[LAU] hdsp not happy with recent kernels

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 2012-09-14 at 10:03 -0400, peter at peterlutek.com wrote:
> should i try jack1, instead of jack2?

If I were you I would test Jack2 1.9.8 and current version of Jack1, but
before doing this, I would follow Fernando's advice. His advice seems to
be the only thought to hold water.

> HwDep ioctl failed. Metering stopped

On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 13:41 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> It can be a bug in alsa-tools that shows up with new kernels, that was a 
> problem a while back. Try getting the latest alsa-tools release 
> installed (1.0.26), I think I had to patch hdspmixer in previous 
> releases for it work fine with current kernels.
> 
> -- Fernando

On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 14:08 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> [snip]
> In my experience "HwDep ioctl failed. Metering stopped" has been caused 
> by broken versions of hdspmixer (that was the case until very recently).
> 
> -- Fernando

Good luck!
Ralf