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

Hartmut Noack zettberlin at linuxuse.de
Mon Jan 10 10:09:18 UTC 2011


Am 10.01.2011 06:45, schrieb 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.

You are welcome :-)
>
> 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.

I am absolutely with you and "cheesy" is quite perfectly a word to 
describe the situation.

I made the experience, that the best thing about Linux/free software is 
independence. So it would not be wise to depend on one specific distro.

Ubuntu is not Linux, it is just one flavour and Ubuntu Studio is much 
more Ubuntu than it is Studio.

In short: try a differnt distro. My first recommendations would be 
AVLinux (should have Alsa-firmwareloader on board) and Pure:Dyne. But 
OpenSuse or Mandriva may do the job as well and they can be tweaked 
quite easily for realtime-audio.

I run Fedora plus CCRMA and OpenSuse 11.2 plus jengelh-Kernel and 
pack-man packages. Both work very good for me...


best of luck ;-)

HZN



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