Subject: RE: [linux-audio-user] hammerfall dsp + alsa
From: kevin ernste (kevinernste_AT_yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Aug 26 2002 - 10:37:27 EEST
--- Daniel Heckenberg <daniel_AT_bogusfront.org> wrote:
>
> I haven't identified any trouble with the built-in
> sound on my machine....Is this the same device in
> the i8k2, kevin?
No, it's a different card (intel8x0), which makes me
sorry we bought the 8200...I'm glad to hear this is
not an issue for you.
>
> Can I throw open a request to anyone with a
> asound.rc file for a
> multichannel soundcard?
Others will certainly have more sophisticated
asoundrc's to offer you than this stock version, but
it works pretty well for me my nother machine using
RME's Hammerfall 9652:
# ALSA resource file (~/.asoundrc)
# Use pcm.<snd_id> and ctl.<snd_id>
pcm.rme9652 {
type hw
card 0
}
ctl.rme9652 {
type hw
card 0
}
For example with this config, Ardour/Jack just sees
the full 26 ins and 26 outs. I run it with "jack -R -d
alsa -d rme9652" and then in a second shell, just
"ardour". Other ALSA apps work similarily well.
For now, I would try using a generic asoundrc with the
HDSP as well. Getting anything which takes full
advantage of its internal routing is a vastly more
complicated endeavor (see TotalMix...).
Best,
Kevin
# I'd like to have a couple
> of commented, working
> examples beside me when I try to understand the
> limited doco available on
> the subject.
>
> thanks,
> Daniel
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: linux-audio-user-admin_AT_music.columbia.edu
> >
> [mailto:linux-audio-user-admin_AT_music.columbia.edu]On
> Behalf Of kevin
> > ernste
> > Sent: Monday, 26 August 2002 12:58 AM
> > To: linux-audio-user_AT_music.columbia.edu
> > Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] hammerfall dsp +
> alsa
> >
> >
> > Hi Daniel-
> >
> > My studio has nearly the same laptop (the Dell
> 8200)
> > and a multiface HDSP card, and we have had some of
> the
> > same issues. I have it working moderately well
> now
> > with a generic .asoundrc file which simply
> specifies
> > both cards (the "onboard intel as card0 and the
> HDSP
> > as card1), though it still has intermittent
> problems,
> > and I have to cleanup and reload modules.
> >
> > The root of all of my problems was/is that silly
> > onboard soundcard. For me, no matter how I
> specified
> > the cards in modules.conf, the intel card would
> > spontaneously take over slot-0 (and the hdsp would
> > cease to work) as soon as I played a sound. Even
> a
> > system *beep* would do it. And unfortunately, the
> > Phoenix/Dell BIOS doesn't give you much say over
> the
> > hardware config :(
> >
> > If you know of a way to deactivate or even
> physically
> > REMOVE the junk internal sound, I suspect these
> > problems would disappear.
> >
> > Kevin
> >
> > --- Daniel Heckenberg <daniel_AT_bogusfront.org>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi folks,
> > >
> > > I hope that this is the right list to ask the
> > > following:
> > > I'm using a cardbus rme hdsp (multiface) and
> have
> > > succeeded in getting it
> > > running in a very limited way and wanted to ask
> for
> > > advice or shared
> > > experience about getting it the rest of the way.
> > > Any tips gratefully
> > > appreciated!
> > >
> > > I'm using Fernando's 2.4.19-1.ll kernel under
> redhat
> > > 7.3 (thanks for the
> > > planet ccrma at home resources btw - very
> handy!) on
> > > a Dell Inspiron 8100.
> > >
> > > During boot the system starts pcmcia and tries
> to
> > > autoload
> > > snd-hammerfall-mem (successfully) and then
> snd-hdsp
> > > (unsuccessfully - says
> > > can't find device). snd-hammerfall-mem is then
> > > unloaded automatically.
> > > After boot I can manually modprobe
> > > snd-hammerfall-mem and snd-hdsp to get
> > > things working (after the cold boot/warm boot
> > > shenanigans).
> > >
> > > I'm not running alsasound during init or
> anything
> > > else. It doesn't seem to
> > > make any difference if I modprobe
> snd-hammerfall-mem
> > > explicitly in the init
> > > sequence (either early or late). In fact if I
> > > modprobe the memory allocator
> > > early in the boot sequence I can't modprobe
> snd-hdsp
> > > successfully after boot
> > > unless I unload and reload the memory allocator
> > > first.
> > >
> > > I don't understand enough about the pcmcia/pci
> > > sequence to know what's
> > > happening here... or if this behaviour is as
> good as
> > > it gets for the present
> > > driver. The system also fails to find the
> device
> > > sometimes, but this seems
> > > to be a pcmcia issue not an alsa issue...
> > >
> > > Once the device is up I can play ordinary wave
> files
> > > with aplay through the
> > > plughw device. I haven't had success doing much
> > > else as I gather that a
> > > reasonably sophisticated asound.rc file is
> required
> > > to present the hardware
> > > in usable form to most applications. Is this
> the
> > > case? Does anyone have
> > > any sample asound.rc files that I might look at?
> > >
> > > Finally I have attempted to use the card with pd
> > > without luck:
> > > pd -alsa -alsadev hw:1,0
> > > and
> > > pd -alsa -alsadev plughw:1,0
> > > Both fail in a blaze of errors. Must I solve
> this
> > > with the asound.rc file
> > > also?
> > >
> > > Many thanks,
> > > Daniel
> > >
> >
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