Hello all. I have recently installed Debian and compiled 2.6.0-9test for a new Hammerfall digi9652 card I purchased. I'm having a very difficult time getting alsa to recognize the card and am hoping someone here might have some ideas. The most damning symptom is that cat /proc/asound/cards gives only: ---no soundcards--- Running aplay phone.wav (as root and reg users) gives the following error: aplay: main:484: audio open error: No such device And trying to start alsamixer (as root and reg user) gives: alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device I have heard that some professional soundcards do not have hardware mixers. The user's manual for the Hammerfall digi9652 doesn't say anything about a hardware mixer so this could be the case for this card. I have pasted background information below that I hope might be helpful. Thank you in advance for any advice you might provide. Kris Bergstrom Los Angeles, CA SYSTEM uname -r 2.6.0-test9 I checked all the dependencies of the kernel before compiling and they were fine. I compiled the kernel without error. soundcard: RME Hammerfall digi9652 ALSA RELATED dpkg -l | grep alsa ii alsa-base 0.9.6-5 ALSA sound driver common files ii alsa-utils 0.9.6-1 Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (utils) ii alsaconf 0.9.6-5 ALSA configuration generato more /etc/modprobe.d/alsa ### DEBCONF MAGIC # This file was automatically generated by alsa-base's debconf stuff alias char-major-116 snd alias char-major-14 soundcore options snd major=116 cards_limit=4 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 alias snd-card-0 snd-rme9652 alias snd-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-slot-0 snd-slot-0 lsmod: Module Size Used by snd_seq_oss 34048 0 snd_seq_midi_event 7936 1 snd_seq_oss snd_seq 54160 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq_device 8200 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq snd_pcm_oss 51876 0 snd_mixer_oss 18944 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_rme9652 27972 0 snd_pcm 96292 2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_rme9652 snd_page_alloc 11780 2 snd_rme9652,snd_pcm snd_timer 25220 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd 48996 9 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_rme9652,snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore 9152 1 snd 8139too 20736 0 mii 5248 1 8139too crc32 4608 1 8139too af_packet 16904 2 In case it's of use: I accidentally ran ./snddevices when trying to debug the problem. I now think that one needn't do that with newer versions of alsa. If that were causing problems, I'd assume it would be a problem of only being able to run a program as root but I could certainly be wrong. -- H5n9d0+5