[linux-audio-dev] question re: hammerfall cards

Hey, I just got a new box and two hammerfall 9636 cards for a project at work. The motherboard is a KT4 Ultra that has some onboard audio chip I don't care about but can't turn off either in the bios. I've put in the first hammerfall card, got alsa 0.9.0 rc7 from the freshrpms site (it's a redhat box), and started configuring things. I've got the feeling I'm missing some things, so here are some simple questions. a) It looks like the Hammerfall driver doesn't have a mixer interface, is this correct ? Here's an ls in the relevant dir: [root@framboos asound]# ls card0/ id pcm0c pcm0p rme9652 b) It looks like the onboard audio chip is controlled by an OSS driver, it doesn't show up in the alsa drivers either, which is fine by me, since I'm not going to use it. Is there any problem with OSS modules being loaded at the same time as ALSA modules ? c) I bought the card so I could record optical S/PDIF. The manual says I need to tell the card that I want the ADAT1 Input source to be Optical S/PDIF. Right now I get, in /proc/asound/card0/rme9652: [root@framboos card0]# cat rme9652 RME Digi9636 (Rev 1.5) (Card #1) Buffers: capture cdc00000 playback cda00000 IRQ: 5 Registers bus: 0xde000000 VM: 0xd088a000 Control register: 44008 Latency: 1024 samples (2 periods of 4096 bytes) Hardware pointer (frames): 0 Passthru: no Clock mode: autosync Pref. sync source: ADAT1 ADAT1 Input source: ADAT1 optical IEC958 input: Coaxial IEC958 output: Coaxial only IEC958 quality: Consumer IEC958 emphasis: off IEC958 Dolby: off IEC958 sample rate: error flag set ADAT Sample rate: 44100Hz ADAT1: No Lock ADAT2: No Lock ADAT3: No Lock Timecode signal: no Punch Status: 1: off 2: off 3: off 4: off 5: off 6: off 7: off 8: off 9: off 10: off 11: off 12: off 13: off 14: off 15: off 16: off 17: off 18: off Which I read as the Input source being ADAT optical instead of S/PDIF. How do I set it to S/PDIF ? d) the card came with a sub-D-connector that connects to the card's 15 pin port, which branches off two RCA jacks. I don't suppose these RCA jacks provide an analogue output by any chance on which I can monitor for sound ? I'm sure I'll bug you with more questions later on, but these are the most pressing ones at this point. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thomas -- The Dave/Dina Project : future TV today ! - http://davedina.apestaart.org/ <-*- thomas (dot) apestaart (dot) org -*-> Oh, baby, give me one more chance <-*- thomas (at) apestaart (dot) org -*-> URGent, the best radio on the Internet - 24/7 ! - http://urgent.rug.ac.be/