CVS changes, rc4 release in H-9

CVS changes, rc4 release in H-9

[Jaroslav Kysela]

Hi all,

	I've applied a patch from Chris Rankin to fix module options for
core directory. Everything seems working on my side. I've added
explanation for module options to INSTALL file and added
alsa-driver/utils/module-options script for easy conversion to new names.
I'll release 0.9.0beta4 after 9 hours (if a critical bug doesn't appear).

						Jaroslav

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Re: CVS changes, rc4 release in H-9

[Takashi Iwai]

At Tue, 22 Oct 2002 11:14:39 +0200 (CEST),
Jaroslav wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> 	I've applied a patch from Chris Rankin to fix module options for
> core directory. Everything seems working on my side. I've added
> explanation for module options to INSTALL file and added
> alsa-driver/utils/module-options script for easy conversion to new names.
> I'll release 0.9.0beta4 after 9 hours (if a critical bug doesn't appear).

I added a check to make install whether snd_ prefix is defined in the
current module configuration.  Hopefully this works enough for tests.

Also, i've updated my alsaconf script, which now supports both with
and without snd_ prefix.

	ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/alsa/misc/alsaconf

It might take a couple of hours to be exported.
If you need this script urgently, please let me know.

Or, this script can go into alsa-driver package, if many of you
want...


Takashi


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Re: CVS changes, rc4 release in H-9

[Jaroslav Kysela]

On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Takashi Iwai wrote:

> At Tue, 22 Oct 2002 11:14:39 +0200 (CEST),
> Jaroslav wrote:
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > 	I've applied a patch from Chris Rankin to fix module options for
> > core directory. Everything seems working on my side. I've added
> > explanation for module options to INSTALL file and added
> > alsa-driver/utils/module-options script for easy conversion to new names.
> > I'll release 0.9.0beta4 after 9 hours (if a critical bug doesn't appear).
> 
> I added a check to make install whether snd_ prefix is defined in the
> current module configuration.  Hopefully this works enough for tests.
> 
> Also, i've updated my alsaconf script, which now supports both with
> and without snd_ prefix.
> 
> 	ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/alsa/misc/alsaconf
> 
> It might take a couple of hours to be exported.
> If you need this script urgently, please let me know.
> 
> Or, this script can go into alsa-driver package, if many of you
> want...

Yep, please, commit it for more wide use...

						Jaroslav

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Re: CVS changes, rc4 release in H-9

[Takashi Iwai]

At Tue, 22 Oct 2002 12:46:19 +0200 (CEST),
Jaroslav wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 
> > At Tue, 22 Oct 2002 11:14:39 +0200 (CEST),
> > Jaroslav wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > 	I've applied a patch from Chris Rankin to fix module options for
> > > core directory. Everything seems working on my side. I've added
> > > explanation for module options to INSTALL file and added
> > > alsa-driver/utils/module-options script for easy conversion to new names.
> > > I'll release 0.9.0beta4 after 9 hours (if a critical bug doesn't appear).
> > 
> > I added a check to make install whether snd_ prefix is defined in the
> > current module configuration.  Hopefully this works enough for tests.
> > 
> > Also, i've updated my alsaconf script, which now supports both with
> > and without snd_ prefix.
> > 
> > 	ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/alsa/misc/alsaconf
> > 
> > It might take a couple of hours to be exported.
> > If you need this script urgently, please let me know.
> > 
> > Or, this script can go into alsa-driver package, if many of you
> > want...
> 
> Yep, please, commit it for more wide use...

ok, it's now on alsa-driver/utils.
should it be installed to the public directory via "make install" ?


