Hi,the relationship between the HSF driver and alsa-driver is only relevant for HDA modems. The problem is that essentially, the HSF driver provides a codec driver for the HDA modem but unlike the AC97 bus, there is no way with the current alsa-driver HDA design to provide a codec driver as a separate/external module.
So we have to replace the snd-hda-intel.ko (and snd-hda-codec.ko if present) with a custom version in order to support HDA modems. The HSF driver has a built-in version of the HDA bus driver based on alsa-driver in order to easily replace the snd-hda-intel.ko module on the machine of the user. This functionality is no longer being maintained, because of many technical issues. Basically, this feature no longer works on some 2.6.25 and will not work on 2.6.26 and future kernels.
Patching the alsa-driver package is now the way to go. The patch was submitted to the ALSA development team but was refused, since it as now easier to load a binary only (the HSF driver proprietary modules) into the kernel. However, you could always ask Gentoo developers if they could not add our patch to their kernels, it will greatly help all HSF HDA users.
The patch is available at: http://www.linuxant.com/alsa-driver/and we will continue to update the patch to make it work on newer alsa-driver releases when they come out.
It is possible that the patch provided on our web site can be directly applied to the kernel, but this possibility has not been tested, this is something you could try out.
For the "codec#1 file is present but the HSF driver is not working" problem, I will need more information. While you have this problem, please send us the output of the output of 'dumpdiag'. Type the following in a root shell:
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hsfconfig --dumpdiag
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Just send us the generated file located in /tmp ('hsfdiag.txt').
It'll help us solve the problem.
Regards,
Jonathan
Technical specialist / Linuxant
www.linuxant.com
support@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Robo Tronic wrote:
First of all, thank you both for your precious time: I really appreciate that. I admit that I am a bit confused about the behavior of HSF driver and alsa-driver, and I really don't know anything about what there's "under the cover". Anyway I tried a little, probably silly, thing... Since with the original gentoo snd-hda-intel.ko kernel module the modem seems to be recognized (codec#1 is present), I've replaced the module created by hsfconfig into "/lib/modules/2.6.25-gentoo-r6/updates" with the original version and rebooted the system. Now the audio works well (it always worked), I can see codec#1 *but* hsfconfig still doesn't recognize the modem: isn't that strange or my test is totally meaningless? About the tailored alsa-driver-linuxant, I wished to give it a try but unfortunately I've found that the use of alsa-driver on Gentoo Linux is deprecated and not supported anymore: the package is hard-masked in the portage repository and is not maintained or updated, as stated from the Gentoo Linux ALSA Guide (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml): ----- "Historically, Gentoo offered two ways to get ALSA up and running: the in-kernel driver and the external alsa-driver package. The two solutions essentially do the same thing; this made supporting the external package extremely difficult and time-consuming. The Gentoo maintainers decided to discontinue support for the alsa-driver package, concentrating their resources on the ALSA drivers available within the Linux kernel. This guide will focus solely on configuring ALSA via the in-kernel driver. If you still require the alsa-driver package, please email the Gentoo ALSA maintainers with why the in-kernel drivers don't work for you. Be sure to include detailed error logs." ----- I know that this is not a Linuxant problem, but is eventually possible to include the patch into the in-kernel drivers? Could I hope that one day this issue will be fixed without the need of the external alsa-driver package? I'll ask you before to understand if this could be a good reason for eventually contacting the Gentoo ALSA team. And... Given my "test" results, are we sure that alsa-driver-linuxant will really do the trick? Tomorrow I will try to build a slightly new kernel version, from 2.6.25-gentoo-r6 to 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 and see what happens. Finally, a question about scanModem: when codec#1 is available, why doesn't the script find anything? Many thanks again, Marco ----------------------------------------Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:36:40 -0400 From: support@xxxxxxxxxxxx To: marvin.stodolsky@xxxxxxxxx CC: robotronic_2k@xxxxxxxxxxx; discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; dep@xxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Fwd: Marco, Italy [eid-20080729-2f2] Hi,it's a better idea to install alsa-driver-linuxant first but it can be installed after the HSF driver without any problems. Note however that some pre-compiled HSF driver packages do have an explicit