[PlanetCCRMA] Re: rme hdsp pcmcia (and probably pci) broken

[Jean Batrel]

Bonjour Fernando ! And many thanks for your reply !

I had never had this card working, since my PC is new. I found some complaints on internet too :
http://www.nabble.com/no-soound-from-rme-hdsp-9632-to13715575.html

If I understand well : the card's BIOS is flashable, and the revision number of the card can move... After purchasing this card, I had to flash it to be able to use the 64 bit drivers : the internal configuration of this card moved too. This is useful : the card can progress, but I guess that this is not easy for the alsa developers... And the flash process can only be made within Windows.

My card is updated to 153, lspci says 99 (hex).

I found on the RME forum (http://www.rme-audio.de/forum/viewtopic.php?id=937) :
- "As I understand it, ALSA project is not working with the new firmware. Not sure if this is the answer, but you could try to flash the card back (on a Win PC or PPC Mac) to the 151 firmware."
- "I flashed it, and now it works fine!"

The problem seem be with the various revisions of this card.

Have a nice day !

Jean

> Message du 11/12/07 à 22h37
> De : "Fernando Lopez-Lezcano" <nando at ccrma.Stanford.EDU>
> A : jean.batrel at voila.fr
> Copie à : planetccrma at ccrma.Stanford.EDU
> Objet : Re: [PlanetCCRMA] Re: rme hdsp pcmcia (and probably pci) broken
> 
> On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 22:47 +0100, Jean Batrel wrote:
> > Bonjour Fernando !
> > 
> > You wrote : "I just released a newer kernel with a patch that (probably) fixes the rme problems. Let me know how it goes!"
> > 
> > I tested your newest kernel (2.6.23.9-1.rt12.3.fc8.ccrmart). BTW I can use WiFi with this kernel and this is *very nice* !
> > Unfortunately my RME HDSP9632 pci card is not working.
> 
> Was it working before? The patch that I had to revert was supposed to
> help with the 9632... I still have to find time to see how both can
> work...
> 
> -- Fernando
> 
> > I tried it with aplay :
> > [root at localhost root]# aplay -vvv *.wav
> > Playing WAVE 'bwv565_hg.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo
> > *** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to create stream.
> > aplay: set_params:962: Unable to install hw params:
> > ACCESS:  RW_INTERLEAVED
> > FORMAT:  S16_LE
> > SUBFORMAT:  STD
> > SAMPLE_BITS: 16
> > FRAME_BITS: 32
> > CHANNELS: 2
> > RATE: 44100
> > PERIOD_TIME: 125000
> > PERIOD_SIZE: (5512 5513)
> > PERIOD_BYTES: (22048 22052)
> > PERIODS: (3 5)
> > BUFFER_TIME: 500000
> > BUFFER_SIZE: 22050
> > BUFFER_BYTES: 88200
> > TICK_TIME: [0 0]
> > [root at localhost root]# 
> > 
> > I very hope to can use my card with Linux ! And I very appreciate your help !