Tascam us-122 in 12.04 and 14.04

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Tascam us-122 in 12.04 and 14.04

Post by PatS »

I've been trying to set up that good old us-122 USB interface.
This is how far I've got:

On a KXS 12.04_x64 system:
After doing a 'sudo usx2yloader' the green LED came on and I could select 'hw:USX2Y,0 [US-X2Y Audio]' in Cadence. But then starting jack fails:

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ERROR: cannot register object path "/org/freedesktop/ReserveDevice1/Audio2": A handler is already registered for /org/freedesktop/ReserveDevice1/Audio2
ERROR: Failed to acquire device name : Audio2 error : A handler is already registered for /org/freedesktop/ReserveDevice1/Audio2
ERROR: Audio device hw:USX2Y,0 cannot be acquired...
ERROR: Cannot initialize driver
ERROR: JackServer::Open failed with -1
ERROR: Failed to open server
On another computer with a fresh KXS 14.04_x64:
Doing 'sudo usx2yloader' returns 'No USX2Y-compatible cards found'.
And trying to install 'alsa-firmware' package fails (package not found).

Thanks a lot for any help.
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Re: Tascam us-122 in 12.04 and 14.04

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bazsound@bazsound-MS-7309:~$ apt-cache search alsa-firmware
alsa-firmware-loaders - ALSA software loaders for specific hardware
alsa-firmware - Contains firmware for ALSA devices - Medibuntu package
I found this page

http://askubuntu.com/questions/95561/ho ... 2l-working

however it requires adding the mediabuntu repo which was removed for reasons i cant quite remember something about that domain no longer being owned by open source or something or being taken over by a questionable company
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Re: Tascam us-122 in 12.04 and 14.04

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Yes, medibuntu repos have long been removed. But their contents (alsa-firmware and so on) should be available from the current repos.

Anyway, I tried it on yet another computer (also KXStudio 12.04 x64) and it's working there! No jack errors like described above. No idea why.

The thing is, I really want it to work on the new install of KXS 14.04, and there I don't have the 'alsa-firmware' package and 'usx2yloader' which seem to be required. Only 'alsa-firmware-loaders' is available for installation in 14.04.
I'd really prefer not having to put 12.04 on the target machine now that I just installed 14.04.

So how can I get 'alsa-firmware' in 14.04 (assuming that that's the problem) ?
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Re: Tascam us-122 in 12.04 and 14.04

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Wow, thanks!
I won't get around to trying it before the end of the week. Will post again then.

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Re: Tascam us-122 in 12.04 and 14.04

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Great, that went fine. us-122 now working in 14.04!
Just that after every bootup I have to do a 'sudo usx2yloader' and then start jack manually.
What's the best way to automate that? usx2yloader has to be run before jack gets started, I believe.
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