Recently I bought an Audiophile USB and managed to
get it to work using alsa. I tested countless different alsa releases in
attempting to get the card to work, or work more fully. As far as I can tell the
card will only work for playback alone using the usb-audio driver in alsa
drivers version 0.9.0rc5. It works quite nicely in performing this simple tast
alsa i must say, i'm getting latency times that make the windows drivers pale
into insignificance! Pretty much every other release since 0.9.0rc5 through
to the current 0.9.2 either "half works" (when it plays sound you get
whitenoise/yummy digital nastiness) or doesn't seem to work at all aside from
some clicks and pops when i scroll around an audio file in XMMS. I was wondering
if the developers know what they've changed since 0.9.0rc5 to
stop the usb-audio driver from working with this
card and if they intend to re-implement support in future versions? I was
also wondering if it is possible to get this card to capture and do midi
in/out?
I'm not an alsa/linux expert, but i'd be happy to
test and report results for early version drivers that seek to get this
card working in a fuller manner.
Cheers,
Jonathan