[PlanetCCRMA] HDSP 9652 - test drive kernel

[Mark Knecht]

Fernando,
   Your test-drive kernel works very well in my case, especially getting
nearly 50MB/S out of my EIDE drive. These things are getting fast,
aren't they? 

   Unfortunately, Alsa will not work in my case. There are once again no
drivers for my hardware. Please do not rush or do anything on my account
at this point. I've had to totally remove this new Linux box from the
audio path in my studio today. 

   I'll check back in later, on the order of 1-2 months, and see if
things have improved. I'd dearly like to make use of this technology.
Alsa and Jack kick butt. My HDSP 9652 _ran_ with 3mS latency wonderfully
under Linux. The very same box booted into Win XP, using the very same
card, needs at least 12mS and better 24mS latency to play CDs. Guess
which I'd rather use?

A sad, ex-Alsa user,
Mark

On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 05:45, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Fernando,
>    Hi. Not totally there, but making some headway. I got my sound card
> transferred over to the new machine. The good news is that alsaconf
> recognizes it. The bad news is the driver doesn't load. Messages below.
> 
> NOTE: I noticed that alsaconf says that you can turn logging on with the
> -L option, but I cannot find the log file. The --help option says /tmp,
> but it's not there. Can anyone see this file?
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark
> 
> [mark@Wizard mark]$ uname -a
> Linux Wizard 2.4.20-1.12.ll.acpi #1 Sun Feb 2 22:52:36 PST 2003 i686
> athlon i386 GNU/Linux
> [mark@Wizard mark]$ lspci -v
> <SNIP>
> 00:0e.0 Multimedia audio controller: Xilinx, Inc. RME Hammerfall DSP
> (rev 68)
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
>         Memory at e9800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
> <SNIP>
> 
> <SNIP - from alsaconf>
> 
> Loading driver..
> Starting sound driver snd-hdsp
> /lib/modules/2.4.20-1.12.ll.acpi/kernel/drivers/sound/pci/rme9652/snd-hdsp.o: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
>       You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
> init_module: No such device
> /lib/modules/2.4.20-1.12.ll.acpi/kernel/drivers/sound/pci/rme9652/snd-hdsp.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.20-1.12.ll.acpi/kernel/drivers/sound/pci/rme9652/snd-hdsp.o failed
> /lib/modules/2.4.20-1.12.ll.acpi/kernel/drivers/sound/pci/rme9652/snd-hdsp.o: insmod snd-hdsp failed
>                                                            [FAILED]
> Setting default volumes..
> ===============================================================================
> 
>  Now ALSA is ready to use.
>  For adjustment of volumes, please use alsamixer or gamix.
> 
>  Have a lot of fun! 
> [root@Wizard etc]#
> 
> <SNIP - from dmesg>
> 
> Adding Swap: 1052216k swap-space (priority -1)
> ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
> Broadcom 4401 Ethernet Driver bcm4400 ver. 1.0.1 (08/26/02)
> eth0: Broadcom BCM4401 100Base-T found at mem ea000000, IRQ 3, node addr
> 00e018ec47ff
> bcm4400: eth0 NIC Link is Up, 100 Mbps half duplex
> NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
> Hammerfall memory allocator: buffers allocated for 1 cards
> RME Hammerfall-DSP: no cards found
> Hammerfall memory allocator: buffers allocated for 1 cards
> RME Hammerfall-DSP: no cards found
> Hammerfall memory allocator: buffers allocated for 1 cards
> RME Hammerfall-DSP: no cards found
> 
> 
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