Tascam US-122 (external sound card) troubles

**Zoey.Marie** · October 19th, 2009

Originally Posted by Cracauer

But alas, this looks like b0rked USB. Are you using some questionably quality hub or something?

I was really excited for a second, because something different happened when I switched the port from my hub to my actual computer's port. It wouldn't turn on, so then I did the "sudo usx2yloader" thing, and I got the "No USX2Y-compatible cards found"-thing. Then I did the "sudo ln -s /usr/share/alsa/firmware/usx2yloader /lib/firmware/usx2yloader"-thing (which I think spit out some error message). THEN I re-copied the 55-tascam.rules thing and unplugged and re-plugged it in, and alas! It worked! I tested the sound and sound came out!

Then the computer froze, and I haven't been able to get it to work since...

same error message:

Originally Posted by bane of my existance

gconfaudiosrc ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! gconfaudiosink profile=chat: Could not open audio device for playback.

Thoughts?

**Cracauer** · October 20th, 2009

You need a new hub I guess.

Test the soundcard with aplay.

**Zoey.Marie** · October 24th, 2009

Okay. So... here's the update:
-- I was depressed since the last time I posted, so I just really didn't want to deal with it.

I can hear sound using aplay
I can record using arecord, then hear what I recorded using aplay...
-- so the thing works.

BUT

When I try and use hydrogen, jack, testing it via preferences > sound, probably anything else... it freezes my system up

I no longer have it plugged into that hub, I've verified that it's working... how do I actually use it?

If I need to repost dmesg, lsusb, whatever, let me know... I'll probably be near the computer most of the day. Thoughts?

**Cracauer** · October 24th, 2009

No, if aplay works all the system and driver things are in order.

I don't use any of that wizzy wizzy software, can't really help you there.

**Zoey.Marie** · October 24th, 2009

Well... I know it's installed right or something because aplay works... (I did aplay -D plug:hw:1 -c 2 /usr/lib/openoffice/basis3.0/share/gallery/sounds/cow.wav, and it plays without freezing).

But, it doesn't really matter what program I use to test it out... it crashes anything I try it on (besides the command line stuff).

Where would I even begin looking for the problem?

I don't think it's jackd, hydrogen, whatever... I think it's the card b/c literally everything I try it on it crashes...

:/

**Cracauer** · October 25th, 2009

Originally Posted by Zoey.Marie

Well... I know it's installed right or something because aplay works... (I did aplay -D plug:hw:1 -c 2 /usr/lib/openoffice/basis3.0/share/gallery/sounds/cow.wav, and it plays without freezing).

But, it doesn't really matter what program I use to test it out... it crashes anything I try it on (besides the command line stuff).

Where would I even begin looking for the problem?

I don't think it's jackd, hydrogen, whatever... I think it's the card b/c literally everything I try it on it crashes...

:/

Why is the Tascam hw:1? What is hw:0?

You need to tell the applications to use the Tascam.

Might be easiest to kill the drivers for whatever is hw:0

**Zoey.Marie** · October 29th, 2009

Just so that it's noted, I installed the 686 multimedia real-time kernel and it works perfectly (I just had to tweak the settings in JACK I used, because I was getting crackles in the sound)

though now my wireless adapter doesn't work... any thoughts on what I should do for that?