Takashi


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Re: CVS changes, rc4 release in H-9

[Jaroslav Kysela]

On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Takashi Iwai wrote:

> At Tue, 22 Oct 2002 12:46:19 +0200 (CEST),
> Jaroslav wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > 
> > > At Tue, 22 Oct 2002 11:14:39 +0200 (CEST),
> > > Jaroslav wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Hi all,
> > > > 
> > > > 	I've applied a patch from Chris Rankin to fix module options for
> > > > core directory. Everything seems working on my side. I've added
> > > > explanation for module options to INSTALL file and added
> > > > alsa-driver/utils/module-options script for easy conversion to new names.
> > > > I'll release 0.9.0beta4 after 9 hours (if a critical bug doesn't appear).
> > > 
> > > I added a check to make install whether snd_ prefix is defined in the
> > > current module configuration.  Hopefully this works enough for tests.
> > > 
> > > Also, i've updated my alsaconf script, which now supports both with
> > > and without snd_ prefix.
> > > 
> > > 	ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/alsa/misc/alsaconf
> > > 
> > > It might take a couple of hours to be exported.
> > > If you need this script urgently, please let me know.
> > > 
> > > Or, this script can go into alsa-driver package, if many of you
> > > want...
> > 
> > Yep, please, commit it for more wide use...
> 
> ok, it's now on alsa-driver/utils.
> should it be installed to the public directory via "make install" ?

I don't think so. Perhaps, we might add a note for users to the INSTALL 
file.

						Jaroslav

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Re: CVS changes, rc4 release in H-9

[Patrick Shirkey]

Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Tue, 22 Oct 2002 12:46:19 +0200 (CEST),
> Jaroslav wrote:
> 
>>On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Takashi Iwai wrote:
>>
>>
>>>At Tue, 22 Oct 2002 11:14:39 +0200 (CEST),
>>>Jaroslav wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi all,
>>>>
>>>>	I've applied a patch from Chris Rankin to fix module options for
>>>>core directory. Everything seems working on my side. I've added
>>>>explanation for module options to INSTALL file and added
>>>>alsa-driver/utils/module-options script for easy conversion to new names.
>>>>I'll release 0.9.0beta4 after 9 hours (if a critical bug doesn't appear).
>>>
>>>I added a check to make install whether snd_ prefix is defined in the
>>>current module configuration.  Hopefully this works enough for tests.
>>>
>>>Also, i've updated my alsaconf script, which now supports both with
>>>and without snd_ prefix.
>>>
>>>	ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/alsa/misc/alsaconf
>>>
>>>It might take a couple of hours to be exported.
>>>If you need this script urgently, please let me know.
>>>
>>>Or, this script can go into alsa-driver package, if many of you
>>>want...
>>
>>Yep, please, commit it for more wide use...
> 
> 
> ok, it's now on alsa-driver/utils.
> should it be installed to the public directory via "make install" ?
> 

I'm updating the site docs now. what should I do with the usb midi doc? 
Just link it into the usb-audio page or merge them together completely?

Also can people send me a list of all the new cards that are working now 
please.



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Re: CVS changes, rc4 release in H-9

[Takashi Iwai]

At Tue, 22 Oct 2002 23:50:19 +0900,
Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> 
> I'm updating the site docs now. what should I do with the usb midi doc? 
> Just link it into the usb-audio page or merge them together completely?

the usb-midi was completely merged with usb-audio.
that is, there is no longer an extra module for midi.
just use snd-usb-audio for all usb devices.


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Re: CVS changes, rc4 release in H-9

[Patrick Shirkey]

Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Tue, 22 Oct 2002 23:50:19 +0900,
> Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> 
>>I'm updating the site docs now. what should I do with the usb midi doc? 
>>Just link it into the usb-audio page or merge them together completely?
> 
> 
> the usb-midi was completely merged with usb-audio.
> that is, there is no longer an extra module for midi.
> just use snd-usb-audio for all usb devices.
> 

OK

I'm now not able to use the qinit program to initialise the quattro 
device anymore. A check of cat /proc/asound/card2/ yields only these 
files now.

id         midi0      oss_mixer

i.e no stream info. I guess that nix noticed this last week on LAU but I 
haven't updated for a couple of weeks so didn't catch when it happened.
-------

ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:866:(snd_pcm_hw_open) open /dev/snd/pcmC2D1p failed: 
No such file or directory

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 1024 (LWP 15806)]
0x400599a5 in snd_pcm_hw_refine (pcm=0x40000000, params=0xbffff760)
     at pcm_params.c:2144
2144            res = pcm->ops->hw_refine(pcm->op_arg, params);

------------

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Re: Quattro MIDI (was: CVS changes, rc4 release in H-9)

[Clemens Ladisch]

Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> I'm now not able to use the qinit program to initialise the quattro
> device anymore. A check of cat /proc/asound/card2/ yields only these
> files now.
>
> id         midi0      oss_mixer
>
> i.e no stream info. I guess that nix noticed this last week on LAU but I
> haven't updated for a couple of weeks so didn't catch when it happened.

