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AngelAir

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Registered: 2014-06-02

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Steinberg UR 22 (usb sound card) Arch support

I keep in mind to purchase a Steinberg UR22 usb interface (sound card),
   but i'm not sure about the support with Arch.

   I've searching about this issue across the web,Arch wiki and forums and alsa developers list, *Steinberg forum....,
   but it isn't clear to me... a Kernel patch that is incomplete, or not?

   Please anyone could help me with this issue, before purchase it?

     Thank's a lot in advance

* By the way, I've writed at Steinberg forums to demmand GNU Linux support

My searching...

http://linux-audio.4202.n7.nabble.com/S … 82888.html
http://linux-audio.4202.n7.nabble.com/S … tml#a82917
http://mailman.alsa-project.org/piperma … 74120.html
http://deodar.org/UR824

Last edited by AngelAir (2014-07-27 18:19:53)

emeres

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Registered: 2013-10-08

Posts: 1,570

Re: Steinberg UR 22 (usb sound card) Arch support

If the changelogs and official alsa wiki do not provide enough information, and it looks like that, you should ask on the alsa user or developer mailing list, they would know best. The patch/support seems unfinished however.

If you want to demand something from a manufacturer, you better have people behind you. Write a petition or bring people together in other ways, then write/send [the petition] to both Steinberg and Yamaha with all the signatures. Also contacting alsa developers might raise the indirect pressure. Remember to always be polite.

Last edited by emeres (2014-07-27 22:34:05)

Nognir

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Registered: 2009-07-25

Posts: 14

Re: Steinberg UR 22 (usb sound card) Arch support

I had found a way to use that card in Linux via this guide but it didn't work for Arch as it is, only for Ubuntu-based distributions. Because I don't know how to tweak it to work for Arch I've switched to Linux Mint 17 KDE. I hope someone with knowledge can figure it out

TheSaint

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Registered: 2007-08-19

Posts: 1,523

Re: Steinberg UR 22 (usb sound card) Arch support

From within that distro you might query the system and find which module(s) (snd-usb-audio I think) are loader and which configuration are set.
You may try to copy it into Arch and see if it work.
Probably the patch is done, see this
So what says, in your Arch

$ uname -r

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pigiron

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Registered: 2009-07-14

Posts: 150

Re: Steinberg UR 22 (usb sound card) Arch support

I think what the previous poster is saying is that patch has been dropped into Linus's source code tree in 3.18-rc2 and will be included in the base kernel when 3.18 ships in the near future.

And as the tag says, while audio seems to work, MIDI hasn't been tested:

commit f0b127fbfdc8756eba7437ab668f3169280bd358
Author: Vlad Catoi <vladcatoi@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat Oct 18 17:45:41 2014 -0500

    ALSA: usb-audio: Add support for Steinberg UR22 USB interface

    Adding support for Steinberg UR22 USB interface via quirks table patch

    See Ubuntu bug report:
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1317244
    Also see threads:
    http://linux-audio.4202.n7.nabble.com/Support-for-Steinberg-UR22-Yamaha-USB-chipset-0499-1509-tc82888.html#a82917
    http://www.steinberg.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=62290

    Tested by at least 4 people judging by the threads.
    Did not test MIDI interface, but audio output and capture both are
    functional. Built 3.17 kernel with this driver on Ubuntu 14.04 & tested with mpg123
    Patch applied to 3.13 Ubuntu kernel works well enough for daily use.

oxygen_wobble

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Registered: 2012-05-20

Posts: 128

Re: Steinberg UR 22 (usb sound card) Arch support

Are there any news on this ?

I just got my UR-22, plugged it in, but can't even see anything in lsusb .

according to uname -a, i'm using kernel version 3.18.6, so according to abovementioned post, it should be in there ...

dmesg sez:

[  627.112117] usb 2-1.1: device descriptor read/64, error -32
[  627.282255] usb 2-1.1: device descriptor read/64, error -32
[  627.452312] usb 2-1.1: new full-speed USB device number 10 using ehci-pci
[  627.519081] usb 2-1.1: device descriptor read/64, error -32
[  627.689186] usb 2-1.1: device descriptor read/64, error -32
[  627.859291] usb 2-1.1: new full-speed USB device number 11 using ehci-pci
[  628.266013] usb 2-1.1: device not accepting address 11, error -32
[  628.332796] usb 2-1.1: new full-speed USB device number 12 using ehci-pci
[  628.739640] usb 2-1.1: device not accepting address 12, error -32
[  628.739811] usb 2-1-port1: unable to enumerate USB device

oxygen_wobble

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Registered: 2012-05-20

Posts: 128

Re: Steinberg UR 22 (usb sound card) Arch support

UPDATE: seems to be a usb current issue ... using the USB ports on the other side of my laptop, things seem to work quite well,
the interface is recognized by JACK right away !

TheSaint

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Registered: 2007-08-19

Posts: 1,523

Re: Steinberg UR 22 (usb sound card) Arch support

Do you have USB3 ports ?
Would it be that the issue ?

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oxygen_wobble

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Registered: 2012-05-20

Posts: 128

Re: Steinberg UR 22 (usb sound card) Arch support

Would that be an issue ? Currently, no, only USB 2.0, but with my next laptop, probably ...

As already mentioned, it was more of USB power issue (not enough current on the respective port).

oxygen_wobble

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Registered: 2012-05-20

Posts: 128

Re: Steinberg UR 22 (usb sound card) Arch support

Ok, works on new laptop just as well ... no problems here!

acryllium

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Registered: 2016-08-25

Posts: 1

Re: Steinberg UR 22 (usb sound card) Arch support

Hey, so how do you make ur22 (ur44) work in arch in 2016?
Sorry, I'm an arch newbie. And most of my linux didn't even have a desktop environment.
I installed gnome, but in audio devices I don't see my Steinberg.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: Steinberg UR 22 (usb sound card) Arch support

Please open a new thread with the following output

aplay -lL
sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/*
uname -a
#If pulseaudio is installed
pacmd list-cards
pacmd list-sinks

You shouldn't bump old threads they clutter the recent threads with potentially outdated information. Make sure you read through at least https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ad … chitecture and/or https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ad … leshooting and provide as much information in your new thread about your system as possible

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Re: Steinberg UR 22 (usb sound card) Arch support

Closing, for the reason noted.

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