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

[Janina Sajka]

Hi, Thomas:

thomas charbonnel writes:
> Janina Sajka wrote :
> 
> > Well, unfortunately I'm not seeing a change yet on my Opteron box using
> > the PCI interface card.
> > 
> > Firmware loading still requiring hdsploader, even thgouh hotplug is
> > enabled.
> > 
> 
> Hi Janina,
> 
> This can happen if you compiled the driver in kernel and hotplug (which
> is userspace) is not available when the card is initialized. I'm working
> on a more robust solution to this problem at the moment.

I take this statement back. I've recompiled alsa-driver-1.0.9RC1 and can
now restart alsa using using the old CCRMA script in /etc/init.d and it
DOES get the hdsp firmware loaded, despite the error. Very nice.

#service alsasound restart
Shutting down sound driver                                 [  OK  ]
Starting sound driver snd-hdsp                             [  OK  ]
Starting sound driver snd-hdsp                             [  OK  ]
Starting sequencer                                         [  OK  ]
Starting sequencer driver snd-seq-midi                     [  OK  ]
Restoring sound driver settings /usr/sbin/alsactl: load_state:1272: No
soundcards found...
                                                           [FAILED]

Running hdspmixer resets levels OK.


> 
> > Also, I'm unable to dmix, or alsamixer.
> > 
> 
> Dmix should work, please report this to alsa-devel.

OK. I think my hesitancy is about whether I have an appropriate
.asoundrc. So, let me ask more generically. A command like:

aplay -D dmix:SLAVE=\"hw:0,0\",RATE=44100  [file.wav]

should work, yes?

> Alsamixer can't be used with the card yet. I have a plan to make this
> possible, but it's not ready yet. In the meantime you can use amixer in
> a command-line only environment.

Thank you. I can certainly work with amixer. I appreciate the
consideration, too.

> 
> Thomas
> 

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