[linux-audio-user] RME hammerfall DSP Multiface: SOLVED :-)

[Paul Perkins]

It looks to me like a good place to put this info is in the "user notes" 
attached to the ALSA sound card matrix:
 visit http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/
 find matrix line for your card, click "details"
 click "user contributed notes"
 click "ADD".

Sure I could do it myself but it's not my info, I don't even have this kind of 
sound card. 

There is also a WIKI for ALSA soundcard HOWTOs at 
http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=AlsaOpensrcOrg but it looks to me like 
it is less active recently.

On Tuesday 09 September 2003 11:22 am, Robert Epprecht wrote:
> Robert Epprecht <epprecht at solnet.ch> writes:
> > I'm having a hard time bringing my new RME pci interface and Multiface
> > to run... and would appreciate some help ;-)
>
> And I have got a *lot* of help on the list and by PM.
> I'd like to say thank you very much to everybody who helped me!
>
> The problem was my firmware version. I had version 10 and have upgraded
> to version 11.  Now everything I have tested so far works like expected!
>
>
> Some important steps that I had missed on the path of setting up a
> RME Hammerfall DSP card (in my case a PCI interface and a multiface)
> on a Linux box using ALSA:
>
> * You can determine the firmware version by doing 'lspci -vv'
>
> * Firmware version 10 (0a) did not work for me,
>   version 11 (0b) seems to run fine as far as I can tell by now.
>   (This version is the current version on the RME webside).
>
> * If you use the snd-hdsp module you have to call hdsploader from
> alsa-tools after loading the module.
>
> * Things like un-muting, setting channel levels and channel routing is done
>   in hdspmixer from alsa-tools.
>
> * Settings like Clock sync, sample rate and type of SPDIF in/out are set
>   by the program called 'hdspconf'.
>
> Robert Epprecht