Hello John, Thanks so much for your reply. Will fiddle with it as soon as I get back to the machine. Sounds very encouraging! Sava On Thursday 10 May 2007 19:55:18 you wrote: > Hello Sava > > On Thu, 10 May 2007 15:49:01 +0200 > > "Sava Tatic" <tictactatic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have been trying to get the Mackie XD-2 Spike > > (http://www.mackie.com/products/spike/) to work on my Kubuntu Feisty > > machine, and so far I have only gotten it to play out (I had to use > > plughw instead of hw). I am using the generic USB drivers that came > > with the distro. I am having trouble recording anything on the card. > > Alsamixer (or Kmix) do not see the card. When I do alsamixer -c 1 (0 > > is my onboard card), it returns "no mixer elems found". > > > > I am aware that this card is not in the ALSA Matrix of supported > > cards, but I am wondering what would it take for it to become > > supported? > > USB audio is a standard so it might be incredibly easy to do this > depending on what mackie did. > > if the documentation indicates that it needs no drivers for OSX than > it's a class compliant device and all you should need to do is find > it's ID string using lsusp and then stick it into the appropriate array > in the driver: > > [jutz@jutz-fc6 ~]$ /sbin/lsusb > Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 > Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 > Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 > Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 > Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 > Bus 004 Device 002: ID 045e:0040 Microsoft Corp. Wheel Mouse Optical > > you should be able to find it this way. > > if osx needs a driver or loads firmware for it, then it gets more > complex, but not too complex. > > An example of a firmware loading device is the Emagic A26 and A26m. It > works in linux because it's class compliant after the linux driver loads > the firmware and then exits(i think it exits!). > > > All the best, > > > > Sava > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Alsa-devel mailing list > > Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
