rob canning a ?crit : > 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 Hi Rob, As stated in a previous mail the hdsp doesn't support interleaved mode, and this is the only mode available in pd when using alsa at the moment. There was a 0.35 version that had been patched to support non-interleaved mode IIRC. Maybe you can try to use the card through the plug layer, but performance will be suboptimal. Thomas