Is there any chance of getting my card to work?

Is there any chance of getting my card to work?

[Ken Arromdee]

I'm the guy with the Shark Predator ISA card, AD1816a-based.

It works with 0.5 and doesn't work with 0.9, and nobody's been able to help
me so far...

In fact, has anyone been working on any AD1816a-based card at all?  Is this
just a chipset that nobody has?

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Re: Is there any chance of getting my card to work?

[Takashi Iwai]

At Mon, 11 Feb 2002 19:44:54 -0800 (PST),
Ken Arromdee wrote:
> 
> I'm the guy with the Shark Predator ISA card, AD1816a-based.
> 
> It works with 0.5 and doesn't work with 0.9, and nobody's been able to help
> me so far...
 
could you elaborate the symtom a bit more?


> In fact, has anyone been working on any AD1816a-based card at all?  Is this
> just a chipset that nobody has?

not sure on 0.9.0.
it would be appreciated if you help debugging.


ciao,

Takashi

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Re: Is there any chance of getting my card to work?

[Ken Arromdee]

On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > I'm the guy with the Shark Predator ISA card, AD1816a-based.
> > It works with 0.5 and doesn't work with 0.9, and nobody's been able to help
> > me so far...
> could you elaborate the symtom a bit more?

Yes.

Cutting and pasting from my earlier post:

My sound card is a Shark Predator ISA.  It's pretty obscure (I had to send in
a patch to get it recognized).  It works fine in Alsa 0.5 with the ad1816a
driver.  It also works fine with oss.

I am running Mandrake 8, kernel 2.4.3-20mdk.

Using 0.9.0 beta 9, Alsa malfunctions in the following way:
-- If I go to alsamixer, I find that the sound gets louder the *lower* I set
the volume, so it's loudest at 0 and can't be heard at all at 100.
-- aplay <filename> only plays the first half second of the sound, which
keeps repeating over and over.  A couple of seconds later I get this error:
    aplay: pcm_write:934: write error: Input/output error
The sound does not stop and keeps repeating until I actually stop Alsa.

I compiled the driver with debug; /var/log/messages shows this:
Nov 19 14:39:42 localhost kernel: ALSA pcm_lib.c:1864: playback write error (DMA
 or IRQ trouble?)
Nov 19 14:39:52 localhost kernel: ALSA pcm_native.c:1250: playback drain error (
DMA or IRQ trouble?)

As far as I can tell, my DMA and IRQ settings are correct.  The relevant
settings from my /etc/modules.conf are:

    alias char-major-116 snd
    options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1
    alias snd-card-0 snd-card-ad1816a
    options snd-card-ad1816a snd_port=0x500 snd_mpu_port=0x300 snd_fm_port=0x388
snd_irq=5 snd_mpu_irq=7 snd_dma1=1 snd_dma2=0

[The same settings work in alsa 0.5.  Someone later suggested that I use port
220 instead of 500.  That didn't help.  Either 220 or 500 works in Alsa 0.5.
Taking out the options and letting PNP set up the card didn't help either.]

Here is my /proc/isapnp.

