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Changelog between 1.0.23 and 1.0.24 releases
(http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Changes_v1.0.23_v1.0.24)
(Reformated as ASCII text)
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
* alsa-utils
+ Core
Release v1.0.24
configure.in: Fix xmlto detection
alsactl: Add a --with-udev-rules-dir configure option.
configure.in: Fix variable name
alsactl: Move asound.state location to /var/lib/alsa
alsactl: systemd and udev hookup
Introduce alsaloop utility
alsaucm: Add Use Case Manager utility
Revert wrong parts of "alsactl: use snd_config_imake* functions"
alsactl: use snd_config_imake* functions
+ ALSA Control (alsactl)
alsactl: Add a --with-udev-rules-dir configure option.
alsactl: Move asound.state location to /var/lib/alsa
alsactl: systemd and udev hookup
alsactl init: Initialize also "Master Front Playback Volume" & "Switch"
alsactl init: Handle "Capture Source" and "Mic Boost" in the default script
alsactl: Change handling of inactive controls
alsactl init: use "generic method" instead "guess method"
alsactl init: Use "Found hardware:" instead "Unknown hardware:"
Revert wrong parts of "alsactl: use snd_config_imake* functions"
alsactl: change format of comment node in state file
alsactl: correctly restore dB values of controls with changed range
alsactl: remove open-coded search
alsactl: move alloca out of loop
alsactl: use snd_config_imake* functions
+ Speaker Test
speaker-test: Don't retry after fatal errors
speaker-test: add test pattern for PCM layer debugging purposes
+ aconnect
Revert wrong parts of "alsactl: use snd_config_imake* functions"
alsactl: use snd_config_imake* functions
+ alsaconf
alsactl: Move asound.state location to /var/lib/alsa
+ alsaloop
alsaloop: rework the ctl event handling routine
alsaloop: Delay the restart a bit (to handle snd-aloop playback xruns better)
alsaloop: Fix latency print
alsaloop: fixes, added -W/--wake option
alsaloop: add -U/--xrun to alsaloop.1 man page
alsaloop: added xrun profiling support (-U,--xrun), added SIGUSR1 state dump
alsaloop: add --pctl and --cctl options to man page
alsaloop: add --pctl and --cctl options
alsaloop: Fixes and added --workaround option
alsaloop: Fix command-line parsing and pollfd initialization
alsaloop: Add OSS mixer redirection support
alsaloop: added resampling for unsupported soundcard rates
alsaloop: fix resample argument parsing
alsaloop: fix -a option and slave mode processing
alsaloop: Fix thread handling
alsaloop: Fix loopbacks pointer initialization and allocation, fix -T option
Introduce alsaloop utility
+ alsamixer
alsamixer: use cubic scale for volume bars
alsamixer: increase step size for big control value ranges
alsamixer: remove obsolete e-mail
alsamixer: remove obsolete e-mail
+ alsaucm
alsaucm: fix command line arguments parsing
ucm: added listcards command
alsaucm: initial rewrite to use update API
alsaucm: Report failure to set a device due to missing verb setup
alsaucm: Add Use Case Manager utility
+ amixer
amixer: fix parsing of control ID name
+ aplay/arecord
aplay/arecord: term_c_lflag variable might be unitialized in some cases
aplay: fix termio settings - return back old c_flag value on exit
aplay/arecord: Added hardware pause support (press SPACE or Enter)
Changelog between 1.0.22 and 1.0.23 releases
(http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Changes_v1.0.22_v1.0.23)
(Reformated as ASCII text)
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
* alsa-utils
+ Core
Release v1.0.23
+ ALSA Control (alsactl)
alsactl: update debug prints in state.c
alsactl: add more debug prints to state.c
alsactl: improve -d to get warnings and store exitcode to runstate file
alsactl: Fix return code
+ ALSA RawMidi Utility (amidi)
amidi: fix port listing
+ Speaker Test
speaker-test: add fflush(stdout) to write_loop
+ aconnect
aconnect -x: Do not update index after removal of connection.
