[linux-audio-user] Reliable A/D with linux laptop

[wes schreiner]

Nathaniel Gray wrote:

>On Wednesday 01 October 2003 12:12 pm, Frank Barknecht wrote:
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>>Hallo,
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>>Austin hat gesagt: // Austin wrote:
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>>>Avoid M-Audio like the plague.  I want to kill my quattro.
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>>Really? I'm quite satisfied with my Quattro, whereas the Edirol UA-20
>>gave me lots of headaches. Admitted, I was one of the first users of
>>it, when the ALSA support for it wasn't ready yet.
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>>I am running an older ALSA currently on my laptop, though. Maybe
>>things broke in the meantime?
>>
>>ciao
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>Hmm... ok, I guess it'll be hard to find consensus.  It sounds like 
>you're not the only one having trouble with the UA-20 so I'll keep that 
>in mind.
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ALSA is adding support for these non-standards-compliant USB audio 
devices quickly.  By 0.9.4 the Edirol/Roland UA-20 shows up in 
.../alsa-kernel/usb/usbquirks.h and as of 0.9.6 the UA-5 is there too.  
 From my experience with the UA-5 this means that for 24 bit operation 
the device works strictly as an ALSA device--no OSS emulation available.

wes