[Musix-users] Gina20 firmware missing

Mon Jun 19 20:55:19 CEST 2006

El Martes, 20 de Junio de 2006 01:21, MNO escribió:
> Hello Marcos and Johannes,
>
> I found this:
> Starting from 1.0.2 the driver sources do not contain the firmware
> files anymore.
>
> on this webpage:
> http://www.webalice.it/g_pochini/ead/
>
> Could that explain the confusion?

Yes, but we have some alsa-firmware-loaders:

apt-cache show alsa-firmware-loaders
Package: alsa-firmware-loaders
Status: install ok installed
Priority: extra
Section: contrib/sound
Installed-Size: 212
Maintainer: Mikael Magnusson <mikma at users.sourceforge.net>
Architecture: i386
Source: alsa-tools
Version: 1.0.9rc3-0.demudi1
Depends: libasound2 (>> 1.0.8), libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-21)
Conffiles:
 /etc/hotplug/usb/tascam_fw.usermap 1ca0da7c40ccb70d771c8ba6fd788406
 /etc/hotplug/usb/tascam_fw 5fd0ca2efb9077554d9bf44c98226b28
 /etc/hotplug/usb/tascam_fpga 8b6058e0372750914de51ff78dbe23b1
Description: collection of firmware loaders for ALSA
 cspctl - Sound Blaster 16 ASP/CSP control program
 hdsploader - Firmware loader for the RME Hammerfall DSP cards
 mixartloader - Firmware loader for Digigram's miXart board sound drivers
 pcxhrloader - Firmware loader for Digigram pcxhr compatible soundcards
 sscape_ctl - SoundScape control utility and firmware loader
 usx2yloader - Firmware loader for Tascam USX2Y USB soundcards
 vxloader - Firmware loader for Digigram VX soundcards

But the Gina20 firmare: where does it is? It is free software?

> Mano.
>
> On 6/19/06, Marcos Guglielmetti <marcospcmusica at gmail.com> wrote:
> > El Domingo, 18 de Junio de 2006 13:11, Johannes M. Stolba escribió:
> > > Dear Marcos,
> > >
> > > Thanks for releasing 0.49! I gave it a second try with this version to
> > > get my Gina20 card running.
> > >
> > > It looks as if I would get a little closer, but not close enough :-(
> > >
> > > snd-gina20 is being loaded but during startup an error message occurs,
> > > saying that the firmware can not be found. These are the messages
> > > printed in /var/log/dmesg:
> > >
> > > pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
> > > shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
> > > PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:0e.0
> > > ALSA /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/pci/echoaudio/echoaudio.c:45:
> > > get_firmware(): Firmware not available (-2)
> > > Echoaudio Gina20: probe of 0000:00:0e.0 failed with error -2
> > > 8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.2 (Mar 22, 2004)
> > >
> > > The directories /lib/firmware and /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware are both
> > > empty, should they be? What can I do? Do I have to download ALSA
> > > sources and compile by myself?
> > >
> > > Thanks for your help!
> >
> > Now I am in a doubt: they are free software or not?
> >
> > Could you find this on google?
> >
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