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