Re: [LAU] USB M-Audio Audiophile 2496 - Linux-audio-user

20 Oct 2007

Hi all,

Thx for the responses.

...
  Incidentally, i just checked on the m-audio website
and the 2496 is
 about half the price of the USB unit. So why buy USB when it's not as
 good and more expensive! 
Because I wanted an external card. ;)

...
  Anyway, I think, in recent 2.6 kernels/ALSA-CVS, a lot
of work on
 getting this USB card to run was made, so if one is forced to use one,
 s/he might be more lucky now and should try the latest and greatest
 ALSA and follow the included documentation [1]. But still I would
 avoid to buy one if shopping for a new USB card. 
Heh, Frank, you're a god, thx. :p I will try get a more bleeding edge setup running
and see if I can't sort this out. Incidentally I had the same problem on my Gentoo
machine and a fresh Ubuntu 7.10 install: in that dmesg showed some complaint about
inconsistent number of interfaces/descriptors? I think the Behringer UCA202 would've
been a much more sensible buy for me since it's much cheaper and suits my needs
perfectly. Oh bother... ;)

-AL.