[PlanetCCRMA] jack - alsa problems continued

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 07:58, jd002c5250@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
> Thanks for the tip about jackd mark. But I think my problem is deeper than
> that.
> 
> I did try but got this:-
> 
> [spoony@localhost ~]$ /usr/bin/jackd -R -dalsa -dhw:2 -r44100 -p1024 -n2
> jackd 0.99.36
> 
> 
> JACK compiled with System V SHM support.
> loading driver ..
> apparent rate = 44100
> creating alsa driver ... hw:2|hw:2|1024|2|44100|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit
> ALSA: Cannot open PCM device alsa_pcm for playback. Falling back to
> capture-only mode
> cannot load driver module alsa
> Segmentation fault

This is very strange. Have you ever installed jack by hand? (ie:
configure, make, make install). If so see if there are any stray
installs in /usr/local/* that may be conflicting with the Planet CCRMA
jack package. 

> I have had a look at dmesg and found this:-
> 
> pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
> vesafb: probe of vesafb0 failed with error -6
> 
> [-chomp-]
> 
> PCI: Enabling device 0000:04:00.0 (0080 -> 0082)
> ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:04:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
> Hammerfall-DSP: no Digiface or Multiface connected!
> card initialization pending : waiting for firmware

Looks like the firmware has not been loaded. 

> also here is the relevant part of my bootlog:-
> 
> Mar  6 16:00:20 localhost alsasound: Starting sound driver snd-hdsp succeeded
> Mar  6 16:00:20 localhost alsasound: Starting sequencer succeeded
> Mar  6 16:00:20 localhost alsactl: /usr/sbin/alsactl: set_control:1025:
> Mar  6 16:00:20 localhost alsactl: bad control.7.value type
> Mar  6 16:00:20 localhost alsasound: Restoring sound driver settings failed
> 
> I am currently using
> kernel-module-alsa-2.6.10-2.1.ll.rhfc3.ccrma-1.0.8-3.rhfc3.ccrma
> 
> Has anyone got any advice, I am very happy with my system at the moment
> and dont want to flatten it and start again so help would be most
> appreciated.

Do you see any more messages in the boot sequence from hotplug? Hotplug
should be loading the firmware into the hdsp. Do you have the
alsa-firmware package installed?

-- Fernando