+ alsamixer
alsamixer: handle out-of-range volume values
alsamixer: fix division by zero
+ amixer
amixer: add support for TLV dB minmax types
amixer: fix display of unreadable control elements
+ aplay/arecord
aplay -- update the man file
aplay -- add features for audio surveilance
aplay - add option --process-id-file
aplay: Dump PCM state on xrun when verbose mode is active
Changelog between 1.0.21 and 1.0.22 releases
(http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Changes_v1.0.21_v1.0.22)
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+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
* alsa-utils
+ Core
Release v1.0.22
+ ALSA Control (alsactl)
alsactl: fix error path code in init_parse.c
alsactl: init - default - initialize also "Digital Input Source"
alsactl init: Add CTL{do_search} and CTL{do_count} parsers
alsactl init: use empty GOTOs in init/default file to increase readability
alsactl: introduce CTL{write} to match directly written CTL values
alsactl - Initialize Speaker volume to 0dB when Master is present
alsactl init: Fix typo "(" -> "{" in Headphone default rule
+ Speaker Test
speaker-test: not all sample formats are supported - show only supported ones
speaker-test: add -d (--debug) option to show PCM parameters
+ aplay/arecord
arecord: fix wrong chunk_size initialization when verbose and mmap flags are set
aplay - Show available formats
Changelog between 1.0.20 and 1.0.21 releases
(http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Changes_v1.0.20_v1.0.21)
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********************************************
* alsa-utils
+ Core
Release v1.0.21
alsamixer: show channel names for multichannel control
+ /include/Makefile.am
alsamixer: show channel names for multichannel control
+ ALSA Control (alsactl)
alsactl init rules: fix Lenovo T61 initialization (Speaker Playback Switch
alsactl: init - fix default configuration for ENS137
alsactl: fixed Headphone Playback Volume setting in default rule
+ Speaker Test
speaker-test: only check byte order onc
speaker-test: move existing endian macros up in the fil
Remove dead/commented out cod
Allow frequencies down to 30 H
speaker-test: allow frequency to be floating poin
+ alsamixer
alsamixer: fix display of inactive volume ba
alsamixer: rename attr to c
alsamixer - Tricolorize volume bar
alsamixer: update man pag
alsamixer: fix text box clipping with multi-column character
alsamixer - Fix uninitialized variable warnin
alsamixer: show channel names for multichannel control
+ aplaymidi/arecordmidi
aplaymidi: reduce bandwidth for big SysEx message
Changelog between 1.0.19 and 1.0.20 releases
(http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Changes_v1.0.19_v1.0.20)
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********************************************
* alsa-utils
+ Core
-Fix build with partially-installed alsa-lib
-aplay/arecord: fix underrun/overrun time calculation for monotonic clock
-Release v1.0.20
+ ALSA Control (alsactl)
-Use ANSI C functions
-alsactl: init - modify default rule to better support some HDA codecs
-Fix misc compile warnings in alsactl
-alsactl - Add missing -I option
-alsactl/init: Fix CTL{value} assigning - make it relevant to documentation
-alsactl: init rules - fix HDA Conexact codec PCM initialization
-alsactl: fix sysfsroot path and parser extensions
-alsactl: changes in initialization files
-alsactl: add ca0106 initialization file
-alsactl: ca0106 initialization files - wrong exit
+ Speaker Test
-speaker-test.c - add readability comments to speaker channels
+ alsaconf
-alsaconf - prefer /etc/modprobe.d/sound/50-sound.conf
+ alsamixer
-ALSA: Added vi-like key bindings to alsamixer.
+ aplay/arecord
-aplay/arecord: fix underrun/overrun time calculation for monotonic clock
-aplay/arecord: remove debug printfs introduced by previous patch
-aplay/arecord: improve suspicious buffer detection and add --test-coef parameter
Changelog between 1.0.18 and 1.0.19 releases
(http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Changes_v1.0.18_v1.0.19)
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********************************************
* alsa-utils
Core
-Add --disable-xmlto configure option
-Release v1.0.19
+ ALSA Control (alsactl)
-Add --disable-xmlto configure option
-Add -I option to alsactl
-Remove some dead code (comparisons between 0 and unsigned integers).
