[alsa-devel] M-Audio FastTrack C400

Grant Diffey gdiffey at gmail.com
Sat Apr 21 11:19:00 CEST 2012


> >(channels = 2, ifnum = 2).
>
> Why do you use channels=2. As fas as I can tell the device has 6
> channels. Try that.
>
>
> > Except I can't get it to play anything (figure it would all be too good
> > to be true)
> >
> > $ speaker-test -Dfront:C400
> > speaker-test 1.0.25
> >
> > Playback device is front:C400
> > Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 1 channels
> > Using 16 octaves of pink noise
> > Sample format not available for playback: Invalid argument
> > Setting of hwparams failed: Invalid argument
> >
>
> The device probably supports only S24_3LE audio. At least that's what
> you tell Alsa with the FTU quirk. Try to play something through the
> corresponding hw device or use Jack or convert some audio file to
> S24_3LE and play through aplay etc...
>
>
that's a good point

try speaker-test -D plughw:C400


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