d. On Sun, 15 Dec 2013 18:48:54 -0500 "Henry W. Peters" <hwpeters@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hi, Trying to get my newly purchased Native Instruments Komplete Audio 6 to function more fully on my Linux Mint Mate Petra system (using a HP 500-46 Pavillion desktop, dual booting w/Windows 8.1). For starters, I think I may need to update my alsa... (perhaps it is other problems, that is, other than updating alsa??). The alsa page supporting this piece of hardware says to install the latest alsa drivers, etc... on the alsa project page, I do not see a file called "alsa driver" ( my version of alsa-base is 1.0.25). Thanks all for the thoughtful comments
& suggestions...
A few considerations in turn: On 12/16/2013 03:39 AM, D.T.au wrote: I checked into AVLinux & it appears to be a 32 bit distro... I previously failed to mention that my CPU is a AMD64 quad (4 processors) ... it would seem (logically?) to me that would basically eliminate some potential in my CPU processing... but being not very experienced in 64 bit v. 32... I could be not really understanding this entirely correctly. AVLinux, otherwise does seem a possibility for my uses... I tried Ubuntu Studio... sadly, they use Gnome 3, & apparently my video card is not compatible with 3. Was trying Gentoo, but they had no driver for my wi-fi (on this CPU)... & more distros as well... which had various problems.i'm not sure if linux mint is the right distro for this kind of audio setup. i don't know what you need it for, but you might want to consider triple booting - install some dedicated audio distro like AVLinux: http://www.bandshed.net/AVLinux.html or ubuntu studio or.... Another thing I had to wrestle with was (& I did not think of doing this until after my last email to alsa list), turning off my inboard sound chip from the bios (don't really have a bios; it's UEFI). I had beg, plead, argue, talk to the boss, of HP support, as to how to do this... (I have to get into "legacy mode to boot linux). Well, the "boss" finally coughed it up, & it was simple... (in my previous CPU, Windows XP & Linux, I had to do this to enable my Echo Mia Midi to function). I worked most of the afternoon yesterday with tech support, to see if the Komplete Audio 6 would work on Windows 8.1, that is, input sound from analogue/S/PIDF inputs/outputs, & wasn't sure until it did, but I learned that one serious problem I face in Linux... is switching to external digital sych, with my Yamaha O1v mixer (has S/PDIF i/o)...also i think you should seperate your requests for help with this piece of hardware & alsa, and more general help with audio setup on linux. **Anyway, I think this digital synch-ing might be a job for alsa.** Consider that a question, please. also get some information on linux audio architectures, e.g. here: http://jan.newmarch.name/LinuxSound/Sampled/Architecture/ http://tuxradar.com/content/how-it-works-linux-audio-explained maybe you know all this, but i'm just mentioning it to be safe. Thanks for these informative links. ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Thanks for this info Ralf... I have never used GIT, so kind of stuck here... In fact though, I probably have the latest alsa; I was going on the now obsolete page I mentioned. But suggestions here welcomed![snip] This package is now obsolete, as kernel.org is now taking updates to the modules directly from the ALSA GIT server. Henry |
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