[Xastir] Loss of incoming audio

[Alex Carver]

For your multiple cards initializing out of order, check this page out, it might help:

http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/MultipleCards

At the bottom are also links to USB configurations that might help with your USB sound card issue.

--- On Thu, 1/7/10, Tim Billingsley <kd5ckp at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Tim Billingsley <kd5ckp at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Loss of incoming audio
> To: "Xastir - APRS client software discussion" <xastir at lists.xastir.org>
> Date: Thursday, January 7, 2010, 4:03 PM
> Thanks for the input Curt.I will keep
> plugging at it. I may try the
> window manager idea and see if my ham stuff will work well
> with it. If
> so KDE may hit the back burner for a while and that will
> really
> confuse my kids when they ask to use my computer. HHHmmm
> that may be
> part of the problem right there....
> 
> I purchased one of the cheepie USB sound dongles and that
> just really
> added to the confusion. I was going to run my other digital
> stuff on
> it and leave the on board audio for the desktop, but the
> USB thing did
> really strange stuff when I booted up and I was not going
> to manually
> insert it EVERY boot.
> 
> Thanks again. I don't think they really need me as a Digi
> here but I
> know we have dead spots just southwest of me that I could
> help cover.
> I will keep trying.
> 
> 73
> 
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Curt, WE7U <archer at eskimo.com>
> wrote:
> > On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, Tim Billingsley wrote:
> >
> >> A few moments ago I checked it and
> >> I received one station a few miles from me and
> nothing else. Transmit
> >> audio seems to work fine, but there is one other
> item that may help in
> >> diagnosis. Almost every time I start xastir it
> will transmit once and
> >> after that it stores every beacon/message/query
> until I stop the
> >> interface and restart it. At that point everything
> transmits fine. The
> >> receive is hit and miss at best. A couple of days
> ago I ran almost all
> >> day with no glitches, today I have had no luck at
> all. I am about to
> >> reboot again and see what it does.
> >
> > Most of the trouble I had with soundmodem had to do
> with something
> > else whacking the receive levels.  Sometimes it was
> the desktop
> > environment trying to do audio when it came up or some
> kind of audio
> > alert, sometimes it was an audio or video player app.
>  By bringing
> > up an audio volume control application I could get it
> working again.
> >
> > I mostly solved this problem by not running a Desktop
> Environment
> > like KDE or Gnome, and running just a Window Manager
> instead.  Most
> > people these days wouldn't go that route, but I'm a
> hard-core Unix
> > user so I feel at home with this.  I run FVWM2 window
> manager.
> >
> > I don't know how to fix the soundcard order problem.
>  I haven't run
> > a system with multiple soundcards yet but was planning
> to play with
> > that in the future in order to isolate the
> video/audio/system sounds
> > from the ham radio stuff.  Perhaps someone with a USB
> 2nd soundcard
> > setup for their radios has solved these sorts of
> problems.
> >
> > --
> > Curt, WE7U.                         <http://www.eskimo.com/~archer>
> >   APRS:  Where it's at!                  
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> unknown
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> WE7U.
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> coordinate system!"
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