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Digigram VX222e Isn't Seen in Arch Linux
A radio station I'm working on has a machine with a Digigram VX222e connected to it.
According to the Digigram site, and ALSA, the sound card is supported by ALSA. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to be detected as a sound card. Reading online, it requires some firmware, but it appears that my system has the proper firmware installed.
The VX222e is a PCIe card, but it appears to be PCI on the card with a PCIe to PCI bridge. According to Digigram's support site, they made a hardware change in March of 2017, and I suspect that this might be the problem.
Linux, Serial, C, and Intel vs. ARM
I'm working on some mcu stuff and I kept running into the same problems when writing code to talk to it on Linux. I've been writing code on my desktop, moving it to either my Chromebook or an RPi.
So I'm writing it down sos I remember. I thought it might be because of the ch341 UART adaptor I had on my shitty arduino clone, but I'm running into it elsewhere.
- In c_iflag, IRCNL is set on be default on ARM, converting CR's into NL's. Annoying when you write stuff designed to be understood by humans and machines.
- cfsetispeed and cfsetospeed don't seem to work. cfsetspeed does.
- O_NONBLOCK never seems to work right. Leave it alone and use c_cc[VMIN || VTIME] instead, because that's smarter anyway.
There will probably be more here.
Get Out Of Infinality Part 1
This is what I do to my systems to get them up to date with freetype 2.7, which invalidates1) the infinality patches. This assumes you have multilib installed. Remove references to lib32- packages if you don't.
Step 0: Update system and get rid of orphans to make sure things are clean. Make sure you have an alternative wm like windowmaker installed so freetype2 problems aren't deadly.
vis.nu Cleanup
One of the problems with offering services to friends and acquaintences for free is that when they don't use your stuff anymore, they neglect to tell you.
There's about 18 years of disused email accounts, websites, and all sorts of weirdness in the vis.nu servers, and starting today I'm cleaning it all up. I'm trying to make sure that I'm not getting rid of things that people are using, but rather than erring on the side of caution, I'm erring on the side of personal simplicity.
I'll be saving things for a while, but not likely permanently. If I step on something you want, contact me via mail or FB or whatever and I'll send you a copy. If you want it to stay on my servers, we can discuss that.
New IXGBE taurball
Updated for the most recent lts, and changes in the build process.