7 Mar
2006
7 Mar
'06
10:44 p.m.
Brings back memories :-(
I have had a Digiface for, a few of years now. When I first setup my
unit, I was using a pci card for the interface. Which worked pretty
well. Then I got my thinkpad, and a pcmcia card. This did not work as
well, to start with. I fought for many a night to make it work, so I
could go mobile. I made sure the firmware loaded, channels were unmuted,
the card was seen by alsa .... The reseller I purchsed the card from,
even checked out the card, found nothing wrong, and returned a different
card and a new cord, just in case. I finally ended up shipping the whole
thing to Paul, so he could see for himself. After a couple of weeks it
was discovered that the pcmcia card I had recieved, had was new version,
which did not get along with the firmware code that hdsploader was
loading.
So I guess you should check the hardware version of the pcmcia card. Did
you buy it new recently, I would guess so. Maybe the multiface box is
causing the issue.
My symptoms were, it made sound, and if I ran it with a sample rate of
32k, it sounded ok, but not nearly up to its potential. If it was set to
any other sample rate, the sound was very garbled.
Hope this helps.
Cheers
DuWayne
On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 12:51 +1100, we are wrote:
hi crew, this issue is probably getting boring now but
i've hit it.
i am trying to get my Multiface PCMCIA card to work under linux and
have tried many things but still a bit lost. i have it running on my
windows setup on the same computer(another partition) without a hitch.
for this reason i can't understnd why it would not function here in
linux.
i am running an Asus v6800v (v6v) laptop and would really appriciate
some advice on where to move next...
i have reached the point where alsa is set up
.....
localhost tom # cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [DSP ]: H-DSP - Hammerfall DSP
RME Hammerfall DSP + Multiface at 0x54000000, irq 17
1 [ICH6 ]: ICH4 - Intel ICH6
Intel ICH6 with ALC650F at 0xdffff800, irq 17
.....
lspci | grep CardBus; lspci | grep RME
03:01.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev b3)
04:00.0 Multimedia audio controller: Xilinx Corporation RME Hammerfall
DSP (rev 32)
.....
uname -a
Linux localhost 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jan 17 05:35:27
EST 2006 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHz GenuineIntel
GNU/Linux
.....
i have tried using setpci latency scripts found on this thread http :
lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-pcmcia/2004-April/000750.html
However, i must admit i'm a really lost when it comes to this level of
computing. so i'm stabbing in the dark and currently trying to learn
about what all this means.
script written by Daniel Ritz
#!/bin/sh
# set lateny timers for the bridges
CB=`lspci | grep CardBus | cut -d" "
-f1`
for i in $CB; do
echo "setting latency timer for CB $i"
setpci -s $i 0x0d.b=0xff > /dev/null
setpci -s $i 0x1b.b=0xff > /dev/null
# for EnE only, others should ignore it
setpci -s $i 0xc9.b=0x06 > /dev/null
done
this script did something but i'm not entirely sure what? pd seems to
detect audio input but can't output,(anyone know if i need to compile
pd with rme support to make it work.)
after doing this i can get sound but its all distortorted and
horrible. it feels like on the right track here but i don't understand
the jargon or where to go next with it?
......
no problems loading hdsploader firmware
......
localhost tom # hdsploader
hdsploader - firmware loader for RME Hammerfall DSP cards
Looking for HDSP + Multiface or Digiface cards :
Card 0 : RME Hammerfall DSP at 0x54000000, irq 17
Upload firmware for card hw:0
Firmware uploaded for card hw:0
Card 1 : Intel ICH6 with ALC650F at 0xdffff800, irq 17
......
when trying to access change settings on hdspconf
......
tom@localhost ~ $ hdspconf
HDSPConf 1.4 - Copyright (C) 2003 Thomas Charbonnel <thomas(a)undata.org>
This program comes WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
HDSPConf is free software, see the file copying for details
Looking for HDSP cards :
Card 0 : RME Hammerfall DSP + Multiface at 0x54000000, irq 17
Multiface found !
Card 1 : Intel ICH6 with ALC650F at 0xdffff800, irq 17
1 Hammerfall DSP card found.
Error accessing ctl interface on card hw:0
.....
i have read that some people have had problems when modules are set on
the same IRQ.
i have no idea if this is a problem as my RME cardbus, wireless
(ipw2200), onboard sound (AC97) and Yenta are all on IRQ 17. this is
the same in windows and my bios is pretty limiting when it comes to
changing this stuff around.
/proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 700336 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 6148 IO-APIC-edge i8042
9: 2885 IO-APIC-level acpi
12: 2177 IO-APIC-edge i8042
14: 4815 IO-APIC-edge ide0
16: 2 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd:usb5, ohci1394
17: 97673 IO-APIC-level yenta, hdsp, Intel ICH6, ipw2200
19: 0 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd:usb4, skge
20: 92955 IO-APIC-level ehci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb2
21: 0 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd:usb3
NMI: 0
LOC: 50568
ERR: 0
MIS: 0
.....
Any suggetions links greatly appriciated!
thanks
tom.
also....
have already tried pci=noacpi and acpi=off and there was no difference
to the setups, irq and the like.
bit worried about upgrading my bios as the new asus bios for the v6 is
apparently noisy and has fan issues..... no good for my studio...