On Thursday, June 8, 2017 10:40 AM Takashi Iwai wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Jun 2017 10:15:34 +0200,
> Axel Holzinger wrote:
> >
> > On Tuesday, June 6, 2017 8:27 PM Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > > On Mon, 05 Jun 2017 11:49:53 +0200,
> > > Axel Holzinger wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I'm trying to get a RME HDSPe MADI card to run in an ARM box with
> Linux
> > > > 4.1.6. I configured the (vendor specific TI) kernel to support the
card
> > (via
> > > > hdspm) compiled into the kernel (not as loadable module).
> > > >
> > > > The MADI card is detected as a PCI device and the ALSA driver is
loaded.
> > > > Unfortunately playout does NOT work: aplay is reporting an error:
> > > > ALSA lib pcm_mmap.c:374:(snd_pcm_mmap) mmap failed: No such
> device
> > > or
> > > > address
> > >
> > > Hm, this sounds odd. But the line doesn't really correspond to the
> > > latest version of alsa-lib. Could you try to upgrade to the latest
> > > version? Otherwise it's hard to debug.
> >
> > I installed ALSA with Debian apt-get. How would I update to a newer
> version?
>
> Compiling by yourself?
> alsa-lib has very few dependency, so it should be easy.
I'm fine with that but does it suffice to compile only alsa-lib or do I have
to compile other moduels also (hdspm driver, hdspmixer, etc)? Is the ABI
stable within different versions?
If only alsa-lib, configure, make, make install? Should I uninstall the
alsa-lib debian package before?
> > > > strace:
> > > > open("/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p", O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_CLOEXEC) =
> 4
> > > > fcntl64(4, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
> > > > ioctl(4, AGPIOC_ACQUIRE or APM_IOC_STANDBY or
> > > SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_INFO,
> > > > 0xbecdfb64) = 0
> > > > fcntl64(4, F_GETFL) = 0x802 (flags
> > O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK)
> > > > ioctl(4, AGPIOC_INFO or SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_PVERSION, 0xbecdfacc) =
> 0
> > > > ioctl(4, AGPIOC_SETUP or SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_TTSTAMP, 0xbecdfad4)
> = 0
> > > > mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 4, 0x80000000) = -1
> ENXIO
> > > (No such
> > > > device or address)
> > >
> > > This error is expected and should be OK. It's an mmap of
> > > status/control page, and this isn't supported on ARM, thus the kernel
> > > returns -ENXIO. alsa-lib then falls back to the normal ioctl instead
> > > of status/control mmap.
> >
> > Okay, got it. So is the mmap emulation plugin via asound.conf suggested
by
> > Anders needed then anyhow?
>
> It's irrelevant with the mmap emulation.
Well, not with my tests. Without asound.conf (with the mmap emulation
plugin) aply does NOT play audio on the MADI card. With asound.conf it does.
> > > But the ring-buffer mmap is supported as normal on ARM for MADI
> > > driver, at least. MADI provides the SG-buffer that is mappable via
> > > DMA coherent pages, and it should work on most of archs as is.
> >
> > Well I found out something more: If I don't give a "--device" parameter
to
> > aplay and the RME card is default, then audio is playing. But I give the
"
> > --device=default:CARD=HDSPMx5c74" then the error is occuring. That
> doesn't
> > make sense to me at all. The tests made were with the asound.conf Anders
> > suggested. Isn't that strange?
>
> Are you using dmix or such? It appears more like a configuration
> issue. With the unmodified configuration, the "default" PCM for HDSPM
> should be equivalent with "plughw".
Only ommitting "--device=" or "--device=default" is working. aplay
--device=plughw:CARD=HDSPMx5c7496,DEV=0 does NOT work. Again it's working
only with asound.conf.
> Could you check whether aplay -M works without device option?
aplay -M audio.wav is working (but as written above, only WITH asound.conf
and only without "--device" or with "--device=default").
> > > You should have another error from mmap, with a different offset
> > > value. That's the real error we need to track down.
> >
> > I attached the complete strace.
>
> OK, the strace shows the mmap failure of the second channel.
The second audio channel? Please forgive my ignorance.
> > > (And, 4.1.x is pretty old, rather too old for debugging, too...)
> >
> > Well, I know, but the kernel is a TI based manufacturer kernel for a SoC
> > (AM5728). I'm not such an expert to update that to current kernel
version
> > unfortunately.
> >
> > If you don't mind I have another question: If specifying a device
> > "--device", how would I "send" audio to the "upper" channels/tracks of
the
> > MADI card? If I ommit the "--device" parameter audio is playing on
> > channels/tracks 1+2. How would I play audio to channels/tracks 33+34 for
> > example?
>
> Well, you likely need to fiddle with the asoundrc in such a case.
> Maybe a better option is to use JACK or such, I suppose.
Okay, I will do that as soon as the card is working relaibly.
Thank you!
Axel
> Takashi
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most
engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot
_______________________________________________
Alsa-user mailing list
Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
