Tascam US-122: tascam_firmware-0.1 and alsa-firmware

Tascam US-122: tascam_firmware-0.1 and alsa-firmware

[JoDaY]

Hi,

I've succesfully installed tascam_firmware-0.1 from
http://usb-midi-fw.sf.net :

The Tascam US-122 is "LED lighted", the firmwares are loaded.(by hotplug)

I've just compiled cvs version of alsa (2003/11/27)

All seems ok: lsmod command show this modules:

snd-usb-usx2y
snd-usb-audio
snd-rawmidi
snd-seq-device
snd-pcm
snd-timer
snd-hwdep
snd-page-alloc
snd
usbcore

May I ask you if the alsa-firmware and tascam_firmware-0.1 meet them in
conflict ?

I can see a link USX2Y in /proc/asound wich point to card0.

But I can't see it in any mixer: alsamixer return No mixer elems found.

Thanks for your great work!

Hope this is the right mailing list.

JoDaY.




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Re: Tascam US-122: tascam_firmware-0.1 and alsa-firmware

[Takashi Iwai]

At Thu, 27 Nov 2003 15:35:22 +0100,
JoDaY wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've succesfully installed tascam_firmware-0.1 from
> http://usb-midi-fw.sf.net :

the newer version is already incldued in alsa-tools package,
usx2loader.  you'll need the firmware for that in alsa-firmware
package, too.


Takashi


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Re: Tascam US-122: tascam_firmware-0.1 and alsa-firmware

[Karsten Wiese]

Am Donnerstag, 27. November 2003 15:35 schrieb JoDaY:
> Hi,
>
> I've succesfully installed tascam_firmware-0.1 from
> http://usb-midi-fw.sf.net :
this is not needed anymore. please try alsa-tools/usx2yloader from cvs or 
1.0.0pre3. 
It is based an the works of usb-midi-fw.sf.net (Thanks !!) and integrates with 
alsa hwdep-layer and hotplug.
>
> The Tascam US-122 is "LED lighted", the firmwares are loaded.(by hotplug)
>
> I've just compiled cvs version of alsa (2003/11/27)
>
> All seems ok: lsmod command show this modules:
>
> snd-usb-usx2y
> snd-usb-audio
> snd-rawmidi
> snd-seq-device
> snd-pcm
> snd-timer
> snd-hwdep
> snd-page-alloc
> snd
> usbcore
>
> May I ask you if the alsa-firmware and tascam_firmware-0.1 meet them in
> conflict ?
don't really remember. usx2yloader uses the alsa hwdep-layer to download the 
firmware. please try usx2yloader.
>
> I can see a link USX2Y in /proc/asound wich point to card0.
>
> But I can't see it in any mixer: alsamixer return No mixer elems found.
there is no mixer support yet. but it is certainly implementable ;-)

>
> Thanks for your great work!
you're welcome!

Karsten



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Re: Tascam US-122: tascam_firmware-0.1 and alsa-firmware

[Martin Langer]

On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 03:56:36PM +0100, Karsten Wiese wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 27. November 2003 15:35 schrieb JoDaY:
> >
> > But I can't see it in any mixer: alsamixer return No mixer elems found.
> there is no mixer support yet. but it is certainly implementable ;-)
> 

The mixer is implemented in the hardware: some knobs for changing input or 
output level and a switch for changing the input source! It's absolutely
mixerless on the sw side and the windows driver is also mixerless (IIRC).

Finally: Play/Record/MIDI will work without such software mixer!

martin


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Re: Tascam US-122: tascam_firmware-0.1 and alsa-firmware

[JoDaY]

Hi,

Thanks for your quicker reponses Takashi Iwai, Karsten Wiese, Marten 
Langer !

Martin Langer wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 03:56:36PM +0100, Karsten Wiese wrote:
> 
>>Am Donnerstag, 27. November 2003 15:35 schrieb JoDaY:
>>
>>>But I can't see it in any mixer: alsamixer return No mixer elems found.
>>
>>there is no mixer support yet. but it is certainly implementable ;-)
>>
> 
> 
> The mixer is implemented in the hardware: some knobs for changing input or 
> output level and a switch for changing the input source! It's absolutely
> mixerless on the sw side and the windows driver is also mixerless (IIRC).
> 
> Finally: Play/Record/MIDI will work without such software mixer!
> 
> martin
> 

It's ok :) I'm sorry for my bad question ... I should have ask you where 
can I reach the US-122, my problem in fact is that I can't find this 
card in /dev in order to point a sound or midi player to it so that the 
US-122 make noise (sound :) ).

I've also noticed that the Midi in LED is lighting, the US-122 's owner 
doesn't seem to have this when he uses it on windows.

I use the cvs version from 2003/11/27.

I'm working on Knoppix, my aim is to make one with US-122 support, 
US-122 is now lighting on live-cd when hotplug is starting :)

Ps: I hope my english is understanding ;)

Bien le bonjour de Normandie !

JoDaY



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Re: Tascam US-122: tascam_firmware-0.1 and alsa-firmware

[Martin Langer]

On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 06:10:59PM +0100, JoDaY wrote:
> 
> It's ok :) I'm sorry for my bad question ... I should have ask you where 
> can I reach the US-122, my problem in fact is that I can't find this 
> card in /dev in order to point a sound or midi player to it so that the 
> US-122 make noise (sound :) ).

The card should be listed in /proc/asound/cards.

aplay, arecord, aconnect and pmidi are running fine here (with alsa access).

What do you try? OSS access (/dev/dspX)?
Have you ever run ./snddevices in alsa-driver?

> I've also noticed that the Midi in LED is lighting, the US-122 's owner 
> doesn't seem to have this when he uses it on windows.

Hmmm, my LED is only burning when MIDI data is passing the port. But if you
send weird data to the port it will burn until christmas, that's correct. I
don't know how to reset it. I guess the solution is somewhere in the
firmware, but the firmware is the original Tascam/Frontier firmware and
we've never got any docs from them. And I fear we don't get them in the
future :-( 
Nevertheless my MIDI keyboard at MIDI IN doesn't produce errors and the LED
is only blinking. Same with pmidi during sending data to MIDI OUT. In both
cases it will stop blinking if no MIDI data is passing the ports.

martin


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