-Mark static the functions not used outside their unit.
-Make some static tables and strings constants.
-alsactl: Fix restore / init call behaviour when driver contains more controls
-alsa-utils check if __USE_BSD is defined before compiling "BSD functions"
+ ALSA RawMidi Utility (amidi)
-Mark static the functions not used outside their unit.
-Make some static tables and strings constants.
+ Speaker Test
-Move conditional inclusion of locale.h further down.
-Remove some unused variables.
-speaker-test: Fix floating-point exception bug
+ alsaconf
-alsaconf: add Slackware support
-Create a special fd redirection for menu choice.
-Nowadays Gentoo also uses update-modules, so update alsaconf.
+ alsamixer
-Make some static tables and strings constants.
+ amixer
-Mark static the functions not used outside their unit.
-Make some static tables and strings constants.
+ aplay/arecord
-Fix wrong direction check in aplay/arecord --list-pcms
+ aseqnet
-aseqnet - Add $(INTLLIBS) to Makefile.am
Changelog between 1.0.17 and 1.0.18 releases
(http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Changes_v1.0.17_v1.0.18)
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********************************************
* alsa-utils
+ Core
-alsactl - install initialization files
-Release v1.0.18rc1
-Release v1.0.18rc2
-Remove unneeded files from EXTRA_DIST in root Makefile.am
-Release v1.0.18rc3
-Add --disable-alsaconf to configure script
-Release v1.0.18
+ ALSA Control (alsactl)
-Initial 'alsactl init' implementation
-alsactl init: added support for Lenovo T61
-alsactl init: Changed support for Acer Travelmate 8100 (use subvendor and subdevice for matching)
-alsactl init - Fix Lenovo T61 configuraton
-alsactl - install initialization files
-alsactl init configuration syntax changes
-alsactl init - allow enum specification by name strings
-alsactl init - add dB and percentual CTL{value} parsing for integer values
-alsactl init - restore calls also init on failure
-alsactl init - modified configuration for Acer Travelmate 8100
-alsactl init - fixed enumeration string setting, update Lenovo T61 config (dB)
-alsactl init - add ATTR{dBmin} and ATTR{dBmax}
-alsactl init - CTL{values}, CTL{enums} and default "guess method" initialization
-alsactl init - add default command to help config and fix packaging
-alsactl - remove 'names' command, fix alsactl man page
-alsactl: Allow card specification by device name (support for udev)
-alsactl init - fixed EXTRA_DIST typo in alsactl/init subdirectory
-alsactl init - fix memory leaks (valgrind helped)
-alsactl.1 - explicitly notify about ALSA_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
-Add missing files to be included in alsactl/Makefile.am
-alsactl: Fix oops (when parsing card argument)
-alsactl: Add -g,--ignore option to ignore 'No soundcards found' error
+ Speaker Test
-alsactl - install initialization files
+ amixer
-amixer - fixed TLV dBscale and added dBrange parsing
+ aplay/arecord
-aplay - show sample arrangement (mmap areas) in verbose more for debugging
-aplay/arecord: add --test-position test
+ iecset
-iecset update for new consumer status channel bits
-iecset - Add missing help text for -n option
Changelog between 1.0.16 and 1.0.17 releases
(http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Changes_v1.0.16_v1.0.17)
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********************************************
* alsa-utils
+ Core
- Require alsa-lib 1.0.16
- Add check of ncurses*-config
- hgcompile -> gitcompile
- Release v1.0.17rc1
- Release v1.0.17rc2
- Release v1.0.17
+ ALSA Control (alsactl)
- alsactl: simplify and fix item type detection
+ Speaker Test
- speaker-test.c - fix sine generator on big-endian archs
- speaker-test.c - fix pink noise generator on big-endian archs
+ alsaconf
- alsaconf: use 'type -p', not which
+ alsamixer
- Add check of ncurses*-config
+ aplay/arecord
- aplay/arecord - Add support for IEEE float 32-bit WAV files
- Support for playing WAV files with "extensible format" header using aplay.
