[linux-audio-user] alsa hdsp and oss emulation

[peter plessas]

Hi Thomas!

Thanks for your reply!

I have now tested alsa-drivers-1.0.9rc1 with hotplug support in the 
kernel, but without success. When i boot into OSX, load the firmware 
there, and do a warm-reboot into debian, the card works, even 
reinserting and putting the computer into sleep mode doesn't stop the 
card from working.
But after a coldboot into debian, the card remains uninitialized, giving 
the same error as described below.

I am fairly stuck here.

Thanks for _any_ help.

Peter

Thomas Charbonnel wrote:
>>Dear list,
>>
>>this is a bit complicated, due to big/little endian issues, perhaps. I
>>am trying to load the firmware into my hdsp pcmcia card.
>>
>>I am getting the fifo timeout:
>>
>>peter:~# hdsploader
>>hdsploader - firmware loader for RME Hammerfall DSP cards
>>Looking for HDSP + Multiface or Digiface cards :
>>Card 0 : PowerMac Screamer Rev 0
>>Card 1 : RME Hammerfall DSP at 0xf3000000, irq 58
>>Upload firmware for card hw:1
>>Hwdep ioctl error on card hw:1 : Input/output error.
>>
>>I am using debian testing, running a 2.6.8 kernel with manually compiled
>> 1.0.8 alsa drivers on a G3 powerpc laptop.
>>
>>cardbus version is 11 (rev 0b)
>>
>>the card is loadable out of osx.
>>
>>i am stuck here, and don't know what to do now.
>>
>>any suggestions are very welcome!
>>
>>thanks,
>>Peter
> 
> 
> Hi Peter,
> 
> From 1.0.8 on, the new method for uploading the firmare is through hotplug
> and the kernel generic firmware loading mechanism (if compiled in). You
> shouldn't have to use hdsploader anymore. Anyway you should definitely use
> CVS or the 1.0.9 RCs, as there were significant problems with the hdsp
> driver in 1.0.8 that have been fixed since then (firmware loading,
> endianness issues, metering).
> 
> Thomas
> 
> 
>