Before I fork out the money for this, has anyone had any success with 
the cardbus PCMCIA interface for the RME Hammerfall devices on a linux 
platform?

Thanks,
DS
Paul Davis wrote:
> I'm pleased to announce that ALSA now has support for the Hammerfall
> DSP audio interface. Details of the Hammerfall DSP are available at
> RME's website (www.rme-audio.com). The driver supports:
> 
>       * all sample rates
>       * both MIDI ports
>       * "simple mixer" controls to allow alsamixer to control
>            each playback stream's volume. Remember: as usual
>          with ALSA, the initial state is "all output muted".
>       * peak meters for input, output and playback, with serial
>         clipping counters.
>       * a non-standard control element for the matrix mixer (this
>           may change; do not plan long term application support
>         around it)
> 
> Things that are not tested but should work:
> 
>     * big-endian systems
>     * multiface i/o box
>     * cardbus interface 
>     * different sample clock sync sources
>     
> Things that don't work:
>   
>     * RMS meters
>     * Flashing the firmware into the I/O box
> 
> The driver is similar in some ways the Hammerfall driver. Most
> notably, it requires large chunks of physically contiguous
> memory. This is best provided for by loading the snd-hammerfall-mem
> module early during booting, which provides memory for both Hammerfall
> and Hammerfall DSP drivers. The module has a snd-enable option which
> takes a comma-separated list of 0's or 1's indicating whether or not
> to allocate memory for the n'th Hammerfall or Hammerfall DSP
> device. If you have only once such device, then snd-enable=1 will be
> sufficient. The module checks for installed devices, so you can always
> insert the module and the right thing will happen even if you have
> removed your Hammerfall/Hammerfall DSP cards.
> 
> I am sure there will be minor glitches along the way. I would really
> appreciate feedback from anyone with an H-DSP (marcus - that means
> you! :)
> 
> A huge thank you to RME for the foresight and sense to make available
> sufficient information to make this driver possible. 
> 
> --p
> 
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