[PD] rme hammerfall digi9636 help??

[Karl MacMillan]

Alex,

I am positive that the alsa driver 5.11 will not work.  You can try the
new alsa beta drivers (0.9), recompile pd for the newer alsa, and specify
the alsa device on the command line as "plug:0,0".  The big problem is
that the RME cards are almost the only ones that are not interleaved and
the current alsa code assumes interleaved - using "plug:0,0" should
magically take care of this problem in theory (through the ugly hack of
interleaving the data so that pd can then deinterleave it . . . ughh).

Karl

On Wed, 16 May 2001, Miller Puckette wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
>

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| Karl W. MacMillan                                 |
| Computer Music Department                         |
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