E-MU 1212 M PCI card

[Jamon Camisso]

Chris Aitken wrote:
> 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).

1.0.14 > 1.0.4, so that probably isn't ok if the bugtracker advises the 
former.

Jamon
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