ICE1712 - M-Audio Delta 66 not detected by alsa

[TGM]

Hi,

Using Intrepid (Daily - Oct 9 2008) I've found that my Delta 66 does not show up in the list of available sound cards. It does however, show up if I run an lspci...

Logs below: Can anyone help?

Thanks,
Tom

[TGM (tommann.home)]

(run as sudo for capabilities)

[TGM (tommann.home)]

Anybody? I can confirm that my Delta 66 shows up with the 64Studio Live CD (which is quite old)... Has something broken?

[TGM (tommann.home)]

DMesg Reports this:

[ 32.872626] ICE1712 0000:01:07.0: PCI INT A -> Link[APC2] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[ 32.895124] ICE1712 0000:01:07.0: PCI INT A disabled
[ 32.895700] ICE1712: probe of 0000:01:07.0 failed with error -14

[TGM (tommann.home)]

Two more things:

1. I am running the AMD64 version of Intrepid.
2. I now know what it is - the following website helped:

http://blog.tryphon.org/alban/archives/2008/08/07/m-audio-delta-66-rev-e-in-the-house/

These guys could only get the Rev. E Delta 66 working by commenting out code for the CS8427 SPDIF chipset. (Essentially making it a Delta 44) I'm unsure if the latest ALSA has this fixed or not.

Also - I didn't realise the following was part of the problem:

[ 33.821734] ICE1712 0000:01:07.0: PCI INT A -> Link[APC2] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
*****Start Here
[ 33.843528] invalid CS8427 signature 0x0: let me try again...
[ 33.843940] unable to find CS8427 signature (expected 0x71, read 0x0),
[ 33.843978] initialization is not completed
[ 33.844026] CS8427 initialization failed
*****End Here
[ 33.844088] ICE1712 0000:01:07.0: PCI INT A disabled
[ 33.844094] ICE1712: probe of 0000:01:07.0 failed with error -14

Is there now any chance of a (partial or full) fix for this?

[Larry Lewis (lewislp)]

Did you try the fix listed in the last comment on the ALSA bug report here?

https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=3327

Apparently it works if configured as a Delta 1010LT:
  modprobe snd-ice1712 model=delta1010lt

I'm on the fence about buying a Delta 66, and am waiting for positive feedback from an Ubuntu user.

[TGM (tommann.home)]

Thanks Larry, I will try this tonight!

[TGM (tommann.home)]

OK, on a live CD of Intrepid (daily) I have:

edited /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-utils and added the following:

options snd-ice1712 model=delta1010lt

then saved.

typed 'sudo alsa force-reload' at the prompt - which picks up the card.

'sudo apt-get install alsa-tools-gui' (for envy24control - would this be automagically installed if detected?)

'envy24control &' (including the ampersand to keep the console available)

Turned DAC 4,5,6,7 up to bring sound to outputs 1 & 2
'aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Noise.wav' then gives you a burst of static white noise.

THANK YOU!!!!! :-D

Tom

[Larry Lewis (lewislp)]

Did you test the analog and digital I/O, or just the analog I/O? I'd be curious to see if switching the model enables all functionality including SPDIF. Thanks.

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[TGM (tommann.home)]

Hi Larry,

I've only tried the output for now, as the card now seems to lock up after a while. I think it may be hardware issues for me :(

T

[Larry Lewis (lewislp)]

Tom,

I've got an RME 9632 on the way based on reports of better audio quality over the M-Audio line and excellent Linux support.

Thanks for the testing on the Delta 66 card, though. Hopefully your bug report will help another Ubuntu user who gets a Rev E card.

Thanks.
Larry

----- Original Message ----
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> Subject: [Bug 280847] Re: ICE1712 - M-Audio Delta 66 not detected by alsa
>
> Hi Larry,
>
> I've only tried the output for now, as the card now seems to lock up
> after a while. I think it may be hardware issues for me :(
>
> T
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[TGM (tommann.home)]

I have placed a patch on the alsa-devel mailing list which works for me (which links across the latest version) and put a howto in the ubuntu forums, so hopefully this can be made fixed now! :)

(I will place the patch here when I get back to my development machine tonight)