HOW TO: Get Line6 Guitar Port to work!

[ntaforge]

How to install a Line6 Guitar Port (and the toneport

With a very big thanks to Myhrman from Source Forge for helping me get this thing working and a big thanks to Grabner for providing the drivers for something that seems to be non existant for linux! This is to get the Guitar Port to work as a basic USB sound device so you will get a dry signal in and out that will work under Alsa and Jack.

Note: Myhrman says it should work with most toneports too but neither of us have one to test it out.

First open your Terminal
Applications> Accessories> Terminal

You will need to get Subversion

sudo apt-get install subversion 

Then you will need to get the source

svn co https://line6linux.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/line6linux 

Change to the directory

cd line6linux/driver/trunk 

Time to build from the source but first make sure you have the latest build and headers

sudo apt-get install build-essential 

sudo apt-get install linux-headers 

(Note: You will atlest have version 2.6.27.14. To check your version in terminal type uname -r)

Now that is updated and you are in the trunk directory

make 

sudo make install 

Now shutdown and restart with the guitar port (or toneport) connected and you should beable to see it in your
System> Preferences> Sound

[JohnsShadow]

hey trying this on 8.04 with 2.6.24-16 headers (it failed miserably)

update to 9.04 its so much better then 8.o4

[JohnsShadow]

i upgrade to 9.04 so i could get the proper kernal
it compiled perfectly no errors or nothing
i rebooted with the toy pluged in and bam there it was under sound

now to figure out how to get creox to play it

[ICX7620]

I got my toneport UX1 to work!! Thank you so much! I used OSS. Had to update from 8.04 to 9.04 but it was worth it.

[jedi13]

Hi, my toneport UX1 is working with everything, except Flash (youtube). Does anybody had a similar problem?

thank you,

Fabio

[Orkin]

Thanks!

Got it working with my Toneport GX in OSS. ALSA won't work at all.

Can't get it working with Wine at the moment, so still no Spotify, still it's a vast improvement over nothing.

[darkeale]

Hi,

I am trying to get my Guitarport to work. when i set it as the output device in system>preferences>sound and then click test i get this error:-

audiotestsrc wave=sine freq=512 ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! gconfaudiosink profile=chat: Could not open audio device for playback.

can anyone help with this?

Thanks,
Alex

[tbluejeans]

I get the same error message. Installation was no problem. Does anybody know what might be wrong?

[tbluejeans]

I'm using Ubuntu 9.04 and Toneport UX1. Trying to get sound to work over headphones. Is that my problem? Should I use a different channel?

[ntaforge]

After using my Guitar Port for some time now here's the settings that work for me. I don't have any problems with these settings!

Go to System> Preferences> Sound Preferences and make sure everything is on the Line6 (OSS) and on Default Mixer Select the ALSA version. This Config seems to work for me. Make sure your "Monitor Track" is muted due to some feedback when using Jack.

When recording with Jack only use "Capture_1" for your recordings. "Capture_2" is used by the Line6 software as the "DI" for the tuner and for some reason it has alot of noise.

As for the ALSA support I'm clueless! It works under ALSA in Jack, so I don't know about that!

My only problem is to find a nice amp emulator program for Linux.

Forge