hi and thanks for the help so far!,
the hdsp module is loaded /sbin/lsmod:
snd-hdsp 46732 0 (autoclean)
cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [default ]: H-DSP - Hammerfall DSP
RME Hammerfall DSP + Multiface at 0xfeae0000, irq 5
the motherboards intel sound chip has now disappeared but thats ok...
i ran alsaconf again and now and everything seems a lot healthier
the hdsploader works (the red Host light is now off) as does hdspconf and hdspmixer
so everything looks fine but when i start pd it hangs for about 20 seconds and then outputs the following errors, then quits.
input channels = 2, output channels = 2
device name hw:0; channels in 2, out 2
audio buffer set to 50
opening sound input...
using non-interleaved audio input
Sample width set to 4 bytes
ALSA: set input channels to 14
ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:324:(snd_pcm_hw_hw_params) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_HW_PARAMS failed: Device or resource busy
snd_pcm_hw_params (input): Device or resource busy
pd: pcm.c:4887: snd_pcm_sw_params_current: Assertion `pcm->setup' failed.
Pd: signal 6
socket receive error: Connection reset by peer (104)
Aborted
sorry about this!
rob
