From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Takashi Iwai Subject: Re: hdsploader, firmware and 1.0.8? Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 12:08:45 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1106635483.14021.45.camel@cmn37.stanford.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.5 - "Awara-Onsen") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1106635483.14021.45.camel@cmn37.stanford.edu> Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano Cc: alsa-devel , "Michael E. Smith" List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org At 24 Jan 2005 22:44:44 -0800, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: > > Hi alsa gurus... I just got a message from one of my Planet CCRMA users, > the ability of his two machines to load the hdsp firmware has > dissapeared after updating to the latest alsa packages I released (1.0.8 > final). > > I'm still waiting for more data, but I'm including the relevant parts of > what he wrote to the list, in the hope that someone will already have > experience with this problem and how to fix it. I know hotplug should be > trying to download the firmware, but shouldn't hdsploader work anyway? hdsploader is disabled when CONFIG_FW_LOADER is set since they conflict. > dmesg snippet: > > ALSA /usr/src/rpm/BUILD/alsa-driver-1.0.8/alsa-kernel/pci/rme9652/hdsp.c:647: > Hammerfall-DSP: no Digiface or Multiface connected! > ALSA /usr/src/rpm/BUILD/alsa-driver-1.0.8/alsa-kernel/pci/rme9652/hdsp.c:5086: > card initialization pending : waiting for firmware The first message looks problematic. This comes from hdsp_check_for_iobox(), indicating that no iobox is connected. As long as the function returns an error, hdsp driver won't work as expected. If the old driver worked even though you got this message, it worked casullaly... Takashi ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl