After much testing i'd say firmware is not really the issue with this card, especially for the audio side of it. The midi ports now work perfectly with a warm boot from windows using the latest ALSA drivers. The problem has become the audio side, as ben said you get static. Before the midi ports were ever working for this card, the audio side WAS working. If you use alsa driver version 0.9.0rc5+6 the audio works quite well. Those drivers however did not have the midi implementation. Unfortunately something changed in the usb-audio driver between rc6 and rc7, which has never been resolved or discovered and ever since the card delivers nothing but static. The audio static problem is definitely not a firmware issue. Its exceedingly frustrating to have this card so close to working perfectly, yet so far... the main functionality is only able to be accessed by switching between drivers.
Cheers, Jonathan > Message: 5 > Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 09:52:48 +0200 (METDST) > From: Clemens Ladisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Alsa-user] Audiophile USB > To: Ben Saylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Ben Saylor wrote: > > I searched the archives and found that the Audiophile still needs a > > firmware loader. I checked the driver CD for a .sys file for the > > Audiophile on which I could run the extractfirmware program from the > > midisport-firmware package.. Well, unlike the midisport drivers, > > there's only an executable installer (Audiophile_1541_CD.exe). I > > looked at it with a hex editor and it seems to contain zip-compressed > > data, but I can't figure out how to extract it. unzip doesn't > > recognize it. If I can somehow get a .sys file out of this installer, > > should I be able to use extractfirmware on it > > The Audiophile's firmware is a separate .bin file which gets unpacked > when you run the installer in Windows (and then immediately abort). > > > and load the firmware using fxload? > > Unfortunately, the Audiophile uses a different loading mechanism. > > > Regards, > Clemens Message: 2 From: Ben Saylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 21:33:49 -0800 Subject: [Alsa-user] Audiophile USB I'm getting only static when I try to play sound through my Audiophile USB (using aplay and audacity). If I convert the sound file to 8 bit, it is recognizable but very distorted. I'm using alsa-driver 0.9.5; the rest is 0.9.4 from Debian unstable. I searched the archives and found that the Audiophile still needs a firmware loader. I checked the driver CD for a .sys file for the Audiophile on which I could run the extractfirmware program from the midisport-firmware package.. Well, unlike the midisport drivers, there's only an executable installer (Audiophile_1541_CD.exe). I looked at it with a hex editor and it seems to contain zip-compressed data, but I can't figure out how to extract it. unzip doesn't recognize it. If I can somehow get a .sys file out of this installer, should I be able to use extractfirmware on it and load the firmware using fxload? Thanks, Ben ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Parasoft Error proof Web apps, automate testing & more. Download & eval WebKing and get a free book. www.parasoft.com/bulletproofapps1 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
