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Date:      Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:50:57 +0200
From:      Hans Petter Selasky <hps@bitfrost.no>
Cc:        freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dragonfly USB DAC under 9.1-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <5174DDD1.5030103@bitfrost.no>
In-Reply-To: <5174D696.5080009@bitfrost.no>
References:  <51732A63.9010001@ee.lbl.gov> <51740C56.3000907@bitfrost.no> <51743200.7010209@ee.lbl.gov> <5174D696.5080009@bitfrost.no>

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On 04/22/13 08:20, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> On 04/21/13 20:37, Craig Leres wrote:
>> First let me say that I did a quick install of FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT
>> (r249439) onto a spare system yesterday and was able to play various
>> source material with no glitches. Then I back ported the 10.0-CURRENT
>> /sys/dev/sound tree (r249715) to my 9.1-RELEASE system and this solved
>> my remaining audio issues. There were bug fixes but it looks like the
>> bulk of the changes add support for USB Audio v2.0.
>>
>> On 04/21/13 08:57, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
>>> There are multiple options for debugging this issue.
>>>
>>> 1) Look at the usbdump utility for dumping the data communication for
>>> your device:
>>>
>>> usbdump -i usbusX -f Y -s 65536
>>
>> I did find usbdump earlier but don't know enough about usb audio to be
>> able to identify any problems.
>>
>>> I suspect your device uses rate adaption, and that it does not work
>>> properly.
>>
>> The Dragonfly supports 44.1, 48, 88.2 and 96 and one goal of mine is to
>> not be doing any additional conversion so I'm hoping it's not doing that!
>>
>>> What does:
>>>
>>> usbconfig -d X.Y dump_curr_config_desc
>>>
>>> Say?
>>
>> Attached. I also installed usbutils and have attached output from "lsusb
>> -v".
>>
>>> See also:
>>>
>>> sysctl hw.usb.uaudio.debug=15
>>
>> hw.usb.uaudio.debug was very helpful the original sample rate mismatch
>> problem.
>>
>> One thing that's annoying is the way dev/sound/usb/uaudio.c is
>> structured, the sample rate is programmed in the Dragonfly only when the
>> device is inserted; there's no way to change rates once it's plugged in.
>
> Hi,
>
> This can be changed. The problem is allocating and freeing audio
> buffers, which is a sleeping operation and I think cannot be done
> directly from the PCM API.
>
> If it is all about changing the sample rate, I think we at insert time
> can decide the maximum, and allow lower values to be set without any
> problems.
>
> I know there was a thread about this at the FreeBSD forums too, and it
> shouldn't be too hard to change this, at least for the case you are
> seeing. Are you a programmer capable of writing C-code ?
>
> --HPS

Hi,

You don't don't need to re-plug the adapter. You can also use

usbconfig -d X.Y reset


--HPS




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