[linux-audio-user] Tweaking alsamixer for the Echo Indigo IO

[Janina Sajka]

ix at replic.net writes:
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 09:54:33PM -0500, Andres Cabrera wrote:
> > I think you need a recent alsa and hotplug, not sure which though...
> > Can you try as root:
> > tail -f /var/log/messages
> > then connecting the Indigo? It might thell you where the problem lies.

It can't find the firmware. Here's the output:

kernel: PCI: Enabling device 0000:03:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:03:00.0[A] ->
GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
kernel: ALSA
/usr/local/src/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.9rc1/pci/echoaudio/echoaudio.c:41:
get_firmware(): Firmware not available (-2)
kernel: Echoaudio Indigo: probe of 0000:03:00.0
failed with error -2
 
> > 
> 
> make sure youre using alsa-driver + alsa-firmware 1.0.8 or newer, as echo support is built in. also make sure youve enabled hotplug and firmware loading in kernel config (one is near the top, another is in generic device driver options), and installed hotplug and fxload packages in your OS.

This is Fedora Core 3, and I update via yum nightly. I will chase these
down to double-check, but it seems they're all there. I know my ipw2100
wifi ethernet mini-pci nic firmware loads, and I see /sbin/fxload. On
the other hand, I see hotplug is from March of last year. Is that
possibly too ancient?

> finally, make a symlink /lib/firmware -> /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware since alsa installs the firmware stuff where the old hotplug code doesnt know to look.

I've made these both directly in /lib/firmware and /lib/firmware/ea,
just in case. Still get the same error.

Is there a way to get more verbose debugging data?


>this isnt windows, so theres way too many steps just to get sound working..
> 
> also, why are you using gnome-alsamixer? theres a great app "Emixer" made especially for the echo cards. its in alsa-utilities or maybe alsa-tools...
> 

I'm using the console because it's accessible to me via my "eyes-free"
interface. Regretably for me, echomixer is written for Gnome 1.2 which
isn't ever going to be accessible. Would it were written with stock gtk+
(Gnome 2) widgets!

Thanks.

> c
> 
> 
> > Andr??s
> > 
> > On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 21:44, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > > Jon B writes:
> > > > I just got an Echo Indigo IO card.  It works (and I like it a lot
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I can't seem to get mine to load its firmware. Is there some magic to
> > > loading it? What actually does the loading? Just modprobe for snd-indigo
> > > loads the driver, but aplay -l doesn't list the Indigo, and lspci shows
> > > it as an "unknown device."
> > > 
> > > I must be missing something fundamental here.
> > > 
> > > Thanks for any help.
> > > 
> > > 				Janina
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 

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