Hi Roman On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 11:46 PM, Roman Haefeli <reduzierer@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 22:59 +1000, Martin Tufnel wrote: > > Hi Flo > > > > On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Florian Faber <faber@xxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > > > Martin, > > > > > > > Just to clarify, given the driver is finished but the user tools are > > > > still under development, this means that the unit will basically work > > > > but not have its full functionality - is this correct? > > > > > > You have IO, you can adjust the input levels, switch standby and > > > disconnect the box. So everything works as you would expect it. > > > > > > > Great! > > > > > > > > > > > Also, did you use the new patched version of the firmware that Karl > > > > worked on? > > > > > > No, it's the original firmware. Why would one want to patch it? > > > > > > > My understanding from Roman's previous posts was that there was a problem > > loading the firmware from within Linux. If I understood him correctly, > he > > needed to load the fireware from within a Windows boot and then boot into > > Linux (without turning off the machine of course). Perhaps I > misunderstood > > him. > > this is exactly what i do. it's no problem, though, to turn off the > computer after having sent the firmware from within windows, but as soon > as i power off the rpm, i need to do the process again. this works well > for me, since most of the time the rpm is sitting home powered on, so i > can plug it to the laptop and it works. > > correct me if i am wrong, but i thought the problem is not the firmware > itself, or the fact that it is missing, but the (old) version of the > hdsploader i used to use only knows about the multiface and the > digiface, but not about the rpm, AFAIK. from what i know, the very same > firmware, that is used in windows, can be used in linux as well (since > its card specific and not os-specific), but as flo suggested, the > userspace tools need to be adapted. > > with the old hdsp* stuff, it technically works, but the hdspmixer looks > like i'd be using a multiface (it shows more channels than the rpm > actually has) and also the hdspconf shows the switches for the > mutliface. some card settings can be changed anyway, but you need to > guess, what is what, since the labels are bogus (for use with the rpm). > > i hope i didn't confuse anyone with my old posts. those describe only > the kludges, i am using with old alsa-drives, until the final driver and > userspace tools are written. > > roman > Thanks for the clarification. This information is important to me because, as I've said previously, I don't have a Windows box, so I can't use your work-around. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
