E-MU 1212 M PCI card

[Jamon Camisso]

Chris Aitken wrote:
> 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)...

Fedora 7 (not Fedora Core, just Fedora now) is very stable, I've had it 
running for a few months now (almost 3 since it was released) and 
haven't run into any problems. It's no Debian :) but it certainly does 
the job, and well.

You'll want to do a clean install though, upgrades between Fedora 
releases are notoriously variable in ease, most are riddled with hidden 
pitfalls -- your data might even get eaten by a grue if you aren't careful.

Jamon
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