On Tue, 21 Jul 2020 09:43:49 +0200, Ren9 Herman wrote: > > Good day. > > I recently acquired a TerraTec DMX 6Fire USB card to play with, which > works after one/two just to alsa-devel sent out patches. Not very good > though; it's for example rare to not have my music skip when Pulseaudio > mixes in the "there's new mail" sound from Thunderbird. > > I haven't been around here for a very long time now but have some > ALSA-experience with ISA and PCI hardware from long ago. None with USB > whatsoever though. Is there a reference/best-practices USB card driver > that I can/should look at? For USB, basically the snd-usb-audio USB audio class driver is the place to start with. Other USB audio drivers are very device-specific, often the result of reverse engineering and might be poorly supported. Which actual card -- I don't know, honestly speaking, too. There are way too many devices in the market. Takashi