I used to manually patch alsa with the echoaudio patches for my echo mia sound card. I've heard for awhile that alsa was going to include the driver in the next release, and sure enough, its included! But it won't recognize the card. lain ~ # dmesg | grep ALSA ALSA /var/tmp/portage/alsa-driver-1.0.8/work/alsa-driver-1.0.8/pci/echoaudio/echoaudio.c:41: get_firmware(): Firmware not available (-2) Flags & Version: [ebuild R ] media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.8 -debug -doc +oss 0 kB LSPCI output:0000:00:08.0 Multimedia controller: Motorola: Unknown device 3410 (rev 01) Subsystem: Echo Digital Audio Corporation: Unknown device 0080 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 192, cache line size 08 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11 Region 0: Memory at da000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Portage 2.0.51-r13 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.10-gentoo-r2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r2 i686 AMD 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BTW, I got this fixed. You'll need to version bump everything to the latest 1.0.8 (firmware too) as right now only the drivers are at 1.0.8, but the firmware and other stuff isn't. Second, the kernel hotplug loader wants firmware in /lib/firmware/ and alsa uses something like /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware, so I copied the contents of one into the other and symlinked them so they'd be the same directory. We need to figure out which place hotplug should look and patch accordingly to have 1 directory. Evidently, building the driver with the firmware run-time-loaded, instead of being built-in, is the default now (was set in configure before and defaulted to being built-in), so if hotplug can find the firmware file, things will magically work. So, now it works (for me), but I'm leaving it as NEW since it requires some hackery that should be fixed upstream.
Greg, can you comment on where we should put firmware for hotplug? Right now, it's installing by default in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware, but hotplug seems to be looking in /lib/firmware
/lib/firmware is the proper place for this.
ok, this has been fixed to install to the correct location.
