[LAU] RME HDSPe AIO, hdsploader compulsory ?

[francois juigner]

Hi All,

I'm new to this list (and to Linux too... although heavily used to old DOS commands)
I have fitted this card from a Windows PC into a Lubuntu PC (latest build).
It looks as if the card is well recognized ("RME AIO card found" when launching hdspmixer for example), I guess it does not work due to a routing issue.
I have 2 questions :
1 - is it compulsory to use hdsploader, even if the card is recognized ?
2 - as there is no Matrix in Alsa as there is in Totalmix under Windows, am I right assuming the only way to do the routing is to use amixer commands like :

amixer -c 0 cset numid=5 source,output,0 

(my card id is 0 as I deactivated the MB sound card) ?

Thank you for the help !

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francois juigner <francois.juigner at bluewin.ch>