Hello all. I have recently installed Debian and compiled 2.6.0-9test for a new Hammerfall digi9652 card I purchased. I'm having a very difficult time getting alsa to recognize the card and am hoping someone here might have some ideas.
The most damning symptom is that cat /proc/asound/cards gives only: ---no soundcards---
Running aplay phone.wav (as root and reg users) gives the following error:
aplay: main:484: audio open error: No such device
And trying to start alsamixer (as root and reg user) gives:
alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device
I have heard that some professional soundcards do not have hardware mixers. The user's manual for the Hammerfall digi9652 doesn't say anything about a hardware mixer so this could be the case for this card.
I have pasted background information below that I hope might be helpful. Thank you in advance for any advice you might provide.
Kris Bergstrom
Los Angeles, CA
SYSTEM
uname -r
2.6.0-test9
I checked all the dependencies of the kernel before compiling and they were fine. I compiled the kernel without error.
soundcard: RME Hammerfall digi9652
ALSA RELATED
dpkg -l | grep alsa
ii alsa-base 0.9.6-5 ALSA sound driver common files
ii alsa-utils 0.9.6-1 Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (utils)
ii alsaconf 0.9.6-5 ALSA configuration generato
more /etc/modprobe.d/alsa
### DEBCONF MAGIC
# This file was automatically generated by alsa-base's debconf stuff
alias char-major-116 snd
alias char-major-14 soundcore
options snd major=116 cards_limit=4
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
alias snd-card-0 snd-rme9652
alias snd-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-slot-0 snd-slot-0
lsmod:
Module Size Used by
snd_seq_oss 34048 0
snd_seq_midi_event 7936 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 54160 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 8200 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 51876 0
snd_mixer_oss 18944 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_rme9652 27972 0
snd_pcm 96292 2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_rme9652
snd_page_alloc 11780 2 snd_rme9652,snd_pcm
snd_timer 25220 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 48996 9 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_rme9652,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 9152 1 snd
8139too 20736 0
mii 5248 1 8139too
crc32 4608 1 8139too
af_packet 16904 2
In case it's of use: I accidentally ran ./snddevices when trying to debug the problem. I now think that one needn't do that with newer versions of alsa. If that were causing problems, I'd assume it would be a problem of only being able to run a program as root but I could certainly be wrong.
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