[alsa-devel] ESI DuaFire Vendor Information

[Florian Scholz]

2010/7/4, Florian Scholz <florian90 at gmail.com>:
> I tried it. FFADO can't read the info registers. Also the default
> BEBOB driver can't find the streams, so it isn't supported. This is
> the reason why I believe that I have to write a driver for it to get
> it working. It's hard to find a soundcard in this price range with an
> integrated phono amplifer and furthermore a Hi-Z Input :)
>
>
>
> 2010/7/4, Pieter Palmers <pieterp at joow.be>:
>> Have you tried running it with FFADO? There is a good chance that it
>> will work.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Pieter
>>
>> On 07/02/2010 05:11 PM, Florian Scholz wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I like to implement a driver for the ESI DuaFire Interface and need
>>> the information from ESI.
>>>
>>> Andreas Preuss from ESI wrote me (translated):
>>>
>>> thanks you for your message. every information that you need for the
>>> development of a firewire audio driver are public. the information are
>>> accessable for the alsa-project and maybe the ffado project.
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Alsa-devel mailing list
>>> Alsa-devel at alsa-project.org
>>> http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
>>>
>>
>>
>


here are the ffado errors:

00865470454: Warning (bebob_avdevice.cpp)[ 188] discover: Using
generic BeBoB support for unsupported device 'EGOSYS, Ltd.
ESI_DuaFire'
00865504687: Error (bebob_avplug.cpp)[ 161] discover: Could not
discover stream format (0,31,255,0,0)
00865504709: Error (avc_unit.cpp)[ 442] discoverPlugsPCR: plug
discovering failed
00865504724: Error (avc_unit.cpp)[ 394] discoverPlugs: pcr input plug
discovering failed
00865504735: Error (avc_unit.cpp)[ 182] discover: Detecting plugs failed
00865504742: Error (bebob_avdevice.cpp)[ 192] discover: Could not discover unit
00865504753: Error (devicemanager.cpp)[ 606] discover: could not discover device
no message buffer overruns


information from bebob downloader (display):

01512433725: Error (bebob_dl_mgr.cpp)[  90] BootloaderManager:
BootloaderManager: could not cache info registers
Config ROM
	Current Node Id:	0
	GUID:			0x0030E00200454647
	Vendor Name:		EGOSYS, Ltd.
	Model Name:		ESI_DuaFire
	Node Vendor ID:		0x0030e0
	Model Id:		0x0000f970
	Unit Specifier ID:	0x00a02d
	Unit version:		0x00010001
	ISO resource manager:	0
	Cycle master capable:	1
	Bus manager capable:	0
	Cycle clock accuracy:	255
	Max rec:		5 (max asy payload: 64 bytes)
01512484219: Error (bebob_dl_mgr.cpp)[ 187] printInfoRegisters: Could
not read info registers
no message buffer overruns