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

[Punky Tse]

Hi Bruno,

If 0.7.5 works for you then stick with it.  There are not much 
difference except kernel.  Later on we will see if other users 
experience the same problem using Calyx DAC.

Regards,
Punky

On 5/30/2012 7:35 PM, Bruno wrote:
> Hi Punky,
>
> nothing happened.... :-( still no sound from USB. I also tried to 
> switch on USB DAC after booting, but nothing
>
> I would like to try to upgrade 0.7.5 to 0.8.5 installing new kernel, 
> new mpd and all that is new via apt-get, but I don't know how to do 
> it. Can you please explain?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ciao
> Bruno
>
> Nella citazione in data mercoledì 30 maggio 2012 10:17:06, Kim-man 
> 'Punky' TSE ha scritto:
>> 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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