Re: X-Fi USB HD - switching from USB1.1 to USB2?

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Dne 07. 05. 21 v 10:37 Pavel Hofman napsal(a):
> Hi,
> 
> The X-Fi USB HD device (and likely the similar 5.1 model too) can run at
> USB1.1 (with limited samplerates) and USB2 modes (with full specs). In
> linux the device stays at USB1.1. If connected to Windows with stock
> windows USB driver the same happens. However, when the Creative
> proprietary driver is installed, the device switches to USB2 and
> supports all features. When rebooting to linux without re-plugging, the
> USB2 mode stays and the device offers its USB2 configurations to
> snd-usb-audio.
> 
> We captured USB packets in linux and Win7 with wireshark - both dumps
> are included. The windows dump shows that in windows as well as in linux
> the device starts as device 3.5.0 at USB1.1:
> 
> DEVICE DESCRIPTOR
>     bLength: 18
>     bDescriptorType: 0x01 (DEVICE)
>     bcdUSB: 0x0110
>     bDeviceClass: Device (0x00)
>     bDeviceSubClass: 0
>     bDeviceProtocol: 0 (Use class code info from Interface Descriptors)
>     bMaxPacketSize0: 64
>     idVendor: Creative Technology, Ltd (0x041e)
>     idProduct: Unknown (0x30d7)
>     bcdDevice: 0x0100
>     iManufacturer: 1
>     iProduct: 2
>     iSerialNumber: 3
>     bNumConfigurations: 1
> 
> 
> After USB1.1 enumeration, the windows host controlled by the vendor
> driver sends a request USR_FUNCTION_ABORT_PIPE to EP IN 6:
> 
> 
> The EP IN 6  descriptor (from USB1.1 configuration):
> 
> ENDPOINT DESCRIPTOR
>     bLength: 7
>     bDescriptorType: 0x05 (ENDPOINT)
>     bEndpointAddress: 0x86  IN  Endpoint:6
>         1... .... = Direction: IN Endpoint
>         .... 0110 = Endpoint Number: 0x6
>     bmAttributes: 0x03
>         .... ..11 = Transfertype: Interrupt-Transfer (0x3)
>     wMaxPacketSize: 64
>         ...0 0... .... .... = Transactions per microframe: 1 (0)
>         .... ..00 0100 0000 = Maximum Packet Size: 64
>     bInterval: 1
> 
> The request sent by the host is:
> USB URB
>     [Source: host]
>     [Destination: 3.5.6]
>     USBPcap pseudoheader length: 27
>     IRP ID: 0xfffffa80073ee120
>     IRP USBD_STATUS: USBD_STATUS_SUCCESS (0x00000000)
>     URB Function: URB_FUNCTION_ABORT_PIPE (0x0002)
>     IRP information: 0x00, Direction: FDO -> PDO
>     URB bus id: 3
>     Device address: 5
>     Endpoint: 0x86, Direction: IN
>     URB transfer type: USB IRP Info (0xfe)
>     Packet Data Length: 0
> 
> 
> The device responds with a proprietary response, with a different source
> 3.5.127:
> USB URB
>     [Source: 3.5.127]
>     [Destination: host]
>     USBPcap pseudoheader length: 27
>     IRP ID: 0xfffffa80073ee120
>     IRP USBD_STATUS: USBD_STATUS_SUCCESS (0x00000000)
>     URB Function: URB_FUNCTION_ABORT_PIPE (0x0002)
>     IRP information: 0x01, Direction: PDO -> FDO
>         0000 000. = Reserved: 0x00
>         .... ...1 = Direction: PDO -> FDO (0x1)
>     URB bus id: 3
>     Device address: 5
>     Endpoint: 0xff, Direction: IN
>         1... .... = Direction: IN (1)
>         .... 1111 = Endpoint number: 15
>     URB transfer type: Unknown (0xff)
>         [Expert Info (Error/Malformed): USBPcap did not recognize URB
> Function code (report to desowin.org/USBPcap)]
>             [USBPcap did not recognize URB Function code (report to
> desowin.org/USBPcap)]
>             [Severity level: Error]
>             [Group: Malformed]
>     Packet Data Length: 0
> 
> 
> Immediately after that the device re-connects as 3.6.0 and reports its
> USB2.0 description:
> 
> DEVICE DESCRIPTOR
>     bLength: 18
>     bDescriptorType: 0x01 (DEVICE)
>     bcdUSB: 0x0200
>     bDeviceClass: Device (0x00)
>     bDeviceSubClass: 0
>     bDeviceProtocol: 0 (Use class code info from Interface Descriptors)
>     bMaxPacketSize0: 64
>     idVendor: Creative Technology, Ltd (0x041e)
>     idProduct: Unknown (0x30d7)
>     bcdDevice: 0x0100
>     iManufacturer: 1
>     iProduct: 2
>     iSerialNumber: 3
>     bNumConfigurations: 1
> 
> This is a regular USB-audio device which works OK in snd-usb-audio, as
> tested after rebooting from windows to linux.
> 
> Please is there any similar case handled by the existing alsa usb driver
> which we could try to modify and test? My USB skills are not up to
> writing the required code myself from scratch, unfortunately.

The switch can be probably implemented in the user space (libusb + udev
rules). There is something similar for modems (usb_modeswitch).

						Jaroslav

-- 
Jaroslav Kysela <perex@xxxxxxxx>
Linux Sound Maintainer; ALSA Project; Red Hat, Inc.



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