better use a kernel > 2.4.5, since there should be the sound/
OK. Kernel builds are a bit of a pain, but I've done them before and I'll no doubt be doing them again...
compile pd without the rme enable and start it without -rme flag, since the flag -rme is only for the rme9652 driver for kernels 2.2.x
I'm sure I tried it with snd-rme9652 and snd-card-rme9652 loaded and it didn't help. The documentation was not clear about what "-rme" did: my reading of it was that it forced PD to use some kind of built-in RME support.
with eg. -inchannels 8 -outchannels 8
Are you implying that this now all works with ALSA? I'm still not sure about how this all hangs together with all the different kernel versions and drivers.