cs46xx firmware bz2

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Willem,
It works!!!!!
Thanks brazillions. I would never ever have figured that out.
I found cs46xx in /usr/local/lib/firmware after you told me all this stuff.
Maybe it went to the wrong place or something.
modprobe -v snd-cs46xx reports nothing at all now. Is that what it's supposed to do?


On May 24, 2017, at 6:59 AM, Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt at csir.co.za> wrote:

Hi,
Alsa has a few utilities you might want to install, but we should get you as far that the machine see the card first.
Pulseaudio is a lot of crap.
I can explain it some other time.
For now, you do not need to install anything else.
Aplay is an alsa player, so alsa is likely installed anyway.
I assume you have tried modprobe again and when aplay saw nothing, again looked at the tail end of the dmesg output.
Is there any change?
I just checked and it looks like the directory under my ubuntu for the firmware is different.
If there is indeed no change, which is likely if you run ubuntu 16.04, do the following:
As root:
cd /lib/firmware
cd `uname -r`
This should change you into a directory one level lower having your kernel version name.
Then do:
mv ../cs46xx .
Now try the modprobe again or restart.
Hardware firmware is usually independant of you running 64 or 32 bit and mostly of which operating system too.
HTH, Willem


> On Wed, 24 May 2017, Brian Tew wrote:
> 
> Ah Willem, wget went fine, extract went fine, but no change.
> Rebooted, but no change.
> aplay -l stills gives 268 no cards.
> Any ideas? Should I reinstall pulseaudio?
> Purge and reinstall alsa?
> My system is 64-bit; was this firmware 64?
> I am almost to the point of paying money for a fix (gasp!).
> I'm glad you don't live close enough to shoot me.
> 
> 
> On May 24, 2017, at 12:09 AM, Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt at csir.co.za> wrote:
> 
> OK, cd / on your linux box as root and do:
> wget http://hlt.meraka.csir.co.za/firmware_for_your_sound_card.tar.bz2
> Then extract using
> tar jxvf firmware_for_your_sound_card.tar.bz2
> HTH, Willem
> 
> 
>> On Tue, 23 May 2017, Brian Tew wrote:
>> 
>> I can't figure out how to get the file from afple email to my linux command-line pc.
>> Is there somewhere I can download it or sftp it from?
>> Sorry to be such a pain, but I am only half geek on my dad's side.
>> 
>> 
>> On May 23, 2017, at 8:24 AM, Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt at csir.co.za> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> I saw the attachment did not go through.
>> Here it is.
>> Let me know if you get it sorted.
>> Kind regards, Willem
>> 
>> 
>>> On Tue, 23 May 2017, Brian Tew wrote:
>>> 
>>> Willem,
>>> Thank you so much for this.
>>> I did not get the attachment; The listserv probably scrubs attachments.
>>> I hope it will come thru this apple site ok.
>>> Take care, and thanks again.
>>> 
>>> '--Brian Tew
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