On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Evan evan.ta.88@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Daniel Mack zonque@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 9:04 AM, Evan Ta evan.ta.88@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
as subj says: can you tell me how the Zoom R16 is doing? The hardware
looks
nice, but the latest info I can find is a seemingly unresolved failure to work with Alsa as of feb 2010.
Yes, it's currently unsupported. The device doesn't comply to the USB audio spec, and nobody with such hardware has yet taken the time to implement a driver.
How hard is this? If I buy it and help with testing, is this something that can be done without too much hassle?
Ideally, you would have an USB hardware analyzer to sniff the traffic. Software tracers are an alternative, but I never used any, so I can't tell how well they work, especially for isochronous transfers.
Once you know how the device is set up and how the stream is organized, it should just be a matter of time and your programming skills to make it work. And there are several drivers for proprietary USB hardware in the kernel that you can take as an example. Needless to say that such effort would be much appreciated by many users :)
Daniel