mixartloader - Firmware loader for Digigram miXart soundcards

	    Digigram <alsa@digigram.com>

GENERAL

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mixartloader is a helper program to load the firmware binaries

onto the Digigram's miXart board sound drivers.

The following modules require this program:

	snd-mixart

These drivers don't work properly at all until the certain firmwares

are loaded, i.e. no PCM nor mixer devices will appear.

USAGE

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When mixartloader is invoked without options, it will probe all existing

soundcards until a valid miXart-driver is found.  If a valid miXart-driver is

found, mixartloader reads the board type from the driver.  The corresponding

firmware binaries are then read and transferred to the driver.

Finally, mixartloader initializes the PCM and the mixer devices on the

driver for making the soundcard full functional.

Instead of auto-probing, you can specify the card number or the hwdep

device name via -c and -D options, respectively.

	% mixartloader -c 1

	% mixartloader -D hw:0

For loading the firmware automatically after the module is loaded, use

the post-install command.  For example, add the following entry to

/etc/modules.conf for miXart driver:

	post-install snd-mixart /usr/bin/mixartloader

FILES

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The firmware binaries are installed on /usr/share/alsa/firmware/mixartloader

(or /usr/local/share/alsa/firmware/mixartloader, depending to the prefix

option of configure).  There will be *.conf files, which define the dsp image

files for each different card type.

COPYRIGHT

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Copyright (c) 2003 Digigram SA <alsa@digigram.com>

Distributable under GPL.

The firmware files included in alsa-firmware package are copyright

by Digigram SA