dependency on alsa-driver-linuxant, in this case, it's necessary to install alsa-driver-linuxant first.Regards, Jonathan Technical specialist / Linuxant www.linuxant.com support@xxxxxxxxxxxx Marvin Stodolsky wrote:Jonathan, Should the alsa-driver-linuxant be installed before the hsfmodem package? Or doesn't it make a difference? MarvS On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Linuxant support (Jonathan) wrote:Hi, Marco has correctly identified the problem, since the file /proc/asound/card0/codec#1 is no longer present, the modem is not detected at all on the HDA bus. The HSF driver provides it's own HDA bus driver but it's getting outdated, using alsa-driver-linuxant is recommended now: http://www.linuxant.com/alsa-driver/ Hopefully with an up-to-date alsa-driver, the modem will be detected. Regards, Jonathan Technical specialist / Linuxant www.linuxant.com support@xxxxxxxxxxxx Marvin Stodolsky wrote:Jonathan, This is a HDA based conexant chip modem. Please advise Marco MarvS ---------- Forwarded message ----------From: RoboTronic Date: Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 4:43 PMSubject: Marco, Italy To: discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Hi, I have a Dell Inspiron 1720 laptop and I am not able to configure the internal modem on my Gentoo Linux box. It's clearly an hsfmodem but since scanModem hasn't detected any modem card, I've booted into Windows Vista Home Premium and collected some info about the device: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Modem Diagnostics: ATQ0V1E0 - OK AT+GMM - +GMM: Conexant HDA D330 MDC V.92 Modem AT+FCLASS=? - 0,1 AT#CLS=? - Not supported AT+GCI? - +GCI: 59 AT+GCI=? - +GCI: (00,01,02,03,04,05,06,07,09,0A,0B,0C,0D,0E,0F,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,19,1A,1B,1C,1D,1E,1F,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,2A,2B,2C,2D,2E,2F,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,3A,3B,3C,3D,3E,40,41,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,4B,4C,4D,4E,4F,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,5A,5B,5C,5E,5F,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,6A,6B,6C,6D,6E,6F,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79,7A,7B,7C,7D,7E,7F,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89,8A,8B,8C,8D,8E,8F,90,92,93,94,96,97,98,99,9A,9B,9C,9D,9E,9F,A0,A1,A2,A3,A4,A5,A6,A7,A8,A9,AA,AB,AC,AD,AE,AF,B0,B1,B2,B3,B4,B5,B6,B7,B8,B9,BA,BB,BC,BD,BE,BF,C1,C2,C3,C4,C5,C7,C8,C9,CA,CB,CC,CD,CE,CF,D0,D1,D2,D3,D4,D5,D6,D7,D8,D9,DA,DB,DC,DD,DE,DF,E0,E1,E2,E3,E4,E5,E6,E7,E8,EB,EC,ED,EE,EF,F0,F1,F2,F3,F4,F5,F7,F8,F9,FA,FB,FC,FE) ATI1 - 255 ATI2 - OK ATI3 - SoftK56V_B2.1_V7.59.00 ATI4 - Conexant HDA D330 MDC V.92 Modem ATI5 - 089 ATI6 - SoftK56 CModem Version 12 Rksample Version 342 ATI7 - 255 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Modem Details: Hardware ID = HDAUDIO\FUNC_02&VEN_14F1&DEV_2C06&SUBSYS_14F1000F&REV_1000\4&23AD9263&0&0102 | |_ Vendor = 14F1 |_ Device = 2C06 |_ SubSys = 000f:14f1 Compatible IDs = HDAUDIO\FUNC_02&CTLR_VEN_8086&CTLR_DEV_284B&VEN_14F1&DEV_2C06&REV_1000 HDAUDIO\FUNC_02&CTLR_VEN_8086&VEN_14F1&DEV_2C06&REV_1000 HDAUDIO\FUNC_02&VEN_14F1&DEV_2C06&REV_1000 HDAUDIO\FUNC_02&CTLR_VEN_8086&CTLR_DEV_284B&VEN_14F1&DEV_2C06 HDAUDIO\FUNC_02&CTLR_VEN_8086&VEN_14F1&DEV_2C06 HDAUDIO\FUNC_02&VEN_14F1&DEV_2C06 HDAUDIO\FUNC_02&CTLR_VEN_8086&CTLR_DEV_284B&VEN_14F1 HDAUDIO\FUNC_02&CTLR_VEN_8086&VEN_14F1 HDAUDIO\FUNC_02&VEN_14F1 HDAUDIO\FUNC_02&CTLR_VEN_8086&CTLR_DEV_284B HDAUDIO\FUNC_02&CTLR_VEN_8086 HDAUDIO\FUNC_02&GF&VEN_14F1&DEV_2C06&SUBSYS_14F1000F&REV_1000 HDAUDIO\FUNC_02 Father = PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_284B&SUBSYS_01F21028&REV_02\3&2b8e0b4b&0&D8 Same level = HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_8384&DEV_76A0&SUBSYS_102801F2&REV_1002\4&23ad9263&0&0001 Driver = oem5.inf:HSF_MODEM:ModemX:7.59.0.0:hdaudio\func_02&ven_14f1&dev_2c06&subsys_14f1000f Driver Details = Version 7.59.0.0 (16-NOV-2006) [ Note: I've translated properties' names from Italian to English, probably there are some mistakes! ] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- That particular vendor/device seems supported by hsf drivers but hsfconfig modem detection fails. Attached you can find scanModem and "hsfconfig --dumpdiag" output. The interesting thing I've found is that with the default Gentoo kernel module "snd_hda_intel" loaded, I am able to query codec#1: metalbox ~ # cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#1 Codec: Conexant ID 2c06 Address: 1 Vendor Id: 0x14f12c06 Subsystem Id: 0x14f1000f Revision Id: 0x100000 Modem Function Group: 0x2 Differently, after hsfmodem kernel modules installation, the codec#1 device disappears, and I'm left only with codec#0 (the sound card). I'm using the official Linuxant drivers, version 7.68.00.09 (x86_64). I've also tried Dell's OEM drivers (http://linux.dell.com/files/ubuntu/hardy/modem-drivers/hsf/hsfmodem-7.68.00.09x86_64oem.tar.gz), but nothing changes... Thanks in advance for your help, and feel free to ask if I've missed something in my explanation! 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