Still no luck; I spent most of the day researching and trying things.
This is a file of what information I could dig up; it should be useful http://vetshelpcenter.com/media/trouble-shoot-gr-55.txt
Are there any programs/scripts I can install/run that will help trouble shoot this?
Are there any good articles about trouble shooting drivers that might help?
The system seems stable; no problems; just can not connect the to the device.
In Sound Preference I have Input set to GR-55 Analog Stereo, the meter does not move, which indicates to me, that its not listening; Output set to speakers (GR-55 doesn't really have an output device; but it shows up as an option).
Thanks Jeff
-----Original Message----- From: Daniel Mack zonque@gmail.com To: Jeffrey Scott Flesher Gmail jeffrey.scott.flesher@gmail.com Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] GR-55 Driver Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 13:36:35 +0200
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Jeffrey Scott Flesher Gmail jeffrey.scott.flesher@gmail.com wrote:
I have read this article over a few times, trying to remove the kernel and Reiser4 instructions; and I got a little confused; although I did get it to compile and now it see's the GR-55 as a sound device; I tried to jack it to the output but got no audio; what should I do to test it?
I would just use aplay with a plain wav file and see what it does. And then try arecord to see whether you can capture any input signal.
Do these instructions look correct?
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sudo dpkg -i linux-*.deb uname -r # 2.6.39-rc3-gr55+
Very good, this is the desired result.
One thing strange was that it locked up on reboot, showing rc3, but a reset with previous kernel, I saw the gr55 version so I picked it; it worked as stated above; just don't know why it didn't set this version as default, maybe a step I missed.
No, it's all good. The reason why it locked up might be that you are now using a premature kernel which has not been officially released. At the moment, as Linus' mainline tree is in a rather stable phase (due to a new release coming up the next days or so), what you could also do is
git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git git checkout -b alsa git pull git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6.git master
As of today, that should give you give a 2.6.39-rc7+ version. But for testing whether the patch works, the approach you took is totally fine I think.
Daniel