Reply to Tim and HZN regarding comments on Tascam US-122 on Lucid

[Casey Forslund]

Hey you two - thank you SO much for the reply and your suggestions/questions
around my struggles with the Tascam US-122 and Lucid.

Tim: I'm blown away too that I hadn't heard of this amazing mailing list! I
just learned about it at the end of reading 'the official Ubuntu book'.
Writing in, I didn't know what to expect, but was thinking I'd probably get
a message like: "this isn't the proper place to ask questions like this". I
have been truly shocked to see how many informative and intuitive questions
and replies have come back over the last couple days! Thank you all : )

To get down to the nitty gritty, yes, the US-122 is working fine with
Windows Vista right now, but as I am in love with the whole ethos of Ubuntu,
I want to migrate completely to Ubuntu if possible, but this hardware hangup
has been really, really frustrating.

http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Tascam_US-122#Initial_Setup

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/TASCAM_US-122

I have followed both of the above the tutorials previously (and modified for
newer alsa firmware versions, usb ports etc. etc.) along with about 4
others, but none of them even get my green light to fire up. I'm at the
point where I'm wondering if during the hours and hours of trying all of
these similar tutorials, I have messed up a setting and now the question is,
how to I backtrack to a clean slate again so that if I do come across a
tutorial that works, changes I have made in past attempts don't give me a
false negative.

HZN: Yup, I tried the ALSA tutorial you suggested (
http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Tascam_US-122)  about a week ago to no
avail (no green light on the unit). I think I may just have to switch to a
different distro as you suggested, as nothing anyone has suggested has
worked for me so far. Either that or just keep using Windows to use it,
which seems so cheezy though, as I'm using Ubuntu 'STUDIO', a flavor of
Ubuntu that is supposed to focus on audio/video users etc. Don't get me
wrong - I am truly amazed at Ubuntu/Studio overall, considering it is open
source etc.etc. The thing is that I remember reading a section in 'the
official Ubuntu book' where the author goes on in great detail, comparing
the infirior Windows system of needing drivers, versus the Linux/Ubuntu
system of beleiving hardware should work right out of the box. I know it is
a vastly complicated thing to keep track of all the hardware out there on
this tech crazed planet, year after year, but I just feel I was sold on
something and have been let down. I have POURED hours over this issue, and
still no cigar. I'll explore your suggestions of pulse and jack as well, as
I haven't tinkered too much with them yet.

I see that there are many more replies to the initial message I sent out, so
I'll look them over and keep y'all posted.

Grateful for your comments and interest (the Ubuntu community is SO cool!),

Casey
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