Re: hdspmixer: HwDep ioctl failed. Metering stopped

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Please report back what version of firmware your HDSP has. you cannot
use the more recent versions and may have to downgrade to an earlier
firmware version to get correct operation. (More or less...)

- Mark

On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Alex Norman <alex@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello, I'm trying to help my friend with his RME multiface and ubuntu linux.
> When we run hdspmixer we get this output:
>
> HDSPMixer 1.6 - Copyright (C) 2003 Thomas Charbonnel <thomas@xxxxxxxxxx>
> This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
> HDSPMixer is free software, see the file COPYING for details
>
> Looking for HDSP cards :
> Card 0 : RME Hammerfall DSP + Multiface at 0xfdde0000, irq 17
> Multiface found !
> 1 Hammerfall DSP card found.
> Initializing default presets
> HwDep ioctl failed. Metering stopped
>
> We can still use the mixer, route, etc. but metering doesn't work [we don't see
> any graphical representation of the audio].   hdspconf repeatedly gives us this
> output:
> Hwdep ioctl error on card hw:0.
>
> We can route audio with jack, output audio with jack, and also output audio with
> oss, but apps using alsa don't seem to be working.. when I run aplay on a file I
> get this output:
>
> jesse@ubuntu:/lib/firmware$ aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Side_Right.wav
> Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Side_Right.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little
> Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono
> ALSA lib pcm_pulse.c:625:(pulse_prepare) PulseAudio: Unable to create stream:
> Invalid argument
>
> aplay: set_params:1015: Unable to install hw params:
> ACCESS:  RW_INTERLEAVED
> FORMAT:  S16_LE
> SUBFORMAT:  STD
> SAMPLE_BITS: 16
> FRAME_BITS: 16
> CHANNELS: 1
> RATE: 48000
> PERIOD_TIME: 125000
> PERIOD_SIZE: 6000
> PERIOD_BYTES: 12000
> PERIODS: 4
> BUFFER_TIME: 500000
> BUFFER_SIZE: 24000
> BUFFER_BYTES: 48000
> TICK_TIME: [0 0]
>
> We've found some open threads in some bug trackers about this problem but no
> resolutions for this problem.  Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
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