pcxhrloader - Firmware loader for Digigram pcxhr compatible soundcards

	    Digigram <alsa@digigram.com>

GENERAL

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pcxhrloader is a helper program to load the firmware binaries

onto Digigram's pcxhr compatible board sound drivers.

The following modules require this program:

	snd-pcxhr

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 pcxhrloader is invoked without options, it will probe all existing

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

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

firmware binaries are then read and transferred to the driver.

Finally, pcxhrloader 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.

	% pcxhrloader -c 1

	% pcxhrloader -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 pcxhr driver:

	post-install snd-pcxhr /usr/bin/pcxhrloader

FILES

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

(or /usr/local/share/alsa/firmware/pcxhrloader, 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) 2004 Digigram SA <alsa@digigram.com>

Distributable under GPL.

The firmware files included in alsa-firmware package are copyright

by Digigram SA