[alsa-devel] snd-hdsp driver error?
Raymond Yau
superquad.vortex2 at gmail.com
Thu Nov 5 05:29:27 CET 2009
Please provide the full pulseaudio log and output of alsa-info.sh
http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/Troubleshooting
pulseaudio -k; pulseaudio -vvv
and
aplay -v -Dfront:0 32bit.wav
aplay -v -M -Dfront:0 32bit.wav
aplay -v -Dplughw:0 any.wav
aplay -v -M -Dplughw:0 any.wav
2009/11/4 Lars Zobbe <fedesensfar at gmail.com>
> Hi Raymond.
>
> I so sorry Raymond. But I'm not sure what to do with this info. Is there
> something more I have to tell you? Is there anything I can do to make
> pulseaudio able to detect via udev? Can I copy-paste that bit of code you
> sent me somewhere?
> Please tell me if there's more you need to know.
> Greetings.
> Lars.
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 7:48 AM, Raymond Yau <superquad.vortex2 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I guess route plugin used by RME96*.conf does not support mmap when there
>> is
>> channel conversion since minimum channels supported by hdsp is 14
>>
>>
>> static struct snd_pcm_hardware snd_hdsp_playback_subinfo =
>> {
>> .info = (SNDRV_PCM_INFO_MMAP |
>> SNDRV_PCM_INFO_MMAP_VALID |
>> SNDRV_PCM_INFO_NONINTERLEAVED |
>> SNDRV_PCM_INFO_SYNC_START |
>> SNDRV_PCM_INFO_DOUBLE),
>> #ifdef SNDRV_BIG_ENDIAN
>> .formats = SNDRV_PCM_FMTBIT_S32_BE,
>> #else
>> .formats = SNDRV_PCM_FMTBIT_S32_LE,
>> #endif
>> .rates = (SNDRV_PCM_RATE_32000 |
>> SNDRV_PCM_RATE_44100 |
>> SNDRV_PCM_RATE_48000 |
>> SNDRV_PCM_RATE_64000 |
>> SNDRV_PCM_RATE_88200 |
>> SNDRV_PCM_RATE_96000),
>> .rate_min = 32000,
>> .rate_max = 96000,
>> .channels_min = 14,
>> .channels_max = HDSP_MAX_CHANNELS,
>> .buffer_bytes_max = HDSP_CHANNEL_BUFFER_BYTES * HDSP_MAX_CHANNELS,
>> .period_bytes_min = (64 * 4) * 10,
>> .period_bytes_max = (8192 * 4) * HDSP_MAX_CHANNELS,
>> .periods_min = 2,
>> .periods_max = 2,
>> .fifo_size = 0
>> };
>>
>> 2009/11/2 Lars Zobbe <fedesensfar at gmail.com>
>>
>> > Hi.
>> >
>> > Talking to one of the pulseaudio developers (*Colin Guthrie*) about a
>> > problem with pulseaudio loading modules and my sound card (RME HDSP
>> 9632),
>> > I
>> > was adviced to inform you about the problem.
>> >
>> > I'm on ubuntu 9.10, 64bit, kernel 2.6.31 with an amd64 x2 3800+
>> processor.
>> >
>> >
>> > Symptoms are:
>> > Can only make pulseaudio load modules with the deprecated load-module
>> > module-detect command, module-udev-detect doesn't detect anything (no
>> sound
>> > - only null sink output in padevchooser).
>> > I get terrible stuttering.
>> > I can remove pulseaudio and make things work, more or less. However,
>> that
>> > leaves me without software mixing and apps fighting for the rights to
>> make
>> > sound. And more inconveniences (fx. no volume-control).
>> > I can play sound from audacity without stuttering by choosing the
>> cardname
>> > directly in output HDSP, not ALSA, not pulseaudio.
>> >
>> >
>> > When trying to run alsa-info.sh I get a lot of "not found" errors. So
>> > you'll
>> > get some manual info (they might have moved som files around in ubuntu
>> > 9.10).
>> >
>> > This is part of my syslog during a boot. (I did the formatting to bold).
>> >
>> > Nov 2 10:57:32 lars-desktop pulseaudio[1524]: module.c: module-detect
>> is
>> > deprecated: Please use module-udev-detect instead of module-detect!
>> > Nov 2 10:57:37 lars-desktop pulseaudio[1524]: ratelimit.c: 27 events
>> > suppressed
>> > Nov 2 10:57:39 lars-desktop pulseaudio[1612]: module.c: module-detect
>> is
>> > deprecated: Please use module-udev-detect instead of module-detect!
