[ubuntu-studio-users] Driver for Audio Science asi4215

[Andrew]

Hi Ralf,
Thanks for the reply.
I haven't had chance to try this out myself yet. Would you know if the module 
is the v3 or v4 code? 
Unfortunately, the card I have is only supported by the v3 driver code, I have 
been able to compile a v4 ok, but the card is not detected.

Audio Science wrote to me:-
Support for ASI4215 was dropped from the drivers on JUN-02-2008 (v3.10.00) a 
few years after AudioScience stopped selling the card. We stop supporting 
discontinued cards after about 5 or 6 years because we do not have the means 
to continue building and testing firmware/drivers for such old cards.

Even if the latest driver compiled correctly it may not work with the old 
version of the firmware and we cannot update/build firmware for ASI4215 anymore.
(Although if I offered $1m I suspect "cannot" would become "delighted to" ....)

Regards,
Andrew.



> On Fri, 23 Feb 2018 12:10:05 +0000, Andrew wrote:
> >Would it be possible to consider adding this support and the driver to
> >future releases?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm booted into an Arch Linux session, anyway, I can take a look
> at my Ubuntu 16.04 install, even while running an Arch session.
> 
> [root at archlinux rocketmouse]# systemd-nspawn -qD /mnt/moonstudio lsb_release
> -rc Release:	16.04
> Codename:	xenial
> [root at archlinux rocketmouse]# grep -i asihpi
> /.boot/ubuntu_moonstudio/boot/config-4.4.0-116-lowlatency
> CONFIG_SND_ASIHPI=m
> 
> As you can see, the kernel module already is available by
> 4.4.0-116-lowlatency. IOW what Ubuntu release are you running? Simply
> consider upgrading to >= 16.04.
> 
> Regards,
> Ralf