I added a quirk for the MIDI port. (BTW: Does it work?)
It seems the USB subsystem only loads the first id_table entry it finds
for each interface. As a quick fix, remove the Quattro entry from
usbquirks.h, but I'm going to write a patch to use both pcm and MIDI.


HTH
Clemens



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Re: Quattro MIDI (was: CVS changes, rc4 release in H-9)

[Takashi Iwai]

At Tue, 22 Oct 2002 18:12:07 +0200 (METDST),
Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> 
> Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> > I'm now not able to use the qinit program to initialise the quattro
> > device anymore. A check of cat /proc/asound/card2/ yields only these
> > files now.
> >
> > id         midi0      oss_mixer
> >
> > i.e no stream info. I guess that nix noticed this last week on LAU but I
> > haven't updated for a couple of weeks so didn't catch when it happened.
> 
> I added a quirk for the MIDI port. (BTW: Does it work?)
> It seems the USB subsystem only loads the first id_table entry it finds
> for each interface. As a quick fix, remove the Quattro entry from
> usbquirks.h, but I'm going to write a patch to use both pcm and MIDI.

ok, i'll remove it.


Takashi


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Re: Quattro MIDI (was: CVS changes, rc4 release in H-9)

[Patrick Shirkey]

Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> 
>>I'm now not able to use the qinit program to initialise the quattro
>>device anymore. A check of cat /proc/asound/card2/ yields only these
>>files now.
>>
>>id         midi0      oss_mixer
>>
>>i.e no stream info. I guess that nix noticed this last week on LAU but I
>>haven't updated for a couple of weeks so didn't catch when it happened.
> 
> 
> I added a quirk for the MIDI port. (BTW: Does it work?)
> It seems the USB subsystem only loads the first id_table entry it finds
> for each interface. As a quick fix, remove the Quattro entry from
> usbquirks.h, but I'm going to write a patch to use both pcm and MIDI.
> 

I would like to test it but I have no midi gear :)

I s'pose I could get the interface working but I haven't the time at the 
mo. There is another person who is trying I'll ask them how they are going.



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Re: CVS changes, rc4 release in H-9

[Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano]

> > > Yep, please, commit it for more wide use...
> > 
> > ok, it's now on alsa-driver/utils.
> > should it be installed to the public directory via "make install" ?
> 
> I don't think so. Perhaps, we might add a note for users to the INSTALL 
> file.

Please do, it is a very useful utility. 

On a different aspect of the upcoming release. The module options naming
has been changed, I hope that will be highlighted in the release notes. I
just managed to install the latest cvs (it worked, at least in limited
tests)  and of course the modules failed to load... I bet most users will
not do a detailed reading of the error messages :-) My first reaction (and 
I should know better) was to think, oops the module is broken...

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Re: Quattro MIDI

[Clemens Ladisch]

Takashi Iwai wrote:
> Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> > It seems the USB subsystem only loads the first id_table entry it finds
> > for each interface. As a quick fix, remove the Quattro entry from
> > usbquirks.h, but I'm going to write a patch to use both pcm and MIDI.
>
> ok, i'll remove it.

The Quattro id_table entry matches both PCM and MIDI interfaces because I
removed the interface class from most entries nine days ago. I did this
because my Roland SC-8820 didn't hotplug because the kernel didn't pass
the interface class to the hotplug scripts because the device class isn't
zero. However, devices with different interfaces do have device class zero
(well, I hope they do :), so using the interface class for matching
shouldn't prevent hotplugging for these devices.

This patch adds interface class matching for some devices with both PCM
and MIDI interfaces.


