[linux-audio-user] in trouble with rme digi96/8 pad -- FIXED

[kmd]

kmd wrote:
> maybe this is a question for alsa, but if you don't mind i rather put my 
> problem here as well. i'm in continious trouble with my sound card. i 
> spent a lot of money on this rme digi96-8/pad. when i bought the card it 
> immediately worked like a charm with mdk 9.2. unbelievable. the trouble 
> started with mdk 10.0. i managed to make it work after several days of 
> searching. don't ask me how, i woke up, booted and to my surprise it 
> worked. never change a winning configuration you would say. indeed. 
> today i reenabled the onboard audio chip in the bios, booted windows, 
> booted back linux and yes trouble happened. just like the first time of 
> troubles, everything seems to be working fine and configured as it 
> should be, but i hear *no* sound at all. it's driving me insane. i mean, 
> i run xmms, mplayer, aplay.. they all do seem to play sound without any 
> error, only i can't hear anything at all. but alsamixer displays a 100% 
> volume output (with this card there is only 1 mixer, DAC) and when i 
> boot windows i hear sound, so it's not a cable prob. am i missing here 
> anything obvious? is there another volume mixer that i should try? i 
> remember playing with a console program to set mixer volumes, but can't 
> remember which one.
> 
> please help.
> 
> kmd
> 
> 
> alsa 1.0.2c
> mandrake 10 official, standard 2.6 kernel
> 
> [root at bazz kmd]# aplay -D default /usr/share/sounds/KDE_Logout_new.wav
> Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/KDE_Logout_new.wav' : Signed 16 bit 
> Little Endian, Rate 22050 Hz, Stereo
> 
> 
> .asoundrc
> 
> pcm.!default {
>         type hw
>         card 0
>         }
> 
>         ctl.!default {
>         type hw
>         card 0
>         }
> 
> pcm.rme96 {
> type hw
> card 0
> }
> 
> ctl.rme96 {
> type hw
> card 0
> }
> 
> 
> 
> etc/modules.conf
> 
> probeall scsi_hostadapter ata_piix
> above snd-rme96 snd-pcm-oss
> probeall usb-interface usb-uhci ehci-hcd
> alias eth0 sk98lin
> alias sound-slot-0 snd-rme96
> 
> ################# alsa kmd
> ## ALSA portion
> alias char-major-116 snd
> alias snd-card-0 snd-rme96
> ## module options should go here
> 
> 
> ## OSS/Free portion
> alias char-major-14 soundcore
> alias sound-slot-0 snd-rme96
> 
> # card #1
> alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
> alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
> alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
> alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
> alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
> 
> 
> lsmod
> 
> snd-seq-oss            33568  0
> snd-seq-midi-event      8704  1 snd-seq-oss
> snd-seq                55696  4 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq-midi-event
> snd-seq-device          9032  2 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq
> snd-pcm-oss            53316  0
> snd-mixer-oss          19008  1 snd-pcm-oss
> snd-rme96              26244  0
> snd-pcm                97440  2 snd-pcm-oss,snd-rme96
> snd-page-alloc         12996  1 snd-pcm
> snd-timer              26660  2 snd-seq,snd-pcm
> snd                    55492  9 
> snd-seq-oss,snd-seq-midi-event,snd-seq,snd-seq-device,snd-pcm-oss,snd-mixer-oss,snd-rme96,snd-pcm,snd-timer 
> 
> soundcore              10560  1 snd


peter Zubaj suggested to uncheck loopback input, but this is not 
possible within alsamixer? someone on the RME newsgroup suggested to 
install rmedigicontrol and yes. once i disabled loopback input with this 
program, i hear sound! great.

thanks for your time

kmd