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Subject: Re: Xastir Development Snapshot + Soundmodem/AX.25 HOWTO's
From: Dave Platt <dplatt () radagast ! org>
Date: 2009-05-21 17:47:13
Message-ID: 4A1593A1.4000806 () radagast ! org
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> Somewhat OT: but has anyone successfully used a USB sound "card" with
> soundmodem?
I've been able to make a soundmodem 1200-baud connection using a
SignaLink USB (setting the soundmodem PTT to /dev/null, since
the SignaLink USB has its own vox-driven PTT circuit).
Some tricks:
- If possible, use the direct ALSA "hw:" interface, and set
the soundmodem's sample rate equal to one of the "native"
rates supported by your USB sound card. This ensures that
no DSP- or CPU-based sample rate conversion needs to be
done.
- With some USB sound cards this may not be possible... there
are those which have *different* sample rate sets for input
and output, and might not even have a single rate in common
which works in both directions. In this case, specify the
ALSA "plughw:" interface, so that ALSA's sample-rate conversion
plugin does the necessary rate conversions... it seems to work
quite well.
- Do *not* use the OSS compatibility driver for ALSA (e.g.
the /dev/dsp interface). Although this driver does
attempt to perform sample-rate conversion, it doesn't do
so at all well... I've seen periodic dropouts in the
incoming data (sequences of sample values of zero) whenever
the buffer wraps around. This really mucks up digital
modes!
- Make sure you've got the most recent version of the
soundmodem code (it looks as if it's up to version
0.13). There were some important patches to ALSA
support a few months ago, which eliminate a bunch of
errors and freezes during TX/RX switching... versions
0.10 and earlier did not work well with ALSA USB.
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