - M Audio Delta 1010LT
> >                      M Audio Delta 1010LT at 0xb000, irq 20
> >  
> > Here is my modprobe.conf: 
> > 
> > # cat /etc/modprobe.conf
> > alias snd-card-0 snd_hda_intel
> > options snd-card-0 index=0
> > options snd_hda_intel index=0
> > alias snd-card-1 snd_ice1712
> > options snd-card-1 index=1
> > options snd_ice1712 index=1
> > 
> > I put the Intel card first, since the CCRMA installation
> instructions
> > say that the first one is "usually the default device used by all
> > programs", and I figured that if some application decides to make an
> > unexpected noise, then I don't want it going through my music
> system;
> > in other words, I'd like to choose what I send through the Delta
> 1010
> > card.  Does that make sense?
> 
> Yes, it does. 
> 

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