[PlanetCCRMA] ALSA 1.0.8 Feedback

Tue Jan 18 21:15:02 PST 2005

On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 21:01, Andres Cabrera wrote:
> 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)

In this case it looks like hotplug (or the driver itself?) is not
finding the firmware. It is part now of the alsa-firmware package
(1.0.8). Have you installed it?

-- Fernando