[alsa-devel] Swissonic TS22PCI / Teratec Phase 22 / driver problems with ice1724

[Takashi Iwai]

At Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:07:13 +0200,
Manuel Schneider wrote:
> 
> Takashi Iwai schrieb, Am 14.08.2008 16:03:
> 
> > At Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:59:06 +0200,
> > Manuel Schneider wrote:
> >> Takashi Iwai schrieb, Am 14.08.2008 15:47:
> >>
> >>> Pass model=phase22 module option to snd-ice1724 driver.  Then it
> >>> handles the card as if it's phase22.
> >> Thanks for this hin. Unfortunately it changes nothing - still kernel 
> >> error message, still no usable sound device.
> > 
> > Are you sure?  With the proper model name, at least you won't get
> > EEPROM version error any more.
> 
> 
> yes, pretty sure. I just reverted my patch and recompiled the driver to 
> check it out:
> 
> ice1712: cannot initialize pro ac97, skipped
> ice1724: No matching model found for ID 0x3b157b11

This means that you didn't pass the model option properly.


> ice1724: Invalid EEPROM version 0
> AC'97 0 does not respond - RESET
> AC'97 0 access is not valid [0xffffffff], removing mixer.
> ice1712: cannot initialize pro ac97, skipped
> 
> 
> >> I also tried the following kernel patch, which gives me an accessible 
> >> sound device and usable mixer (and no kernel error), but recording does 
> >> not work (just noise).
> > 
> > Likely an incompatible hardware design for the recording...
> 
> I guess it's another firmware...

The board has no firmware to load.

> I can't test playback as I only have 
> remote access to the server and it is only used for recording 
> (streaming) but I assume it does also not work.
> I admit that this patch was just a hack to try it out.

First you should check whether the exactly same codec chip, AK4524, on
it.


Takashi