Hi Thomas! Thanks for your reply! I have now tested alsa-drivers-1.0.9rc1 with hotplug support in the kernel, but without success. When i boot into OSX, load the firmware there, and do a warm-reboot into debian, the card works, even reinserting and putting the computer into sleep mode doesn't stop the card from working. But after a coldboot into debian, the card remains uninitialized, giving the same error as described below. I am fairly stuck here. Thanks for _any_ help. Peter Thomas Charbonnel wrote: >>Dear list, >> >>this is a bit complicated, due to big/little endian issues, perhaps. I >>am trying to load the firmware into my hdsp pcmcia card. >> >>I am getting the fifo timeout: >> >>peter:~# hdsploader >>hdsploader - firmware loader for RME Hammerfall DSP cards >>Looking for HDSP + Multiface or Digiface cards : >>Card 0 : PowerMac Screamer Rev 0 >>Card 1 : RME Hammerfall DSP at 0xf3000000, irq 58 >>Upload firmware for card hw:1 >>Hwdep ioctl error on card hw:1 : Input/output error. >> >>I am using debian testing, running a 2.6.8 kernel with manually compiled >> 1.0.8 alsa drivers on a G3 powerpc laptop. >> >>cardbus version is 11 (rev 0b) >> >>the card is loadable out of osx. >> >>i am stuck here, and don't know what to do now. >> >>any suggestions are very welcome! >> >>thanks, >>Peter > > > Hi Peter, > > From 1.0.8 on, the new method for uploading the firmare is through hotplug > and the kernel generic firmware loading mechanism (if compiled in). You > shouldn't have to use hdsploader anymore. Anyway you should definitely use > CVS or the 1.0.9 RCs, as there were significant problems with the hdsp > driver in 1.0.8 that have been fixed since then (firmware loading, > endianness issues, metering). > > Thomas > > >
