[alsa-devel] Issues with ALSA:ice1724 sound cards on powerpc machines

[Julian Margetson]

On 4/11/2016 1:32 PM, Julian Margetson wrote:
> On 4/11/2016 10:44 AM, Pavel Hofman wrote:
>> Dne 11.4.2016 v 16:11 Takashi Iwai napsal(a):
>>> On Mon, 04 Apr 2016 21:58:14 +0200,
>>> Julian Margetson wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 2/17/2016 2:29 PM, Julian Margetson wrote:
>>>>> Hi
>>>>>
>>>>> Having an issue issue with ice1724 sound cards on powerpc 
>>>>> motherboards.
>>>>> Motherboards in question Acube Sam460ex .
>>>>> The card appears as a valid device but there is no sound output on 
>>>>> the
>>>>> majority of boots of the computer.
>>>>> Logs attached.
>>>>> On the first set boot audio playback produced sound ok.
>>>>> On the second set boot no sound was produce with audio playback
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards
>>>>> Julian Margetson
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Anyone have any ideas ?
>>>>
>>>> Resubmitting again with links to logs instead of included as 
>>>> attachments.
>>>> The issue also seen on A-Eon Cyrus P5020 motherboard .
>>>>
>>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/72labcje9z1r1b7/1alsa-info.txt.7CLHMG0Gap?dl=0 
>>>>
>>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/v1pn5kjqrvwu16f/boot_1.log?dl=0
>>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/uuaa14rkpmmz1o0/2alsa-info.txt.VKiEVuytiJ?dl=0 
>>>>
>>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/wwu2f5t93l8g26d/boot_2.log?dl=0
>>>
>>> I have no concrete idea, but in general, the usual problems on PPC are
>>> either related with cache coherency or byte endianness.  I don't know
>>> of any issue with the latter in ice1724 driver, so likely it's the
>>> former.
>>>
>>
>> Perhaps the ice1724 driver was not even tested properly with the AC97 
>> codec. Do we know of any separate PCI ice1724 card with this codec?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Pavel Hofman.
>>
>>
> The second board mentioned , the Aeon Cyrus ,uses a P5020 so is cache 
> coherent .
> The problem may be in the initialization of the sound card as on some 
> boots with my board , an Acube Sam460ex, it works perfectly. I have  
> tested a CMI8738 pciex1 sound card which works perfectly as do USB 
> cm108 based external cards .
>
> I also have a PCI ice1724 version of the card  (never used in this 
> machine) as well as 2 different pciex1  ice1724 cards with the codec .
> The Sam460ex only has 1 pci slot normally used for the SATA card and 1 
> shared pcie or SATA II.
> I could test with  the pci card by booting from USB .
> So either configure as 1 pciex1 slot or 1 on board SATA II .
> I am helping to test the onboard sata-dwc but am happy to test any 
> ideas for a solution to the audio issues as well.
> Will mean reconfiguring my machine back an forth but worth it for 
> solutions in both areas .
>
> Regards
> Julian
>
>
>
>
This is the pci model .

http://www.amazon.com/SIIG-Soundwave-5-1-Pci-lp-LP-000022-S2/dp/B0036VNVWE