Hello,<br>
<br>
I have been using my hammerfall light (digi9636) under linux for quite some time
to record s/pdif. I recently got an expansion board (AEB8-O) to use the hammerfall for output as well. I cannot get it to output music in alsa, and I&#39;m not sure why. The really confusing part is that I can get a faint and very distorted sound out of the board if I intentionally reverse the wire (ground/signal polarity) between the hammerfall and the expansion board. I don&#39;t see any settings that are relevant to this sort of output in alsamixer, Anyone have any ideas?<br>
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Here is what I did. I connected the boards and powered up my machine.
Both green and red lights were lit. I then started up JACK + Ardour and connected the outputs of my ardour master out to all
of the sound outputs of the digi9636 and then started the music. I
couldn&#39;t hear anything through my headphones connected to the AEB8-O no
matter which port I used.<br>
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I thought that I had perhaps reversed
the polarity of the cable connecting the digi9636 to the AEB-O, so I
turned off my machine and reversed the connector on the digi9636. When
I powered up neither of the lights were lit. However, when I tried to
play music, after about 15 seconds of play I could hear a very faint,
very distorted version of the song I was trying to play. I turned off
my machine and changed the jumpers on the AEB-O to the other decibel
level (even though they seemed to be on the louder setting by default)
and tried again with both polarity settings. I still had the green and
red lights lit when the cable was set to the correct polarity and still
no sound. When I reversed the polarity again, there was the same very
faint distorted music after several seconds of silence, and still no
lights.<br>
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Can anyone help me?<br>
Thanks,<br>
-- Alex