- aplay - Add stereo VU-meter support
- aplay - Fix a compile warning
+ aplaymidi/arecordmidi
- fix poll timeout
+ aseqdump
- aseqdump: increase verbosity
- fix poll timeout
- aseqdump: flush output
+ gitcompile
- renamed hgcompile to gitcompile
+ hgcompile
- renamed hgcompile to gitcompile
Changelog between 1.0.15 and 1.0.16 releases
(http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Changes_v1.0.15_v1.0.16)
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********************************************
* alsa-utils
+ Core
- alsactl - restore dB level
+ ALSA Control (alsactl)
- alsactl - Fix wrong restore
- alsactl: skip inactive controls
- alsactl - fix double entry of comment.tlv
- alsactl - Set -F option as default
- Make alsactl restore a bit more robust
- alsactl - restore dB level
+ Speaker Test
- speaker-test - Fix number of periods to play
- speaker-test - Put errors to stderr
- Remove xfer_align
+ alsamixer
- alsamixer: add 8-channel support
+ aplay/arecord
- aplay - Reset non-blocking flag before snd_pcm_drain()
- Remove sleep_min from aplay
- Remove xfer_align
+ aseqnet
- Add missing inclusion of assert.h
+ iecset
- iecset: fix card index check
- iecset - Add -n option
Changelog between 1.0.14 and 1.0.15 releases
(http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Changes_v1.0.14_v1.0.15)
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********************************************
* alsa-utils
+ ALSA Control (alsactl)
- alsactl - Remove debug print
+ Speaker Test
- Add missing library dependency
+ alsaconf
- alsaconf - Don't produce hwcfg file for openSUSE 10.3
+ alsamixer
- alsamixer - Handle capture enums separately
- amixer/alsamixer - updated go scripts for debugging
+ amixer
- amixer - Fix selection of enum items
- Ignore errors with -s option
- amixer - Allow to pass enum item string for cset, too
- amixer/alsamixer - updated go scripts for debugging
+ aplay/arecord
- Remove unneeded -lasound
- aplay - Fix possible endless loop with SIGBART
- aplay - Fix VU meter
- aplay - Include missing time.h for time()
+ aplaymidi/arecordmidi
- arecordmidi: mention SMF type in man page
Changelog between 1.0.14rc4 and 1.0.14 releases
(http://www.alsa-project.org/changes/v1-0-14rc4--v1-0-14.txt)
*******************************************
* alsa-utils
+ ALSA Control (alsactl)
- alsactl - Error message when failing to open the config file
- alsactl - adjust spaces in help texts
- alsactl - More explicit open error message
- alsactl - More explicit open error message (#2)
- alsactl - Display help for names command
+ alsamixer
- alsamixer - Fix duplicated appearance in All view mode
* alsa-firmware
+ Core
- Add Dreamcast AICA firmware
+ AICA (Dreamcast) Firmware
- Renamed aica/licence.txt -> aica/license.txt
- Add Dreamcast AICA firmware
+ AudioScience ASIHPI Firmware
- Update ASIHPI firmware 3.07.04
Changelog between 1.0.14rc2 and 1.0.14r4 releases
(http://www.alsa-project.org/changes/v1-0-14rc3--v1-0-14rc4.txt)
********************************************
* alsa-utils
+ Core
- release 1.0.14rc2
+ ALSA RawMidi Utility (amidi)
- amidi: open devices non-blockingly
+ amixer
- amixer - show iec958 status bits in contents command
Changelog between 1.0.14rc1 and 1.0.14r2 releases
(http://www.alsa-project.org/changes/v1-0-14rc1--v1-0-14rc2.txt)
********************************************
* alsa-utils
+ aconnect
- Fix aconnect man page
Changelog between 1.0.13 and 1.0.14rc1 releases
(http://www.alsa-project.org/changes/v1-0-13--v1-0-14rc1.txt)
********************************************
* alsa-utils
+ Core
- utils: Make default sample files be in /usr/share/sounds/alsa
- alsa-utils.spec.in - additions
+ ALSA Control (alsactl)
- alsactl - return error state, fail when no configuration is found
+ Speaker Test
- speaker-test: fix typos in manpage
+ alsaconf
- alsaconf fix: cannot find the snd-powerpc module
- alsaconf - rcalsasound script does not exists in some distros
+ alsamixer
- alsamixer: cosmetic fix
+ amixer
- Implement Playback/Capture enum.
