RC7 and CS46xx (GTXP)

RC7 and CS46xx (GTXP)

[Richard Olsson]

Something between CVS 2002-12-18 and RC7 seriously broke the amplifier
stuff for me on my GTXP - sound is very disorted and volume is very low.
It's different from the troubles RC6 gave me though.  I'd guess it's
the recent amplifier patch that was applied to the CS46xx driver.

Only oddity I see is in dmesg:
ALSA ../../alsa-kernel/pci/cs46xx/cs46xx_lib.c:415: cs46xx: failure waiting for FIFO command to complete

I'll stick to the 2002-12-18 CVS for now:)

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Re: RC7 and CS46xx (GTXP)

[Richard Olsson]

> Something between CVS 2002-12-18 and RC7 seriously broke the amplifier
> stuff for me on my GTXP - sound is very disorted and volume is very
> low. It's different from the troubles RC6 gave me though.  I'd guess
> it's the recent amplifier patch that was applied to the CS46xx driver.

Replying to my own mail, I know:)

I reverted the changes the recent amplifier patch did to cs46xx_lib.c
and RC7 works perfectly - no warning in dmesg either.

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Re: RC7 and CS46xx (GTXP)

[Eloy A. Paris]

Hi!

My Santa Cruz is not working with RC7 either, but in my case I
get no sound at all. I've traced the problem to changes that took
place in CVS between 1/21 and 1/22, probably to cs46xx_lib.c. See
http://www.mail-archive.com/alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg06092.html
for the details.

Cheers,

Eloy.-

On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 05:00:36PM +0100, Richard Olsson wrote:
> > Something between CVS 2002-12-18 and RC7 seriously broke the amplifier
> > stuff for me on my GTXP - sound is very disorted and volume is very
> > low. It's different from the troubles RC6 gave me though.  I'd guess
> > it's the recent amplifier patch that was applied to the CS46xx driver.
> 
> Replying to my own mail, I know:)
> 
> I reverted the changes the recent amplifier patch did to cs46xx_lib.c
> and RC7 works perfectly - no warning in dmesg either.
> 
> -- 
> Richard Olsson
> flame@home.se
> http://www.nyo-box.net/ - http://www.aelia-studios.org/
> 
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Re: RC7 and CS46xx (GTXP)

[Takashi Iwai]

At Sun, 2 Feb 2003 10:59:18 -0500,
Eloy A. Paris <peloy@chapus.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> My Santa Cruz is not working with RC7 either, but in my case I
> get no sound at all. I've traced the problem to changes that took
> place in CVS between 1/21 and 1/22, probably to cs46xx_lib.c. See
> http://www.mail-archive.com/alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg06092.html
> for the details.

could you try the latest cvs version?
i just changed a little the code.
hopefully this works for you...


ciao,

Takashi


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Re: RC7 and CS46xx (GTXP)

[Richard Olsson]

On Mon, 03 Feb 2003 12:21:33 +0100
Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:

> could you try the latest cvs version?
> i just changed a little the code.
> hopefully this works for you...

I tried the new version just a moment ago as the CVS changelog mentioned
the magic word "amplifier" ;).  The warning message in dmesg is gone but
the sound is still disorted - sounds just like the amplifier isn't
turned on or something.

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Re: RC7 and CS46xx (GTXP)

[Takashi Iwai]

At Mon, 3 Feb 2003 13:17:37 +0100,
Richard Olsson wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 03 Feb 2003 12:21:33 +0100
> Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:
> 
> > could you try the latest cvs version?
> > i just changed a little the code.
> > hopefully this works for you...
> 
> I tried the new version just a moment ago as the CVS changelog mentioned
> the magic word "amplifier" ;).  The warning message in dmesg is gone but
> the sound is still disorted - sounds just like the amplifier isn't
> turned on or something.

could you once build the alsa-driver with --with-debug=detect option
and check the kernel messages after reloading the module?


thanks,

Takashi


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Re: RC7 and CS46xx (GTXP)

