22 Mar
2006
22 Mar
'06
4:34 p.m.
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 12:10:23PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 11:49 +0100, Asbjørn Sæbø
wrote:
At the moment, I don't even have the vxloader installed (I am converting
to more recent kernel and (hopefully) more recent alsa.
But the message was something like "No vx-compatible cards found".
I do not know what a suitable solution might be.
Paid-for support
could
be an alternative. A vendor selling "certified" hardware and
combinations of hardware might be another. I know that I have spent
more than a full week trying to solve my problem now (and more before
that), and would probably be willing to pay something for qualified
help.
The fact still remains, though, that the deepest insight into alsa is
found among the developers. So, for the hardest problems, the
developers would probably still have to be involved. And there we
are
again.
What error does "vxloader" give when trying to load the firmware? It's possible that this driver has bitrotted - the
only other reference
I see to it on LAU before your message is a similar issue in 2004.
I wouldn't be surprised if that message also was from me. I have had a
couple of tries at this card on this laptop before, with no luck.
Does anyone out there have one of these working with
recent ALSA
versions?
As I mentioned somewhere, I got a response from one running 1.0.3...
Do you have a machine with a really old distro on it
you can test?
I have a spare partition I could install something old on, if time
permits. (I think I have RedHat 4.2 in the basement somewhere ;-)
I have just installed Fedora Core 5 on this partition, but I have some
testing left to do, to see whether that distribution fixes my card.
Asbjørn