Re: [LAU] Tascam US-122: No playback channels

On 6/4/20 1:13 PM, Michael Jarosch wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I tried to make a Tascam US-122 "Classic" work with my
> Debian-testing-powered Thinkpad T410. I followed the instructions on
> https://alsa.opensrc.org/Tascam_US-122#Tascam_US-122_on_Debian_and_Ubuntu
> as far as I could (alsa-base is not in Debian, anymore) but once I
> tried to use the device for playback in pulseaudio I realized there
> was no sink created. Pulseaudio offers the possibility to use the
> TASCAM with "multiple input" besides "stereo input" (although I
> thought it's a stereo in/out device) but there was no option to use it
> as an output.
>
> I tried to use jackd to double-check the missing output, but it failed
> to startup. Reason: "cannot configure playback channel"
>
> The whole log (of the important part):
>
> "jackdmp comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
>
> This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
>
> under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details
>
> JACK server starting in realtime mode with priority 10
>
> self-connect-mode is "Don't restrict self connect requests"
>
> audio_reservation_init
>
> Acquire audio card Audio1
>
> creating alsa driver ...
> hw:USX2Y|hw:USX2Y|256|3|44100|0|0|nomon|swmeter|soft-mode|32bit
>
> configuring for 44100Hz, period = 256 frames (5.8 ms), buffer = 3 periods
>
> ALSA: final selected sample format for capture: 24bit little-endian in
> 3bytes format
>
> ALSA: use 3 periods for capture
>
> ALSA: final selected sample format for playback: 24bit little-endian
> in 3bytes format
>
> ALSA: use 3 periods for playback
>
> ALSA: cannot set hardware parameters for playback
>
> ALSA: cannot configure playback channel
>
> Released audio card Audio1
>
> audio_reservation_finish
>
> Cannot initialize driver
>
> JackServer::Open failed with -1
>
> Failed to open server"
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Greets! Mitsch
>
Maybe alsa-tools has what you want? It mentions this: "us428control -
Controller utility for Tascam US-X2Y".

I think they split alsa-base into multiple packages.

I'm using Debian Testing.

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