Re: [LAU] URGENT help needed: hardware problem - HDSP card

From: Iain Mott <mott@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Fri Nov 25 2016 - 11:28:07 EET

thanks Paul, yes i think headphones it is - no time and the last time I
try something as risky as installing this old interface outside the house...

i

On 25/11/2016 06:52, Paul Davis wrote:
> This happens with HDSP cards. RME has a page on it.
>
> Their story is that some of the older HDSP cards require a voltage
> level that the PSU fails to provide during booting, and if that
> happens, the card is never visible to the BIOS. They have a h/w hack
> to work around it, but I think their recommendation is to get a better
> PSU.
>
> However ... this has happened to me with an HDSP card in a machine in
> which it had worked for years. I did a kernel upgrade, and after the
> reboot, the HDSP card was never seen again. I installed it in 3 other
> machines, and it was not visible there either. This happened years ago
> (perhaps 4?) and I never got the card working again; I also moved onto
> computing hardware with no physical space for a PCI card like this.
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 8:09 AM, Iain Mott <mott@email-addr-hidden
> <mailto:mott@email-addr-hidden>> wrote:
>
> Hi folks, I have a problem - I'm mounting an exhibition and trying
> to install hdsp card with a multiface card. The machine I've been
> given and the only one available here has one PCI slot and several
> other more modern types. I've installed alsa-firmware and
> alsa-tools from source, bu the problem is that the card is not
> showing up with lspci and aplay -l, nor is it showing up cat
> /proc/asound/cards
>
> Any suggestions please? I've looked in the BIOS and the slot is
> enabled. There are no other PCI type cards installed.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Iain
>
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