On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 6:40 AM, Robin Gareus <robin@gareus.org> wrote:
On 05/15/2012 12:33 PM, Paul Davis wrote:
> I don't see any evidence that this is a class compliant USB 2.0
> device. As such it seems unlikely to be usable on Linux. This is the
> first question you need to resolve.

The VSL1818 works OOTB with ALSA >= 1.0.24.

http://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=7543

sometimes pessimism is clearly not the best policy. very nice.