[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#745158: alsa-firmware-loaders: hdsploader looking for firmware

[Malcolm Smith]

Package: alsa-firmware-loaders
Version: 1.0.27-3
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

A dist-upgrade on 2014-04-17 replaced the old version 1.0.27-2 with:
Package: alsa-firmware-loaders
Version: 1.0.27-3

When running hdsploader (as I do on bootup), it failed to find
/usr/share/alsa/firmware/hdsploader/digiface_firmware_rev11.bin

I looked into that directory and found no hdsploader directory, just:

root at audentity:/usr/share/alsa/firmware# ls -alR
.:
total 196
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     0 Sep  9  2011 COPIED_FROM_lib-firmware-hdsploader_INTO_THIS_MANUALLY_CREATED_firmware_DIRECTORY
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 97652 Oct 17  2007 digiface_firmware.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 97652 Oct 17  2007 digiface_firmware_rev11.bin

I seem to recall having to manually create this directory back in
Sept 2011 (see the blank file I left as a marker), as it was
similarly looking for firmware there.

I don't know whether or not it used to look elsewhere for firmware,
or whether the firmware was deleted by the DU.

So I created the required directory, and all works fine as usual:

root at audentity:/usr/share/alsa/firmware# mkdir hdsploader
root at audentity:/usr/share/alsa/firmware# cp -a digiface_firmware_rev11.bin hdsploader
root at audentity:/usr/share/alsa/firmware# ls -alR
.:
total 196
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     0 Sep  9  2011 COPIED_FROM_lib-firmware-hdsploader_INTO_THIS_MANUALLY_CREATED_firmware_DIRECTORY
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 97652 Oct 17  2007 digiface_firmware.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 97652 Oct 17  2007 digiface_firmware_rev11.bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Apr 18 12:54 hdsploader

./hdsploader:
total 96
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 97652 Oct 17  2007 digiface_firmware_rev11.bin

I'm guessing that RME Multiface users may have to copy a different
file, perhaps like this...?
root at audentity:/usr/share/alsa/firmware# cp -a multiface_firmware_rev11.bin hdsploader


This is obviously a kludge fix, but it works for now until the
package is fixed. Thanks for this brilliant package without which
my studio would be silent!


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.14-0.slh.2-aptosid-amd64 (SMP w/6 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages alsa-firmware-loaders depends on:
ii  fxload      0.0.20081013-1
ii  libasound2  1.0.27.2-3
ii  libc6       2.18-4
ii  udev        204-8

alsa-firmware-loaders recommends no packages.

alsa-firmware-loaders suggests no packages.

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