- amixer: sset - check if command is valid
- amixer - remove beep on errors in arguments
+ aplay/arecord
- Fix argument for snd_device_name_hint().
- aplay: add fflush(stdout) for -vvv verbosity
- fix for recent namehint API (use get_hint function)
- aplay: namehint fix - use filter before printing device name
- aplay/arecord -L command: process properly end-of-line characters
- aplay/arecord: Remove -n commad (obsolete, undocumented)
- aplay/arecord - use snd_device_name_hint() for -L command
- aplay/arecord: filter direction for -L command
+ aplaymidi/arecordmidi
- aplaymidi: handle big SysEx commands
Changelog between 1.0.12 and 1.0.13 releases
(http://www.alsa-project.org/changes/v1-0-12--v1-0-13.txt)
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* alsa-utils
+ ALSA Control (alsactl)
- Restore user-defined TLV
+ alsaconf
- Fix setup for SLES10/SLED10
- Initialize volumes using dB in alsaconf
+ alsamixer
- Show the mute dB state correctly
+ amixer
- Add handling of dB to amixer
- Add linear-volume handling in amixer
Changelog between 1.0.11 and 1.0.12 releases
(http://www.alsa-project.org/changes/v1-0-11--v1-0-12.txt)
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* alsa-utils
+ Core
- amixer - added basic TLV support (read only) for 'amixer controls'
+ ALSA RawMidi Utility (amidi)
- amidi: Fix device list
- amidi: fix --list-devices
+ Speaker Test
- Fix the default buffer size calculation in speaker-test
+ alsamixer
- amixer - show dB values for simple mixer interface (which is default)
+ amixer
- Fix print_dB() with a minus value
- amixer - show dB values for simple mixer interface (which is default)
- amixer - added basic TLV support (read only) for 'amixer controls'
+ aplay/arecord
- Fix segfault in aplay when snd_pcm_name() == NULL
- Use the right word in message of areacord
- Don't call close() for the same fd twice in arecord
- Fix misc bugs in arecord
- Fix arecord to quit properly at max file size
- Allow aplay/arecord to handle up to 2GB for WAV
- Fix a compile warning in aplay.c
- Fix endless loop of recording in arecord
+ aplaymidi/arecordmidi
- aplaymidi: list only MIDI-capable ports
Changelog between 1.0.10 and 1.0.11 releases
(http://www.alsa-project.org/changes/v1-0-10--v1-0-11.txt)
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* alsa-utils
+ Core
- Add WAV file playback support to speaker-test
Add WAV file playback support to speaker-test.
The support is still limited to S16_LE, and doesn't refer to csv file yet.
+ ALSA Control (alsactl)
- Remove obsolete power command from alsactl
Remove obsolete power command from alsactl.
+ Speaker Test
- Improve buffer/period set up in speaker-test
Improve buffer/period set up in speaker-test.
- Don't ignore -b and -p options but use them if specified
- Clean up and improvement of messy buffer/period setup codes
- Add -P option for specifying number of periods explicitly
- Fix missing commas
Fixed missing commas in array elements (ALSA bug#1938).
- Add --nloops option and fix manpage
- Added --nloops option to specify the number of loops
- Fixed man page of speaker-test
- Fix a typo in speaker-test help text
Fix a typo in speaker-test help text. Updated ja.po, too.
- Make speaker-test compatible with dmix by default.
- Avoid unnecessary drain/restart in speaker-test
Avoid unnecessary drain/restart in speaker-test when the buffer
is enough small.
- speaker-test - Fix missing i18n
Add the gettext tags to newly added texts.
- speaker-test: Fix version reporting.
- Tentative fix for speaker-test WAV with 5 or more channels
Fix the WAV file name for center/lfe. Use the existing
"Rear_Center.wav" for LFE as a workaround.
- Add missing comma
Add a missing comma in the last fix...
- Fix compile on big-endian arch
Fix compile on big-endian arch.
