E-MU 1212 M PCI card

[Chris Aitken]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:

>On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 02:51:37PM -0400, chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org wrote:
>  
>
>>>>Dose anyone know how the E-MU 1212 M PCI soundcard is under linux?  
>>>>        
>>>>
>>I found this at alsa-project bugtracker: 
>>
>>The first version of the driver for 1212m and 1820m is now out there in 
>>kernel 2.6.19 or alsa-driver 1.0.14. 
>>
>>Does this mean that if I either install alsa 1.0.14 or have linux with 
>>kernel 2.6.19 (which would have alsa 1.0.14) I should be okay (but not woth 
>>all features?)? 
>>    
>>
>
>Probably isn't fully featured yet, but at least basic support ought to
>be there in a current kernel then. 
>
I ended up buying this card (E-MU 1212 M PCI). It was a hundred bucks, 
used, from L&McQ. So, it does not come with a manual. I have three 
things (at least) to work through:

1. No sound. I'm getting no sound out of it at all. gnome-volume-control 
detected the card as EMU APS [Audio Mixer (OSS)]. I guess semi-pro cards 
do not have a port called "speakers". The card is in two parts - the 
part with the PCI teeth has "EXTERNAL" (looks like ethernet), co-ax 
(RCA) S/DIF IN and OUT, ADAT and a six-sided port with some kind of 
nuclear power symbol beside it. The slave card (if I can call it that - 
no PCI teeth, just a ribbon cable to it) has 1/4" INs and OUTs and MIDI 
IN and OUT. So, the only thing that seems likely to take sound to 
speakers are the 1/4" OUTs. So, I hooked up a pair of cheap PC speakers 
but no sound is coming out. The speakers are fine, because I was using 
them last night with the old soundcard (SBL! 5.1).

2. Mystery driver. Another interesting thing is that 
gnome-volume-control reports a second card (or driver?): Soiund Blaster 
Audigy [Alsa Mixer]. Why would that be? I never had that card. There is 
an onboard card that I disabled in the BIOS a long time ago, and I took 
my SBL! 5.1 out this morning.

3. System Adequate? I ran commands to find kernel and alsa version.

[chris at p733 chris]$ uname -r
2.6.5-1.358
[chris at p733 chris]$ cat /proc/asound/version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.4rc2 (Tue Mar 30 
08:19:30 2004 UTC).
Compiled on May  8 2004 for kernel 2.6.5-1.358.

Like I posted at the top of this email, alsa-project bugtracker advises 
kernel 2.6.19 (I have 2.6.5-1.358, which I guess is an older version) 
and alsa-driver 1.0.14 (I have 1.0.4rc2, which I guess /is/ okay).

Any ideas?

Chris

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