On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Paul, >>> I'd be happy to try to involve RME if there's some real chance that >>> a Linux developer will really work on the issues. I don't want to try >>> to pump them up and then not have anyone here to really look at it. >>> Are you the person that would do this work? You're so busy with Ardour >>> that for the good of the community you wouldn't be my first choice as >> >> I wasn't volunteering. But I do know that there are people who will >> make the (apparently) minor tweaks to the driver to make it operate >> with the new firmware (although its also very far from clear if any >> changes at all are necessary). >> >>> I think this is a smaller issue than Ardour. I know you have used RME >>> for years although I wasn't aware that you used an HDSP series card, >>> if you do. >> >> I do. >> >>> when I got around to trying to load audio drivers I went to the RME >>> web site and they stated very clearly that the Win 7 drivers require >>> the newest firmware. I don't blame them. It's probably good stuff, but >>> it looks like it will finally break compatibility with the 'old >>> firmware to make Alsa drivers work' construct. >> >> that's not clear to me from the material that you quoted. i dealt with >> several RME firmware upgrades in the past, and they were trivial to >> support. you need to understand that the "firmware" is not actually >> firmware at all. its just some data to be loaded into the matrix >> mixer. >> >> --p >> > I have just posted a couple of questions in the RME forums to try and > get some info. > > To the best of my knowledge I was/am running firmware (or what ever we > want to call this stuff) version 104 prior to moving the card to the > new machine. It was my understanding that the Linux stuff didn't work > correctly or at all with anything above 104 or 105, and the Win XP > stuff didn't work correctly, but did work, with 104 so I think I > was/am running 104. Not sure yet. I Can go find the emails I'm sure if > there's any question as to why I'm doing this. > > I just loaded the newest Win 7 driver and it did find the card. I need > to do a reboot which I cannot do until after the market closes in a > few minutes so I'll see if the current HDSP Win 7 mixer works. > > Thanks for your interest and guidance. > > Cheers, > Mark > As a follow up I have rebooted the machine with the new Win 7 driver installed and the card is now found but it is not functional with the most current RME driver. That is not surprising as the driver readme states I need rev 108 and I'm running 104. The 1st problem would be that under Win 7 the firmware updater doesn't do anything so at the moment I couldn't update firmware if I wanted to. On the other hand, if my memory of this topic is correct rev 104 was the latest version of firmware that works with _any_ Alsa driver for this card so I still seem to be headed for trouble. In the RME forums the basic piece of info I've received so far is just that the driver has to match up with a specific version of the firmware and that the current driver requires version 108. If the Linux driver works (or could be made to work) with 108 then I think I'd be OK but so far the newest Windows 7 version certainly doesn't work with 104. Thanks, Mark _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
