HDSP 9652 - a couple of small (?) issues

HDSP 9652 - a couple of small (?) issues

[Mark Knecht]

Hi,
   I'm finding that I seem to have two problems with this new card:

1) I am unable to turn down the volume with alsamixer. All the way up or
down, the volume is always very loud. Has anyone else seen this? Is
there some other tool which will actually control the volume?

2) If I use alsamixer and set volume bars and then use 'alsactl store'
to store the levels, if I use 'alsactl restore' the restore process
always sets channel 0 back to 0. Other channels are restored at their
saved levels. Is alsactl the right tool to use to accomplish this?

   I'm not at all clear who to report this to. Who works on alsactl and
alsamixer?

Thanks,
Mark





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Re: HDSP 9652 - a couple of small (?) issues

[Paul Davis]

>1) I am unable to turn down the volume with alsamixer. All the way up or
>down, the volume is always very loud. Has anyone else seen this? Is
>there some other tool which will actually control the volume?

the mixer is (currently) disabled on the 9652-hdsp. i have asked RME
to send me the commands to reset it and the new register information
on how to access it (its not the same as the regular hdsp). i will
prod them again this morning.

--p


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Re: HDSP 9652 - a couple of small (?) issues

[Mark Knecht]

Paul,
   Thanks. We new users will certainly appreciate that.

   I notice I get a message "IO box is a DigiFace" in dmesg. Is the
mixer in DigiFace working, or is there some possibility that there's a
clue there?

Thanks much,
Mark

On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 05:38, Paul Davis wrote:
> >1) I am unable to turn down the volume with alsamixer. All the way up or
> >down, the volume is always very loud. Has anyone else seen this? Is
> >there some other tool which will actually control the volume?
> 
> the mixer is (currently) disabled on the 9652-hdsp. i have asked RME
> to send me the commands to reset it and the new register information
> on how to access it (its not the same as the regular hdsp). i will
> prod them again this morning.
> 
> --p




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Re: HDSP 9652 - a couple of small (?) issues

[Paul Davis]

>   I notice I get a message "IO box is a DigiFace" in dmesg. Is the
>mixer in DigiFace working, or is there some possibility that there's a
>clue there?

the mixer is disabled by the firmware on the 9652 because the
registers used to access it are different than on the hdsp. so yes,
the hdsp mixer works, but i am still waiting for all the information i
need from RME. they sent me some stuff this morning, but not how to
re-enable the mixer.

that message, btw, is the kind of thing i want to eliminate with a
"better" patch than just the revnumber one.

--p


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