Hi, Thomas:
thomas charbonnel writes:
> Janina Sajka wrote :
>
> > Well, unfortunately I'm not seeing a change yet on my Opteron box using
> > the PCI interface card.
> >
> > Firmware loading still requiring hdsploader, even thgouh hotplug is
> > enabled.
> >
>
> Hi Janina,
>
> This can happen if you compiled the driver in kernel and hotplug (which
> is userspace) is not available when the card is initialized. I'm working
> on a more robust solution to this problem at the moment.
I take this statement back. I've recompiled alsa-driver-1.0.9RC1 and can
now restart alsa using using the old CCRMA script in /etc/init.d and it
DOES get the hdsp firmware loaded, despite the error. Very nice.
#service alsasound restart
Shutting down sound driver [ OK ]
Starting sound driver snd-hdsp [ OK ]
Starting sound driver snd-hdsp [ OK ]
Starting sequencer [ OK ]
Starting sequencer driver snd-seq-midi [ OK ]
Restoring sound driver settings /usr/sbin/alsactl: load_state:1272: No
soundcards found...
[FAILED]
Running hdspmixer resets levels OK.
>
> > Also, I'm unable to dmix, or alsamixer.
> >
>
> Dmix should work, please report this to alsa-devel.
OK. I think my hesitancy is about whether I have an appropriate
.asoundrc. So, let me ask more generically. A command like:
aplay -D dmix:SLAVE=\"hw:0,0\",RATE=44100 [file.wav]
should work, yes?
> Alsamixer can't be used with the card yet. I have a plan to make this
> possible, but it's not ready yet. In the meantime you can use amixer in
> a command-line only environment.
Thank you. I can certainly work with amixer. I appreciate the
consideration, too.
>
> Thomas
>
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