Hi!
I tried to make a Tascam US-122 "Classic" work with my Debian-testing-powered Thinkpad T410. I followed the instructions on https://alsa.opensrc.org/Tascam_US-122#Tascam_US-122_on_Debian_and_Ubuntu as far as I could (alsa-base is not in Debian, anymore) but once I tried to use the device for playback in pulseaudio I realized there was no sink created. Pulseaudio offers the possibility to use the TASCAM with "multiple input" besides "stereo input" (although I thought it's a stereo in/out device) but there was no option to use it as an output.
I tried to use jackd to double-check the missing output, but it failed to startup. Reason: "cannot configure playback channel"
The whole log (of the important part):
"jackdmp comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details
JACK server starting in realtime mode with priority 10
self-connect-mode is "Don't restrict self connect requests"
audio_reservation_init
Acquire audio card Audio1
creating alsa driver ... hw:USX2Y|hw:USX2Y|256|3|44100|0|0|nomon|swmeter|soft-mode|32bit
configuring for 44100Hz, period = 256 frames (5.8 ms), buffer = 3 periods
ALSA: final selected sample format for capture: 24bit little-endian in 3bytes format
ALSA: use 3 periods for capture
ALSA: final selected sample format for playback: 24bit little-endian in 3bytes format
ALSA: use 3 periods for playback
ALSA: cannot set hardware parameters for playback
ALSA: cannot configure playback channel
Released audio card Audio1
audio_reservation_finish
Cannot initialize driver
JackServer::Open failed with -1
Failed to open server"
Any ideas?
Greets! Mitsch
Maybe alsa-tools has what you want? It mentions this:
"us428control - Controller utility for Tascam US-X2Y".
I think they split alsa-base into multiple packages.
I'm using Debian Testing.
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