I am not at my linux box right now, but I will try to answer your
questions.
The card works fine for me, after a lot of problems with a video card
blocking the pci bus ( I think this was the problem anyway, I shuffled
the cards around and it works now)
>
>Q1. Can you enlighten me on the current status of the alsa rme96/8 driver
>effort. Is the rme96 driver appropriate at all for multi-channel use?
>
It works and yes, but the software must also have native alsa 0.9 support
and there are not that many programs yet. Soon I will try to compile
ARDOUR to see if it works with this card.
>Q2. How do I communicate to the card that it should use ADAT 8-channel mode?
The driver defines 2 devices. One is spdif the other ADAT. Unless you
give these a name using the mysterious .asoundrc file, you can offten use
"hw:0,0" and "hw:0,1" as device names, the zero is the card number, as
defined by your /etc/modules.conf. /dev/dsp is always the spdif.
f.i. aplay -D hw:0,1 eight.wav will play an 8 channel WAV file using the
ADAT mode of the optical output.
I currently use pd a lot, it works well in both ADAT and SPDIF mode.
You have to start the program, then quit and then start again to switch
between devices. For some reason.
I think Jmax (similas program) will also work.
>
>I have experimented with ecasound. I expect the following command to send
>a wavfile to channels 0,1 and (duplicate) 2,3. However, it produces
>halfspeed audio on the s/pdif output by interleaving the two. (apparently)
>
>ecasound -b:1024 -r -sr:48000 -a:0,1 -i somefile.wav -a:2,3 -i
>somefile.wav -f:16,4,48000 -a:0,1,2,3 -o /dev/dsp
I haven't really worked with ecasound, but -o /dev/dsp accesses the OSS
emulation not the native alsa interface. This is never more than stereo.
I think the flag should be:
-o alsa,hw:0,1 or something like this. See the ecasound manual.
>
>Greetings, Janroel
.
.
>/lib/modules/2.4.9-ac10/misc/snd.o: insmod snd-card-rme96 failed
These errors are similar to what i had when my card was not properly
seated in its pci slot.
lspci found it, but it had these errors when loading the alsa-drivers. It
had come loose during transport of the computer. Were you still able to
play some sounds after this message?
Gerard
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