8 Mar
2006
8 Mar
'06
3:20 p.m.
On 3/8/06, Jonny Stutters <jstutters(a)jeremah.co.uk> wrote:
So it's definitely something to do with Linux on
this laptop.
To be honest I don't have any idea where to start with solving this
problem so any help would be much appreciated. I'm not keen to go down
the new hardware route but if anyone does have reports of working
configurations with this (or a similar) laptop that'd also be good.
I own the Echo Indigo output-only card, and I can confirm that this
works in Linux just fine. However, it is not "out-of-the-box." You
must install the ALSA firmware package for this card to work.
Otherwise, you won't see anything about the card in dmesg,
/var/log/whatever, etc.
Back when I was trying to get it to work, I emailed the author of the
driver. His first name is Giuliano (forgive me if I misspelled it).
Here is a cut from the email he sent me:
On 01-Dec-2005 Josh Lawrence wrote:
Well now I'm deep in the fight of trying to get it
to work - hotplug
will not load the firmware. I cannot find your site anymore, so can
you give me the quick instructions on the symlink that must be created
for the firmware to load? Anything I need to do before that, like
load the module?
It's on http://www.webalice.it/g_pochini/ead .
You have to install the hotplug scripts (they should be installed in
/etc/hotplug/ and /etc/hotplug.d/), alsa-firmware and alsa-driver.
Also, there is an entry in /proc that must point to the main hotplug
script. A script in /etc/rc.d should set it up at boot time.
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Josh Lawrence wrote:
Does all this happen (adding of the scripts in rc.d)
during the
firmware install?
No, alsa-firmware only installs the firmware in /lib/firmware .
You have to get the scripts from kernel.org or download the appropriate
package of you distro.
Also, check what /lib/firmware is. Usually the scripts (firmware-agent
IIRC) looks for firmware files in /lib/firmware , while alsa installs them
in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware . Fix it with a symlink.
--END CUT--
So to sum it up, get the firmware, make sure you have the hotplug
scripts (which you probably already do), and make sure you make a
simlink from /lib/firmware to /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware.
Hope this helps,
Josh
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Josh Lawrence
http://www.hardbop200.com