Thanks for your replies. I figured it out. I knew I would feel foolish... My card is the older card and has no on-board mixing and no cool utility. I have a hammerfall 96/52 card with AEB8-I and AEB8-O expansion boards for DACs. Here was the problem > > pmstudio@sphere:~/m/sounds$ cat /proc/asound/card0/rme9652 snip_------------------------------------------------ > > ADAT1 Input source: ADAT1 optical > > > > IEC958 input: Coaxial Needs to be Internal input source for my internal dacs. DOH! it now reads: ADAT1 Input source: Internal IEC958 input: Internal You might think I would notice that I need an *internal* source for an *internal* dac. I was able to change the input source using alsamixer. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user