- Remove loops after errors
Don't retry after fatal errors.
- Add WAV file playback support to speaker-test
Add WAV file playback support to speaker-test.
The support is still limited to S16_LE, and doesn't refer to csv file yet.
+ alsaconf
- Fix a text in alsa-utils
Fix a text in alsa-utils after proof-reading.
- Minor clean up of bashism
Minor clean up of bashism, replaced with normal test.
- Fix PCI class and name extraction in alsaconf
- Allow all PCI class 04xx, not only 040x
- Fix the extraction of device name from lspci output
ALSA bug#1935
- Use amixer -s option
Optimize to use amixer with -s option.
+ amixer
- amixer - Add -s option
- Add -s option to read from stdin the command sequentially.
- Suppress unneeded warnings in sset.
+ aplay/arecord
- Fix a typo in manpage
Fix a typo in manpage of aplay.
- Don't show invalid plug example in the error message of aplay
Don't show invalid examples of usage with plug prefix
in the error message of aplay/arecord.
- alternative peak meter for aplay
From: Dirk Jagdmann <doj@cubic.org>
This patch adds an alternative peak meter for aplay/arecord which is
enabled via three "-v" command line arguments. This new mode differs
from the old in a larger meter, no linefeeds for every meter update and
a static maximum peak (for 1s).
- split interleaved files in arecord when reaching 2GB
From: Dirk Jagdmann <doj@cubic.org>
This patch will split files in chunks of aprox. 2GB in the interleaved
recording mode of arecord. This is meant to overcome the 2GB filesize
limit of .wav files, which is easily reached when recording multiple
channels.
+ cvscompile
- Add exec permission to cvscompile
Changelog between 1.0.10rc3 and 1.0.10 releases
(http://www.alsa-project.org/changes/v1-0-10rc3--v1-0-10.txt)
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* alsa-utils
+ Core
- Add largefile support
- release 1.0.10
+ Speaker Test
- Disable NLS support when --disable-nls is passed
+ aconnect
- Disable NLS support when --disable-nls is passed
+ alsaconf
- Add Sparc support in alsaconf
+ aplay/arecord
- Disable NLS support when --disable-nls is passed
- aplay/arecord - show the default settings
+ aseqnet
- Disable NLS support when --disable-nls is passed
Changelog between 1.0.10rc1 and 1.0.10rc2 releases
(http://alsa-project.org/changes/v1-0-10rc1--v1-0-10rc2.txt)
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* alsa-utils
+ Core
- release 1.0.10rc2
+ ALSA Control (alsactl)
- Fix / clean up man pages
- Extend 'alsactl names' to show modem devices
+ ALSA RawMidi Utility (amidi)
- Fix / clean up man pages
+ Speaker Test
- speaker-test: Add support for testing FLOAT_LE format.
+ alsaconf
- Allow separate build and source trees
- Fix hwcfg file name by alsaconf
+ alsamixer
- Fix / clean up man pages
- Use strsignal()
- Implement dB gain level display.
+ amixer
- Fix / clean up man pages
- Added more better error fault handling for sset toggle
- Fix for more better error fault handling for sset toggle
Changelog between 1.0.9a and 1.0.10rc1 releases
(http://alsa-project.org/changes/v1-0-9b--v1-0-10rc1.txt)
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* alsa-utils
+ Core
- Summary: i18nize some programs
i18nize some programs with gettext.
- Summary: update build tools.
It seems that running ./cvscompile changes all these files due to
an updates. So, sink CVS with build tools.
- Summary: fix installation instructions
Add the required "gettextize" call to the CVS compilation instructions.
- Summary: fix handling of po/Makefile.in
gettextize 0.14.1 adds po/Makefile.in to the first line of AC_OUPUT.
The duplicate in the next line then upsets autoheader.
This patch removes the potentially duplicate "po/Makefile.in" so that
it's safe for gettextize to add it again.
- Summary: release 1.0.10rc1
- Summary: Fix compilation
- Revert gettext version to older one
- Added po/Makefile.in again
- Summary: Fix autoreconf
Fixed the package to be autoreconf-able.
