Preliminary question and regarding to this question multiposted: Does anybody still use a RME HDSPe AIO ;)? Hi, since the issues I get for my RME HDSPe AIO didn't became less, but more within the last two years, I cleaned a primary partition to install XP, just to test, if there are issues caused by the mobo, that will appear, even when not using a *nix driver, but the proprietary driver and latest RME firmware. I'm a Linux only user, so sometime ago I installed FreeBSD, just to test, if the RME card isn't borked, since on Linux only 2 ADAT channels do work, fortunately all 8 ADAT channels work, using the FreeBSD driver (no TotalMix). I bought the card, because it was recommended by members of the Linux audio community. Don't get me wrong, the blame is on me, I decided to buy the card and had no time to use it within the first weeks, I only want to point out, that I did research before I bought the card. I wonder, if there are different revisions of the RME board? I know I've written this several times, but somebody might not have read it and it's a while ago since I ask for the situation of this card on other machines. Is there a command that shows the board revision and used firmware version? I run my Arch install without the alsa-firmware package and installed it now. $ uname -r 3.8.11-rt8-1-rt $ pacman -Q alsa-firmware error: package 'alsa-firmware' was not found $ sudo pacman -Syu alsa-firmware warning: ardour: ignoring package upgrade (2.8.16-1 => 3.1-1) alsa-firmware-1.0.27-2 $ pacman -Q alsa-firmware alsa-firmware 1.0.27-2 Can anybody use a HDSPe AIO on Linux with all available sample rates? Store alsamixer settings? Does hdspeconf run? Use latency <= 10.7 ms? Use any latency even => 10.7 ms with getting absolutely no xruns? Use all ADAT channels? [root@archlinux rocketmouse]# tuning ######################################################################## # service rtirq status PID CLS RTPRIO NI PRI %CPU STAT COMMAND 36 FF 90 - 130 0.0 S irq/8-rtc0 178 FF 85 - 125 0.0 S irq/18-snd_hdsp 179 FF 80 - 120 0.0 S irq/20-snd_ice1 180 FF 79 - 119 0.0 S irq/21-snd_ice1 75 FF 75 - 115 0.0 S irq/16-ohci_hcd 78 FF 75 - 115 0.0 S irq/19-ehci_hcd 86 FF 74 - 114 0.2 S irq/17-ohci_hcd 91 FF 73 - 113 0.0 S irq/17-ohci_hcd 34 FF 70 - 110 0.0 S irq/1-i8042 24 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/9-acpi 51 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/42-radeon 70 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/14-pata_ati 71 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/15-pata_ati 79 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/22-ahci 165 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/7-parport0 460 FF 50 - 90 0.1 S irq/43-enp3s0 3 FF 1 - 41 0.1 S ksoftirqd/0 13 FF 1 - 41 0.1 S ksoftirqd/1 # grep 18: /proc/interrupts 18: 0 4 IO-APIC-fasteoi snd_hdspm Mon May 13 10:31:03 CEST 2013 - 3.8.11-rt8-1-rt - Arch Linux \r (\l) [root@archlinux rocketmouse]# tuning-rice ######################################################################## # service rtirq status PID CLS RTPRIO NI PRI %CPU STAT COMMAND 36 FF 90 - 130 0.0 S irq/8-rtc0 178 FF 85 - 125 0.0 S irq/18-snd_hdsp 75 FF 75 - 115 0.0 S irq/16-ohci_hcd 78 FF 75 - 115 0.0 S irq/19-ehci_hcd 86 FF 74 - 114 0.2 S irq/17-ohci_hcd 91 FF 73 - 113 0.0 S irq/17-ohci_hcd 34 FF 70 - 110 0.0 S irq/1-i8042 24 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/9-acpi 51 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/42-radeon 70 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/14-pata_ati 71 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/15-pata_ati 79 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/22-ahci 165 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/7-parport0 460 FF 50 - 90 0.1 S irq/43-enp3s0 3 FF 1 - 41 0.1 S ksoftirqd/0 13 FF 1 - 41 0.1 S ksoftirqd/1 # grep 18: /proc/interrupts 18: 0 4 IO-APIC-fasteoi snd_hdspm Mon May 13 10:31:47 CEST 2013 - 3.8.11-rt8-1-rt - Arch Linux \r (\l) OT: I noticed a thread at LAU about a PCIe card from another vendor, that was recommended to work with Linux, but it doesn't (or didn't?). Are there any PCIe cards available in the price range and audio quality of the HDSPe AIO, that are DEFINITIVELY known as working with Linux? Regards, Ralf