2003-02-18 16:22:22 +00:00
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VXLOADER - Firmware loader for Digigram VX soundcards
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Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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GENERAL
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Vxloader is a helper program to load the firmware binaries
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onto the Digigram's VX-board sound drivers.
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The following modules require this program:
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snd-vx222, snd-vxpocket, snd-vxp440
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These drivers don't work properly at all until the certain firmwares
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are loaded, i.e. no PCM nor mixer devices will appear.
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USAGE
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When vxloader is invoked without options, it will probe all existing
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soundcards until a valid VX-driver is found. If a valid VX-driver is
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found, vxloader reads the board type from the driver. The corresponding
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firmware binaries are then read and transferred to the driver.
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Finally, vxloader initializes the PCM and the mixer devices on the
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driver for making the soundcard full functional.
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Instead of auto-probing, you can specify the card number or the hwdep
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device name via -c and -D options, respectively.
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% vxloader -c 1
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% vxloader -D hw:0
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For loading the firmware automatically after the module is loaded, use
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the post-install command. For example, add the following entry to
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/etc/modules.conf for VX222 driver:
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post-install snd-vx222 /usr/bin/vxloader
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FILES
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2003-11-25 15:46:31 +00:00
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The firmware binaries are installed on /usr/share/alsa/firmware/vxloader
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(or /usr/local/share/alsa/firmware/vxloader, depending to the prefix
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option of configure). There will be *.conf files, which define the dsp
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image files for each different card type.
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2003-02-18 16:22:22 +00:00
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COPYRIGHT
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=========
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Copyright (c) 2003 Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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2003-11-25 17:13:39 +00:00
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Distributable under GPL.
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2003-02-18 16:22:22 +00:00
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2003-11-25 17:13:39 +00:00
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The firmware files included in alsa-firmware package are copyright
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2003-02-18 16:22:22 +00:00
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by Digigram S.A.
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