+ /include/Makefile.am
- Summary: Add missing header files
Added missing header files to Makefile.am.
+ ALSA RawMidi Utility (amidi)
- Summary: Output help messages to stdout
Output help messages and lists to stdout instead of stderr.
+ Speaker Test
- Summary: i18nize some programs
i18nize some programs with gettext.
- Summary: Correct buffer size choosing.
+ aconnect
- Summary: Fix typos in man pages
Fix typos in man pages (bug #1024)
- Summary: i18nize some programs
i18nize some programs with gettext.
- Summary: Output help messages to stdout
Output help messages and lists to stdout instead of stderr.
+ alsaconf
- Summary: Add Russian translation
Add Russian translation for alsaconf, taken from BTS #1130.
- Summary: Two modporbe calls lack path
All but two calls to modprobe in alsaconf call it with the full path.
For consistency the remaining two calls should also use the full path.
- Summary: fixed detection of ISAPnP cards using 2.6 sysfs
- Summary: Support hwcfg-* set up
Added /etc/sysconfig/hardware/hwcfg-* set up for the recent suse
versions.
- Summary: added -R,--resources option and improved resource checking
using sysfs
- added the -R,--resource option
- the check_dma_avail() and check_irq_avail() procedures now checks also
active resources from sysfs & PnP subsystem to avoid collisions
- Summary: alsaconf - add support for PnP BIOS devices
This patch adds the support for PnP BIOS devices.
- Summary: Removed debug print for awk
+ alsamixer
- Summary: Fix typos in man pages
Fix typos in man pages (bug #1024)
- Summary: Fix unexpected abort of alsamixer
Fixed unexpected abort of alsamixer when no playback or capture elements
are available. Also fixed the wrong use of temporary array in
displaying item name.
- Summary: Fix a wrong display in the last patch
Fixed a wrong item display in the last patch.
- Summary: Added support for abstraction selection
- (basic abst might be the default someday)
- Summary: initial debug script
- Summary: Output help messages to stdout
Output help messages and lists to stdout instead of stderr.
+ amixer
- Set the device name for smixer_options
- Summary: amixer - useful script for debugging
- Summary: Add enum control support to sget/sset
Added the enum control support to amixer sget/sset.
+ aplay/arecord
- Summary: i18nize some programs
i18nize some programs with gettext.
- Summary: Output help messages to stdout
Output help messages and lists to stdout instead of stderr.
+ aseqdump
- Summary: i18nize some programs
i18nize some programs with gettext.
- Summary: aseqdump - remove fishy comment
Remove the fishy comment because it isn't needed anymore after the tuna
has been accidentally removed.
+ aseqnet
- Summary: i18nize some programs
i18nize some programs with gettext.
+ cvscompile
- Summary: Add gettextize
Added gettextize to process po files correctly.
- Summary: handle better the getexize dependency
- Summary: more cvscompile cleanups (m4/Makefile.am)
- Summary: Create m4 directory
Create m4 directory (which was removed from cvs repo)
- Summary: Fix autoreconf
Fixed the package to be autoreconf-able.
Changelog between 1.0.9 and 1.0.9a releases
(http://alsa-project.org/changes/v1-0-9--v1-0-9a.txt)
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* alsa-utils
+ Core
- release 1.0.9a
+ alsamixer
- Comment out a section that causes an assert in alsamixer, until
this section of code works.
- Fix crash with enum controls
Changelog between 1.0.8 and 1.0.9 releases
(http://alsa-project.org/changes/v1-0-8--v1-0-9.txt)
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* alsa-utils
+ Core
- move event dumping from arecordmidi to aseqdump
- release: 1.0.9rc1
- release: 1.0.9rc2
- Install sound samples to correct places.