>> > Nov 2 10:57:44 lars-desktop pulseaudio[1612]: ratelimit.c: 23 events
>> > suppressed
>> > Nov 2 10:57:44 lars-desktop pulseaudio[1612]: alsa-sink.c: ALSA woke us
>> up
>> > to write new data to the device, but there was actually nothing to
>> write!
>> > Nov 2 10:57:44 lars-desktop pulseaudio[1612]: alsa-sink.c: *Most likely
>> > this is a bug in the ALSA driver 'snd_hdsp'. Please report this issue to
>> > the
>> > ALSA developers.*
>> > Nov 2 10:57:44 lars-desktop pulseaudio[1612]: alsa-sink.c: We were
>> woken
>> > up
>> > with POLLOUT set -- however a subsequent snd_pcm_avail() returned 0 or
>> > another value < min_avail.
>> > Nov 2 10:57:49 lars-desktop pulseaudio[1612]: ratelimit.c: 99 events
>> > suppressed
>> >
>> > Later if I try to play audio I get terrible skipping or stuttering and
>> my
>> > syslog (in less than a minute) writes:
>> > Nov 2 11:55:16 lars-desktop pulseaudio[1612]: ratelimit.c: 16 events
>> > suppressed
>> > Nov 2 11:55:21 lars-desktop pulseaudio[1612]: ratelimit.c: 34 events
>> > suppressed
>> > Nov 2 11:55:26 lars-desktop pulseaudio[1612]: ratelimit.c: 70 events
>> > suppressed
>> > Nov 2 11:55:31 lars-desktop pulseaudio[1612]: ratelimit.c: 29 events
>> > suppressed
>> > Nov 2 11:55:36 lars-desktop pulseaudio[1612]: ratelimit.c: 43 events
>> > suppressed
>> > Nov 2 11:55:41 lars-desktop pulseaudio[1612]: ratelimit.c: 161 events
>> > suppressed
>> > Nov 2 11:55:46 lars-desktop pulseaudio[1612]: ratelimit.c: 28 events
>> > suppressed
>> > Nov 2 11:55:51 lars-desktop pulseaudio[1612]: ratelimit.c: 18 events
>> > suppressed
>> > Nov 2 11:55:56 lars-desktop pulseaudio[1612]: ratelimit.c: 16 events
>> > suppressed
>> >
>> > Here's the relevant part (concerning my sound card) of lspci -vvv
>> >
>> > 02:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Xilinx Corporation RME Hammerfall
>> DSP
>> > (rev 9a)
>> > Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
>> > Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
>> > Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
>> > <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
>> > Latency: 255
>> > Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 19
>> > Region 0: Memory at fdff0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
>> > Kernel driver in use: RME Hammerfall DSP
>> > Kernel modules: snd-hdsp
>> >
>> > And:
>> > lars at lars-desktop:~$ aplay -l
>> > **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
>> > card 0: DSP [Hammerfall DSP], device 0: RME Hammerfall HDSP 9632 [RME
>> > Hammerfall HDSP 9632]
>> > Subdevices: 1/1
>> > Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>> >
>> >
>> > lars at lars-desktop:~$ cat /proc/asound/version
>> > Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21.
>> > Compiled on Oct 15 2009 for kernel 2.6.31-14-generic (SMP).
>> >
>> > lars at lars-desktop:~$ cat /proc/asound/cards
>> > 0 [DSP ]: H-DSP - Hammerfall DSP
>> > RME Hammerfall HDSP 9632 at 0xfdff0000, irq 19
>> >
>> >
>> > lars at lars-desktop:~$ cat /proc/asound/modules
>> > 0 snd_hdsp
>> >
>> > I don't have .asound.conf files.
>> >
>> > lars at lars-desktop:~$ hdsploader
>> > hdsploader - firmware loader for RME Hammerfall DSP cards
>> > Looking for HDSP + Multiface or Digiface cards :
>> > Card 0 : RME Hammerfall HDSP 9632 at 0xfdff0000, irq 19
>> >
>> > And of course. My computer makes no sound if I don't load the hdspmixer
>> at
>> > startup. I guess that's just normal for this card though.
>> >
>> > Please let me know, if you need more info. I really hope you can help
>> out
>> > here. And that this might help you to.
>> >
>> > Thanks for the great work you do. Greetings.
>> > Lars Zobbe.
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