(I am cc-ing the linux audio user list, in the hope of broadening the audience and reaching someone able to help me sort this out.) On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 12:02:56PM +0100, Asbjørn Sæbø wrote: > I am trying to get a Digigram VxPocket sound card working, and really > need some advice on how to proceed. > [Rest of previous post far below.] In addition to what I have done before (see below), I have now created a /etc/pcmcia/vxpocket.conf according to the description at the bottom of the alsa-project page for the vxpocket card. And I have added the necessary lines to /etc/modutils/alsa-base, and run update-modules. The visible results of this is that * The vx-* modules now seem to be loaded at boot * The card is still not recognized by alsa (it is not listed in /proc/asound/cards, and alsaconf does not find it). * cardinfo no longer says "unsupported card", but "empty". It does however list "IO 0x100-0x10f" and "IRQ 5" (or "IRQ 9d" or "IRQ o"(?)). * "cardctl info" and "cardctl ident" hang when they come to the socket containing the card. * Restarting the pcmcia service gives the following error messages: snegle:~# invoke-rc.d pcmcia restart Shutting down PCMCIA services: /etc/init.d/pcmcia: line 173: kill: (4040) - No such process done. Starting PCMCIA services: cardmgr[4540]: watching 2 sockets cardmgr[4540]: could not adjust resource: IO ports 0x100-0x4ff: Device or resource busy cardmgr[4540]: could not adjust resource: IO ports 0x800-0x8ff: Device or resource busy cardmgr[4540]: could not adjust resource: IO ports 0xc00-0xcff: Device or resource busy cardmgr[4540]: could not adjust resource: memory 0xc0000-0xfffff: Input/output error cardmgr[4540]: could not adjust resource: memory 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: Input/output error cardmgr[4540]: could not adjust resource: memory 0x60000000-0x60ffffff: Input/output error cardmgr[4540]: could not adjust resource: IO ports 0xa00-0xaff: Device or resource busy done. I am beginning to suspect that I am up against some pcmcia bug. And I am, at least for now, out of ideas of what to try next to get this card working. Suggestions, advice and tips are very welcome! Asbjørn -------------------------------------------------------------------- > The system is an ASUS L5000-series laptop running DeMuDi 1.2.1. The > kernel is 2.6.12-3-multimedia. > > So far, I have installed the pcmcia-cs package and the hotplug package. > (Do I need both of these? Do they conflict in any way?) > From what I have read of documentation, it seems that with 2.6-kernels, > hotplug is the way to go. Does having the "cardmgr" running interfere > with this? > > I have also downloaded the alsa-firmware corresponding to the alsa > version installed (1.0.9). (DeMuDi does not distribute this firmware.) > I ran "./configure --disable-loader", "make" and "make install". > This resulted in a set of files being placed under > /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware, among them, it seems, files related to the > vxpocket cards. > > The PCCard system itself seems to be working. At boot, a Yenta card bus > bridge is found. And "cardinfo" seems to notice that the card is > present, but only says "unsupported card". > > "alsaconf" does not find the card. Trying to load the snd-vxpocket > module gives no errors, and the module seems to be loaded afterwards > (see below), but the card is still not found by "alsaconf". > > I have tried to run "vxloader" (is that depreceated?), which gives the > message "no VX-compatible cards found". > > Where do I go from here? How do I get the card to be recognized? And > what do I do to get the firmware uploaded to the card? > > > With kind regards > Asbjørn Sæbø > > > > snegle:~# lsmod |grep vx > snegle:~# modprobe snd-vxpocket > Restoring ALSA mixer settings ... done. > snegle:~# lsmod |grep vx > snd_vxpocket 4288 0 > snd_vx_cs 14080 1 snd_vxpocket > snd_vx_lib 36480 1 snd_vx_cs > firmware_class 10624 1 snd_vx_lib > pcmcia 28480 10 snd_vxpocket,snd_vx_cs > pcmcia_core 52628 4 > snd_vx_cs,pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic > snd_pcm 96580 4 > snd_vx_lib,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss > snd 58404 12 > snd_vx_cs,snd_vx_lib,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer > snegle:~#
