[PlanetCCRMA] snd - nothing but hiss

[Mark Knecht]

On 10/3/05, Peter Lutek <plutek at infinity.net> wrote:
> >>
> >
> >Hi Peter,
> >   When I load a wave file that plays.
> >
> using jack?

No, good point. So far I've not attempted to use snd with Jack. On my
systems the on board sound chip is always default. I let default
audio, from games, web browsing, programs I don't normally use, go
there. I then route that audio back into the system through an
external A/D if I need it.

Currently when snd is started it goes to card 0 I believe:

mark at lightning ~ $ cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [CK804          ]: NFORCE - NVidia CK804
                     NVidia CK804 with ALC850 at 0xda103000, irq 225
1 [DSP            ]: H-DSP - Hammerfall DSP
                     RME Hammerfall HDSP 9652 at 0xda000000, irq 58
mark at lightning ~ $

>
> >When I load an ogg file I get hiss.
> >
> >   I guess you cannot even open an ogg file?
> >
> >
> no.

Right. In my case, as I've built this on Gentoo with support for Alsa
and without support for ESD. There is no specific jack option in this
ebuild. I can load the ogg file, and I can view it visually, but I
only get hiss when I play it.

lightning ~ # emerge -pv snd

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild   R   ] media-sound/snd-7.10  +X +alsa -esd +gtk -guile -motif
-ruby 0 kB

Total size of downloads: 0 kB
lightning ~ #
>
> >   The machine I'm on is not actually a PlanetCCRMA machine. I only
> >came to this list since the snd home page seems to be located at
> >CCRMA.
> >
> >
> right.... i wondered about that. i thought i remembered you being a
> gentoo guy, as i was once upon a time.

I still have one PlanetCCRMA machine but it is used outside the studio
area. I suppose I could load the Planet's version of snd and see if it
operates differently or better there.

I'll hang out a bit and see if any other snd users pop up, or maybe go
to LAU as I think it was first mentioned there as being a Jack aware
editor.

Thanks,
Mark