Hi Fons
I'm glad to hear about people having success with this issue.
On Wed, 2012-01-18 at 10:26 +0000, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:05:59AM +0100, Roman Haefeli wrote:
I would like to know current state of the RME HDSP RPM support. There was a thread [1] in 2008 on this list about the issue and things looked promising back then. However, I'm still unable to upload the firmware with alsa-driver from git on my Ubuntu 11.04 (32bit) machine with a 2.6.38 kernel. I posted a detailed description of the issue on the alsa-user list here [2].
It seems that the developer of the driver - Adrian Knoth - has two versions: one that works for me, and one that works for another user.
AFAICS, the problem is with the code that identifies the card as an RPM, Multiface or Digiface, and that triggers ths HW into accepting the firmware. Once past this point everything works perfectly, including switching the phone preamps etc.
I can confirm this. When I upload the firmware with Windows, I can fully use the card and a recent 'hdspmixer' shows me the correct number of channels. However, the culprit seems to be uploading the firmware.
I've use it with both Cardbus and ExpressCard.
Good to hear.
May I ask kindly for the 'other' version of the driver, which I would be happy to test?
One more user would probably help...
I'm willing to test and report back (as much as I can as a non-dev).
Roman