Maverick and Delta 1010lt

[Brian Blater]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 11:27 AM, ailo <ailo.at at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 04/11/2011 02:36 PM, Brian Blater wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 10:26 PM, ailo <ailo.at at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 04/11/2011 03:41 AM, Brian Blater wrote:
>
> nvidia-current is the meta-package for the proprietary nvidia drivers.
> Those will only be guaranteed to work with the kernel in the main repo.
> The Natty -lowlatency from the PPA is a Ubuntu kernel, and will work
> with Natty drivers.
> I believe nouveau drivers will work on all kernels, but I'm not sure,
> since I haven't tried it. My packages are called
> xserver-xorg-video-nouveau and nouveau-firmware. Don't think those will
> be active if you have the proprietary drivers installed as well.

Ok, I reinstalled the machine yesterday and will work from a clean install.

First will be to get the basic updates installed.
Second will be to get audio working.
Third will be nvidia using your nouveau drivers.
Last will be the kernel and may start wit the just the generic (natty)
from your PPA and then go with lowlatency.

>
>> snip
>>>
>>> Unfortunately there is a problem in how the ice1712 is presented to
>>> pulseaudio. This is why you get no desktop sound, but it should be easy
>>> to fix.
>>> To copy what Ralf wrote in another post on this list (edit the file
>>> /usr/share/alsa/cards/ICE1712.conf)...
>>>
>>>
>>> #
>>> # Configuration for the ICE1712 (Envy24) chip
>>> #
>>> [snip]
>>> <confdir:pcm/front.conf>
>>>
>>> ICE1712.pcm.front.0 {
>>>        @args [ CARD ]
>>>        @args.CARD {
>>>                type string
>>>        }
>>>        type route
>>>        ttable.0.0 1
>>>        ttable.1.1 1
>>>        slave.pcm {
>>>                type hw
>>>                card $CARD
>>>        }
>>>        #### fix PA issue ####
>>>        slave.format S32_LE
>>>        slave.channels 10
>>>        ######################
>>> }
>>> [snip]
>>
>> Yup, that is the one fix I installed first.
>>
>
> I hear that this fix will work for Natty, so if not for Maverick, that
> seems strange to me. Did you make sure to reboot and look on what you
> could see in pulseaudio preferences? No luck?

I'm pretty sure this was the fix that got audio working with Jack. I
can verify when I get back to the audio portion of the clean install.

>
>>>
>>>> Ok, so ranting off now. I followed several bug reports and I think
>>>> those have at least allowed me to get the sound card working through
>>>> Jack.
>>>
>>> ice1712 will always work with jack. You might have neglected to raise
>>> some volumse at first. An easy mistake to make, which I have made myself
>>> many times.
>>> Did you check out envy24control? It is a mixer for ice1712 cards. I
>>> recommend to use that.
>>  thinking what I may do first is reinstall a clean 10.10 system and
> get the NV driver working. Then install the -lowlatency kernel from
> your PPA. Then get the 1010lt working with the onboard card disabled.
>
> If you want to mess around with external kernels, you'll need to mess
> with nvidia drivers too.
>
>> Yes, I've used a combination of envy24control and alsamixer. I would
>> imagine that since I've got sound from Jack etc that I've got the
>> correct channels un-muted and volumes up (but it wasn't easy
>> understanding what was muted etc.)
>>
>
> There's a lot of faders there. By this time I'm sure you know the gains
> are named: adc 0-7 for audio-to-digital and dac 0-7 for digital-to-audio.
> Not nice not knowing which faders to pull when just trying to get sound out.
> Jack is not affected at all by the issues with pulseaudio, since it uses
> alsa directly, so running jack with that card is a good way to start, to
> make sure the card works.
>

I will just stick with envy24control for the mixer. Can you verify how
the mute button works in envy24control? Is mute on when the button is
"pushed in" or when the button is "out"?

Thanks for your help.
Brian

> --
> ailo