Help with RME HDSPe audio drivers?

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Hi, I’m struggling to get my “RME HDSPe RayDAT” PCIe audio interface to play nice in Linux. I’ve used AI which helped me force the HDSPm driver to be used, which works for basic system audio but trying to run any pro audio apps just ends up with crashes.

I’ve also tried a project on Github but I’m not getting the device to work with it.

as far as I can tell from the web, it’s been running in Ubuntu but I’m not sure if it’s the same card or kernel specific. I’m pretty close to just heading back to Windows because I’m hitting barriers at every turn :frowning:

Can anyone help with this? I’m in over my head. I incorrectly assumed the class compliant card would “just work” :confused:

I should mention that the system I’m running it in currently has fedora 43 installed - Would Ubuntu Studio make a difference?

Thanks for any advice

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Hey there. I thought I’d mention that the Ubuntu Studio category is only for development, announcements, or general non-help discussion, so I moved your post to the Support and Help category.

As for the class-compliance issue, nothing is guaranteed to work with the Linux kernel unless one of three things is true:

  • It’s a class-compliant device (works with macOS)
  • It has drivers built-into the Linux kernel, or
  • It has drivers that can be built and/or installed.

If one of those things isn’t true, i.e. if it has its own driver for Windows but no other OS, then it likely will not work on Linux unless someone finds a way to reverse-engineer it and make a driver.

Sadly, you won’t find much help with this here. I’d check the resources at linuxaudio.org for more help.

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thanks for the reply. Like I said, the low level stuff is getting way over my head so the linuxaudio resources just further confuses me right now, unfortunately.

I need a fresh head on a new day and plenty of coffee, I think.

Thanks anyway

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Support requests should start with what Ubuntu product & release you’re using, as per Welcome To Support And Help

Your details imply you’re not even using Ubuntu (yet)?

The largest difference between GNU/Linux distros in my own view is the timing of when they grab their code from upstream projects, and you can control that via what release you’re using; Ubuntu offers LTS releases with longer support lives, and thus older code than say Fedora that doesn’t have any LTS. (there are other tweaks done as different distro teams configure for a specific intended audience, but these tweaks are easy to change yourself anyway) Key is release details have different kernels, or kernel stacks available to them, so release should be consider in the question of distro (ie. timing matters).

You’ve already heard from the Ubuntu Studio lead (who [was] also happens to be involved with Fedora Jam too) too.

Either way, I don’t see anything on-topic in regards Ubuntu support, as Fedora is not a Ubuntu system, and this isn’t generic GNU/Linux support.

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Sadly, I had to give that up about 4 years ago due to time constraints when I was hired by Kubuntu Focus, which I am also no longer involved with.

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Topic reopened as I may have been “premature”

[ I amended my prior comment slightly; strikeout and one [was] word added ]

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I actually managed to get the interface running but I had to install Ubuntu Studio where the instructions seem to work a little more as intended for me than in Fedora - although some of the dependencies needed updating.

Here’s the updated version on github which was taken on after the original author sadly passed.

I hope that’s helpful to someone with the newer hammerfall DSP cards… on Ubuntu :wink:

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I’m working on packaging this for inclusion in Ubuntu 26.04 as a dkms module.

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