Regards,
Clemens


Index: usbquirks.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/alsa/alsa-kernel/usb/usbquirks.h,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.4 usbquirks.h
--- usbquirks.h	22 Oct 2002 16:17:55 -0000	1.4
+++ usbquirks.h	23 Oct 2002 07:11:51 -0000
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
 	}
 },
 {
-	USB_DEVICE(0x0499, 0x1004),
+	USB_DEVICE_VENDOR_SPEC(0x0499, 0x1004),
 	.driver_info = (unsigned long) & (const snd_usb_audio_quirk_t) {
 		.vendor_name = "Yamaha",
 		.product_name = "UW500",
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@
 	}
 },
 {
-	USB_DEVICE(0x0499, 0x100a),
+	USB_DEVICE_VENDOR_SPEC(0x0499, 0x100a),
 	.driver_info = (unsigned long) & (const snd_usb_audio_quirk_t) {
 		.vendor_name = "Yamaha",
 		.product_name = "EOS BX",
@@ -464,9 +464,8 @@
 		.data = (void*) 9
 	}
 },
-#if 0 // FIXME
 {
-	USB_DEVICE(0x0763, 0x2001),
+	USB_DEVICE_VENDOR_SPEC(0x0763, 0x2001),
 	.driver_info = (unsigned long) & (const snd_usb_audio_quirk_t) {
 		.vendor_name = "M-Audio",
 		.product_name = "Quattro",
@@ -475,9 +474,8 @@
 		.data = (void*) 1
 	}
 },
-#endif // FIXME
 {
-	USB_DEVICE(0x0763, 0x2003),
+	USB_DEVICE_VENDOR_SPEC(0x0763, 0x2003),
 	.driver_info = (unsigned long) & (const snd_usb_audio_quirk_t) {
 		.vendor_name = "M-Audio",
 		.product_name = "AudioPhile",



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Re: Quattro MIDI

[Takashi Iwai]

At Wed, 23 Oct 2002 09:37:31 +0200 (METDST),
Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> 
> Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> > > It seems the USB subsystem only loads the first id_table entry it finds
> > > for each interface. As a quick fix, remove the Quattro entry from
> > > usbquirks.h, but I'm going to write a patch to use both pcm and MIDI.
> >
> > ok, i'll remove it.
> 
> The Quattro id_table entry matches both PCM and MIDI interfaces because I
> removed the interface class from most entries nine days ago. I did this
> because my Roland SC-8820 didn't hotplug because the kernel didn't pass
> the interface class to the hotplug scripts because the device class isn't
> zero. However, devices with different interfaces do have device class zero
> (well, I hope they do :), so using the interface class for matching
> shouldn't prevent hotplugging for these devices.
> 
> This patch adds interface class matching for some devices with both PCM
> and MIDI interfaces.

thanks!
committed to cvs now.


Takashi


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Re: Quattro MIDI

[Patrick Shirkey]

Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Wed, 23 Oct 2002 09:37:31 +0200 (METDST),
> Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> 
>>Takashi Iwai wrote:
>>
>>>Clemens Ladisch wrote:
>>>
>>>>It seems the USB subsystem only loads the first id_table entry it finds
>>>>for each interface. As a quick fix, remove the Quattro entry from
>>>>usbquirks.h, but I'm going to write a patch to use both pcm and MIDI.
>>>
>>>ok, i'll remove it.
>>
>>The Quattro id_table entry matches both PCM and MIDI interfaces because I
>>removed the interface class from most entries nine days ago. I did this
>>because my Roland SC-8820 didn't hotplug because the kernel didn't pass
>>the interface class to the hotplug scripts because the device class isn't
>>zero. However, devices with different interfaces do have device class zero
>>(well, I hope they do :), so using the interface class for matching
>>shouldn't prevent hotplugging for these devices.
>>
>>This patch adds interface class matching for some devices with both PCM
>>and MIDI interfaces.
> 
> 
> thanks!
> committed to cvs now.
> 

I haven't tested this patch yet but from last nights cvs I can report 
that the quattro is giving much better results while using jack.

If I run with lowlat and all the options for latency control I can get a 
pure sine wave from ecasound.

Alsaplayer also performs much better.

I will investigate more obviously :)



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