Card 1 'SMM7180:Predator 3D' PnP version 1.0 Product version 2.0
  Logical device 0 'ADS7180:Unknown'
    Supported registers 0x2
    Device is active
    Active port 0x220,0x388,0x500
    Active IRQ 5 [0x2]
    Active DMA 1,0
    Resources 0
      Priority preferred
      Port 0x220-0x240, align 0x1f, size 0x10, 16-bit address decoding
      Port 0x388-0x388, align 0x7, size 0x4, 16-bit address decoding
      Port 0x500-0x560, align 0xf, size 0x10, 16-bit address decoding
      IRQ 5,7 High-Edge
      DMA 1 8-bit byte-count type-A
      DMA 0,1,3 8-bit byte-count type-A
      Alternate resources 0:1
        Priority acceptable
        Port 0x220-0x240, align 0x1f, size 0x10, 16-bit address decoding
        Port 0x388-0x388, align 0x7, size 0x4, 16-bit address decoding
        Port 0x500-0x560, align 0xf, size 0x10, 16-bit address decoding
        IRQ 5,7,10 High-Edge
        DMA 0,1,3 8-bit byte-count type-A
        DMA 0,1,3 8-bit byte-count type-A
      Alternate resources 0:2
        Priority acceptable
        Port 0x220-0x2e0, align 0x1f, size 0x10, 16-bit address decoding
        Port 0x388-0x3b8, align 0x7, size 0x4, 16-bit address decoding
        Port 0x500-0x560, align 0xf, size 0x10, 16-bit address decoding
        IRQ 3,4,5,7,2/9,10,15 High-Edge
        DMA 0,1,3 8-bit byte-count type-A
        DMA 0,1,3 8-bit byte-count type-A
      Alternate resources 0:3
        Priority functional
        Port 0x220-0x2e0, align 0x1f, size 0x10, 16-bit address decoding
        Port 0x388-0x3b8, align 0x7, size 0x4, 16-bit address decoding
        Port 0x500-0x560, align 0xf, size 0x10, 16-bit address decoding
        IRQ 3,4,5,7,2/9,10,15 High-Edge
        DMA 0,1,3 8-bit byte-count type-A
        DMA <none> 8-bit byte-count type-A
  Logical device 1 'ADS7181:Unknown'
    Supported registers 0x2
    Compatible device PNPb006
    Device is active
    Active port 0x300
    Active IRQ 7 [0x2]
    Resources 0
      Priority preferred
      Port 0x300-0x330, align 0x2f, size 0x2, 16-bit address decoding
      IRQ 5,7,2/9 High-Edge
      Alternate resources 0:1
        Priority acceptable
        Port 0x300-0x420, align 0x2f, size 0x2, 16-bit address decoding
        IRQ 3,4,5,7,2/9,10,15 High-Edge
  Logical device 2 'ADS7182:Unknown'
    Supported registers 0x2
    Compatible device PNPb02f
    Device is not active
    Resources 0
      Priority preferred
      Port 0x200-0x200, align 0x7, size 0x8, 16-bit address decoding
      Alternate resources 0:1
        Priority acceptable
        Port 0x200-0x208, align 0x7, size 0x8, 16-bit address decoding
  Logical device 3 'ADS7100:Unknown'
    Supported registers 0x2
    Device is not active
    Resources 0
      Priority preferred
      Port 0x290-0x2c0, align 0x7, size 0x8, 16-bit address decoding



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Re: Is there any chance of getting my card to work?

[Takashi Iwai]

Hi Ken,

At Tue, 12 Feb 2002 08:14:50 -0800 (PST),
Ken Arromdee wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > > I'm the guy with the Shark Predator ISA card, AD1816a-based.
> > > It works with 0.5 and doesn't work with 0.9, and nobody's been able to help
> > > me so far...
> > could you elaborate the symtom a bit more?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> Cutting and pasting from my earlier post:
> 
> My sound card is a Shark Predator ISA.  It's pretty obscure (I had to send in
> a patch to get it recognized).  It works fine in Alsa 0.5 with the ad1816a
> driver.  It also works fine with oss.
> 
> I am running Mandrake 8, kernel 2.4.3-20mdk.
> 
> Using 0.9.0 beta 9, Alsa malfunctions in the following way:
> -- If I go to alsamixer, I find that the sound gets louder the *lower* I set
> the volume, so it's loudest at 0 and can't be heard at all at 100.

Ok, I found it.

> -- aplay <filename> only plays the first half second of the sound, which
> keeps repeating over and over.  A couple of seconds later I get this error:
>     aplay: pcm_write:934: write error: Input/output error
> The sound does not stop and keeps repeating until I actually stop Alsa.
> I compiled the driver with debug; /var/log/messages shows this:
> Nov 19 14:39:42 localhost kernel: ALSA pcm_lib.c:1864: playback write error (DMA
>  or IRQ trouble?)
> Nov 19 14:39:52 localhost kernel: ALSA pcm_native.c:1250: playback drain error (
> DMA or IRQ trouble?)

 
I think I got this too.

Now the fixes are committed to cvs.
Could you try the cvs version?


ciao,

Takashi

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Re: Is there any chance of getting my card to work?

[Ken Arromdee]

On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> Now the fixes are committed to cvs.
> Could you try the cvs version?

Thanks!  Finally after all this time it works...  almost...  I still have
some problems.

If I play a sound file (.wav in this case) using aplay, the file plays, but
when it finishes I get an extra repeated bit of sound, just a fraction of a
second long.

