WR, You may want to ask fewer questions in each email. ;-) I'm just a bit lost right now about exactly where your configuration is at the moment! ;-) On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 08:47, WR wrote: > Mark, you are exactly right. I got a little baffled by the rme naming > scheme. Seems like it would've been easy enough to avoid the #'s 9652 in > subsequent non-compatible models...</microrant> Yep. A number of us have made this observation. Unfortunately, what's done is done... > > Ive been trying to collect the fragments of info from all the pertinent > lists, and here's where I'm stuck this time(!) > > going out on a limb and using 2.4.22-ck2 instead of a patched vanilla > kernel (bad idea?), bumped down to alsa-driver/lib/tools 0.9.2 and now > there's a successful module load of rme9652. I don't think the kernel you choose right now is as important as getting the sound drivers working well. I use 2.4.20 still on Gentoo, and a newer 2.4.23 on Redhat. They both work fine. I think you should get moved up to Alsa-1.0.0rcxxx as soon as is practical. There have been changes to APIs and lots of fixes to things. It's what you want to run. > > Module Size Used by Tainted: P > snd-mixer-oss 13592 0 (autoclean) > snd-rme9652 18660 3 > snd-pcm 66400 2 [snd-rme9652] > snd-timer 16520 0 [snd-pcm] > snd 34148 1 [snd-mixer-oss snd-rme9652 snd-pcm > snd-timer] > snd-page-alloc 5456 0 [snd-pcm] > snd-hammerfall-mem 1888 0 [snd-rme9652] > rtc 8200 0 (autoclean) > nvidia 1628128 8 Looks good I think. > > also, I can see signal on xmms, it plays, but no sound, so I guess the > stream is flowing. I'm confused about alsamixer, though, cause it says > "No mixer elems found" and fails. xmms is an OSS application, so you must have OSS emulation loaded correctly. I run xmms all the time, so it will work. I can see some of it above, but it would be helpful if you provided your modules.conf file contents. (For me anyway...) ;-) > > To further complicate my situation, I HAVE to be able to use the spdif out > because there's limited access to any ADAT optical devices (for now). I guess we'll deal with this very soon then. I haven't checked spdif out on my Hammerfall light in a long time, but last time I tried it didn't work. Is there still a note about this on the Hammerfall Alsa page? > A few questions if I may: > > What is the ideal perfect best configuration (kernel/alsa/etc) for this card? Depends on what you want to do. > > Are there limitations with any of the IO (duplex spdif working?) I think possibly yes, but we need to check. > > Should I worry about firmware or rev or eprom? Not on this card. > > Is it true that I can forget about the numbers 9636, cause every digi9636 > is really a digi9652 as far as drivers are concerned(?) Yes, that is correct as far as I know. > > I saw an rme9652 control-panel GUI and (of course) failed to bookmark it > and now cant relocate it. Is there such a thing? Is it "good"? Not under Linux. (I think.) There is for the HDSP cards thanks to Thomas Charbonnel. > > Some postings seem to suggest that .asoundrc file is not needed, but that > sounds very strange. True? I don't remember. I don't think I use one, but I'm sure that you could use one at times. > btw, if anyone cares to throw a > working-with-spdif rme9652 .asoundrc at me, id be a happy camper, and yes, > i know they're out there, but I want YOURS cause you're a part of this > list of brainiacs... We'll have to see. I can possibly try out my spdif out this evening, but I'm traveling tomorrow on holiday and if it doesn't happen easily it won't happen for a week. (Sorry!) > Cheers, MArk
