Thanks to Justin (HT to Justin), I got my SB Live machine going. That is half of the
problem. Still, but not the one with the US122L/ Soundblaster Live! card (wife's).
This is the one that has been the problem for a long time.
Been attempting to follow these directions here and must be missing something:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/TASCAM_US-122 getting stopped in my tracks at step 7
with a
<quote>
If you get a message like "No USX2Y-compatible cards found", do the following:
sudo ln -s /usr/share/alsa/firmware/usx2yloader
/lib/firmware/usx2yloader</quote><code>
root@studio:~# sudo ln -s /usr/share/alsa/firmware/usx2yloader/lib/firmware/usx2yloader
root@studio:~# sudo usx2yloader
usx2yloader: no US-X2Y-compatible cards found
http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Tascam_US-122
Caveat: The power/USB light and the MIDI in lights are on.
Thanks in advance
Paul