>I am having the very same problems with my HDSP 9652. What's even stranger >is, in my case, that for one evening the card worked, at least as far as >loading the driver. (No sound, but the driver loaded.) I was able to look at >/proc/asound/card0 (or whatever the directory/device was at the time...) and >see sensible stuff. I even took some screen shots and sent email to another >individual as I was debugging why I had no sound. > >Later that evening I powered down. Upon rebooting the next morning it >failed, and has failed ever since. That was last Thursday evening.
the same thing happened to me a week ago. i have, as usual, not had time to investigate further. >I too am using 0.9.4 as provided in the Gentoo emerge, along with a custom >compiled kernel. > >Like you I think the HDSP driver understands my firmware revision. I have >also downgraded and upgraded my firmware without success. > >This whole Alsa/HDSP thing is amazingly weird... at the moment, i regret that we made the move to user-space loading of the "firmware" when we did. i think now that it was a mistake to do it at that time. it has caused a fundamental change in the way the driver sets up, but it came at a time when we weren't confident that setup was working for various cases. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The best thread debugger on the planet. Designed with thread debugging features you've never dreamed of, try TotalView 6 free at www.etnus.com. _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel