hdsploader, firmware and 1.0.8?

hdsploader, firmware and 1.0.8?

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

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?

A couple of other users have reported success with echoaudio cards
(which also require firmware loading, I think) so this is unexpected. 

Thanks for any help.
-- Fernando

-----Forwarded Message-----

From: Michael E. Smith
To: planetccrma@ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Subject: [PlanetCCRMA] Help! HDSP firmware suddenly fails to load...
Date: 25 Jan 2005 03:47:17 +0100

I've just upgraded my two CCRMA boxes to the latest from the CCRMA
repositories and now my Digiface firmware won't load:

        hdsploader - firmware loader for RME Hammerfall DSP cards
        Looking for HDSP + Multiface or Digiface cards :
        Card 0 : RME Hammerfall DSP at 0x3e800000, irq 11
        Upload firmware for card hw:0
        Hwdep ioctl error on card hw:0 : Invalid argument.
        
This is the first time since switching to Fedora Core 2 and CCRMA that
I've had a problem with the HDSP.

Both machines refuse to load the firmware similarly, but not quite the
same. To wit, the laptop (cardbus/digiface) consistantly produces the
above error, while the desktop (pci/digiface) does it once and then
doesn't see a card at all.

It does, however, show up (on both machines) on an lspci listing. Also,
snd-hdsp shows up in lsmod.

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
        
It would appear as though the firmware is attempting to be loaded
automatically at some point during user login (I can see from the lights
on the digiface), resulting in the error even before I attempt to load
it using hdsploader. 



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Re: hdsploader, firmware and 1.0.8?

[Takashi Iwai]

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


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