29 Aug
2006
29 Aug
'06
7:11 p.m.
Hi!
Want to share my yet short technical experience with new Multiface II and Linux.
1) alsa-firmware-1.0.11 works perfectly, with both .11 and .12 drivers
2) alsa-firmware-1.0.12 does not work (trying to resolve it on alsa-dev)
3) 64x2(a)44.1k works perfectly on stock 2.6.17-gentoo-r6 with patched
pam (gentoo is slow adopting here). Didn't tried heavy load, though.
4) 64x2 @ 96k does not work at all. jackd gets killed by watchdog.
seems it can't start playing.
128x2 @ 96k works perfectly.
5) if multiface box was power-cycled, firmware can't be loaded again,
hdsploader gives:
Upload firmware for card hw:0
Hwdep ioctl error on card hw:0 : Device or resource busy.
I have cardbus version, so the solution is to reinsert the card. I
suppose with pci you'll need a reboot.
6) More of a question: why alsamixer does not support hdsp? hdspmixer
functionality do not look too complex for alsamixer.
Hope this will help someone.
Best regards,
Dmitry.
30 Aug
30 Aug
2:53 a.m.
On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 01:11 +0400, Dmitry Baikov wrote:
Hi!
Want to share my yet short technical experience with new Multiface II and Linux.
1) alsa-firmware-1.0.11 works perfectly, with both .11 and .12 drivers
2) alsa-firmware-1.0.12 does not work (trying to resolve it on alsa-dev)
I thought RME has a newsgroup on a news server somewhere, did you took
this issue to their attention on the newsgroup? I'm sure they want to
know any issues that may show up.
--
Florin Andrei
http://florin.myip.org/
12:22 p.m.
On 8/30/06, Florin Andrei <florin(a)andrei.myip.org> wrote:
I thought RME has a newsgroup on a news server
somewhere, did you took
this issue to their attention on the newsgroup? I'm sure they want to
know any issues that may show up.
Thanks for advice :) But:
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http://www.rme-audio.com/english/linux/index.htm
For RME's digital audio cards of the DIGI series and the Hammerfall
series, different drivers are available for Linux and other operating
systems.
Please note that there is no direct support from RME, neither written
nor by telephone, as these drivers are not written
by RME.
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I was not asking for support here, that's what alsa-dev is for.
I just described my experience with the card, as AFAIK there were no
reports about Multiface II on LAU.
Regards,
Dmitry.
3:45 p.m.
On 8/29/06, Dmitry Baikov <dsbaikov(a)gmail.com> wrote:
6) More of a question: why alsamixer does not support
hdsp? hdspmixer
functionality do not look too complex for alsamixer.
Actually, parts of it are a lot more complex than alsamixer because of
the HDSP's full matrix mixer. Furthermore, a limitation with the
hardware prevents the querying of the matrix mixer values, so the app
that controls it has to fully set up all values in order to know what
is going on. hdspmixer does that. Thomas Charbonnel, the author of
hdspmixer (and a lot of the hdsp alsa driver) planned to write a
server or an API to support it so multiple apps could control it
simultaneously, but he has disappeared from the scene.
jlc
11:11 p.m.
Hello Dmitry,
want to comment on your observations, as I am using a Multiface II too...
Dmitry Baikov schrieb:
4) 64x2 @ 96k does not work at all. jackd gets killed
by watchdog.
seems it can't start playing.
can't confirm this. Works perfectly well for
me. Did large recording
sessions with 8 channels on 96kHz lately. For this, I did several
test sessions on my desktop PC (AMD64 X2 with debian / 64Studio). The
recording sessions itself I did on a 32bit Core Duo laptop with Ubuntu
Dapper and a multimedia patched kernel.
128x2 @ 96k works perfectly.
never tested this.
5) if multiface box was power-cycled, firmware can't be loaded again,
hdsploader gives:
Upload firmware for card hw:0
Hwdep ioctl error on card hw:0 : Device or resource busy.
I have cardbus version, so the solution is to reinsert the card. I
suppose with pci you'll need a reboot.
same here, can confirm this.
But, on my desktop PC (with PCI card), power-cycling and the doing
hdsploader again works perfectly well.
Cheers,
Hermann Vosseler
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