[Voyage-linux] USB DAC problems with Voyage 0.8 and new Voyage 0.8.5

[Kim-man 'Punky' TSE]

Hi Bruno,

May be you try disabling Juli output to see what happens:

mpc disable 2
mpc disable 3

Regards,
Punky

On 5/30/2012 3:25 PM, Bruno wrote:
> Hi Kim,
>
> 1. I have an Alix1D board
> 2. I have a Juli@ soundcard with S/PDIF output that goes into Calyx DAC S/PDIF input. In this case, it plays correctly.
> 3. cat /proc/asound/cards
>  0 [Juli           ]: ICE1724 - ESI Juli@
>                       ESI Juli@ at 0xff00, irq 10
>  1 [C20            ]: USB-Audio - Calyx USB Audio 2.0
>                       Calyx Calyx USB Audio 2.0 at usb-0000:00:0f.5-3, high speed
>  2 [Audio          ]: cs5535audio - CS5535 Audio
>                       CS5535 Audio cs5535audio at 0xfc00, irq 11
>  mpc outputs
> Output 1 (Calyx) is enabled
> Output 2 (Juli@) is enabled
> Output 3 (Juli@ Digital) is enabled
>
> Find enclosed mpd.conf
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ciao
> Bruno
>
>
> Nella citazione in data mercoledì 30 maggio 2012 08:11:16, Kim-man 'Punky' TSE ha scritto:
>>
>> Hi Bruno,
>>
>> I read your mails again and questions:
>>
>> 1. What ALIX board do you have?
>> 2. You repeatedly say you can play through S/PDIF. Do you mean S/PDIF
>> on ALIX board or on your Calyx DAC?
>> 3. show me the output again for the following commands:
>> a) cat /proc/asound/cards
>> b) mpc outputs
>> 4. attach your /etc/mpd.conf in reply mail.
>>
>>
>> On 5/29/2012 4:09 PM, Bruno wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Kim,
>>>
>>> the format has been already commented, no result.
>>>
>>> My impression is that there should be some issue in ALSA mixer, as I
>>> found on Google that the warning messages
>>>
>>> cannot get ctl value: req = 0x83, wValue = 0x201, wIndex = 0xa004
>>>
>>> are related to it. But I don't know how to check this....
>>>
>>> Thanks again
>>>
>>> Ciao
>>> Bruno
>>>
>>> Il 29/05/2012 09:59, Kim-man 'Punky' TSE ha scritto:
>>>>
>>>> On 5/29/2012 3:30 PM, Bruno wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I tried to play it via S/PDIF, and it sounds correctly. I have
>>>>> music files both standard and high sample rates (e.g. 44,1 - 96 and
>>>>> 192 kHz) but none of them play via USB output but only via S/PDIF
>>>>> output. I now will try to leave the O.S. on the USB stick (the CD
>>>>> live version) and configure it to see if in this way it sounds via
>>>>> USB also after reboot. I will let you know.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have no idea why. But since you can play via S/PDIF from the DAC,
>>>> this means mpd is able to send USB signal to the DAC.
>>>>
>>>> At last, check the following /etc/mpd.conf to remove "format" line
>>>> so that it detects the bit-rate correctly:
>>>>
>>>> audio_output {
>>>> type "alsa"
>>>> name "My ALSA Device"
>>>> device "hw:0,0" # optional
>>>> # format "44100:16:2" # optional
>>>> # mixer_device "default" # optional
>>>> # mixer_control "PCM" # optional
>>>> # mixer_index "0" # optional
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>


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Regards,
Kim-man "Punky" Tse

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