Updated Uniaud32 build

[Martin Iturbide]

Hi Paul.

FYI: I have cleaned up the UniAud tickets on the netlabs SVN. (Here: http://trac.netlabs.org/uniaud/report/1[/i][/i])
The very old ones are closed and I kept the ones that had more recent feedback from the submitter. There are only 7 tickets now.

Regards

[Ian B Manners]

one simple example is to mix in system notifications with a mp3 stream, rather than the annoying pause the mp3, play the system sound, resume the mp3 behaviour.

Interesting, I forgot all about system sounds, do not think I've had those turned on since the later 90's.
I clicked on the 'Enable system sounds', clicked on Play (for test sound) button and got a sound with an MP3 still playin in pm123 ok but the second time I did it there was no sound, and the MP3 though still playing was silent. I could stop, and restart playing the MP3 but nothing I could do from then on resulted in any sounds. I unticked 'Enable system sounds', exited, closed pm123, then restarted pm123 and had audio back again. I find it interesting that I was able to at least play a system sound once without affecting the mp3 stream so there appears to be some sort of mixing happening though broken. This is with the SB Audigy 4 [SB0610] card. Will find the time to do more experimenting later.

[Paul Smedley]

New build - https://smedley.id.au/tmp/uniaud32-linux-5.10.10-20210124.zip

No significant changes - mainly updated some libraries to the latest kernel (rbtree, regmap, regcache) and some code cleanups from AlexT

Full details at http://trac.netlabs.org/uniaud/timeline

[OS4User]

Uniaud32 logs record what the number of supported streams is, in a line like:
GetUniaudPcmCaps: pcm 0, cp2. nr of streams: 1

I'm interested to see if anyone has any hardware that has 'nr of streams' > 1 - most likely this would be SB Live! type hardware.

I have  got SB Audigy 1 [SB0092]. It reports:

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GetUniaudPcmCaps: cp1. pcm 0, phandle e494dc84
GetUniaudPcmCaps: pcm 0, cp2. nr of streams: 32

5.10.10 works ok

[Alex Taylor]

No significant changes - mainly updated some libraries to the latest kernel (rbtree, regmap, regcache) and some code cleanups from AlexT

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[Martin Iturbide]

No significant changes - mainly updated some libraries to the latest kernel (rbtree, regmap, regcache) and some code cleanups from AlexT

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Hi Alex.  On the IRC there is a user called AlexT on the some OS/2 channels.  I guess it is not you (Alex Taylor) because you usally go on IRC with the "altsan" nickname, right?
Regards

[Paul Smedley]

No significant changes - mainly updated some libraries to the latest kernel (rbtree, regmap, regcache) and some code cleanups from AlexT

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Hi Alex.  On the IRC there is a user called AlexT on the some OS/2 channels.  I guess it is not you (Alex Taylor) because you usally go on IRC with the "altsan" nickname, right?
Regards

Correct.

[Alexander]

Hi!
First, thank you very much for your great work on uniaud!

I have sblive CT4830 4-channels card. It supports multistream and it really works with old uniaud.

I tried uniaud32-linux-5.10.10-20210124 , no traps , but no sound at all, pm123 says mci error 5134: no device driver found

[Martin Iturbide]

New build - https://smedley.id.au/tmp/uniaud32-linux-5.10.10-20210124.zip

Hi Paul

I tested it on the Thinkpad L420.
- Works. No trap. Master volume working. Works good here.
Thanks

[Paul Smedley]

Hi!
First, thank you very much for your great work on uniaud!

I have sblive CT4830 4-channels card. It supports multistream and it really works with old uniaud.

I tried uniaud32-linux-5.10.10-20210124 , no traps , but no sound at all, pm123 says mci error 5134: no device driver found

Check mixer controls with pmunimix.

Card seems to be detected:
Sound card name = SB Live! Value [CT4830]
...
pcm_info()
00-00: emu10k1 : ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback
 : playback 32
 : capture 1
...

What does unimix -card show?

[Paul Smedley]

Hi All,

I have one report (and can confirm on a T60 locally) of sound not working after a warm boot (ie ctrl-alt-del or setboot /b). The T60 has Analog Devices HDA hardware. I'm wondering if anyone else is seeing similar behaviour. Sound works 100% of the time after a cold boot.

Thanks,

Paul

[David McKenna]

 Paul,

 Version uniaud32-linux-5.10.10-20210124 works just fine here on my laptop and desktop, cold or warm boot...

Regards,

[Paul Smedley]

Hi David,

Version uniaud32-linux-5.10.10-20210124 works just fine here on my laptop and desktop, cold or warm boot...

Thanks for confirming - at this stage, it seems to be something unusual with the Analog Devices hardware...

New build - https://smedley.id.au/tmp/uniaud32-linux-5.10.10-20210126.zip has some code cleanups to remove some OS/2 specific workarounds in alsa-kernel/core/oss/pcm_oss.c, relating to calculations for min and max buffer sizes.

Seems to work ok here in minimal testing.

I'm slowly working my way through my //FIXME comments in the code, where in the interests of speed, I reverted to old code rather than spend time implementing kernel functionality.

Cheers,

Paul

[Ian B Manners]

Hi Paul,

I have one report (and can confirm on a T60 locally) of sound not working after a warm boot (ie ctrl-alt-del or setboot /b). The T60 has Analog Devices HDA hardware. I'm wondering if anyone else is seeing similar behaviour. Sound works 100% of the time after a cold boot.

Both
  uniaud32-linux-5.10.10-20210124.zip and
  uniaud32-linux-5.10.10-20210126.zip
work fine here from cold and warm boots at least with SB Audigy 4 [SB0610].

[David McKenna]

 Paul,

  Uniaud32-linux-5.10.10-20210126 is working great here too...

Regards,