VXLOADER - Firmware loader for Digigram VX soundcards

	    Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

GENERAL

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Vxloader is a helper program to load the firmware binaries

onto the Digigram's VX-board sound drivers.

The following modules require this program:

	snd-vx222, snd-vxpocket, snd-vxp440

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 vxloader is invoked without options, it will probe all existing

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

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

firmware binaries are then read and transferred to the driver.

Finally, vxloader 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.

	% vxloader -c 1

	% vxloader -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 VX222 driver:

	post-install snd-vx222 /usr/bin/vxloader

FILES

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

(or /usr/local/share/alsa/firmware/vxloader, 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 Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

Distributable under GPL.

The firmware files included in alsa-firmware package are copyright

by Digigram S.A.