Hi Roman
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 11:46 PM, Roman Haefeli reduzierer@yahoo.de wrote:
On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 22:59 +1000, Martin Tufnel wrote:
Hi Flo
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Florian Faber faber@faberman.de
wrote:
Martin,
Just to clarify, given the driver is finished but the user tools are still under development, this means that the unit will basically work but not have its full functionality - is this correct?
You have IO, you can adjust the input levels, switch standby and disconnect the box. So everything works as you would expect it.
Great!
Also, did you use the new patched version of the firmware that Karl worked on?
No, it's the original firmware. Why would one want to patch it?
My understanding from Roman's previous posts was that there was a problem loading the firmware from within Linux. If I understood him correctly,
he
needed to load the fireware from within a Windows boot and then boot into Linux (without turning off the machine of course). Perhaps I
misunderstood
him.
this is exactly what i do. it's no problem, though, to turn off the computer after having sent the firmware from within windows, but as soon as i power off the rpm, i need to do the process again. this works well for me, since most of the time the rpm is sitting home powered on, so i can plug it to the laptop and it works.
correct me if i am wrong, but i thought the problem is not the firmware itself, or the fact that it is missing, but the (old) version of the hdsploader i used to use only knows about the multiface and the digiface, but not about the rpm, AFAIK. from what i know, the very same firmware, that is used in windows, can be used in linux as well (since its card specific and not os-specific), but as flo suggested, the userspace tools need to be adapted.
with the old hdsp* stuff, it technically works, but the hdspmixer looks like i'd be using a multiface (it shows more channels than the rpm actually has) and also the hdspconf shows the switches for the mutliface. some card settings can be changed anyway, but you need to guess, what is what, since the labels are bogus (for use with the rpm).
i hope i didn't confuse anyone with my old posts. those describe only the kludges, i am using with old alsa-drives, until the final driver and userspace tools are written.
roman
Thanks for the clarification. This information is important to me because, as I've said previously, I don't have a Windows box, so I can't use your work-around.
Regards, Martin