Re: [Alsa-user] Re: hdsploader

[Thomas C. <th...@un...>]

> I wrote:
>
>>> I always have to call hdsploader twice
>
> "Thomas Charbonnel" <th...@un...> writes:
>
>> This is a known problem, but I don't have a solution right now. It
>> appears that sometimes (maybe always on some systems) the fifo status
>> wait function unexpectedly fails where it shouldn't as the lights on
>> the IO box show the firmware was correctly uploaded. The problem is
>> that the card isn't fully initialized then (no alsa pcm or midi
>> devices are created yet). Running hdsploader another time performs
>> this initialization. I'll take a closer look at this.
>
> After upgrading the firmware from RME (from version 0a) to version 0b
> hdsploader did succeed the *first* time and now everything I have tested
> so far works like expected.
>
> Thanks a lot for your help and for the very useful programs you wrote
> for this audio hardware!
>
> Robert Epprecht
>

I'm glad to hear it works for you now. The strange thing is that I'm still
using a rev. 0xa cardbus card and have no problem with it. Did anyone else
have problems with 0xa pci cards ?

Thomas