[alsa-devel] Focusrite Scarlett 18i8 3rd Gen audio interface (Re: Alsa-devel Digest, Vol 152, Issue 150)

[Hin-Tak Leung]

> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 00:10:28 +1030
> From: "Geoffrey D. Bennett" <g at b4.vu>
> To: wwp <subscript at free.fr>
> Cc: alsa-devel at alsa-project.org
> Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] Focusrite Scarlett 18i8 3rd Gen audio
>    interface
> Message-ID: <20191014134028.GA11018 at b4.vu>
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> Hi wwp,

> On Sun, Oct 13, 2019 at 10:20:30AM +0200, wwp wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've recently bought a Focusrite Scarlett 18i8 3rd Gen audio interface,
> > great device, but in CentOS 7, with either the available 3.x or 4.x
> > kernels, 
> ...

> > Of course, adding the 0x1235:8214 USB ID to the quirks just doesn't
> > work. I presume there's more work like the patch submitted here (I saw
> > the archives) in the "[PATCH RFC V2] ALSA: usb-audio: Scarlett Gen 2
> > mixer interface" mail thread?

Have you tried treating it as a 18i8 2nd Gen device first, at least?

FWIW, I had adapted Geoffrey's work as a DKMS module:

https://github.com/HinTak/sound-usb-dkms

But you'll still need to be running as recent as a 5.2.x release kernel to use it. It just makes it easier to play with the code without recompiling the whole kernel. HTH. 3.x and 4.x is definitely way too old!