[PD] rme hammerfall digi9636 help??

[Miller Puckette]

Hi Alex,

I'm just now trying to do the same thing.  My plan is to use Guenter's
driver, which requires a 2.4 kernel.  I just tried under alsa 0.9
and got nowhere.

Previously I have used RMEs wuth RedHat 6.2 using an older version of
Guenter's driver but I can't stand the idea of installing RH 6.2 on a new
machine...

I plan to fix Pd to work with the "new" alsa but I'm waiting for alsa
to stabilize a bit more first.

Incidentally, if "aplay" can't play more than mono, I don't imagine you'll
find many applications other than Pd that can do multichannel over RME...

cheers
Miller

On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 11:50:17PM +0200, Alexander Tuchacek wrote:
> hallo,
> 
> i just bought the digi9636 with the 8 out extention board and compiled the 
> alsa driver Version 0.5.11 on a new mandrake 8.0 system
> 
> aplay works and plays back a wave file on one channel, this should be ok.
> 
> [alex at snd bin]$ aplay ~alex/fluss.wav
> Aplay: version 0.5.10 by Jaroslav Kysela <perex at suse.cz>
> Using soundcard 'RME Digi9652 at 0xea000000, irq 11'
> Playing WAVE '/home/alex/fluss.wav' : Signed 16-bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 
> Hz, Mono
>                                                                               
> 
> i compiled pd-33test3 with SOUND_ALSA=OLD successfully,
> 
> when i start:
> ./pd -alsa
> 
> i get 
> [alex at snd bin]$ ./pd -alsa
> decreasing input channels to maximum of 1
> 
> decreasing output channels to maximum of 1
> 
> alsa_write: File descriptor in bad state
> error: failed to open MIDI ports; continuing without MIDI.
> snd_pcm_channel_status (input): File descriptor in bad state
> snd_pcm_channel_status (input): File descriptor in bad state
> snd_pcm_channel_status (input): File descriptor in bad state
> snd_pcm_channel_status (input): File descriptor in bad state
> snd_pcm_channel_status (input): File descriptor in bad state
> snd_pcm_channel_status (input): File descriptor in bad state
> snd_pcm_channel_status (input): File descriptor in bad state
> snd_pcm_channel_status (input): File descriptor in bad state
> 
> do i need the special audio-rme.tar.gz drivers? i would like to play sound 
> out of the 8 channels?
> 
> thanks for help,
> alex
> 
> ------------------
> 
> [alex at snd src]$ /sbin/lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by
> r128                  144688   1
> agpgart                21280   3
> snd-pcm-oss            19728   0
> snd-pcm-plugin         14352   0 [snd-pcm-oss]
> snd-mixer-oss           4672   0 [snd-pcm-oss]
> snd-mixer              29520   0 [snd-mixer-oss]
> snd-card-rme9652        1504   2
> snd-rme9652            11968   0 [snd-card-rme9652]
> snd-pcm                36960   2 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-rme9652]
> snd-timer              10496   0 [snd-pcm]
> snd-rme9652_mem         1472   2 [snd-rme9652]
> snd                    40720   7 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-mixer-oss 
> snd-mixer snd-card-rme9652 snd-rme9652 snd-pcm snd-timer]soundcore            
>    3504   1 [snd]
> 8139too                11696   1 (autoclean)
> usb-uhci               20672   0 (unused)
> usbcore                47248   1 [usb-uhci]
> supermount             32496   4 (autoclean)
> [alex at snd src]$                                    
> 
> [alex at snd bin]$ cat /proc/asound/pcm
> 00-00: RME Digi9652 : RME Digi9652 : playback 26 : capture 26
> [alex at snd bin]$   
> [alex at snd bin]$ cat /proc/asound/devices
>   0: [0]   : control
>  16: [0- 0]: digital audio playback
>  24: [0- 0]: digital audio capture
>  33:       : timer  
> 
>