[alsa-devel] Some questions about devices supported by alsa
Hello, my name is Sergio Atzori. I'm a musician and I love very much linux and open source. I have a lot of hardware for music, something well supported by linux, something else not supported...I have some questions: 1) Esi Juli@: reported as supported by alsa, but it isn't. Looking at http://www.linuxdriverproject.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/DriversNeeded and http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Ice1724, this really beautiful card is unusable in linux. I have one and I tried to get it working with some distros, but nothing..I experience a computer freeze (kernel panic perhaps?) in every attempt to configure it with alsa-conf, or just opening an application that uses midi system (like Rosegarden). So I would know, there is someone working on a better driver? Can I hope to get it working in the near future? According to me there is a lot of people waiting for a driver for this card, I'm waiting since 2005.. 2) Miditech I2 control-37 (http://www.miditech.de/produktee_i2.htm): beatiful usb-keyboard, not mentioned in Linux-USB device site, it does not work in linux...I think the kernel configure it well (as snd-usb-audio device) but I can't see it in Jack midi connections.. 3) RME AES32 (and AES32express) & Lynx AES16: this driver could be important for professional studios..if we want to put linux distros on the professional side. I've none of them, but some people ask me to build a professional multichannel live machine, I'd like to build a linux based machine...there are not alternatives to these cards, because I can build a system with more than one of them (really powerful multichannel environment).
Thanks so much for attention. Ciao
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 08:33:06PM +0100, Sergio Atzori wrote:
- RME AES32 (and AES32express) & Lynx AES16: this driver could be
important for professional studios..if we want to put linux distros on the professional side. I've none of them, but some people ask me to build a professional multichannel live machine, I'd like to build a linux based machine...there are not alternatives to these cards, because I can build a system with more than one of them (really powerful multichannel environment).
The RME HDSP MADI (PCI and PCIe versions) work on Linux. I'm surprised their AES32 cards don't though. Are you sure about this?
John
Hi Sergio,
Esi Juli@ seems to be a different beast than most other ice1724-based cards. I am working on the driver, it will take a number of changes to the generic ice1724 driver due to presumably different clocking scheme.
The ice1724 midi driver has a bug causing kernel hang when opening the device. It has been reported, and Takashi has provided an experimental patch.
http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2007-April/000641.html
It would be great if you were able to test the patch. The midi device should work (hopefully) using the existing driver for Juli@.
Thanks a lot,
Pavel.
Sergio Atzori wrote:
Hello, my name is Sergio Atzori. I'm a musician and I love very much linux and open source. I have a lot of hardware for music, something well supported by linux, something else not supported...I have some questions:
- Esi Juli@: reported as supported by alsa, but it isn't. Looking at
http://www.linuxdriverproject.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/DriversNeeded and http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Ice1724, this really beautiful card is unusable in linux. I have one and I tried to get it working with some distros, but nothing..I experience a computer freeze (kernel panic perhaps?) in every attempt to configure it with alsa-conf, or just opening an application that uses midi system (like Rosegarden). So I would know, there is someone working on a better driver? Can I hope to get it working in the near future? According to me there is a lot of people waiting for a driver for this card, I'm waiting since 2005.. 2) Miditech I2 control-37 (http://www.miditech.de/produktee_i2.htm): beatiful usb-keyboard, not mentioned in Linux-USB device site, it does not work in linux...I think the kernel configure it well (as snd-usb-audio device) but I can't see it in Jack midi connections.. 3) RME AES32 (and AES32express) & Lynx AES16: this driver could be important for professional studios..if we want to put linux distros on the professional side. I've none of them, but some people ask me to build a professional multichannel live machine, I'd like to build a linux based machine...there are not alternatives to these cards, because I can build a system with more than one of them (really powerful multichannel environment).
Thanks so much for attention. Ciao
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Sergio Atzori wrote:
- Miditech I2 control-37 (http://www.miditech.de/produktee_i2.htm):
beatiful usb-keyboard, not mentioned in Linux-USB device site, it does not work in linux...I think the kernel configure it well (as snd-usb-audio device) but I can't see it in Jack midi connections..
Does it appear in the output of "amidi -l"? Does it appear in the output of "aplaymidi -l"?
Regards, Clemens
Just a notice - these commands must be run with Juli's driver unloaded (rmmod snd-ice1724) otherwise it locks up the kernel when opening Juli's midi device registered in alsa midi. Been there, done that :)
Regards,
Pavel.
Clemens Ladisch wrote:
Sergio Atzori wrote:
- Miditech I2 control-37 (http://www.miditech.de/produktee_i2.htm):
beatiful usb-keyboard, not mentioned in Linux-USB device site, it does not work in linux...I think the kernel configure it well (as snd-usb-audio device) but I can't see it in Jack midi connections..
Does it appear in the output of "amidi -l"? Does it appear in the output of "aplaymidi -l"?
Regards, Clemens _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@alsa-project.org http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
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