[Alsa-user] Re: [Alsa-devel] vxpocket 440 with alsa, problems with vxloader

[Takashi I. <ti...@su...>]

At Fri, 14 Jan 2005 15:15:17 +0100,
Anders Vinjar wrote:
> 
> Thanks alot for response.  It got me further, but still no sound
> out.  Anybody got a clue where this gets wrong?
> 
> >>> "TI" == Takashi Iwai <ti...@su...> writes:
> 
> >> alsa is version 1.0.7
> 
> TI> vxpocket/vxp440 driver in ALSA 1.0.7 has a severe bug.
> TI> Try ALSA 1.0.8 instead.
> TI> 
> TI> On ALSA 1.0.8, the firmware is loaded via hotplug automatically, so
> TI> you don't need vxloader.  (It's only for 2.6 kernels.)
> TI> Don't forget to update alsa-firmware, too.
> 
> With alsa-1.0.8, and upgraded firmware it behaves as follows.
> Pcmcia card is card-1, builtin sound is card-0:

Does your kernel support hotplug firmware loader (CONFIG_FW_LOADER)?
And is hotplug working?

Check whether /proc/asound/devices whether you have a "[1-0] hardware
dependent device".  If you have it, the hotplug firmware loader isn't
enabled.  Use vxloader, run "vxloader -c1".

With the attached patch, you can check whether the firmware is loaded
or not via the proc file.


Takashi