[arch-general] RME HDSPe AIO no audio out

[Ralf Madorf]

Hi :)

there's no audio output by a HDSPe AIO, neither for
$ pulseaudio --kill, nor for $ pulseaudio --start.

Maybe I miss the forest for the trees. I'm not working on my Arch Linux
at the moment, I just tried to get some sound on the quick from YouTube
and then speaker-test.

A test tone from the mixing console to the RME stereo input is shown by
the HDSP Mixer's meters. Audio in seems to be ok, just audio out seems
to be disabled.


$ uname -a
Linux archlinux 3.1.7-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jan 4 08:11:16 CET 2012
x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) X2 Dual Core Processor BE-2350 AuthenticAMD
GNU/Linux


$ groups
lp wheel games video audio optical storage scanner power users


$ pacman -Qs alsa
local/alsa-firmware 1.0.24.1-1
    ALSA firmware package
local/alsa-lib 1.0.24.1-1
    An alternative implementation of Linux sound support
local/alsa-plugins 1.0.24-3
    Extra alsa plugins
local/alsa-tools 1.0.24.1-1
    ALSA tools package
local/alsa-utils 1.0.24.2-3
    An alternative implementation of Linux sound support
local/pulseaudio-alsa 1-2 (pulseaudio-gnome)
    ALSA Configuration for PulseAudio


$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Default [RME AIO_579bcc], device 0: RME AIO [RME AIO]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: EWX2496 [TerraTec EWX24/96], device 0: ICE1712 multi [ICE1712
multi]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: EWX2496_1 [TerraTec EWX24/96], device 0: ICE1712 multi [ICE1712
multi]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0


$ lsmod|grep '^snd' | column -t
snd_ice1712         59678   4
snd_ice17xx_ak4xxx  2436    1   snd_ice1712
snd_ak4xxx_adda     9125    2   snd_ice1712,snd_ice17xx_ak4xxx
snd_cs8427          6969    1   snd_ice1712
snd_ac97_codec      114391  1   snd_ice1712
snd_hdspm           58424   0
snd_pcm             74368   3   snd_ice1712,snd_ac97_codec,snd_hdspm
snd_timer           19544   1   snd_pcm
snd_i2c             4065    2   snd_ice1712,snd_cs8427
snd_mpu401_uart     6011    1   snd_ice1712
snd_rawmidi         19458   2   snd_hdspm,snd_mpu401_uart
snd_page_alloc      7153    1   snd_pcm
snd_seq_device      5300    1   snd_rawmidi
snd_hwdep           6357    1   snd_hdspm
snd                 58362   20
snd_ice1712,snd_ak4xxx_adda,snd_cs8427,snd_ac97_codec,snd_hdspm,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_i2c,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_hwdep


$ hdspmixer

HDSPMixer 1.6 - Copyright (C) 2003 Thomas Charbonnel <thomas at undata.org>
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
HDSPMixer is free software, see the file COPYING for details

Looking for RME cards :
Card 0 : RME AIO S/N 0x579bcc at 0xfdbf0000, irq 18
RME AIO found !
Card 1 : TerraTec EWX24/96 at 0xbf00, irq 20
Card 2 : TerraTec EWX24/96 at 0xbb00, irq 21
1 RME cards card found.
Restoring last presets used

I used this preset with Debian, so I can't miss something muted, anyway
I muted and unmuted, resp. changed settings.

Regards,

Ralf