[linux-audio-user] rme9632 status?

WR gen2 at planetofidiots.com
Mon Dec 22 11:47:22 EST 2003


Mark, you are exactly right. I got a little baffled by the rme naming
scheme. Seems like it would've been easy enough to avoid the #'s 9652 in
subsequent non-compatible models...</microrant>

Ive been trying to collect the fragments of info from all the pertinent
lists, and here's where I'm stuck this time(!)

going out on a limb and using 2.4.22-ck2 instead of a patched vanilla
kernel (bad idea?), bumped down to alsa-driver/lib/tools 0.9.2 and now
there's a successful module load of rme9652.

 Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: P
snd-mixer-oss          13592   0  (autoclean)
snd-rme9652            18660   3
snd-pcm                66400   2  [snd-rme9652]
snd-timer              16520   0  [snd-pcm]
snd                    34148   1  [snd-mixer-oss snd-rme9652 snd-pcm
snd-timer]
snd-page-alloc          5456   0  [snd-pcm]
snd-hammerfall-mem      1888   0  [snd-rme9652]
rtc                     8200   0  (autoclean)
nvidia               1628128   8

also, I can see signal on xmms, it plays, but no sound, so I guess the
stream is flowing. I'm confused about alsamixer, though, cause it says
"No mixer elems found" and fails.

To further complicate my situation, I HAVE to be able to use the spdif out
because there's limited access to any ADAT optical devices (for now).
A few questions if I may:

What is the ideal perfect best configuration (kernel/alsa/etc) for this card?

Are there limitations with any of the IO (duplex spdif working?)

Should I worry about firmware or rev or eprom?

Is it true that I can forget about the numbers 9636, cause every digi9636
is really a digi9652 as far as drivers are concerned(?)

I saw an rme9652 control-panel GUI and (of course) failed to bookmark it
and now cant relocate it. Is there such a thing? Is it "good"?

Some postings seem to suggest that .asoundrc file is not needed, but that
sounds very strange. True? btw, if anyone cares to throw a
working-with-spdif rme9652 .asoundrc at me, id be a happy camper, and yes,
i know they're out there, but I want YOURS cause you're a part of this
list of brainiacs...

THANKS!!
(it's been a mind-numbing 3 days of list-spelunking...starting to worry
that i blew $300 on the wrong card...)

:-)



> WR,
>    Hi. The info below seems inconsistent. It appears that you have a
> Hammerfall card (either 9652 or 9636) and not the HDSP 9632. from the
> lspci
> results. Is this the case?
>
>    If so, you should be loading the driver for the Hammerfall
> (snd-rme9652)
> and not the driver for the HDSP family. (snd-hdsp)
>
> Mark




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