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 > > > _______________________________________________________ > linux-audio-announce Mailing List > http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-announce > -- --------------------------------------- D. Sen, PhD 21 Woodmont Drive Randolph NJ 07869 Home Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 973 216 2326 Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.auditorymodels.org/~dsen
