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

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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