At Wed, 15 Mar 2006 09:42:17 +0100,
Asbjørn Sæbø wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 06:40:48PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:31:06 -0500,
> > Lee Revell wrote:
>
> > > > On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 12:02:56PM +0100, Asbjørn Sæbø wrote:
> > > > > I am trying to get a Digigram VxPocket sound card working, and really
> > > > > need some advice on how to proceed.
>
> > > > In addition to what I have done before (see below), I have now created a
> > > > /etc/pcmcia/vxpocket.conf according to the description at the bottom of
> > > > the alsa-project page for the vxpocket card. And I have added the
> > > > necessary lines to /etc/modutils/alsa-base, and run update-modules.
> > >
> > > IIRC these require firmware, is alsa-firmware installed?
> > >
> > > Any chance you can try a recent distro? Kernel 2.6.12 is a year old...
> >
> > ... and there were some bugs in vx driver, too.
> >
> > I recommend to update ALSA driver, at least. Though, I cannot
> > guarantee that it works with that kernel :)
>
>
> OK, I will try to lay may hands on a newer kernel and a newer ALSA.
>
> But could you please explain, or point me to documentation on, how
> hotplug and pcmcia-cs works together?
>
> As far as I know, 2.6 kernels use the hotplug system. Does this
> hotplug system work together with with pcmcia-cs and the cardmgr
> program? Or do they conflict? Or are they alternative solutions to
> each other?
With the recent 2.6 kernels, you need no longer cardmgr. The whole
thing is integrated to hotplug properly.
> And especially, how does the hotplug system identify the vxpocket card?
> And, is the /etc/pcmcia/vxpocket.conf still needed/used?
No. The driver has a proper entry, and calls request_firmware() to
load the firmware binary files by itself.
Takashi
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