From 5732e7a2cece461252bfcf2653bb09ab88ba36c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Charis Kouzinopoulos Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 15:42:29 +0200 Subject: [ALSA] Fix typos and add information about Jack support to Audiophile-Usb.txt Signed-off-by: Charis Kouzinopoulos Signed-off-by: Thibault Le Meur Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai --- Documentation/sound/alsa/Audiophile-Usb.txt | 81 +++++++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 54 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa/Audiophile-Usb.txt b/Documentation/sound/alsa/Audiophile-Usb.txt index 4692c8e77dc..b535c2a198f 100644 --- a/Documentation/sound/alsa/Audiophile-Usb.txt +++ b/Documentation/sound/alsa/Audiophile-Usb.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ - Guide to using M-Audio Audiophile USB with ALSA and Jack v1.2 + Guide to using M-Audio Audiophile USB with ALSA and Jack v1.3 ======================================================== Thibault Le Meur @@ -22,16 +22,16 @@ The device has 4 audio interfaces, and 2 MIDI ports: * Midi In (Mi) * Midi Out (Mo) -The internal DAC/ADC has the following caracteristics: +The internal DAC/ADC has the following characteristics: * sample depth of 16 or 24 bits * sample rate from 8kHz to 96kHz -* Two ports can't use different sample depths at the same time.Moreover, the +* Two ports can't use different sample depths at the same time. Moreover, the Audiophile USB documentation gives the following Warning: "Please exit any audio application running before switching between bit depths" Due to the USB 1.1 bandwidth limitation, a limited number of interfaces can be activated at the same time depending on the audio mode selected: - * 16-bit/48kHz ==> 4 channels in/ 4 channels out + * 16-bit/48kHz ==> 4 channels in/4 channels out - Ai+Ao+Di+Do * 24-bit/48kHz ==> 4 channels in/2 channels out, or 2 channels in/4 channels out @@ -41,8 +41,8 @@ activated at the same time depending on the audio mode selected: Important facts about the Digital interface: -------------------------------------------- - * The Do port additionnaly supports surround-encoded AC-3 and DTS passthrough, -though I haven't tested it under linux + * The Do port additionally supports surround-encoded AC-3 and DTS passthrough, +though I haven't tested it under Linux - Note that in this setup only the Do interface can be enabled * Apart from recording an audio digital stream, enabling the Di port is a way to synchronize the device to an external sample clock @@ -60,24 +60,23 @@ synchronization error (for instance sound played at an odd sample rate) The Audiophile USB MIDI ports will be automatically supported once the following modules have been loaded: * snd-usb-audio - * snd-seq * snd-seq-midi -No additionnal setting is required. +No additional setting is required. 2.2 - Audio ports ----------------- Audio functions of the Audiophile USB device are handled by the snd-usb-audio module. This module can work in a default mode (without any device-specific -parameter), or in an advanced mode with the device-specific parameter called +parameter), or in an "advanced" mode with the device-specific parameter called "device_setup". 2.2.1 - Default Alsa driver mode -The default behaviour of the snd-usb-audio driver is to parse the device +The default behavior of the snd-usb-audio driver is to parse the device capabilities at startup and enable all functions inside the device (including -all ports at any sample rates and any sample depths supported). This approach +all ports at any supported sample rates and sample depths). This approach has the advantage to let the driver easily switch from sample rates/depths automatically according to the need of the application claiming the device. @@ -114,9 +113,9 @@ gain). For people having this problem, the snd-usb-audio module has a new module parameter called "device_setup". -2.2.2.1 - Initializing the working mode of the Audiohile USB +2.2.2.1 - Initializing the working mode of the Audiophile USB -As far as the Audiohile USB device is concerned, this value let the user +As far as the Audiophile USB device is concerned, this value let the user specify: * the sample depth * the sample rate @@ -174,20 +173,20 @@ The parameter can be given: IMPORTANT NOTE WHEN SWITCHING CONFIGURATION: ------------------------------------------- - * You may need to _first_ intialize the module with the correct device_setup + * You may need to _first_ initialize the module with the correct device_setup parameter and _only_after_ turn on the Audiophile USB device * This is especially true when switching the sample depth: - - first trun off the device - - de-register the snd-usb-audio module - - change the device_setup parameter (by either manually reprobing the module - or changing modprobe.conf) + - first turn off the device + - de-register the snd-usb-audio module (modprobe -r) + - change the device_setup parameter by changing the device_setup + option in /etc/modprobe.conf - turn on the device 2.2.2.3 - Audiophile USB's device_setup structure If you want to understand the device_setup magic numbers for the Audiophile USB, you need some very basic understanding of binary computation. However, -this is not required to use the parameter and you may skip thi section. +this is not required to use the parameter and you may skip this section. The device_setup is one byte long and its structure is the following: @@ -231,11 +230,11 @@ Caution: 2.2.3 - USB implementation details for this device -You may safely skip this section if you're not interrested in driver +You may safely skip this section if you're not interested in driver development. -This section describes some internals aspect of the device and summarize the -data I got by usb-snooping the windows and linux drivers. +This section describes some internal aspects of the device and summarize the +data I got by usb-snooping the windows and Linux drivers. The M-Audio Audiophile USB has 7 USB Interfaces: a "USB interface": @@ -277,9 +276,9 @@ Here is a short description of the AltSettings capabilities: - 16-bit depth, 8-48kHz sample mode - Synch playback (Do), audio format type III IEC1937_AC-3 -In order to ensure a correct intialization of the device, the driver +In order to ensure a correct initialization of the device, the driver _must_know_ how the device will be used: - * if DTS is choosen, only Interface 2 with AltSet nb.6 must be + * if DTS is chosen, only Interface 2 with AltSet nb.6 must be registered * if 96KHz only AltSets nb.1 of each interface must be selected * if samples are using 24bits/48KHz then AltSet 2 must me used if @@ -290,7 +289,7 @@ _must_know_ how the device will be used: is not connected When device_setup is given as a parameter to the snd-usb-audio module, the -parse_audio_enpoint function uses a quirk called +parse_audio_endpoints function uses a quirk called "audiophile_skip_setting_quirk" in order to prevent AltSettings not corresponding to device_setup from being registered in the driver. @@ -317,9 +316,8 @@ However you may see the following warning message: using the "default" ALSA device. This is less efficient than it could be. Consider using a hardware device instead rather than using the plug layer." - 3.2 - Patching alsa to use direct pcm device -------------------------------------------- +-------------------------------------------- A patch for Jack by Andreas Steinmetz adds support for Big Endian devices. However it has not been included in the CVS tree. @@ -331,3 +329,32 @@ After having applied the patch you can run jackd with the following command line: % jackd -R -dalsa -Phw:1,0 -r48000 -p128 -n2 -D -Chw:1,1 +3.2 - Getting 2 input and/or output interfaces in Jack +------------------------------------------------------ + +As you can see, starting the Jack server this way will only enable 1 stereo +input (Di or Ai) and 1 stereo output (Ao or Do). + +This is due to the following restrictions: +* Jack can only open one capture device and one playback device at a time +* The Audiophile USB is seen as 2 (or three) Alsa devices: hw:1,0, hw:1,1 + (and optionally hw:1,2) +If you want to get Ai+Di and/or Ao+Do support with Jack, you would need to +combine the Alsa devices into one logical "complex" device. + +If you want to give it a try, I recommend reading the information from +this page: http://www.sound-man.co.uk/linuxaudio/ice1712multi.html +It is related to another device (ice1712) but can be adapted to suit +the Audiophile USB. + +Enabling multiple Audiophile USB interfaces for Jackd will certainly require: +* patching Jack with the previously mentioned "Big Endian" patch +* patching Jackd with the MMAP_COMPLEX patch (see the ice1712 page) +* patching the alsa-lib/src/pcm/pcm_multi.c file (see the ice1712 page) +* define a multi device (combination of hw:1,0 and hw:1,1) in your .asoundrc + file +* start jackd with this device + +I had no success in testing this for now, but this may be due to my OS +configuration. If you have any success with this kind of setup, please +drop me an email. -- cgit v1.2.3 From a2bbbc0c3c9554ac70e96ec3effae60124f0f009 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kenrik Kretzschmar Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 15:59:38 +0200 Subject: [ALSA] adding __devinitdata to pci_device_id Refering to /Documentation/pci.txt the struct pci_device_id can be released after loading the module. Signed-off-by: Kenrik Kretzschmar Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai --- Documentation/sound/alsa/DocBook/writing-an-alsa-driver.tmpl | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa/DocBook/writing-an-alsa-driver.tmpl b/Documentation/sound/alsa/DocBook/writing-an-alsa-driver.tmpl index 68eeebc17ff..1faf76383ba 100644 --- a/Documentation/sound/alsa/DocBook/writing-an-alsa-driver.