Avance ALS-007

Avance ALS-007

[Martin Langer]

Hi,

looks like that my old Avance ALS-007 card is still unsupported by ALSA. 

- Are there any interesting documents about the ALS007, except OSS sources?
- Any hints to the best starting point: als100 or sb16?
- Or does this card work with alsa and I am the problem?


thanks,
martin


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Re: Avance ALS-007

[Takashi Iwai]

Hi,

At Sun, 7 Jul 2002 15:11:19 +0200,
Martin Langer wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> looks like that my old Avance ALS-007 card is still unsupported by ALSA. 
> 
> - Are there any interesting documents about the ALS007, except OSS sources?

can you check the web site of Avance Logic?

> - Any hints to the best starting point: als100 or sb16?

as long as looking at oss code, perhaps more similar with dt0197h,
which has only dma8.
at first please try just to add the pnp id of als007 to this driver.
it might work without other modificiation.

> - Or does this card work with alsa and I am the problem?

iirc, no, not supported yet.


ciao,

Takashi


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Re: Avance ALS-007

[Martin Langer]

> At Sun, 7 Jul 2002 15:11:19 +0200,
> Martin Langer wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > looks like that my old Avance ALS-007 card is still unsupported by ALSA. 
> > 
> > - Are there any interesting documents about the ALS007, except OSS sources?
> 

On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 05:00:19PM +0930, Jonathan Woithe wrote:
> 
> The only documents which I am aware of are the ones I wrote at the time I
> did the OSS support for the ALS007 in 1998.  Avance Logic have never ever
> gotten back to me despite numerous requests for information.  The
> information I have is the result of tedious trial-and-error tests.
> 
> The documents are available on my webpage:
>   http://www.physics.adelaide.edu.au/~jwoithe/
> 
> Go to the  "Linux" section and look for "ALS-007".  There's two documents -
> one is a quickstart guide for getting the card working under OSS.  You want
> the other one. :)
> 

I think we should wait until Jonathan release his driver. I don't want to 
start writing the same driver on a second corner ... because there are more
interesting things to do.

I still have another (I think unsupported) card a "miroSOUND PCM12";-)
... but that job looks a little bit to hard for me at the moment 
(strange ACI mixer ...).


martin


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miroSOUND development [was: Avance ALS-007]

[Robert Siemer]

Hello!

From: Martin Langer <martin-langer@gmx.de>

> I still have another (I think unsupported) card a "miroSOUND
> PCM12";-)
> ... but that job looks a little bit to hard for me at the moment 
> (strange ACI mixer ...).

I rewrote the OSS aci driver for 2.4 some time ago and am still
willing to write ALSA support for that cards. That's currently on
hold, also because of the "unperfect" code base in ALSA. I'll restart
my work in some weeks/month.

The last thing I did for the miroSOUND cards is this description of
the PCM20 card and their corresponding (in theory) drivers:

http://backsla.sh/~siemer/miro/
(unfinished but useful?)

and the mentioned "driver" for the eeprom (which is currently not on
my server)...

My goal is to support multiple cards and for that the PCM20 in ISA-pnp
mode.

Further:
You could use the OSS aci.c driver to drive the ACI (hehe :-). It's
independent from any other sound components and is just giving
(OSS-like) access to the mixer (for cards < PCM20; a little more
advanced for PCM20).


Bye,
	Robert


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