[alsa-devel] External sound card issue

[Ionica Bizau]

Hi Clemens and Raymond,

First of all please tell me if this can be fixed. I can be patient and wait until you fix it but if it's not possible I will return the external audio card to the shop.

Here you see the alsa information: http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=869ec0f1ade49a17bc50e9f62a1e8881f7b4cf91


(just uploaded it)

Below you have the commands and their output:

ionicabizau at laptop:~$ amixer -c1 controls
numid=7,iface=MIXER,name='PCM Capture Source'
numid=5,iface=MIXER,name='PCM Capture Switch'
numid=6,iface=MIXER,name='PCM Capture Switch',index=1
numid=4,iface=MIXER,name='IEC958 In Playback Switch'
numid=3,iface=MIXER,name='Input Gain Pad Control'
numid=1,iface=MIXER,name='Speaker Playback Switch'
numid=2,iface=MIXER,name='Speaker Playback Volume'
ionicabizau at laptop:~$ amixer -c1 cget name='PCM Capture Source'
numid=7,iface=MIXER,name='PCM Capture Source'
  ; type=ENUMERATED,access=rw------,values=1,items=2
  ; Item #0 'Unit 22'
  ; Item #1 'Unit 22'
amixer: Control hw:1 element read error: Broken pipe

ionicabizau at laptop:~$ amixer -c1 cget name='PCM Capture Switch'
numid=5,iface=MIXER,name='PCM Capture Switch'
  ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw------,values=1
  : values=on
ionicabizau at laptop:~$ amixer -c1 cget name='PCM Capture Switch'
numid=5,iface=MIXER,name='PCM Capture Switch'
  ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw------,values=1
  : values=on
ionicabizau at laptop:~$ amixer -c1 cget name='IEC958 In Playback Switch'
numid=4,iface=MIXER,name='IEC958 In Playback Switch'
  ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw------,values=1
  : values=off
ionicabizau at laptop:~$ amixer -c1 cget name='Input Gain Pad Control'
numid=3,iface=MIXER,name='Input Gain Pad Control'
  ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw------,values=2
  : values=off,off
ionicabizau at laptop:~$ amixer -c1 cget name='Speaker Playback Switch'
numid=1,iface=MIXER,name='Speaker Playback Switch'
  ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw------,values=1
  : values=on
ionicabizau at laptop:~$ amixer -c1 cget name='Speaker Playback Volume'
numid=2,iface=MIXER,name='Speaker Playback Volume'
  ; type=INTEGER,access=rw---R--,values=8,min=0,max=127,step=0
  : values=107,107,107,107,107,107,107,107
  | dBminmax-min=-127.00dB,max=0.00dB






On Monday, January 20, 2014 3:01 PM, Raymond Yau <superquad.vortex2 at gmail.com> wrote:
 





2014/1/20 Clemens Ladisch <clemens at ladisch.de>

Ionica Bizau wrote:
>> I have just bought an external sound card: Asus Xonar U7
>>
>
>>     cannot load mixer controls: Broken pipe
>
>This looks like a bug in the device's firmware.
>
>Can you at least read the list of controls ("amixer -c1 controls")?
>Are there some controls that you are able to access (try
>"amixer -c1 cget name='xxx'" for each one)?
>
>
alsactl store -f abc.txt
alsactl: get_control:256: Cannot read control '2,0,0,PCM Capture Source,0': Broken 

[  398.119996] cannot get ctl value: req = 0x81, wValue = 0x0, wIndex = 0x1400, type = 3


seem fail to read the capture source control


state.Device {
 control.1 {
  iface PCM
  name 'Playback Channel Map'
  value.0 0
  value.1 0
  comment {
   access read
   type INTEGER
   count 2
   range '0 - 36'
  }
 }
 control.2 {
  iface PCM
  device 1
  name 'Playback Channel Map'
  value.0 0
  value.1 0
  comment {
   access read
   type INTEGER
   count 2
   range '0 - 36'
  }
 }
 control.3 {
  iface MIXER
  name 'PCM Playback Switch'
  value true
  comment {
   access 'read write'
   type BOOLEAN
   count 1
  }
 }
 control.4 {
  iface MIXER
  name 'PCM Playback Switch'
  index 1
  value true
  comment {
   access 'read write'
   type BOOLEAN
   count 1
  }
 }
 control.5 {
  iface MIXER
  name 'PCM Playback Volume'
  value.0 107
  value.1 107
  value.2 107
  value.3 107
  value.4 107
  value.5 107
  value.6 107
  value.7 107
  comment {
   access 'read write'
   type INTEGER
   count 8
   range '0 - 127'
   dbmin -12700
   dbmax 0
   dbvalue.0 -2000
   dbvalue.1 -2000
   dbvalue.2 -2000
   dbvalue.3 -2000
   dbvalue.4 -2000
   dbvalue.5 -2000
   dbvalue.6 -2000
   dbvalue.7 -2000
  }
 }
 control.6 {
  iface MIXER
  name 'Mic Capture Switch'
  value true
  comment {
   access 'read write'
   type BOOLEAN
   count 1
  }
 }
 control.7 {
  iface MIXER
  name 'Line Capture Switch'
  value true
  comment {
   access 'read write'
   type BOOLEAN
   count 1
  }
 }
 control.8 {
  iface MIXER
  name 'PCM Capture Source'
  value Mic
  comment {
   access 'read write'
   type ENUMERATED
   count 1
   item.0 Mic
   item.1 Line

  }
 }
}