[LAU] E-MU 1212m soundcard installation help for the blind

[Ralf Mardorf]

I didn't read it completely myself, since I've got my own issues to
solve, but perhaps it's related, even if it's an USB device here:

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From: Torstein Hegge <hegge at resisty.net>
To: huwshimi <huwshimi at gmail.com>
Cc: alsa-user at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Alsa-user] AudioBox 44VSL bad descriptors patch
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 13:39:05 +0200

On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 21:06:39 +1000, huwshimi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a Presonus AudioBox 44VSL that is failing with bad descriptors:
> 
> [  246.649802] usbaudio: unit 51: unexpected type 0x09
> [  246.649859] snd-usb-audio: probe of 2-1.2:1.0 failed with error -5
> 
> This seems to be a problem people have had with other devices and with
some
> help in #alsa I have made the attached patch that fixes the problem.
> 
> More details of the device and errors in this thread:
> http://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=7738

This is fixed in 3.9-rc4 and newer kernels, and the fix will also be
included in the next Ubuntu Quantal kernel update.

See the recent "ALSA and SCARLETT FOCUSRITE 8i6" thread for details.


Torstein