While I'm afraid I can't help directly, more details about what exactly doesn't work would be helpful for those who may be able to help you...

Regards
Daniel Fuchs
RME

Hi Guys - Thanks for the replies. I was pretty burned out when I posted the first comments. My issues are plenty, but a couple big ones. First I have no sound even though I can change the sample rate in AlsaMixer and see it change on my DAC. At lest I know there is communication. I also have the driver and firmware loaded as hdsploader sees the card as does every other tool. I can't get sound with Aplay when I supply the simplest commands to play music. No errors pop up and it appears to play, but no audio.

Unmuting the outputs is something that has frustrated me. I see no option in amixer to unmute the coax S/PDIF output. It doesn't even look like there are any volume settings other than line out. I've tried a few amixer scontrols type commands but nothing works with volume or umute. If someone can supply an unmute command that has worked for them I can reverse engineer it for my specific situation.

The other, less important issue is playing different sample rates. My music is everything from 16/44.1 to 24/192. So far the card will only output the exact sample rate that's set in alsamixer. I need the card to change sample rates on the fly as I switch tracks. Maybe my first issue will make this one moot.

I've tried many different versions of Alsa from ...17 to ...21 but have not luck. I'm more than willing to do the work if someone can give me a tiny ray of light to go after. Thanks everyone.