Also, when I do "playmidi -e", it plays for the right length of time and
gives no error messages, but produces no sound.  I have a midi daughterboard
attached to my card; it worked fine in Alsa 0.5 and it works in Windows 98.
"playmidi -f" *does* work, but that's FM.

I have no idea whether midi not working is because oss emulation isn't working
or whether it's not working even just in Alsa.  I have no Alsa midi player
that I can test.  (There's a program in alsa-driver/test/playmidi1, but
that just tells me "This player does not support merging of tracks.")

I did try putting a debug snd_printk in there and it is telling me that the
MPU port is 0x300 and the IRQ is 9, which seems correct.  cat /proc/isapnp
tells me that the device ADS7181 with port 0x300 and IRQ 9 is active.  cat
/proc/interrupts shows IRQ 9 in use by "MPU401 UART", and cat /proc/ioports
shows me "0300-0301 : MPU401 UART", which all seems okay.

The following is my /etc/modules.conf:

# ALSA native
alias char-major-116 snd
options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1
alias snd-card-0 snd-ad1816a

# OSS/Free emulation 
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss



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Re: Is there any chance of getting my card to work?

[Takashi Iwai]

At Tue, 12 Feb 2002 19:24:08 -0800 (PST),
Ken Arromdee wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > Now the fixes are committed to cvs.
> > Could you try the cvs version?
> 
> Thanks!  Finally after all this time it works...  almost...  I still have
> some problems.
> 
> If I play a sound file (.wav in this case) using aplay, the file plays, but
> when it finishes I get an extra repeated bit of sound, just a fraction of a
> second long.

hmm, i don't figure out this yet.

> Also, when I do "playmidi -e", it plays for the right length of time and
> gives no error messages, but produces no sound.  I have a midi daughterboard
> attached to my card; it worked fine in Alsa 0.5 and it works in Windows 98.
> "playmidi -f" *does* work, but that's FM.
>  
> I have no idea whether midi not working is because oss emulation isn't working
> or whether it's not working even just in Alsa.  I have no Alsa midi player
> that I can test.  (There's a program in alsa-driver/test/playmidi1, but
> that just tells me "This player does not support merging of tracks.")
 
please check /proc/asound/card/0/midi0 whether the status is changed
during playback.
(i suppose that your daughterboard is connected mpu401.)
also you should check the counter in /proc/interrupts and whether irq
9 (for mpu401) is really generated.


Takashi

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Re: Is there any chance of getting my card to work?

[Ken Arromdee]

On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > If I play a sound file (.wav in this case) using aplay, the file plays, but
> > when it finishes I get an extra repeated bit of sound, just a fraction of a
> > second long.
> hmm, i don't figure out this yet.

I tried regular "play" (the one with sox).  It worked and didn't give me the
problem.  Only aplay does that.  I wonder if the ad1816a driver is really okay
and it's just aplay that's wrong.

> > Also, when I do "playmidi -e", it plays for the right length of time and
> > gives no error messages, but produces no sound.  I have a midi daughterboard
> > attached to my card; it worked fine in Alsa 0.5 and it works in Windows 98.
> > "playmidi -f" *does* work, but that's FM.
> > I have no idea whether midi not working is because oss emulation isn't working
> > or whether it's not working even just in Alsa.  I have no Alsa midi player
> > that I can test.  (There's a program in alsa-driver/test/playmidi1, but
> > that just tells me "This player does not support merging of tracks.")
> please check /proc/asound/card/0/midi0 whether the status is changed
> during playback.

The status is not changed during playback and it still says Tx bytes  :0.

Where's the simplest Alsa midi player I can get?

> (i suppose that your daughterboard is connected mpu401.)
> also you should check the counter in /proc/interrupts and whether irq
> 9 (for mpu401) is really generated.

  9:          1          XT-PIC  MPU401 UART

The number goes up by 1 every time I stop and restart Alsa.

Somehow, playmidi -e just started working right now, for no reason at all.  I
didn't do anything unusual.  It continued working until I stopped Alsa and
started it again, and then it stopped working again.  I can't get it to work
any more.

When it was working the number in /proc/asound/card0/midi0 went up a lot.
The number in /proc/interrupts didn't go up.  I think that there are only
supposed to be interrupts for input, not for output, so this is probably right.


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