Getting M-Audio Delta 66 working

[DennisMail at gmx.net]

Hello list,

I just got my M-Audio Delta 66 soundcard today and I got it in my system. Now, I tried to get it work, but I just can get something out of the card.

So let's begin with the details. I disabled the on-board soundcard in BIOS and rebooted. So lets see:

$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 Host Bridge
00:02.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Graphics Port 0)
00:12.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI0)
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI1)
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI2)
00:13.3 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI3)
00:13.4 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI4)
00:13.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB Controller (EHCI)
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 14)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 IDE
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8800 GT (rev a2)
02:07.0 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies Inc. ICE1712 [Envy24] PCI Multi-Channel I/O Controller (rev 02)
02:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
02:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8110SC/8169SC Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)

I am not quite sure, but there is a PCI Multi-Channel card which should be mine. As I saw on the m-audio site that drivers for this card are available from opensound.com, I downloaded the file " oss-linux-4.1-1051_amd64.deb" there and installed it. So far, so good.

Now, next goal would be that the soundcard is giving out something via one of the 4 outputs. And this is were I fail. So lets see:

$ ossinfo
Version info: OSS 4.1 (b 1051/200812302211) (0x00040100) 
Platform: Linux/x86_64 2.6.24-23-rt #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Mon Jan 26 02:32:55 UTC 2009 (mick-recstudio)

Number of audio devices:	10
Number of audio engines:	10
Number of mixer devices:	2


Device objects
 0: osscore0 OSS core services
 1: oss_envy240 M Audio Delta 66 interrupts=1704919 (1704919)
 2: oss_usb0 USB audio core services
 3: usb046d08b2-0 Logitec Quickcam Pro 4000 (mic)
 4: usb046d08b2-1 Logitec Quickcam Pro 4000 (mic)


Mixer devices
 0: M Audio Delta 66 (Mixer 0 of device object 1)
 1: Logitec Quickcam Pro 4000 (mic) (Mixer 0 of device object 3)

Audio devices
M Audio Delta 66 out1/2           /dev/oss/oss_envy240/pcm0  (device index 0)
M Audio Delta 66 out3/4           /dev/oss/oss_envy240/pcm1  (device index 1)
M Audio Delta 66 S/PDIF out       /dev/oss/oss_envy240/spdout  (device index 2)
M Audio Delta 66 in1/2            /dev/oss/oss_envy240/pcmin0  (device index 3)
M Audio Delta 66 in3/4            /dev/oss/oss_envy240/pcmin1  (device index 4)
M Audio Delta 66 S/PDIF in        /dev/oss/oss_envy240/spdin  (device index 5)
M Audio Delta 66 input from mon. mixer   /dev/oss/oss_envy240/mon  (device index 6)
M Audio Delta 66 (all outputs)    /dev/oss/oss_envy240/10ch_out  (device index 7)
M Audio Delta 66 (all inputs)     /dev/oss/oss_envy240/12ch_in  (device index 8)
Logitec Quickcam Pro 4000 (mic) rec  /dev/oss/usb046d08b2-1/pcmin0  (device index 9)

Ah, the soundcard is correctly detected. So I start

$ ossxmix

and, in another bash

$ osstest

In ossxmix, I see that something is happening, but I can't hear something via speakers or headphones. I guess it has to do something with jackd, but as I am not quite into the basics, perhaps somebody could tell me what I am doing wrong? Thanks a lot

Regards,
Dennis


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