On Tuesday 03 August 2004 11:52 am, Ben wrote: > I recently picked up an RME HDSP MADI card to test it as a playback > source for a digital mixing console. For testing purposes, I loaded it > onto a VIA epia board (yes, you read that right, 600 MHz, baby!) and > installed the recently released DeMuDi 1.2. When DeMuDi loads, the > first thing I do is modprobe snd-hdpsm. Then I can start jackvia > qjackqtl and it shows 64 record channels and 64 playback channels. > Success!! kinda.... > > Now I'm stuck. I can't figure out how to change the mixer settings. > I've studied all the info at the ALSA site and on Winfried Ritsch's > site but I'm too much of a noob to know what it means. > Have you tried alsamixer? It's a command line tool, but it's got a curses type interface (IOW it's GUI) > hdspmixer apparently does not support this card yet. It says: > Card 0 : RME HDSP MADI at 0xde000000, irq 10 > No Hammerfall DSP card found > alsamixer seems to have no effect (?) I think the playback channels are > not routed to the outputs. > Winfried has some example apps that use the hwdep-interface to set > mixer values but the .tgz file seems to be corrupt. using tar -xvf or > -xvf it reports the file is not in gzip format. > > Questions: > How do I set up the card so that Jack can read/write all 64 inputs and > outputs, with no attenuation in the card's mixer? If I understand the question, you have to pass the number of channels to jackd when you fire it up. > Does anybody have a valid hwdep-interface example for this card? (I am > trying to contact Winfried but I'm not sure I have a valid email > address for him) > > Thanks for any help, > Ben Loftis
