Nathaniel Gray wrote: >On Wednesday 01 October 2003 12:12 pm, Frank Barknecht wrote: > > >>Hallo, >> >>Austin hat gesagt: // Austin wrote: >> >> >>>Avoid M-Audio like the plague. I want to kill my quattro. >>> >>> >>Really? I'm quite satisfied with my Quattro, whereas the Edirol UA-20 >>gave me lots of headaches. Admitted, I was one of the first users of >>it, when the ALSA support for it wasn't ready yet. >> >>I am running an older ALSA currently on my laptop, though. Maybe >>things broke in the meantime? >> >>ciao >> >> > >Hmm... ok, I guess it'll be hard to find consensus. It sounds like >you're not the only one having trouble with the UA-20 so I'll keep that >in mind. > > ALSA is adding support for these non-standards-compliant USB audio devices quickly. By 0.9.4 the Edirol/Roland UA-20 shows up in .../alsa-kernel/usb/usbquirks.h and as of 0.9.6 the UA-5 is there too. From my experience with the UA-5 this means that for 24 bit operation the device works strictly as an ALSA device--no OSS emulation available. wes
