Re: Creative Audigy 4

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

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At Sat, 04 Dec 2004 22:06:43 +0000,
James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> 
> Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 21:36 +0000, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> > 
> >>I found it.
> >>I quote:
> > 
> > 
> > Heh, I just posted the exact same info.
> > 
> > What do you think is the best long term solution?  We can't expect every
> > user to add that sequence to modules.conf.
> > 
> > This seems like something the driver should do.  After all, just because
> > you can set a register via /proc does not mean you should have to, if
> > it's something the driver should obviously do.  I think this qualifies,
> > since this is necessary to get the port to work at all.  Basic hardware
> > initialization should not be left to userspace.
> > 
> > Besides, the driver _knows_ whether the device is an Audigy 2 ZS,
> > whereas userspace would have to extract this from lspci or something.
> > 
> > Lee
> > 
> 
> It is probably better just to get the program that is going to listen to 
> the midi commands from the remote to send the command. That command will 
> not hurt any other midi devices.

You can put a script in /etc/alsa.d/emu10k1 when you're using
alsasound init script.

For example, SUSE has the following script to initialize the soundfont
and IR stuff.


Takashi

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#!/bin/sh
#
# load the default soundfont file automatically
#

. /etc/sysconfig/sound
test x"$LOAD_SEQUENCER" = xyes || exit 0

test -x /usr/bin/asfxload || exit 0

. /etc/rc.status

load_sf () {
  for d in /usr/share/sounds/sf2 \
           /usr/share/sfbank \
           /usr/local/lib/sfbank \
           /usr/share/sfbank/creative \
           /usr/local/lib/sfbank/creative \
	   "/windows/c/Program Files/Creative/SBLive/SFBank" \
	   "/windows/c/Programme/Creative/SBLive/SFBank" \
           ; do
    if [ -r "$d/$1" ]; then
      echo -n "Loading soundfont $d/$1"
      /usr/bin/asfxload "$d/$1"
      rc_status -v -r
      return 0
    fi
  done
  return 1
}

init_remote () {
  # this is needed for Audigy2 platinum EX
  devs=`grep '^[0-9].*Audigy' /proc/asound/cards | cut -b 1`
  for c in $devs; do
    if [ -w /dev/snd/midiC${c}D1 ]; then
      echo -en "\xf0\x00\x20\x21\x61\x00\x00\x00\x7f\x00\xf7" > /dev/snd/midiC${c}D1
    fi
  done
}

case $SOUNDFONT_FILES in
/*)
  if [ -r "$SOUNDFONT_FILES" ]; then
      echo -n "Loading soundfont $SOUNDFONT_FILES"
      /usr/bin/asfxload "$d/$1"
      rc_status -v -r
      exit 0
  fi
  ;;
esac

for file in $SOUNDFONT_FILES default.bnk default.sf2 ; do
  if load_sf $file ; then
     break
  fi
done

init_remote

exit 0