E-MU 1212 M PCI card

[Chris Aitken]

Jamon Camisso wrote:

> 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.

Oops, I thought a zero was implied after the final digit (i.e. 1.0.4 si 
the same as 1.0.40, but I guess that's not so). I might just download 
the ISOs fro FC7 and upgrade, if FC7 is stable (and my hardware can 
handle it)...

Chris

>
> Jamon 



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