From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Roman Haefeli Subject: Re: hdsp rpm support Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:54:00 +0100 Message-ID: <1326884040.18308.6.camel@yoyo4> References: <1326877559.24738.84.camel@yoyo4> <20120118102658.GA5351@linuxaudio.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-we0-f179.google.com (mail-we0-f179.google.com [74.125.82.179]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41E8A103AB6 for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:54:03 +0100 (CET) Received: by wera13 with SMTP id a13so2181600wer.38 for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:54:03 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20120118102658.GA5351@linuxaudio.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: Fons Adriaensen Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Hi Fons I'm glad to hear about people having success with this issue. On Wed, 2012-01-18 at 10:26 +0000, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:05:59AM +0100, Roman Haefeli wrote: > > > I would like to know current state of the RME HDSP RPM support. There > > was a thread [1] in 2008 on this list about the issue and things looked > > promising back then. However, I'm still unable to upload the firmware > > with alsa-driver from git on my Ubuntu 11.04 (32bit) machine with a > > 2.6.38 kernel. I posted a detailed description of the issue on the > > alsa-user list here [2]. > > It seems that the developer of the driver - Adrian Knoth - has > two versions: one that works for me, and one that works for > another user. > > AFAICS, the problem is with the code that identifies the card > as an RPM, Multiface or Digiface, and that triggers ths HW into > accepting the firmware. Once past this point everything works > perfectly, including switching the phone preamps etc. I can confirm this. When I upload the firmware with Windows, I can fully use the card and a recent 'hdspmixer' shows me the correct number of channels. However, the culprit seems to be uploading the firmware. > I've use it with both Cardbus and ExpressCard. Good to hear. May I ask kindly for the 'other' version of the driver, which I would be happy to test? > > One more user would probably help... I'm willing to test and report back (as much as I can as a non-dev). Roman