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From: Rob Butera <butera@patriot.net>
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Subject: new user feedback
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Nice work.  I've got a Turtle Beach Daytona (S3 SonicVibes, PCM) card.

Most things are working great:
- CD
- alsa utilties
- apps  such as mxv and RealVideo

Only trouble I am having is with AU files.  aplay -u <file.au> returns
the following error:

Aplay: version 0.0.5 by Jaroslav Kysela <perex@jcu.cz>
Aplay: requested format Unsigned 16-bit Little Endian isn't supported with
hardware 

Similarly, doing something like cat foo.au > /dev/audio results in 
a lot of static coming out of the speaker.

Before discoving ALSA last week, I had just downloaded a trial version
of OSS 3.9, which had just started supporting Turtle Beach S3 cards.
ALSA 0.2.0pre5 already offers an equivalent amount of support.

One suggestion I would have is regarding the setup and configuration.  
OSS does something that sort of makes sense: it makes it's own directory
for storing modules.  The way ALSA is presently implemented, the modules
are stores in the standard modules path /lib/modules/2.X.Y/misc.  If
the user recompiles their kernel or upgrades their kernel via an upgrade
to a newer distribution (Debian, RedHat, etc), then the modules may be
overwritten or eliminated.  An independent directory (/lib/alsa?) would
prevent this from happening.

I hope in the future to be able to contribute to the ALSA project in some
small way (at present I have a somewhat new job and my wife is 8 months
pregnant), but until then, consider me a happy user and beta tester!

--
	Rob Butera				butera@patriot.net
	Rockville, MD USA			http://patriot.net/~butera


