Mark Constable wrote:
Clemens Ladisch wrote:
configure: error: Unknown soundcard usb-usx2y
Is this a 64-bit machine?
Yes it is, and Gentoo is the distro FWIW.
I didn't think 64-bit'ness would have anything to do
with this kind of issue otherwise I'd have mentioned it.
What's the connection between a 64-bit machine and an
ALSA driver that does not seem to be visible to the
configure script (via emerge alsa-driver) ?
The alsa-kernel/usb/Kconfig file says:
| config SND_USB_USX2Y
| tristate "Tascam US-122, US-224 and US-428 USB driver"
| depends on SND && USB && (X86 || PPC || ALPHA)
AFAIK the restrictions are intended to prevent running on
architectures that don't support DMA mappings in the way this driver
uses them. However, there shouldn't be much of a difference between
x86 and x86-64 in this regard.
You could try to replace the depends line with
depends on SND && USB
and then recompile the driver (see "Compilation from CVS sources" in
the INSTALL file).
HTH
Clemens