[PlanetCCRMA] hdsp initialisation

[Mark Knecht]

Iain,
   Hi. There are currently a LOT of problems with the Alsa support for any
of the HDSP line. (HDSP+Digiface/Multiface or the HDSP 9652) There are a
couple of people working pretty actively on getting fixed. You can find out
about that on the Alsa-Devel list. Jesse Chappell seems to have done some
good debugging last evening, so I expect that with his focus things will
improve pretty soon.

   A few people report they have working setups using older firmware and
older revisions of Alsa.

Cheers,
Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: planetccrma-admin@ccrma.Stanford.EDU
> [mailto:planetccrma-admin@ccrma.Stanford.EDU]On Behalf Of Iain Mott
> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 2:29 AM
> To: planetccrma@ccrma.Stanford.EDU
> Subject: [PlanetCCRMA] hdsp initialisation
>
>
> Hello
>
> I'm new to this list, new to alsa and to the hdsp. I have a multiface
> hdsp with a pci card and can't initialise the hdsp from a cold start.
>
> Must point out i'm not currently using the ccrma rpms (although have
> tried at various points) - the alsa-users list doesn't seem to be taking
> subscriptions so i'm posting here - the problem is probably still
> relevant. Perhaps the rpms will solve my problem?
>
> Currently i'm running alsa 0.9.4 compiled against a vanilla 2.4.20-8
> kernel. The multiface came with firmware revision 11. Have had no success
> getting alsa to run with this and downgraded to 10 using the rme win2k
> executable.
>
> I can get alsa to work by running hdsploader and rebooting. Hdsploader
> produces errors however:
>
> hdsploader - firmware loader for RME Hammerfall DSP cards
> Looking for HDSP + Multiface or Digiface cards :
> Card 0 : RME Hammerfall DSP at 0xea800000, irq 10
> Upload firmware for card hw:0
> Hwdep ioctl error on card hw:0 : Input/output error.
>
> I've just seen Fernando's post from 11 April and have added post-install
> line to the modules.conf. The alsa part of this file is:
>
> # ALSA portion
> alias char-major-116 snd
> alias snd-card-0 snd-hdsp
> # module options should go here
> options snd-hammerfall-mem enable=1
>
> # OSS/Free portion
> alias char-major-14 soundcore
> alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
>
> # card #1
> alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
> alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
> alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
> alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
> alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
>
> post-install snd-hdsp /usr/local/bin/hdsploader
>
>
> From a cold start, dmesg reveals:
>
> Hammerfall memory allocator: buffers allocated for 1 cards
> PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 02:0c.0
> PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 02:05.0
> ALSA ../../alsa-kernel/pci/rme9652/hdsp.c:4107: card initialization
> pending : waiting for firmware
> ALSA ../../alsa-kernel/pci/rme9652/hdsp.c:644: wait for FIFO status <= 0
> failed
> after 30 iterations
> ALSA ../../alsa-kernel/pci/rme9652/hdsp.c:3803: initializing firmware
> upload
> ALSA ../../alsa-kernel/pci/rme9652/hdsp.c:522: loading firmware
> ALSA ../../alsa-kernel/pci/rme9652/hdsp.c:644: wait for FIFO status <= 0
> failed
> after 5000 iterations
> ALSA ../../alsa-kernel/pci/rme9652/hdsp.c:543: timeout at end of firmware
> loading
>
> If the machine is rebooted, alsa works ie. i can adjust amixer settings
> and use aplay etc. The dmesg shows:
>
> Hammerfall memory allocator: buffers allocated for 1 cards
> PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 02:0c.0
> PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 02:05.0
> ALSA ../../alsa-kernel/pci/rme9652/hdsp.c:4114: Firmware already loaded,
> initializing card.
> ALSA ../../alsa-kernel/pci/rme9652/hdsp.c:3803: initializing firmware
> upload
> ALSA ../../alsa-kernel/pci/rme9652/hdsp.c:558: firmware loaded from
> cache, restoring defaults
>
> Can anyone suggest what might be wrong?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Iain
>
> Iain Mott
> www.reverberant.com
>
>
>
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