Preliminary question and regarding to this question multiposted: Does
anybody still use a RME HDSPe AIO ;)?
Hi,
since the issues I get for my RME HDSPe AIO didn't became less, but more
within the last two years, I cleaned a primary partition to install XP,
just to test, if there are issues caused by the mobo, that will appear,
even when not using a *nix driver, but the proprietary driver and latest
RME firmware.
I'm a Linux only user, so sometime ago I installed FreeBSD, just to
test, if the RME card isn't borked, since on Linux only 2 ADAT channels
do work, fortunately all 8 ADAT channels work, using the FreeBSD driver
(no TotalMix).
I bought the card, because it was recommended by members of the Linux
audio community. Don't get me wrong, the blame is on me, I decided to
buy the card and had no time to use it within the first weeks, I only
want to point out, that I did research before I bought the card. I
wonder, if there are different revisions of the RME board?
I know I've written this several times, but somebody might not have read
it and it's a while ago since I ask for the situation of this card on
other machines.
Is there a command that shows the board revision and used firmware
version?
I run my Arch install without the alsa-firmware package and installed it
now.
$ uname -r
3.8.11-rt8-1-rt
$ pacman -Q alsa-firmware
error: package 'alsa-firmware' was not found
$ sudo pacman -Syu alsa-firmware
warning: ardour: ignoring package upgrade (2.8.16-1 => 3.1-1)
alsa-firmware-1.0.27-2
$ pacman -Q alsa-firmware
alsa-firmware 1.0.27-2
Can anybody use a HDSPe AIO on Linux with all available sample rates?
Store alsamixer settings? Does hdspeconf run? Use latency <= 10.7 ms?
Use any latency even => 10.7 ms with getting absolutely no xruns? Use
all ADAT channels?
[root@archlinux rocketmouse]# tuning
########################################################################
# service rtirq status
PID CLS RTPRIO NI PRI %CPU STAT COMMAND
36 FF 90 - 130 0.0 S irq/8-rtc0
178 FF 85 - 125 0.0 S irq/18-snd_hdsp
179 FF 80 - 120 0.0 S irq/20-snd_ice1
180 FF 79 - 119 0.0 S irq/21-snd_ice1
75 FF 75 - 115 0.0 S irq/16-ohci_hcd
78 FF 75 - 115 0.0 S irq/19-ehci_hcd
86 FF 74 - 114 0.2 S irq/17-ohci_hcd
91 FF 73 - 113 0.0 S irq/17-ohci_hcd
34 FF 70 - 110 0.0 S irq/1-i8042
24 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/9-acpi
51 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/42-radeon
70 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/14-pata_ati
71 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/15-pata_ati
79 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/22-ahci
165 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/7-parport0
460 FF 50 - 90 0.1 S irq/43-enp3s0
3 FF 1 - 41 0.1 S ksoftirqd/0
13 FF 1 - 41 0.1 S ksoftirqd/1
# grep 18: /proc/interrupts
18: 0 4 IO-APIC-fasteoi snd_hdspm
Mon May 13 10:31:03 CEST 2013 - 3.8.11-rt8-1-rt - Arch Linux \r (\l)
[root@archlinux rocketmouse]# tuning-rice
########################################################################
# service rtirq status
PID CLS RTPRIO NI PRI %CPU STAT COMMAND
36 FF 90 - 130 0.0 S irq/8-rtc0
178 FF 85 - 125 0.0 S irq/18-snd_hdsp
75 FF 75 - 115 0.0 S irq/16-ohci_hcd
78 FF 75 - 115 0.0 S irq/19-ehci_hcd
86 FF 74 - 114 0.2 S irq/17-ohci_hcd
91 FF 73 - 113 0.0 S irq/17-ohci_hcd
34 FF 70 - 110 0.0 S irq/1-i8042
24 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/9-acpi
51 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/42-radeon
70 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/14-pata_ati
71 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/15-pata_ati
79 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/22-ahci
165 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/7-parport0
460 FF 50 - 90 0.1 S irq/43-enp3s0
3 FF 1 - 41 0.1 S ksoftirqd/0
13 FF 1 - 41 0.1 S ksoftirqd/1
# grep 18: /proc/interrupts
18: 0 4 IO-APIC-fasteoi snd_hdspm
Mon May 13 10:31:47 CEST 2013 - 3.8.11-rt8-1-rt - Arch Linux \r (\l)
OT: I noticed a thread at LAU about a PCIe card from another vendor,
that was recommended to work with Linux, but it doesn't (or didn't?).
Are there any PCIe cards available in the price range and audio quality
of the HDSPe AIO, that are DEFINITIVELY known as working with Linux?
Regards,
Ralf
