[alsa-devel] GR-55 Driver

[Jeffrey Scott Flesher Gmail]

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 at gmail.com>
To: Jeffrey Scott Flesher Gmail <jeffrey.scott.flesher at gmail.com>
Cc: alsa-devel at 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 at 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?

[...]

> 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