[PlanetCCRMA] Trouble with rme hdsp.. plz help I like sound

Wed Jan 18 10:02:01 PST 2006

On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 22:46 -0800, Rich E wrote:
> Hello to all,
> 
> I recently installed the PlanetCCRMA FC4 kernel (first attempt with
> linux) and I bought a RME HDSP Multiface to go along with it.  I knew
> it would be a tough beginner's card, but I'm giving it a shot anyway.
> So far, I can only get alsaconf to detect the card, modify the
> probemod.conf file, and boot it up on startup.  This doesn't do much
> good though, since it seems to be tied up somewhere.
> 
> Upon booting the FC4 with the hdsp installed, I receive 3 errors once
> Gnome starts:
> - No Volume control
> - the application "mixer_applet2" has quit unexpectantly
> - the Panel encountered a problem while loading
> "OAFIID:GNOME_MixerApplet"
> 
> I only receive the No Volume control error in KDE

This is most probably fine. I doubt the card has a "normal" mixer than
simple minded apps can understand :-)

Have you tried starting "hdspmixer" after you login? Everything looks
normal. If hdspmixer starts fine it should initialize the card with
default "reasonable" gains. After that start Jack (through Qjackctl) and
something like Hydrogen that you could use to test sound output. 

-- Fernando

> it appears that everything I need for the soundcard such as drivers
> and firmware loaders is already built into the kernel, but I really
> don't know.  alsaconf detects the card and it seems to boot up fine,
> but then hdsploader doesn't work (it says the card is busy).
> 
> The IRQ was 185, so I tried putting it in a different pci slot, but
> this didn't change anything (including the IRQ) except hdsploader's
> output (in then says input/output error).  I wanna use PD in linux so
> much...please help.  
> 
> with /sbin/lspci, I noticed the snd_pcm_oss, snd_seq_oss, and
> snd_mixer_oss were still running, but the card is not recognized by
> hdsploader without them.  Upon using alsaconf again, they are back. 
> 
> My oh my I want to get this puppy working. For the love of music,
> please help.  Thanks to all who read this!
> 
> 
> Here is the aadebug output:
> 
> ALSA Audio Debug v0.1.0 - Sat Jan 14 16:57:32 PST 2006
> http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=aadebug
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt
> 
> Kernel ------------------------------
> ----------------------
> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.14-0.10.rrt.rhfc4.ccrmasmp #1 SMP
> PREEMPT Mon Dec 5 16:05:44 EST 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> 
> Loaded Modules --------------------------------------------
> snd_seq_midi           14624  0
> snd_hdsp               54308  1
> snd_rawmidi            31264  2 snd_seq_midi,snd_hdsp
> snd_seq_dummy           8196  0
> snd_seq_oss            41984  0
> snd_seq_midi_event     11776  2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_oss
> snd_seq                63504  6
> snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
> snd_seq_device         13324  5
> snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
> snd_pcm_oss            67104  0
> snd_mixer_oss          23040  1 snd_pcm_oss
> snd_pcm               109188  2 snd_hdsp,snd_pcm_oss
> snd_timer              31236  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
> snd_page_alloc         15624  2 snd_hdsp,snd_pcm
> snd_hwdep              14496  1 snd_hdsp
> snd                    70252  15
> snd_seq_midi,snd_hdsp,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
> 
> Modprobe Conf ---------------------------------------------
> options snd-intel8x0 index=0
> remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1
> || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0
> alias snd-card-0 snd-hdsp
> alias sound-slot-0 snd-hdsp
> 
> Proc Asound -----------------------------------------------
> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.10.
> Compiled on Dec  5 2005 for kernel 2.6.14-0.10.rrt.rhfc4.ccrmasmp
> (SMP).
> 0 [DSP            ]: H-DSP - Hammerfall DSP
>                      RME Hammerfall DSP + Multiface at 0xf3000000, irq
> 185
>   1:       : sequencer
>   8: [0- 0]: raw midi
>  16: [0- 0]: digital audio playback
>  24: [0- 0]: digital audio capture
>   4: [0- 0]: hardware dependent
>   0: [0- 0]: ctl
>  33:       : timer
> 00-00: HDSP hwdep interface
> 00-00: RME Hammerfall DSP + Multiface : RME Hammerfall DSP +
> Multiface : playback 1 : capture 1
> Client info
>   cur  clients : 4
>   peak clients : 4
>   max  clients : 192
> 
> Client   0 : "System" [Kernel]
>   Port   0 : "Timer" (Rwe-)
>   Port   1 : "Announce" (R-e-)
>     Connecting To: 63:0
> Client  62 : "Midi Through" [Kernel]
>   Port   0 : "Midi Through Port-0" (RWe-)
> Client  63 : "OSS sequencer" [Kernel]
>   Port   0 : "Receiver" (-we-)
>     Connected From: 0:1
> Client  64 : " MIDI 1" [Kernel]
>   Port   0 : " MIDI 1" (RWeX)
> 
> Dev Snd ---------------------------------------------------
> controlC0  hwC0D0  midiC0D0  pcmC0D0c  pcmC0D0p  seq  timer
> 
> CPU -------------------------------------------------------
> model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
> cpu MHz         : 2405.549
> model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
> cpu MHz         : 2405.549
> 
> RAM -------------------------------------------------------
> MemTotal:      1033144 kB
> SwapTotal:     2031608 kB
> 
> Hardware --------------------------------------------------
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82875P/E7210 Memory Controller
> Hub (rev 02)
> 03:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: Xilinx Corporation RME Hammerfall
> DSP (rev 32)
> 