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.
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...
I plan to fix Pd to work with the "new" alsa but I'm waiting for alsa to stabilize a bit more first.
Incidentally, if "aplay" can't play more than mono, I don't imagine you'll find many applications other than Pd that can do multichannel over RME...
cheers Miller
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 11:50:17PM +0200, Alexander Tuchacek wrote:
hallo,
i just bought the digi9636 with the 8 out extention board and compiled the alsa driver Version 0.5.11 on a new mandrake 8.0 system
aplay works and plays back a wave file on one channel, this should be ok.
[alex@snd bin]$ aplay ~alex/fluss.wav Aplay: version 0.5.10 by Jaroslav Kysela perex@suse.cz Using soundcard 'RME Digi9652 at 0xea000000, irq 11' Playing WAVE '/home/alex/fluss.wav' : Signed 16-bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Mono
i compiled pd-33test3 with SOUND_ALSA=OLD successfully,
when i start: ./pd -alsa
i get [alex@snd bin]$ ./pd -alsa decreasing input channels to maximum of 1
decreasing output channels to maximum of 1
alsa_write: File descriptor in bad state error: failed to open MIDI ports; continuing without MIDI. snd_pcm_channel_status (input): File descriptor in bad state snd_pcm_channel_status (input): File descriptor in bad state snd_pcm_channel_status (input): File descriptor in bad state snd_pcm_channel_status (input): File descriptor in bad state snd_pcm_channel_status (input): File descriptor in bad state snd_pcm_channel_status (input): File descriptor in bad state snd_pcm_channel_status (input): File descriptor in bad state snd_pcm_channel_status (input): File descriptor in bad state
do i need the special audio-rme.tar.gz drivers? i would like to play sound out of the 8 channels?
thanks for help, alex
[alex@snd src]$ /sbin/lsmod Module Size Used by r128 144688 1 agpgart 21280 3 snd-pcm-oss 19728 0 snd-pcm-plugin 14352 0 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-mixer-oss 4672 0 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-mixer 29520 0 [snd-mixer-oss] snd-card-rme9652 1504 2 snd-rme9652 11968 0 [snd-card-rme9652] snd-pcm 36960 2 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-rme9652] snd-timer 10496 0 [snd-pcm] snd-rme9652_mem 1472 2 [snd-rme9652] snd 40720 7 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-mixer-oss snd-mixer snd-card-rme9652 snd-rme9652 snd-pcm snd-timer]soundcore
3504 1 [snd] 8139too 11696 1 (autoclean) usb-uhci 20672 0 (unused) usbcore 47248 1 [usb-uhci] supermount 32496 4 (autoclean) [alex@snd src]$[alex@snd bin]$ cat /proc/asound/pcm 00-00: RME Digi9652 : RME Digi9652 : playback 26 : capture 26 [alex@snd bin]$
[alex@snd bin]$ cat /proc/asound/devices 0: [0] : control 16: [0- 0]: digital audio playback 24: [0- 0]: digital audio capture 33: : timer