[Alsa-user] Hammerfall problem

[patrick r. <biz...@ea...>]

card = hammerfall 9636
alsa-1.0.6
kernel = 2.4.xx

there are two adats on the hammerfall 9636.  aplay works fine when sending output
through adat1, but not when sending through adat2.  by "works" i mean the signal is
received at the mixer.  

"arecord -f cd foo.wav" doesn't seem to work at all when receiving input through
either adat1 or adat2 -- foo.wav consists of the character "@^" repeated over and
over.  when played with "aplay foo.wav" there's only silence.

i'm afraid the card got fried somehow, but *maybe* my alsa setup is not right. 
could an alsa error or misconfiguration even theoretically cause the
capture/playback problem above?   

patrick