i'm experiencing problems with the O2 micro 6933 card when trying to use the hammerfall dsp sound device. i'm using the yenta socket driver (the O2 micro 6933 should be 100% compatible to the yenta socket)
i met thomas charbonnel, who maintains the alsa driver of the hdsp, and concerning him, it seems to be a problem of the dma mapping in the cardbus-pci bridge ... the alsa driver is working fine, until it starts dma (to output sounds) ... (thomas, please correct me if i'm saying something completely stupid, i'm a musician, not a kernel hacker)
I believe a little more background information is needed. Tim's card is a busmaster carbus audio card capable of hardware routing, that is any audio stream arriving on the physical inputs of the card can be routed to any physical output without involving the computer in any way (this is done using an FPGA chip). The card can also do hardware peak and rms computation on incoming and playback streams. On Tim's machine the card is detected and initialized properly, and hardware routing works as expected until audio interrupts are enabled. Then something strange happens : parts of the incoming audio streams are found in the card's playback buffer (rms and peak values are reported for those signals), but the driver is not involved in this process. I got this piece of information from Martin Bjoernsen at RME, the company manufacturing the card :
"The HDSP cards use an internal double buffer per channel of 2*16 samples. Data is transferred in blocks of 16 samples. Every 16 samples 16 samples per channel are read and written to and from the main memory. In the card the same buffer is used for inputs and outputs. Playback data is overwritten from new recorded data. If the hardware is started and an output dma channel is not enabled but the input is, you will hear the input delayed by 32 samples or silence when there is no input signal."
The driver does enable both input and output dma channels for all possible streams, so my guess for now is that there is something wrong in the underlying subsystem.
I hope this helps track the problem down.
Thomas
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