[PD-ot] setting up ubuntustudio

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
hard off hat gesagt: // hard off wrote:

> i installed pd the other day with no trouble.. that was easy.
> 
> but getting a soundcard to run is torture.

Well, you have a tricky one, though at least it is supported. I failed
at the M-Audio Quattro...

The Tascam cards should work with little additional work, I managed to
do that about two years ago, when I had a Tascam for testing.

I put the firmware files in /usr/share/alsa/firmware/usx2yloader. It
should look similar to this:

$ ls -l /usr/share/alsa/firmware/usx2yloader
total 812
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   4996 Feb  1  2004 tascam_loader.ihx
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     85 Feb  1  2004 us122.conf
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     71 Feb  1  2004 us122.prepad
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 198691 Feb  1  2004 us122.rbt
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  18802 Feb  1  2004 us122fw.ihx
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     85 Feb  1  2004 us224.conf
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     70 Feb  1  2004 us224.prepad
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 338384 Feb  1  2004 us224.rbt
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  18748 Feb  1  2004 us224fw.ihx
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     85 Feb  1  2004 us428.conf
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     72 Feb  1  2004 us428.prepad
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 180072 Feb  1  2004 us428.rbt
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  18628 Feb  1  2004 us428fw.ihx
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     71 Jan 27  2004 usx2y.prepad

These are old files, the new stuff should be in the alsa-firmware
archive from alsa-project.org

The rest *should* work if you install the Debian package
"alsa-firmware-loaders". I'm not sure if this installs cleanly on a
Ubuntu system or if there is a version available in Ubuntu's
Uni-/Multiverse repository. (I'm currently switching back from Ubuntu
to my trusted pure Debian, which suits me better and often is more
current than Ubuntu, if I run testing/unstable.)

alsa-firmware-loaders includes all you need to get besides the actual
firmware. However
/usr/share/doc/alsa-firmware-loaders/usx2yloader/README describes this
as well. You could also just download the sources for alsa-firmware
and compile the tool on your own. I'll be glad to help with that.

You probably already have hotplug and fxload installed, if not, you
need to install them.

Ciao
-- 
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