[alsa-devel] Mackie XD-2 Spike USB Drivers for Linux

[John L. Utz III]

Hello Sava

On Thu, 10 May 2007 15:49:01 +0200
"Sava Tatic" <tictactatic at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have been trying to get the Mackie XD-2 Spike 
> (http://www.mackie.com/products/spike/) to work on my Kubuntu Feisty
> machine, and so far I have only gotten it to play out (I had to use
> plughw instead of hw). I am using the generic USB drivers that came
> with the distro. I am having trouble recording anything on the card.
> Alsamixer (or Kmix) do not see the card. When I do alsamixer -c 1 (0
> is my onboard card), it returns "no mixer elems found". 
> 
> I am aware that this card is not in the ALSA Matrix of supported
> cards, but I am wondering what would it take for it to become
> supported? 

USB audio is a standard so it might be incredibly easy to do this
depending on what mackie did.

if the documentation indicates that it needs no drivers for OSX than
it's a class compliant device and all you should need to do is find
it's ID string using lsusp and then stick it into the appropriate array
in the driver:

[jutz at jutz-fc6 ~]$ /sbin/lsusb 
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 045e:0040 Microsoft Corp. Wheel Mouse Optical

you should be able to find it this way.

if osx needs a driver or loads firmware for it, then it gets more
complex, but not too complex.

An example of a firmware loading device is the Emagic A26 and A26m. It
works in linux because it's class compliant after the linux driver loads
the firmware and then exits(i think it exits!).

> All the best,
> 
> Sava
> 
> 
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