[LAU] URGENT help needed: hardware problem - HDSP card

[Paul Davis]

This happens with HDSP cards. RME has a page on it.

Their story is that some of the older HDSP cards require a voltage level
that the PSU fails to provide during booting, and if that happens, the card
is never visible to the BIOS. They have a h/w hack to work around it, but I
think their recommendation is to get a better PSU.

However ... this has happened to me with an HDSP card in a machine in which
it had worked for years. I did a kernel upgrade, and after the reboot, the
HDSP card was never seen again. I installed it in 3 other machines, and it
was not visible there either. This happened years ago (perhaps 4?) and I
never got the card working again; I also moved onto computing hardware with
no physical space for a PCI card like this.


On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 8:09 AM, Iain Mott <mott at escuta.org> wrote:

> Hi folks, I have a problem - I'm mounting an exhibition and trying to
> install hdsp card with a multiface card. The machine I've been given and
> the only one available here has one PCI slot and several other more modern
> types. I've installed alsa-firmware and alsa-tools from source, bu the
> problem is that the card is not showing up with lspci and aplay -l, nor is
> it showing up cat /proc/asound/cards
>
> Any suggestions please? I've looked in the BIOS and the slot is enabled.
> There are no other PCI type cards installed.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Iain
>
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