On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:06:59 +0800 David Lam <diyuser@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi,Does anyone of you able to run Hdspe AES on Ubuntu 12.04 or 12.10? > The PCI version works fine so far (CentOS, custom kernel with recent ALSA drivers from git). > I have just done a fresh install of 12.04 n 12.10, tried kernel > 3.2.X, 3.4.0 and 3.5.19 unfortunately none of them run properly with > Alsa 1.0.25. However it works perfectly on 10.04 with alsa 1.0.25, so > basically same hardware setup same driver version only difference is > the version of Ubuntu. > I don't know what changed in Ubuntu and the release tarballs of ALSA are a bit outdated as well. If you want to do some research: $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git This will give you a full kernel source tree with latest ALSA development drivers. Do config/compile/install/boot as normal and see, if this already changes things for you. > I compiled the alsa myself and it is successfully compiled with no > errors shown, actually it plays but the sound is like FAST FORWARDED. > Interesting. Though there are speed controls, setting them shouldn't result in this behaviour AFAIK. In alsamixer, look for 'Double Speed Wire Mode' and 'Quad Speed Wire Mode'. Play around with them and see, if something changes. I only have remote access to the cards right now, so all I can say is that the AES speed controls are a little different from the MADI ones. Also, make sure pulseaudio isn't running, this can cause some problems as well. > In alsamixer instead of showing 64ch it only shows 16ch which I guess > this is the culprit of fast forwarded sound. > AES cards only have 16 chans (compared to MADI cards with 64 chans), so this is fine. > Also, the name inside the alsamixer is showing HDSP MADI on 10.04 but > on latest build it shows AES XXXX (some code / firmware no.) > This is also fine. It was changed to avoid user confusion, as the HDSPM kernel module supports more cards from RME besides the MADI series (see below). A log of all changes to the module can be found under [1]. > Using aplay -l and lspci -v it recognized the sound interface a > little bit different from 10.04 installation, on 10.04 It shows the > module is snd-hdspm and the Kernel module is RME HAMMERFALL MADI, > however in latest installation it shows snd_hdspm and snd-hdspm > accordingly instead of having the "full" description of the device. > This shouldn't be the problem, it's only some strings/names inside the module that changed. lspci uses a different way to obtain the card name, so the output between aplay/ALSA and lspci may differ as well (search for a text file called "pci.ids" in your /usr directory). > Moreover using ps command on 10.04 it shows the soundcard module > irq/16-hdspm, on the latest build it shows irq/16-snd_hdsp > The process name of the kthread is cropped at a fixed length, thus the 'm' is missing. This confused me as well the first time I saw it. ;) Grep the output of lsmod for 'hdsp' - only 'snd_hdspm' should show up, not 'snd_hdsp'. > (is this module for pci instead of pci-e?) Could someone shed me some > lights please? > There is no special code for PCIe devices inside the ALSA modules, they work for both types of cards. $ find /lib/modules/$(uname -r) -iname \*hdsp\* /lib/modules/3.4.11-rt19/kernel/sound/pci/rme9652/snd-hdsp.ko /lib/modules/3.4.11-rt19/kernel/sound/pci/rme9652/snd-hdspm.ko The snd-hdsp.ko supports older cards like 9632/9652, whereas snd-hdspm.ko supports newer cards like MADI, AES(32), RayDat etc.. [2] Originally, snd-hdspm.ko only supported MADI cards, support for other cards was added in later. That's why older versions of ALSA would tell you sth. about MADI, though you have an AES card. [3] Cheers, Andre [1] https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git;a=history;f=sound/pci/rme9652/hdspm.c [2] http://www.rme-audio.de/en_products.php [3] http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2011-June/040497.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant support Improve your efficiency, and focus on delivering more value-add services Discover what IT Professionals Know. Rescue delivers http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein_12329d2d _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
