Re: Turtle Beach Pinnacle/Fiji alsa driver 0.1.2

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

Hi Karsten,

At Wed, 26 Jun 2002 16:31:41 +0200 (CEST),
karsten wiese wrote:
> 
> hi,
> 
> new in this is pcm record and midiin.
> latency (latency -m32 -M32 -b -r 48000, patched to
> allow 3 periods) runs with down to 32 frames.
> amSynth runs well with it on an 400PII. 
> mmap driver for amSynth available from me. 
> not needed, but gives you more voics with the
> fiji/pinnacle.
> 
> 
> works:
> PCM:     Stereo record / playback mmaped fullduplex
> with the alsa-tools aplay, pcm, aplay -M, latency with
> 3 periods patch, alsaplayer, amSynth
> MIXER:   Master, Pcm, Line In, Monitor
> MIDI:    in
> VERSION: 0.9rc2CVS, patch attached
> OS:      tested on Slackware 8.1rc1
> 
> not...yet:
> PCM:     periods / buffer != 3
> MIDI:    out
> SPDIF:
> KURZWEIL: start a mpu401 device
> 
> the patch archive consists off a diff, which is to be
> applied to the raw cvs-sources and two directories.
> after copying the also contained directories into the
> cvs tree do 
> 
> cvscompile 
> make
> make install
> in alsa-driver as usual.
> 
> note: this has only been tested to build modules for a
> 2.4.18 kernel on an 400MHz PII with a pinnacle in
> non-pnp mode.
> 
> 
> 
> For additional infos concerning the fiji/pinnacle
> cards search for the pinnacle oss-free driver docus on
> the web.
> there is a how-to install the needed firmware-files
> also.


thanks, we got finally the support for this old good card.
i'd like to put this stuff into cvs, but before that, could you 
check the following things?


- missing rule for tb-classic module.

  if there are two card modules, will there a common lowlevel
  module for them?  or will be integrated?

- please remove the codes for old kernels.
  the compatibility routines should go to alsa-driver tree, not on
  alsa-kernel tree.

- is there a workaround for the jiffires warp (32bit overflow)?

- please reformat the codes with a certain indent.

- you can use snd_printd() for debug printk.

- it'd be better to keep the uniformity of module parameters like
  other alsa modules, i.e. snd_xxx.

- obviously we can clean up msnd_pinnacle_mixer.c more :)


ciao,

Takashi


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