[PlanetCCRMA] ALSA 1.0.8 Feedback

[Andres Cabrera]

I'm also having trouble with the firmware loader for my Echo Mona using 
1.0.8. On this alsa package, which now includes the Echo drivers, I 
haven't been able to get the firmware to load... (Have you already 
downloaded and built the firmware from 
http://xoomer.virgilio.it/g_pochini/ea.html ?)
If you use alsa-driver-1.0.7 and then patch them according to the 
instructions in the driver author's website, your card should work.
It would be great if we can find out what's wrong...
I'm on FC1 Planet CCRMA.

It definitely has to do with hotplug, but I can't figure out where 
things fail. Is there a hotplug log somewhere?

tail -f /var/log/messages reports:

Jan 18 11:15:22 geminiflux kernel: cs: cb_alloc(bus 4): vendor 0x1057, 
device 0x3410
Jan 18 11:15:22 geminiflux kernel: PCI: Enabling device 04:00.0 (0000 -> 
0002)
Jan 18 11:15:22 geminiflux cardmgr[1287]: socket 0: CardBus hotplug device
Jan 18 11:15:22 geminiflux kernel: remove_proc_entry: 04:00.0/loading 
busy, count=1
Jan 18 11:15:22 geminiflux kernel: remove_proc_entry: firmware/04:00.0 
busy, count=1
Jan 18 11:15:22 geminiflux kernel: ALSA echoaudio.c:41: get_firmware(): 
Firmware not available (-2)

Cheers,
Andres