wow. On Friday 10 October 2003 16:03, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Hello - maybe someone can help > > > > I have this problem - all of a sudden when I boot up, my HDSP9652 > > sound module > > won't load - a big red FAILED is shown - it was working yesterday > > - here's > > what I've got (some of you already know this ;) ), and what I changed: > > Hey there HDSP buddy, > > I mentioned the other day (somewhere on some list) that there were a few > things I wanted Thomas to look at, but I didn't want to ask before he got > the big patch he was working on into CVS. Do you remember me saying > that?;-) You just found one of them. > > I get this periodically. I just reboot my box, sometimes warm, and > sometimes cold, and it comes back. The worst I've seen is two boots. > > I have no idea why it happens, but it has on my machine. > > Also, don't be too worried if one of these days you have booted the > machine, and maybe you've used audio for a while, and then machine sits for > a few hours, and then you come back to find out you cannot start hdspmixer. > You Alt-Ctrl-F1 into the console only to find a message about 'No HDSP > cards found'. This one is quite strange. It's like the modules get loaded, > not used, and deleted. I know Fernando has some instructions about turning > off auto-clean, which I thought I did, but possibly Gentoo is a bit > different in that respect. > > I wanted Thomas to look at that, presuming I didn't find a solution > first. > > Other things you might stumble on to include some problem with the spdif > input on the card getting disconnected only if hdspmixer is left open. I > can play my guitar for hours through that input if I first close hdspmixer, > but only for a minute or two with it open. However, if I change the spdif > input to professional or some other setting, the input comes back for > another two minutes... Weird 'eh? ;-) > > And then we have this weekend's testing job if you've followed Nick > Arnold's thread about his pseudo 96KHz problem where some bytes are out of > order. That would truly effect both you and I, if it turns out to be true. > > This driver works, but we ain't at 1.0 yet. ;-) > > Cheers, > Mark -- -------------- Aaron Trumm NQuit www.nquit.com --------------
