On 02/28/2011 09:23 AM, Craig Bourne wrote:

I expect that I may have time Wednesday of this week to help with the testing, etc.

(I released a new package of alsa-tools in the planetccrma-testing repository so you can test - you have to install planetccrma-repo-testing and then yum --enablerepo planetccrma-testing install alsa-tools to get it).

-- Fernando

Though low level technical details are mostly absent from the documentation that RME provided, I will try to locate and forward a copy of their technical manual just in the event that that might be of some help. [Ah! Here it is! http://media.zzounds.com/media/hdsp9652_e-2c1bba79532db8cd1c9b6f0beb31e855.pdf]

Meanwhile, please have a look at /RME9652.conf/ which reads, in part (starting from about line 38):

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slave.pcm { type route slave { pcm { type hw card $CARD } channels 26 } ttable.0.24 1 ttable.1.25 1 } ...

This number also reflects RME's characterization of the card (from the title page of their manual)

PCI Busmaster Digital I/O System 2 + 24 Channels SPDIF / ADAT Interface 24 Bit / 96 kHz Digital Audio ADAT Sync In MIDI I/O TotalMix™ 24 Bit / 96 kHz ü SyncAlign® ZLM® SyncCheck®

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