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

[Clemens Ladisch]

Sava Tatic wrote:
> 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).

If playing works, then the driver has already found and recognized your
device.

> I am having trouble recording anything on the card.

What exactly is the trouble?

> 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". 

Many USB devices do not have any software-accessible mixer controls.


Regards,
Clemens