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/sound/alsa/DocBook/writing-an-alsa-driver.tmpl @@ -1172,7 +1172,7 @@ } /* PCI IDs */ - static struct pci_device_id snd_mychip_ids[] = { + static struct pci_device_id snd_mychip_ids[] __devinitdata = { { PCI_VENDOR_ID_FOO, PCI_DEVICE_ID_BAR, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, 0, }, .... @@ -1565,7 +1565,7 @@ Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 11:20:55 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] PCI: Documentation: no more device ids Document that we don't like to add more PCI device ids but are happy to accept PCI vendor ids for linux/include/pci_ids.h Original text from Jeff Garzik. Signed-off-by: Ingo Oeser Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Documentation/pci.txt | 12 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/pci.txt b/Documentation/pci.txt index 711210b38f5..66bbbf1d1ef 100644 --- a/Documentation/pci.txt +++ b/Documentation/pci.txt @@ -259,7 +259,17 @@ on the bus need to be capable of doing it, so this is something which needs to be handled by platform and generic code, not individual drivers. -8. Obsolete functions +8. Vendor and device identifications +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +For the future, let's avoid adding device ids to include/linux/pci_ids.h. + +PCI_VENDOR_ID_xxx for vendors, and a hex constant for device ids. + +Rationale: PCI_VENDOR_ID_xxx constants are re-used, but device ids are not. + Further, device ids are arbitrary hex numbers, normally used only in a + single location, the pci_device_id table. + +9. Obsolete functions ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There are several functions which you might come across when trying to port an old driver to the new PCI interface. They are no longer present -- cgit v1.2.3 From 5bd982ed0f5ae73bfd9ff452b460a3b08108bfee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paolo Ciarrocchi Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 22:47:51 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Added URI of "linux kernel development process" Signed-off-by: Paolo Ciarrocchi Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Documentation/HOWTO | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/HOWTO b/Documentation/HOWTO index 6c9e746267d..915ae8c986c 100644 --- a/Documentation/HOWTO +++ b/Documentation/HOWTO @@ -603,7 +603,8 @@ start exactly where you are now. ---------- -Thanks to Paolo Ciarrocchi who allowed the "Development Process" section +Thanks to Paolo Ciarrocchi who allowed the "Development Process" +(http://linux.tar.bz/articles/2.6-development_process) section to be based on text he had written, and to Randy Dunlap and Gerrit Huizenga for some of the list of things you should and should not say. Also thanks to Pat Mochel, Hanna Linder, Randy Dunlap, Kay Sievers, -- cgit v1.2.3 From 9587c4bf72bf6cc79e1c471a201c0bd73171fcd6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Antonino A. Daplas" Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 18:40:39 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] suspend: Documentation update for IBM Thinkpad X30 As reported in Bugzilla Bug 6406, resume from S3 results in a blank screen. For the IBM Thinkpad X30 using vesafb as the console driver, successful resume from S3 requires option acpi_sleep=s3_bios,s3_mode. Update documentation. I would presume that, in any hardware, using vesafb as the console driver will require as a minimum s3_mode. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/power/video.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/power/video.txt b/Documentation/power/video.txt index d18a57d1a53..43a889f8f08 100644 --- a/Documentation/power/video.txt +++ b/Documentation/power/video.txt @@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ IBM TP T41p s3_bios (2), switch to X after resume IBM TP T42 s3_bios (2) IBM ThinkPad T42p (2373-GTG) s3_bios (2) IBM TP X20 ??? (*) -IBM TP X30 s3_bios (2) +IBM TP X30 s3_bios, s3_mode (4) IBM TP X31 / Type 2672-XXH none (1), use radeontool (http://fdd.com/software/radeon/) to turn off backlight. IBM TP X32 none (1), but backlight is on and video is trashed after long suspend. s3_bios,s3_mode (4) works too. Perhaps that gets better results? IBM Thinkpad X40 Type 2371-7JG s3_bios,s3_mode (4) -- cgit v1.2.3