Alsa users and developers, Recently I purchased an Alesis iO4, 4 microphone USB input device for use with my Ubuntu 12.10 laptop. I discovered it didn't work, and according to some very helpful advice on the Audacity forums, it seems the problem is a bug in ALSA. According to the bug tracking site for ALSA, the bug has been fixed as of around May 2012. However, it is February 2013 and I am unable to use the device. It seems the bug fix has not been implemented in the ALSA version in the Ubuntu repositories. My question is: Has the patch been implemented, and is it possible for me to get a version of ALSA with that fix? According to Synaptic, the version of ALSA I have installed is 1.0.25. Or, is there any other configuration or method I can use to get ALSA to accept input from my Alesis iO4? Can I apply the patch on my current version? I am keen to get this device working, and it's unclear to me when an ALSA update might happen next, so I'm hoping there is something I can do now to correct the problem. Thank you for any advice. For reference, this is the link to the discussion on the Audacity forum: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=70920 This is the ALSA bug that seems to be the problem: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45813 This is a duplicate bug that directly references the iO4: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49056 This is the Alesis iO4: http://www.alesis.com/io4 Hope to hear from someone soon. -- Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
