USB sound

[Ric Moore]

On 10/05/2013 11:36 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 05/10/13 23:58, R Kimber wrote:
>> On Fri, 04 Oct 2013 23:19:34 +1000
>> Basil Chupin wrote:
>>
>>> Oooops, forgot to mention that you may have to uninstall or disable
>>> pulseaudio before using alsamixer. I don't know what pulseaudio is like
>>> now but in the past pulseaudio was a pain in the butt because when you
>>> ran alsamixer only 2 or 3 channels were displayed and only by
>>> uninstalling or disabling pulseaudio could you see ALL the available
>>> channels handled by your sound card/chip. (Which is why I always disable
>>> pulseaudio as I have no need for it.)
>> I tried both with and without pulseaudio disabled.  Something
>> somewhere is
>> stopping the external USB sound device from being detected.
>>
>> - Richard.
>
> This begs the question of which versions of USB are involved in this
> setup of yours? For example, USB 3 is backward compatible with USB 2 but
> I not sure if it is with USB 1.1. And I don't think USB 1 will work with
> USB 3.
>
> Also, how many devices are using the same USB port? If there are, say, 2
> devices then one of them will miss out if the other one is using the USB
> port.

I still want to know what alsamixer shows. We HAVE to know. :) Ric



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