oh, man... i just noticed that the card doesn't receive any singnal what so ever on this box (my laptop, on which i'm trying to get it work).... on my main computer i actually got the card to make sound. wohoo! it seems there's something wrong with usb configuration on my lappy then.. or something. sorry for wasting your time.. petri wrote: > thank you for your reply! > > how do i know if the firmware is properly loaded? (well... apparently > it isn't.....) > > i tried to run the usx2yloader: "no US-X2Y-compatible cards found". > i'm afraid that this is way over my understanding. > > i installed all of the alsa stuff but the page doesn't mention anythin > about fxload. what is it? > > i'm really glueless... > > /petri > > > > Rui Nuno Capela wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Have you checked that the firmware is being properly loaded? The us-x2y >> (us-122 in your case) device has two startup stage steps: the first step >> loads the firmware, the second loads a fpga program into device ram, >> IIRC. >> Those steps are contiguous and should commanded by the alsa/hotplug >> binding scripts. Most important then, you need fxload, alsa-tools and >> alsa-firmware packages correctly installed. >> >> Bye. >> >> >