[PlanetCCRMA] HDSP again and again

Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Sat Oct 18 08:28:01 2003


> just switched my laptop over from debian/demudi to redhat/ccrma, and an old
> problem has come back to haunt me.... namely that i have big troubles getting my
> cardbus hammerfall hdsp multiface working. i've been going back and forth form
> linux to windows, changing the firmware revision from 11 to 10 and back with no
> real results. 
> 
> with firware revision 10 i got this with the various kernels available from ccrma:
> 
> rh90 kernel: not recognized
> acpi kernel: not recognized
> caps kernel: card recognized at boot, but will not load firmware
> 
> 
> with revision 11, 
> 
> rh90 kernel: card recognized at boot, but will not load firmware
> acpi kernel: not recognized
> caps kernel: card recognized at boot, but will not load firmware
> 
> 
> as you can see, i got the new kernel to recognize it, but it will not load
> firmware:
> 
> [root@localhost root]# hdspconf
> HDSPConf 1.1
> Looking for HDSP cards :
> Card 0 : RME Hammerfall DSP at 0x19000000, irq 10
> Uninitialized HDSP card found. Use hdsploader to upload firmware.
> Card 1 : Virtual MIDI Card 1
> No Hammerfall DSP card found.

Hmm, you do not say whether you actually tried to use hdsploader to 
load the firmware. That would be the first thing I would try. 

-- Fernando