[alsa-devel] [PlanetCCRMA] Re: rme hdsp pcmcia (and probably pci) broken

[Takashi Iwai]

At Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:11:40 -0800,
Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 11:18 -0800, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 14:55 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > > At Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:45:03 -0800,
> > > Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Hi, anyone has a pcmcia rme card running? And working? With a reasonably
> > > > recent alsa? (this probably applies also for the regular pci rme cards,
> > > > I've had reports on the Planet CCRMA list about problems that sound
> > > > similar to this one). 
> > > > 
> > > > My test setup is on fc7 running:
> > > > 
> > > >   alsa-lib 1.0.15
> > > >   alsa-tools 1.0.15
> > > >   alsa-firmware 1.0.15
> > > > [MUNCH]
> > > > 2.6.22.10-1.rt9.1 + alsa driver modules from
> > > > hg20071012
> > > > --> BROKEN
> > > 
> > > The only significant change in hdsp.c during this is the patch below.
> > > Could you try to revert?
> > 
> > Reverting the patch makes the card play sound as before, so the patch is
> > definitely broken. Regretfully hdspmixer seems to no longer display the
> > vu meters and changing the presets does not seem to have an effect, it
> > probably needs something to be reverted as well to match?
> 
> Hmmm, I don't know why it was not working. I'm also building a new
> kernel, so, with 2.6.23.9 + rt11 + alsa kernel drivers hg20071124 it
> seems to work (hdspmixer displays the vu meters correctly). 

Possibly the hdsp-mixer setup got screwed up once due to the wrong
number of channels.

If I understand correctly, the latest driver works as is?

What is your hardware actually?  Could you check hdsp->io_type and
hdsp->firmware_rev?

> But reverting this patch would break the 9652?

According to the changelog, it's a fix rather for 9632.


Takashi