[PlanetCCRMA] HDSP - alsaconf - yes - reboot - no
Janina Sajka
janina@rednote.net
Sun Dec 8 10:19:01 2002
I'd say those are definite signs of module failure, and I'd agree that
it's a driver issue. It works well enough to discover the ccorrect card,
but not well enough to supply services properly.
Best bet, imho, is a more recent ALSA.
Mark Knecht writes:
> From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@attbi.com>
>
> Fernando,
> I'm not making much headway yet with the HDSP card. It's very strange
> to me:
>
> 1) I went through numerous cold and warm reboots as per your note just
> to see if I could get it to wake up. No luck.
>
> 2) alsaconf seems to recognize the card, at least well enough to build
> modules.conf. When it runs it says
>
> "hdsp Xilinx, Inc. Unknown device 3fc5 (rev 64)"
>
> I don't like the unknown device part, but the hdsp part looks right, and
> the modules.conf entries look at least reasonable. I can send them if
> you'd like to see them.
>
> 3) When I reboot, the output of dmesg doesn't look promising:
>
> <SNIP>
>
> Hammerfall memory allocator: buffers allocated for 1 cards
> RME Hammerfall-DSP: no cards found
> Hammerfall memory allocator: buffers allocated for 1 cards
> RME Hammerfall-DSP: no cards found
> usb.c: deregistering driver snd-usb-midi
> usb.c: deregistering driver snd-usb-audio
> [root@Godzilla root]#
> <SNIP>
>
> 4) /var/log/messages doesn't look any better:
>
> Dec 8 08:10:43 Godzilla kernel: Hammerfall memory allocator: buffers
> allocated for 1 cards
> Dec 8 08:10:43 Godzilla kernel: RME Hammerfall-DSP: no cards found
> Dec 8 08:10:43 Godzilla insmod:
> /lib/modules/2.4.19-1.ll/kernel/drivers/sound/pci/rme9652/snd-hdsp.o:
> init_module: No such device
> Dec 8 08:10:43 Godzilla insmod: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by
> incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ
> parameters. You may find more information in syslog or the output
> from dmesg
> Dec 8 08:10:43 Godzilla insmod:
> /lib/modules/2.4.19-1.ll/kernel/drivers/sound/pci/rme9652/snd-hdsp.o:
> insmod sound-slot-0 failed
> Dec 8 08:10:43 Godzilla modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
> sound-slot-1
> Dec 8 08:10:43 Godzilla modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
> sound-service-1-0
> Dec 8 08:10:43 Godzilla modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
> sound-slot-1
> Dec 8 08:10:43 Godzilla modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
> sound-service-1-0
> Dec 8 08:10:44 Godzilla kernel: Hammerfall memory allocator: buffers
> allocated for 1 cards
> Dec 8 08:10:44 Godzilla kernel: RME Hammerfall-DSP: no cards found
> Dec 8 08:10:44 Godzilla insmod:
> /lib/modules/2.4.19-1.ll/kernel/drivers/sound/pci/rme9652/snd-hdsp.o:
> init_module: No such device
> Dec 8 08:10:44 Godzilla insmod: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by
> incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ
> parameters. You may find more information in syslog or the output
> from dmesg
> Dec 8 08:10:44 Godzilla insmod:
> /lib/modules/2.4.19-1.ll/kernel/drivers/sound/pci/rme9652/snd-hdsp.o:
> insmod sound-slot-0 failed
> Dec 8 08:10:46 Godzilla modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
> block-major-22
> Dec 8 08:10:47 Godzilla modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
> block-major-22
> Dec 8 08:10:50 Godzilla gnome-name-server[1329]: starting
> Dec 8 08:10:50 Godzilla gnome-name-server[1329]: name server starting
> Dec 8 08:11:40 Godzilla gconfd (mark-1412): starting (version 1.0.9),
> pid 1412 user 'mark'
> Dec 8 08:17:13 Godzilla su(pam_unix)[1443]: session opened for user
> root by mark(uid=500)
> Dec 8 08:17:17 Godzilla kernel: usb.c: deregistering driver
> snd-usb-midi
> Dec 8 08:17:17 Godzilla kernel: usb.c: deregistering driver
> snd-usb-audio
> Dec 8 08:17:17 Godzilla alsasound: sound driver stop succeeded
>
>
>
> I'm a little lost right now as to what to try. Paul Davis said something
> in a mail last week about the system possibly not recognizing a PCI
> Device ID and we would add that in somewhere. Could that be happening
> here?
>
> The card is definitely installed. It works in Windows and shows up in
> lspci, but I think maybe the system doesn't know this is the HDSP even
> though alsaconf does?:
>
> 00:0f.0 Multimedia audio controller: Xilinx, Inc.: Unknown device 3fc5
> (rev 64)
> Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
> Memory at f6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
>
> I know there's a file around somewhere that defines PCI device codes.
> Maybe I need to find and edit that file?
>
> I'm going searching. Let me know if you have ideas.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
> <SNIP>
> Beware, the driver is not the latest and I think there is a problem with
> the card not working after the first cold boot. A second boot will fix
> things. I think there is a fix in current cvs (and the next planet ccrma
> driver rpms).
>
> -- Fernando
> <SNIP>
>
>
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