- release: 1.0.9rc3
- alsa-lib 1.0.9 is required now
- release: 1.0.9rc4
- release: 1.0.9rc4a
- release: 1.0.9
+ /seq/Makefile.am
- move event dumping from arecordmidi to aseqdump
+ ALSA Control (alsactl)
- return error code on faillure
- Fix exit code
- split source per command and added command 'names'
- fix name of hw sequencer definition
- alsactl - probe rawmidi device for rawmidi definitions
- alsactl - add names for unique rawmidi subdevices
- Ignore -ENOTTY error
- Fix --force option
- Add alsactl.h
+ ALSA RawMidi Utility (amidi)
- allow --send-hex data without quotes
- clarify options in man page
- fix buffer length calculation
- use non-breaking hyphens in man page
- fix amidi error handling
- detect attempts to play .mid files with amidi
+ Speaker Test
- Update to speaker-tools 0.0.7
- adopt readme changes in manpage
- Minor updates. No functionallity changes.
- Implement Pink noise output.
- Add sound samples.
- Install sound samples to correct places.
- Implement order for 8-channel sound, arranged in 7.1 mode.
- Fix speaker-test with -FS32_LE format.
- Don't use max volume
- Add .cvsignore
+ aconnect
- Fix typo
+ alsaconf
- Fix make without NLS
- Sort options in alphabetic order
- Fix exit code
- Use -q option with grep
- Fix typo in alsaconf "modinfo" option
- Fix check of fedora and redhat distributions
- Change the Debian configuration file name
- Add alsaconf french man page
- Adjust Front volume as default
- fix typo
- Fix manpage installation
+ alsamixer
- Fix compile warnings
- Show other view names
- Fix typo
- Improve display of long text for enums.
- Fix segfault with no-capture devices
+ amixer
- exits with status 0 after -h option
- Fix exit status
- amixer no-range-checking option
- Added -a,--abstract switch for upcoming abstract mixer API
- Fixed basic astraction selection for simple mixer API
- Fix compile warnings
+ aplay/arecord
- Added -n (--list-devnames) command
+ aplaymidi/arecordmidi
- move event dumping from arecordmidi to aseqdump
- Remove unused variable
+ aseqdump
- move event dumping from arecordmidi to aseqdump
+ iecset
- Fix 32kHz sample rates
(http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/linux-audio-announce/2005-January/000522.html)
1.0.8
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* alsa-utils
+ Core
- release: 1.0.8-rc1
- release: 1.0.8rc1
- i18nize alsaconf
- Move m4 to the tail of SUBDIRS
- Require alsa-lib 1.0.8
- release: 1.0.8rc2
- release: 1.0.8
+ ALSA Control (alsactl)
- Support user-defined controls
- Fix compilation
+ Speaker Test
- Add man page of speaker-test
+ alsaconf
- Start aplay/arecord in non-blocking mode
- i18nize alsaconf
- Misc clean up
- Fix installation
- Fix installation
+ alsamixer
- Change the view toggle behavior
- Assign alternative keys for function keys
- Reinitialize the size calculation at view change
- Add -V option
- More descriptions about mixer views and view modes
- Usability improvement
- fix crashes when selecting an empty view
- Remove number key assignment
- Support quick volume change
+ aplay/arecord
- Fix VU meter
(http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/linux-audio-announce/2004-November/000484.html)
1.0.7
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* alsa-utils
- Fix hyphens in man pages
- aplay
- don't parse -X option because such an option doesn't exist
- allow argument for --sleep-min option
- fix handling of .voc magic string
- fix handling of .voc files on big-endian machines
- remove superfluous "size" parameter from check_wavefile_space macro
- reallocate buffer only if needed in check_wavefile_space
- fix playback of >2GB .wav files
- skip over padding bytes in .wav files
- fix memory leak when playing .voc silence blocks
- fix file length when recording >2GB .wav files
- fix recording of >4GB files
- alsamixer
- display 2 different views of the mixer controls (Playback, Capture)
- alsaconf
- some fixes
- fixed long options
- Now -L option requires the logfile argument
- corrected man page
(http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/linux-audio-announce/2004-August/000435.html)
1.0.6a
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* alsa-utils
- aplay
- Show warning if the format is changed due to the file type.
(e.g. WAV yields little-endian)
(http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/linux-audio-announce/2004-May/000396.html)
1.0.5
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* alsa-utils
- arecordmidi enhancements by Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas
- arecord fix (timelimit)
- added speaker-test utility
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