[Alsa-user] Utter failure with rme hdsp multiface

[Rich E <rea...@gm...>]

Hello to all,

I'm just getting started on Linux, and I just purchased a Multiface/hdsp PC=
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card in hopes of running a fast computer music station... its not quite
there yet at all.  Here is what happens...

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

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.
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=3Daadebug
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_ev=
ent,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_=
hwdep

Modprobe Conf ---------------------------------------------
options snd-intel8x0 index=3D0
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)