Audio devices

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Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> said:

> Does that usb sound device work with any linux system you have tried it
> on?

No, but I'd only used in on Macs until this past weekend.

> Just from a quick search it appears that the driver in 2.6.8 was very
> very broken for that device.  Maybe a newer kernel with a newer alsa has
> the full fix.  I don't see any complaints past late 2004/early 2005 on
> the alsa developer list.

This SuSE system reports ALSA 1.0.9a and a kernel with the string
"2.6.13-15.8" in the file name.  :-)

> > (Of course, if I boot my Windows XP partition, the Tascam just 
> > works...sigh.)
> 
> Well sure, they probably gave you a driver for it.

Of course, you're right, but the "sigh" was more about the existence of
usability barriers rather than assigning responsibility.

Regarding your other comment: alsamixer reports no mixer interface, which is
reasonable, since I think the box is entirely hardware controled for those
functions.  On the other hand, 'aplay -l' doesn't list the device at all. 
This leads me to think that the problem may be that the OS knows about it, but
ALSA needs more information...not sure what or where, but it's a possible path.
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