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

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@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