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

[Patrick Shirkey]

Daniel James wrote:
>>It looks to me like a good place to put this info is in the "user
>>notes" attached to the ALSA sound card matrix:
> 
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> Both of these are out of date. I tried to submit updates to the ALSA 
> matrix, but it appears to be unmaintained. The SuSE hardware database 
> is no better - I was surprised to see this was also out of date, 
> given that SuSE is offering a commercial distribution based on ALSA.
> 

The matrix is not unmaintained. I lost my main workstation a couple of 
months ago and have been trying to get it back since. It is not an easy 
task or cheap and I haven't the space on this machine or the inclination 
to install apache and mysql.

Unfortunately that is how it goes when people volunteer to help on a 
large project like the alsa website.

If I was paid and had someone else to maintain my gear then there 
wouldn't be a problem.

 > I'm afraid it doesn't reflect very well on the LAU community that all
 > these docs are out of date. I know it's a boring job, but it's so
 > important to have reliable hardware compatibility information. Is
 > there no way we could combine the best parts of the matrix and the
 > wiki to make a new, definitive and official document?
 >

The alsa website is the definitive document. If you find stuff in the 
wiki that you think should be in the website you can submit it. But 
until I get a new video card and rescue all the info on my failed HDD it 
won't be incorporated into the site.

Hopefully I haven't lost everything that people submitted to me before 
the crash. Currently the prognosis is grim though.

On top of all that I also have to recode the backend as Jaroslav 
recently upgraded to php4.

Plus I'm having more fun making music at the moment.

It took me at least a year to get it to where it is now. I am not going 
to ditch that effort, just out of action for a while.



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