From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EBFFD138350 for ; Sun, 26 Apr 2020 20:05:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AF7B0E0A04; Sun, 26 Apr 2020 20:05:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-io1-xd33.google.com (mail-io1-xd33.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4864:20::d33]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 62040E0975 for ; Sun, 26 Apr 2020 20:05:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-io1-xd33.google.com with SMTP id c2so1810925iow.7 for ; Sun, 26 Apr 2020 13:05:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-transfer-encoding; bh=FGUY8bRanPAmGoYlxzS2B4vVJHFfvigjxAFR3e46zWo=; b=b/srAgAf9CCeiZUDwAJMYiDsi2kD2Km+ILQMvYdzQBqZ6pW6F4IAXRbTRpTWFaJjsY HKp3lXQgCu47ikddxhiAtS8mD45ZBeMF3YHhe2MCCLCBoKN1D2owgsDYzLEv7li1ywjU uKT9+oggJyr7SEPR/4OKUPtULX65V+xan7REl9B2KNTaljOusXdw65wxIbMFcCVQVPig D+iDZCZv4llhcOyyLIkJYiDKN6NEYK+b8csarY/8fV3fuuxkvHGhdnXsY7RW6q407DMx qLP6VSOhgcLWEnF1l3TlbhR8AIoREbgjTlCF8JzJwlFktY+tEs8u3AlvELwa5J+G6P3u o9wg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=FGUY8bRanPAmGoYlxzS2B4vVJHFfvigjxAFR3e46zWo=; b=bP30+unhwba4vWcfqM4X5nS1uTmmXQ662zQCykzNAOBL049y8hyuZAfxta519+DASp xEhrokyksmryE2QYFpTkuXqcHRVZCX6ExprdtyV5QSOuwjc2OiU/hsi5NpcPm9XqAoI3 ag5kYfeAHGHNt82TDprFJV41ChkD0fZVosYYqthcLPfcykUww3zfJSiePWRf52Y00BXL RvWKQBhuSlhW2cv0vit2iMcCuhsLD1BCtcwzRVc6nKuU8FuQVu+V5+TOjZdMpWuXK+wb nk2Nqjz7+rBRI4/PiIiPmd6x6xjFXtGjIyQpube6cpFgmxEDidtUK0dWfC80hfXhx7uL xShw== X-Gm-Message-State: AGi0PubDYPcBJr91uAIKsLLBMQ1hSKtUAePBmRcHygUljCi/LHMkEgAv dXWCEgjLUztVF+rdHy8baVIBh2rTlkr4gJrN6DYiYA== X-Google-Smtp-Source: APiQypLUXCYYV8gVkTS/iJEk6iZUknecJbQSge4+1/Z3z48pCISLGEVOw8Dgq0yNlUmcTY1IaI3CqYu4IaTCMJ5L/ys= X-Received: by 2002:a05:6602:81b:: with SMTP id z27mr18474358iow.17.1587931545000; Sun, 26 Apr 2020 13:05:45 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <3298791.iIbC2pHGDl@lenovo.localdomain> <1840287.usQuhbGJ8B@lenovo.localdomain> In-Reply-To: From: Jorge Almeida Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 21:05:35 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard... To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: fee8acca-06ce-46d9-a86c-c6408208bbf4 X-Archives-Hash: be1d3df4e8b77f6091d37568733720f8 On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 8:34 PM Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 12:09 PM Jorge Almeida wrot= e: > > > > > > Since you use pulseaudio (per your latest post): can you send the > > contents of a wav file to an external DAC via toslink, without > > pulseaudio messing with the file? (Most people don't seem to care > > whether the signal is first converted to analog, and resampled, and > > converted to digital, and whatnot, before leaving the computer...) > > > I'll investigate what I can do sending files by hand. However on the USB = only machine all the internal sound card hardware is blacklisted so modules= aren't loaded. I don't know that I want to upset the environment on that m= achine very much but a bit more about this at the bottom of this post. > No, please don't bother. I only mentioned because I thought you might know it out of hand. I'll search documentation about pulseaudio, if I can find it. It occurred to me that it would be an acceptable setup if pulseaudio could be coaxed into managing just the USB card (as hw card, not as virtual card) and leave the HD audio alone. I would use the USB to voice chat and the MB card to everything else. (I would have to buy another pair of headphones, but maybe headphones for speech-only would not add too much clutter to the desk...) > and running on your system. You probably don't have the qt version on a n= on-KDE system I suspect. I don't have pulseaudio installed, I'm quite sure. I have qt, because some applications use it. > > I am tending to trust this link for a description of pulseaudio's purpose= . > > https://superuser.com/questions/144648/how-do-alsa-and-pulseaudio-relate Will check it. > > Anyway, last thing for now would be that I'm still willing and slightly i= nterested in looking at discord/zoom/whatever for my own needs. If I make s= ome headway, or if you want to collaborate in that area let me know, either= through gentoo-user of privately. If you need a voice chat to talk with your friends/co-workers/etc, maybe mumble would be a good choice. It's the only one that recognized my hw and allowed to calibrate the micro. It also allows to choose the sound source by hand, if needed (contrary to all the others). And it is open source. (But it would require that one of you setup a server, or else use a paying server.) > Cheers Jorge