16 Mar
2010
16 Mar
'10
7:49 p.m.
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Paul Davis
<paul(a)linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
As a follow up I have rebooted the machine with the new Win 7 driver
installed and the card is now found but it is not functional with the
most current RME driver. That is not surprising as the driver readme
states I need rev 108 and I'm running 104. The 1st problem would be
that under Win 7 the firmware updater doesn't do anything so at the
moment I couldn't update firmware if I wanted to. On the other hand,
if my memory of this topic is correct rev 104 was the latest version
of firmware that works with _any_ Alsa driver for this card so I still
seem to be headed for trouble.
In the RME forums the basic piece of info I've received so far is just
that the driver has to match up with a specific version of the
firmware and that the current driver requires version 108. If the
Linux driver works (or could be made to work) with 108 then I think
I'd be OK but so far the newest Windows 7 version certainly doesn't
work with 104.
Thanks,
Mark
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Mark Knecht
<markknecht(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I have just posted a couple of questions in the RME forums to try and
get some info.
To the best of my knowledge I was/am running firmware (or what ever we
want to call this stuff) version 104 prior to moving the card to the
new machine. It was my understanding that the Linux stuff didn't work
correctly or at all with anything above 104 or 105, and the Win XP
stuff didn't work correctly, but did work, with 104 so I think I
was/am running 104. Not sure yet. I Can go find the emails I'm sure if
there's any question as to why I'm doing this.
I just loaded the newest Win 7 driver and it did find the card. I need
to do a reboot which I cannot do until after the market closes in a
few minutes so I'll see if the current HDSP Win 7 mixer works.
Thanks for your interest and guidance.
Cheers,
Mark
Paul,
I'd be happy to try to involve RME if there's some real chance that
a Linux developer will really work on the issues. I don't want to try
to pump them up and then not have anyone here to really look at it.
Are you the person that would do this work? You're so busy with Ardour
that for the good of the community you wouldn't be my first choice as
I wasn't volunteering. But I do know that there are people who will
make the (apparently) minor tweaks to the driver to make it operate
with the new firmware (although its also very far from clear if any
changes at all are necessary).
I think this is a smaller issue than Ardour. I
know you have used RME
for years although I wasn't aware that you used an HDSP series card,
if you do.
I do.
when I got around to trying to load audio drivers
I went to the RME
web site and they stated very clearly that the Win 7 drivers require
the newest firmware. I don't blame them. It's probably good stuff, but
it looks like it will finally break compatibility with the 'old
firmware to make Alsa drivers work' construct.
that's not clear to me from the material that you quoted. i dealt with
several RME firmware upgrades in the past, and they were trivial to
support. you need to understand that the "firmware" is not actually
firmware at all. its just some data to be loaded into the matrix
mixer.
--p