Re: Help with RME alsa driver

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At Fri, 6 Feb 2015 16:35:25 +0100,
Tino Mettler wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2015-02-05 at 17:01 +0100, Mettler, Tino (ALC NetworX GmbH)
> wrote:
> > > Am 05.02.2015 um 15:42 schrieb Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>:
> > > 
> > > Larger rewrites of the hdspm code started since 1.0.24.  Especially
> > > lots of intrusive changes have been made between 1.0.24 and 1.0.25.
> > > So, my wild guess is that it started broken in 1.0.25 release.
> > 
> > Hi, I tried Debian 7 which uses 1.0.24 and it was broken (normal stereo
> > playback in aplay). I also wanted to test Debian 6 but the USB stick
> > didn't boot.
> 
> Now I managed to boot a Debian 6 live image which uses kernel 2.6.32 and
> ALSA 1.0.21. Despite the fact that alsamixer behaved strange (volume
> level could not be raised above a certain and very low level, resulting
> in low output volume) and hdspmixer complained about no RME cards
> (according to the changelog, AES32 support was added in hdspmixer after
> 1.0.24) simple stereo playback using aplay worked.
> 
> My summary so far for the simple aplay test on my RME AES32 card:
> 
> - Debian 5 with kernel 2.6.26 and ALSA 1.0.16 works
> - Debian 6 with kernel 2.6.32 and ALSA 1.0.21 works, modulo mixer
> problems
> - Debian 7 with kernel 3.2 and ALSA 1.0.24 is broken (playback sounds
> like portions of the sample are skipped approx. 2 times per second)

Thanks, now it's much narrower.  Adrian's big rewrites have been
merged since 2.6.39 kernel.  3.0 had only minor changes that are
likely irrelevant.  3.1 and 3.2 had again significant changes.

So, if anyone can test 2.6.39 and 3.1 kernels, it'd be another good
step forward.

Also, for a live system, you still can test the user-space stuff
changes.  For example, on the working system (e.g. Debian 5 or 6),
copy libasound.so.2.0.0 (or the corresponding one) to somewhere
(e.g. /tmp).  Then run aplay like 
   % LD_PRELOAD=/tmp/libasound.so.2.0.0 aplay something.wav
   

Takashi

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