[Eloy A. Paris]

Hi Takashi,

Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> writes:

> At Mon, 3 Feb 2003 13:17:37 +0100,
> Richard Olsson wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 03 Feb 2003 12:21:33 +0100
> > Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:
> > 
> > > could you try the latest cvs version?
> > > i just changed a little the code.
> > > hopefully this works for you...
> > 
> > I tried the new version just a moment ago as the CVS changelog mentioned
> > the magic word "amplifier" ;).  The warning message in dmesg is gone but
> > the sound is still disorted - sounds just like the amplifier isn't
> > turned on or something.
> 
> could you once build the alsa-driver with --with-debug=detect option
> and check the kernel messages after reloading the module?

The problem I reported in:

http://www.mail-archive.com/alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg06092.html

is fixed in the latest CVS code. Thank you.

I don't have the distortion problem that Richard Olsson reports.

Cheers,

Eloy.-


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Re: RC7 and CS46xx (GTXP)

[Christian Esken]

Am Monday 03 February 2003 13:17 schrieb Richard Olsson:
> On Mon, 03 Feb 2003 12:21:33 +0100
>
> Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:
> > could you try the latest cvs version?
> > i just changed a little the code.
> > hopefully this works for you...
>
> I tried the new version just a moment ago as the CVS changelog mentioned
> the magic word "amplifier" ;).  The warning message in dmesg is gone but
> the sound is still disorted - sounds just like the amplifier isn't
> turned on or something.

Same for me. Using a current version from CVS (today oder yesterday), I have
terrible distortions. The last good version for me was 0.9.0rc2.

Sound is distorted always, additionaly sometimes a kernel message pops
up in the kernel log ("Unexpected hw_pointer value"):

Feb  9 15:47:37 bjork kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 7 for device 00:0a.0
Feb  9 15:47:37 bjork kernel: ALSA ../../alsa-kernel/pci/cs46xx/cs46xx_lib.c:3870: hack for Hercules Game Theatre XP enabled
Feb  9 15:52:21 bjork kernel: ALSA ../alsa-kernel/core/pcm_lib.c:123: Unexpected hw_pointer value (stream = 0, delta: -512, max jitter = 8192): wrong interrupt acknowledge?

Chris



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Re: RC7 and CS46xx (GTXP)

[Benny Morgan]

>
>
>Replying to my own mail, I know:)
>
>I reverted the changes the recent amplifier patch did to cs46xx_lib.c
>and RC7 works perfectly - no warning in dmesg either.
>
>  
>
The cs46xx FIFO's are usually only accessed internally by the DSP. 
There's is backdoor that make it possible to access the FIFO's from the 
host.

My theory is that it's not possible to use this backdoor while the DSP 
is accesing the FIFO's
To enable the rear speakers on the Santa Cruz card this backdoor is used 
to access some GPIO's on the secondary codec.
A couple of month agoo I've changed the initialization order so: the 
rear-speakers on the Santa Cruz board was enabled was enababled before 
the DSP core was started, apparently it worked out. Now the problem 
could be that the initialization order is changed again.

/Benny




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Re: RC7 and CS46xx (GTXP) -> Terratec XFire

[Friedrich Ewaldt]

Richard Olsson wrote:

>Something between CVS 2002-12-18 and RC7 seriously broke the amplifier
>stuff for me on my GTXP - sound is very disorted and volume is very low.
>It's different from the troubles RC6 gave me though.  I'd guess it's
>the recent amplifier patch that was applied to the CS46xx driver.
>
>Only oddity I see is in dmesg:
>ALSA ../../alsa-kernel/pci/cs46xx/cs46xx_lib.c:415: cs46xx: failure waiting for FIFO command to complete
>
>I'll stick to the 2002-12-18 CVS for now:)
>
>  
>
The same warning in dmesg with my Terrartec DMX XFire. But everything 
seems to work (OK) like 2002-12-09-CVS + 2003-01-05-patch. What does 
this warning mean. Should I ignore it?
TIA
 fe



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