[PATCH] Enable M-Audio Fast Track Ultra sound device

[Tim Gardner]

Salvo Inzerilli wrote:
> Dear Ubuntu Kernel team, good evening.
> 
> My name is Salvo and I write from Italy.
> In these months, me and other guys (all Ubuntu or Kubuntu users) are trying to run an external audio card usb2.
> This interface is the M-Audio Fast Track Ultra:
> 
> http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/FastTrackUltra.html
> 
> About this interface, it seems that the ALSA driver is not yet created, but one of us contacted the ALSA team and they replayed by giving us a patch (to apply to usbaudio.c and to usbquirks.h files and then recompile the kernel) for this interface.
> You can see at the following link the email exchanged with the ALSA developer Mr.Clemens where he wrote the patch:
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net/msg25385.html
> 
> Now one french guy applied this patch and recompiled the kernel under Ubuntu 9.10 karmic and finally the Fast Track Ultra works.
> here is the translated link to the forum of this french guy:
> 
> http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.linuxmao.org%2Ftikiwiki%2Ftiki-view_forum_thread.php%3Ftopics_offset%3D1%26forumId%3D2%26comments_parentId%3D16414
> 
> 
> So, I would like to ask to you, to include this patch to the kernel for Ubuntu 9.10 karmic, if it's possible.
> This should be great for me and the other guys, and we really really appreciate it.
> 
> I'm making the "paste and copy" of the patch here, because as you can understand, from the ALSA developer's email, we don't have a file, but just a script.
> 
> 

When this patch is accepted into the upstream developer's repository, it 
will eventually appear in ALSA stable which is packaged in 
linux-backports-modules-alsa-lucid-generic.

rtg
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com