[wdmaudiodev] Re: Debugging USB audio at the hardware level
- From: "Martin Gagnon" <mgagnon1@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <wdmaudiodev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:02:58 -0400
Hi Tim,
Thank you for your feedback.
Yes, endpoint 2 is the endpoint for the audio out data.
It appears to be typical of the final OUT transaction to be damaged/corrupted,
but before getting that Reset event, we don’t understand why the IN
transactions suddenly stops.
We tested that the IN transactions work by pressing buttons or transferring
audio input data from the device, and indeed we get that data back.
The NEC hub is not a constant in this scenario, but it has an impact: if we
remove the hub, then the problem appears less frequently. Why the host stops
polling with the IN transactions? Who could be generating the Reset event?
Thank you,
Martin Gagnon
Matrox Graphics
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[mailto:wdmaudiodev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tim Roberts
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 1:27 PM
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Subject: [wdmaudiodev] Re: Debugging USB audio at the hardware level
Martin Gagnon wrote:
I know this is a software-focused group for audio, but many of you may know a
thing or two about USB protocol messages to a USB audio device.
Here is the situation, we’re dealing with a C-Media audio device CM6206, using
MS usbaudio.sys driver. The C-Media chip is sitting behind a NEC USB2.0 hub
that’s connected to a NEC USB2.0 host controller, itself connected to a PLX
PCIe switch. Using Windows XP SP3, the driver installs fine, typical audio
playback works fine (directsound or wave output). However, when we concurrently
enable video and audio, for example playing back a movie in full screen, with
no hardware video decoding, we lose audio after “a while”, and can’t get it
back. However, the Windows default sounds (for example system beep or logoff
sounds) are still working fine. The interval of time before we lose the audio
varies with the graphics activity in the system, as well as with various
systems of various speeds, so it can take 5mins or it can take 1 day. We tried
the C-Media driver as well and got the same symptom. We also tried different
USB audio chip manufacturers (including TI) to no avail.
So, is endpoint 2 the "sync" endpoint for the audio out data on endpoint 0x86?
So we looked at the USB transactions on the USB bus going into the USB audio
chip. We note a series of OUT transactions followed by IN transactions, usually
containing a “NACK” message. This goes on for as long as the audio plays back
fine. Then we get a series of OUT transactions with no corresponding IN
transactions, then we get a Reset event.
Did you notice that the final OUT transaction is damaged? Is that typical of
the captures you've seen?
Is the NEC hub a constant in all of this?
--
Tim Roberts, timr@xxxxxxxxx
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
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