Hi there,
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.
Ok, for that purpose I will put a new version of the driver (0.5) on my ftp site. I just realized yesterday that closing of the device fails with newer cards (I have an old card with broken firmware).
Generally I really ask anyone who tries the driver to send me feedback, I don't mind if you shout at me that it doesn't work ..
My plan is to include the driver in the stock linux kernel, therefore I need ppl testing it.
For the driver I have rewritten the pd audio I/O code (that is, it's basically a cleaned up version of the "very-old-blocking-IO" code, which is under most situations not as "fast", but it works with "all" cards and even with ALSA OSS emulation).
Advantage of testing the driver:
- You will have support for standard OSS stereo devices, so you will be
able to play back any sound with 44.1, 48, (even 88.2 and 96) kHz sampling rate with every program that supports the OSS API. (Even "stock" pd with the -frags switch works).
- You can use more than one RME card
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...
actually that was Winfrieds driver .... the base for all, the current ALSA and my 2.4.xx driver
I plan to fix Pd to work with the "new" alsa but I'm waiting for alsa to stabilize a bit more first.
... hehe :) ... like waiting for Godot
Guenter
URLs: ftp://xdv.org/pub/gige/rme ftp://xdv.org/pub/gige/pd/linux/pd-0.32p6.tar.gz