Description of problem: If you don't have a Hammerfall card, the HDSP menu entries all fail silently. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): alsa-tools-1.0.12-4.fc7
I agree this is an issue, although I'm not quite sure what to do about it short of hacking the HDSP tools, which may be beyond my experience. Splitting them into a subpackage is a possibility, though would only slightly mitigate the issue.