Thank you, Frank! I insmodded snd-usb-audio but lsmod says, it is unused. I am an absolute beginner concerning multichannel recording. I do not even know how to recognize if it really works. I tried audacity, but it looks to me that it only knows 2-channel recording. But it doesn't even record with them with the emi 6|2m-box (which is ok, because the module is unused). How can I make it work? Please tell me. Martin Am Mit, 2003-07-23 um 16.12 schrieb Frank Barknecht:

Well, the issue with the Emagic cards is that they are not USB Audio-compliant when initially powered on, the only thing it can do is to receive a "soft" firmware from the host computer, and this firmware handles the USB Audio interface (the USB interface chip that Emagic uses has this loader functionality built in, and it's easier to have the driver supply the firmware than to have it stored in flash memory in the Emagic box). I use the 2|6 myself (more or less the reverse of yours, two inputs and 6 outputs, no midi though), and that card has got it's firmware loader built into the later kernels (late 2.4, all 2.5), but I haven't seen anything about the 6|2m... Ofcourse there has to be a different firmware loaded - this will have to be supplied from Emagic (see http://www.vtoy.fi/~tapio/emi26.html for the text about 2|6. When there's firmware out it would be trivial to add that to the same Emagic loader code already in the kernel for the 2|6.. I really like the 2|6, down to 64-sample periods even with all 8 channels driven (44.1kHz 16-bit * 6 output and 44.1kHz 16-bit input * 2). /Werner ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Hauptmann" <m.hauptmann(a)web.de> To: <linux-audio-user(a)music.columbia.edu> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 5:21 PM Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] EMI 6|2m But kernel