Janina Sajka wrote : > Well, unfortunately I'm not seeing a change yet on my Opteron box using > the PCI interface card. > > Firmware loading still requiring hdsploader, even thgouh hotplug is > enabled. > Hi Janina, This can happen if you compiled the driver in kernel and hotplug (which is userspace) is not available when the card is initialized. I'm working on a more robust solution to this problem at the moment. > Also, I'm unable to dmix, or alsamixer. > Dmix should work, please report this to alsa-devel. Alsamixer can't be used with the card yet. I have a plan to make this possible, but it's not ready yet. In the meantime you can use amixer in a command-line only environment. Thomas