peter plessas wrote : > I have now tested alsa-drivers-1.0.9rc1 with hotplug support in the > kernel, but without success. When i boot into OSX, load the firmware > there, and do a warm-reboot into debian, the card works, even > reinserting and putting the computer into sleep mode doesn't stop the > card from working. > But after a coldboot into debian, the card remains uninitialized, giving > the same error as described below. > (...) > >> > >>peter:~# hdsploader > >>hdsploader - firmware loader for RME Hammerfall DSP cards > >>Looking for HDSP + Multiface or Digiface cards : > >>Card 0 : PowerMac Screamer Rev 0 > >>Card 1 : RME Hammerfall DSP at 0xf3000000, irq 58 > >>Upload firmware for card hw:1 > >>Hwdep ioctl error on card hw:1 : Input/output error. > >> > >>I am using debian testing, running a 2.6.8 kernel with manually compiled > >> 1.0.8 alsa drivers on a G3 powerpc laptop. > >> > >>cardbus version is 11 (rev 0b) > >> > >>the card is loadable out of osx. > >> Hi Peter, I would need a little more information. Could you please post the output of 'dmesg | grep Hammerfall', and verify to be sure the alsa version your kernel is running (cat /proc/asound/version). Are your drivers compiled in kernel or as modules ? Thomas