[linux-audio-user] Re: [linux-audio-dev] RME Hammerfall DSP Cardbus+Multiface

[D. Sen]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> DS,
>    Hi. Being this is Linux, I presume there is no documentation other than
> the source code. I suspect you are, like me, not a programmer and thus have
> a hard time with understanding how to set this stuff up? I sure do!
> 

Hey Mark,

I would like to think that my programming skills arent too bad :-). Even 
so, I am inclined to look for a README.install of some sort before I 
spend hours/days looking through someone else's source. I have been a 
linux users for almost 10 years and just wrote a linux-driver for a 
PCMCIA audio/DSP card from www.cac-dsp.com (their Bullet2/33 cards). I 
learnt very quickly that a 40 line README.install file packaged with the 
source would save me more time than to answer all the questions that 
would invariably arise from someone trying to use my code.

>    In my case I am using jack, so I can control where the audio goes using
> qjackconnect. I have managed to send and receive through many of my 26 I/Os,
> but I have not tried all of them yet. If you can use jack (you might not)
> then this is pretty easy.

I havent tried out Jack. Havent had a need to so far....guess I will 
have to start to make use of my $1000 investment...

> 
>    amixer is a bit of a mystery. Try a couple of things, like
> 
> amixer -h
> amixer scontrols
> amixer controls
> 
> I am very unclear how to actually _use_ this tool.

The alsa-projects website has a few lines 
(http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php3?company=RME&card=Hammerfall+DSP&chip=FPGA&module=hdsp)

hinting at the use of amixer....but its minimalistic :-)

DS
> 
> Mark
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-audio-user-admin at music.columbia.edu
> [mailto:linux-audio-user-admin at music.columbia.edu]On Behalf Of D. Sen
> Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 4:51 AM
> To: linux-audio-user at music.columbia.edu
> Cc: mknecht at controlnet.com
> Subject: [linux-audio-user] Re: [linux-audio-dev] RME Hammerfall DSP
> Cardbus+Multiface
> 
> 
> Hi Mark,
> 
> Thanks very much for your those hints. Do you have any idea (or where I
> can find the documentation) on how to play through the SPDIF or ADAT ports?
> 
> Where is the matrix mixer controls (amixer) documented for these cards?
> 
> DS
> 
> 
> Mark Knecht wrote:
> 
> 
> dsen,
>    Hi. I'm messing with similar things this evening. (And not doing
> great, but not failing either.) I'm using a HDAP 9652, not the
> Multiface, but it's the same driver I believe. The difference is I have
> no 'headphone output'. Just 26 outputs.
> 
>    I'm in KDE. Inside of a Konquerer window, I have set the file
> associations for wav and x-wave to be
> 
> aplay -device="plughw"
> 
> This seems to work all the time in a Konquerer window, but doesn't work
> on a file just sitting on my desktop. Don't ask me why.
> 
> FYI#1 - make sure you don't have a blocking aplay sitting around. Do a
> 
> ps -aux | grep aplay
> 
> and make sure nothing is there.
> 
> FYI#2 - My headphones and main speakers are running off of playback_1 &
> 2.
> 
> Good luck,
> Mark
> 
> On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 20:29, D. Sen wrote:
> /> Hi,/
> /> /
> /> I have just bought myself the Cardbus+Multiface RME system. I think I /
> /> have finally gotten the alsa modules (snd-hammerfall-mem and snd-hdsp) /
> /> to load correctly along with the OSS emulation modules. BUT I cant seem /
> /> to play anything out of the Lineout/Headphone output. I have tried /
> /> various 'amixer cset' commands but all I get is silence (trying to play /
> /> a simple wav file using aplay)./
> /> /
> /> Any suggetsions?/
> /> /
> 
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