I know nothing about this card, but if it is a usb sound card, you should surely just use the standard usb sound module. snd-usb-audio Have you tried that? On Sat, 27 Dec 2008, Hal Vaughan wrote: > I'm currently using an iMic USB sound card on a Soekris net5501 system > that can handle USB 2.0, even if it is a slower CPU in comparison. > (Unit specs here: http://soekris.com/net5501.htm) Before I was using > this (the iMic), I was using a Startech USB sound card (here on Newegg: > http://tinyurl.com/5v4n4k). I had errors with that card which led me to > the iMic. > > This computer is a general file/printer/nfs/nis/dns server but nothing > that's heavy duty except possibly the printer stuff, but I haven't been > printing while I've been testing. I have a HD radio hooked up to one > USB port and I can control it with an app I wrote for tuning, volume, > and other settings. It has analog stereo output that, on an older and > bigger system, I ran into the sound card through the Line In jack and > used a regular output jack to go to my speakers. (I prefer to do this > instead of splitting and weakening the analog audio from the radio > output.) I also take the input stream and use it with Icecast2 to make > it available on my home audio system. This always worked just fine with > a Soundblaster in a PCI slot. > > With the Startech USB sound card the sound from the Line In went to the > speakers with no problem, but whenever I tried to read that sound stream > with darkice or anything else, I kept getting errors that I tracked down > to an indication there wasn't enough bandwidth to send the audio signal > through from the card to the USB port. (I used arecord and finally got > error messages that helped me to track this down.) > > Since I could find nothing to show me that I could work around this in > any way, I finally started searching for other USB sound cards and found > a few references to people using an iMic with Debian Etch. It seemed > like they just plugged it in and it worked. No such luck. > > Yet I dont' have access to the card. Before running alsaconf, when the > card was hooked up and I wasn't getting error messages from amixer or > alsamixer, here's the stuff from /proc: > [root@ozma:~]$ cat /proc/asound/cards > 0 [system ]: USB-Audio - iMic USB audio system > Griffin Technology, Inc iMic USB audio system at > usb-0000:00:15.1-1.7, full spe > > [root@ozma:~]$ cat /proc/asound/devices > 0: [ 0] : control > 1: : sequencer > 16: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback > 24: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture > 33: : timer > > Alsaconf had to probe for ISA cards and first picked the Yamaha card, > but it didn't work. I tried telling it to look for various cards and it > generally picked the first card in the list and matched it up -- except > when I picked Soundblaster -- it didn't see my card as a soundblaster. > > Here's output from the first time I ran alsaconf: > [root@ozma:~]$ alsaconf > Unloading ALSA sound driver modules: snd-cs4236 snd-seq-dummy snd-seq- > oss snd-seq-midi snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss > snd-cs4236-lib snd-mpu401-uart snd-cs4231-lib snd-opl3-lib snd-hwdep > snd-pcm snd-page-alloc snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-timer (failed: > modules still loaded: snd-opl3-lib snd-hwdep snd-mpu401-uart snd-cs4236- > lib snd-seq-dummy snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq > snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-cs4231-lib snd-pcm snd-page-alloc snd- > timer). > Building card database... > Probing legacy cards.. This may take a few minutes.. > Probing: opl3sa2grep: /sys/bus/pnp/devices/??:*/resources: No such file > or directory > grep: /sys/bus/pnp/devices/??:*/resources: No such file or directory > grep: /sys/bus/pnp/devices/??:*/resources: No such file or directory > grep: /sys/bus/pnp/devices/??:*/resources: No such file or directory > grep: /sys/bus/pnp/devices/??:*/resources: No such file or directory > grep: /sys/bus/pnp/devices/??:*/resources: No such file or directory > grep: /sys/bus/pnp/devices/??:*/resources: No such file or directory > grep: /sys/bus/pnp/devices/??:*/resources: No such file or directory > grep: /sys/bus/pnp/devices/??:*/resources: No such file or directory > grep: /sys/bus/pnp/devices/??:*/resources: No such file or directory > grep: /sys/bus/pnp/devices/??:*/resources: No such file or directory > grep: /sys/bus/pnp/devices/??:*/resources: No such file or directory > : FOUND!! > Running update-modules... > Loading driver... > FATAL: Error inserting snd_opl3sa2 > (/lib/modules/2.6.18-6-486/kernel/sound/isa/snd-opl3sa2.ko): No such > device > FATAL: Error running install command for snd_opl3sa2 > Setting default volumes... > amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such file or directory > =============================================================================== > Now ALSA is ready to use. > For adjustment of volumes, use your favorite mixer. > Have a lot of fun! > ----------------------------------------- > After it runs, there's no sound cards in /proc/asound/cards so alsamixer > or anything else won't run. Since it looked like it was just grabbing > the first driver to use, I eliminated the Yamaha drivers (Kept getting > "Yamaha OPL3-SA soundcard not found or device busy" when I ran dmesg.) > Then I ran it again with this output: > [root@ozma:~]$ alsaconf > Unloading ALSA sound driver modules: snd-opl3sa2 snd-seq-dummy snd-seq- > oss snd-seq-midi snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss > snd-cs4231-lib snd-opl3-lib snd-usb-audio snd-usb-lib snd-hwdep snd-pcm > snd-page-alloc snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-timer snd-seq-device > (failed: modules still loaded: snd-opl3-lib snd-cs4231-lib snd-hwdep > snd-pcm snd-page-alloc snd-timer snd-seq-device). > Building card database... > Probing legacy cards.. This may take a few minutes.. > Probing: cs4236grep: /sys/bus/pnp/devices/??:*/resources: No such file > or directory > grep: /sys/bus/pnp/devices/??:*/resources: No such file or directory > grep: /sys/bus/pnp/devices/??:*/resources: No such file or directory > grep: /sys/bus/pnp/devices/??:*/resources: No such file or directory > grep: /sys/bus/pnp/devices/??:*/resources: No such file or directory > grep: /sys/bus/pnp/devices/??:*/resources: No such file or directory > grep: /sys/bus/pnp/devices/??:*/resources: No such file or directory > grep: /sys/bus/pnp/devices/??:*/resources: No such file or directory > grep: /sys/bus/pnp/devices/??:*/resources: No such file or directory > grep: /sys/bus/pnp/devices/??:*/resources: No such file or directory > : FOUND!! > Running update-modules... > Loading driver... > FATAL: Error inserting snd_cs4236 > (/lib/modules/2.6.18-6-486/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4236.ko): No > such device > FATAL: Error running install command for snd_cs4236 > Setting default volumes... > amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such file or directory > =============================================================================== > Now ALSA is ready to use. > For adjustment of volumes, use your favorite mixer. > Have a lot of fun! > -------------------------------------- > > Still no card listed in /proc/asound/cards. > I can change back to the Startech card and test and report any errors > with that card if that will help. > > Okay, a few questions: > 1) Does anyone have a Startech or iMic USB sound card working so they > can verify they do work with arecord so it's possible to read the sound > stream? > 2) Could the type of system I'm on (the embedded Soekris net5501) be > creating the problems? Even though it does USB 2.0, could there still > be a problem with a 700 Mhz CPU not being able to handle this? > 3) Could having other devices on the USB hub cause this problem, even > though I still had the same problems when I disconnected all the other > devices? > 4) Any ideas what I need to do to get a USB sound card (preferably one > of these) working? > 5) Does anyone have a USB sound card they can recommend that I can count > on to work with Debian Etch? > > I guess that about summarizes the problem and the different ways I've > thought of to solve it. I just am not sure how to get either of these > cards behaving. > > Thanks for any help! > > Hal > -- William G. 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