Presonus Audiobox

gangsterpols · 2015-11-29 18:09:47

Need some help. I've read the Wiki and even followed some posts on the forum here to get my audio working with my PreSouns Audio box under Arch, but am having issues. It works perfectly under Fedora so I'm trying to figure out why I can't get it working under Arch.

Thanks in advanced.

c0mm0ner · 2015-11-29 18:52:05

Please provide more information: journals, lsusb, lsmod, aplay -l, etc What exactly did you try and which errors occurred?

gangsterpols · 2015-11-29 19:07:06

c0mm0ner wrote:

Please provide more information: journals, lsusb, lsmod, aplay -l, etc What exactly did you try and which errors occurred?

[jonathan@gp0 ~]$ lsusb
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 002: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 046d:c50e Logitech, Inc. Cordless Mouse Receiver
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 194f:0302 PreSonus Audio Electronics, Inc. 
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 1235:001b Focusrite-Novation Impulse 61
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

[jonathan@gp0 ~]$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
fuse                   90112  3
nvidia_modeset        708608  3
sha256_ssse3           28672  1
sha256_generic         24576  1 sha256_ssse3
hmac                   16384  1
drbg                   32768  1
ansi_cprng             16384  0
ctr                    16384  3
ccm                    20480  3
nvidia               8708096  61 nvidia_modeset
snd_hda_codec_realtek    73728  1
snd_hda_codec_generic    69632  1 snd_hda_codec_realtek
snd_hda_codec_hdmi     49152  1
coretemp               16384  0
joydev                 20480  0
kvm_intel             163840  0
snd_hda_intel          32768  5
hid_logitech_hidpp     20480  0
kvm                   446464  1 kvm_intel
gpio_ich               16384  0
iTCO_wdt               16384  0
iTCO_vendor_support    16384  1 iTCO_wdt
ppdev                  20480  0
arc4                   16384  2
snd_hda_codec         106496  4 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_intel
pcspkr                 16384  0
hid_logitech_dj        20480  0
drm                   286720  5 nvidia
mousedev               20480  0
i2c_i801               20480  0
snd_hda_core           49152  5 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
snd_usb_audio         147456  2
snd_usbmidi_lib        28672  1 snd_usb_audio
evdev                  24576  8
snd_rawmidi            28672  1 snd_usbmidi_lib
snd_seq_device         16384  1 snd_rawmidi
snd_hwdep              16384  2 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm                86016  5 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_core
snd_timer              28672  1 snd_pcm
input_leds             16384  0
mac_hid                16384  0
ath5k                 143360  0
serio_raw              16384  0
ath                    28672  1 ath5k
led_class              16384  2 ath5k,input_leds
mac80211              651264  1 ath5k
r8169                  77824  0
cfg80211              466944  3 ath,ath5k,mac80211
mii                    16384  1 r8169
rfkill                 20480  3 cfg80211
snd                    65536  26 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_usb_audio,snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_usbmidi_lib,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_device
lpc_ich                24576  0
soundcore              16384  1 snd
parport_pc             28672  0
parport                40960  2 ppdev,parport_pc
intel_agp              20480  0
shpchp                 32768  0
intel_gtt              20480  1 intel_agp
button                 16384  0
acpi_cpufreq           20480  0
processor              32768  5 acpi_cpufreq
sch_fq_codel           20480  5
ip_tables              28672  0
x_tables               28672  1 ip_tables
ext4                  507904  2
crc16                  16384  1 ext4
mbcache                20480  1 ext4
jbd2                   90112  1 ext4
hid_generic            16384  0
sr_mod                 24576  0
sd_mod                 36864  3
cdrom                  49152  1 sr_mod
usbhid                 45056  0
hid                   114688  4 hid_generic,usbhid,hid_logitech_dj,hid_logitech_hidpp
ata_generic            16384  0
pata_acpi              16384  0
atkbd                  24576  0
libps2                 16384  1 atkbd
ata_piix               36864  2
pata_jmicron           16384  0
libata                196608  4 pata_acpi,ata_generic,ata_piix,pata_jmicron
scsi_mod              147456  3 libata,sd_mod,sr_mod
ehci_pci               16384  0
uhci_hcd               40960  0
ehci_hcd               69632  1 ehci_pci
usbcore               196608  6 uhci_hcd,snd_usb_audio,snd_usbmidi_lib,ehci_hcd,ehci_pci,usbhid
usb_common             16384  1 usbcore
floppy                 65536  0
i8042                  24576  1 libps2
serio                  20480  4 serio_raw,atkbd,i8042

[jonathan@gp0 ~]$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 1: USB [AudioBox USB], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC888 Analog [ALC888 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC888 Digital [ALC888 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 3: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 3: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Thanks for your reply. As you can see it shows up in my system. But when I select it in alsamixer as a the default card nothing plays. And I followed the instructions in the Alsa WIKI to set it as the default card and that didn't work either. It seems that my problem is that Card 1 and Card 2 are registering on the same bus and my system can't tell the difference between the two. I don't know. That's why I'm asking for help.

Last edited by gangsterpols (2015-11-29 19:09:33)

c0mm0ner · 2015-11-29 21:35:17

But when I select it in alsamixer as a the default card nothing plays. And I followed the instructions in the Alsa WIKI to set it as the default card and that didn't work either.

Setting the default card in alsamixer does imho set the default interface it controls, not for playing sound.

It seems that my problem is that Card 1 and Card 2 are registering on the same bus and my system can't tell the difference between the two.

Can you elaborate this assumption?

Can you try to play a soundfile on the device using "aplay -D"?

gangsterpols · 2015-11-30 00:37:14

[jonathan@gp0 Downloads]$ aplay -D Analog_Trip_-_Analog_Trip_-_Midnight_Summer_Dream__Original_Mix__-_Elektrik_Dreams_Music.mp3 
ALSA lib pcm.c:2266:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM Analog_Trip_-_Analog_Trip_-_Midnight_Summer_Dream__Original_Mix__-_Elektrik_Dreams_Music.mp3
aplay: main:722: audio open error: No such file or directory

It gave me the following error. I guess I shouldn't say "Bus" I should say from the aplay output the Audiobox and the Internal Sound Card are occupying the same subprocess(?).

Last edited by gangsterpols (2015-11-30 00:42:51)

V1del · 2015-11-30 07:40:54

you should be using

aplay -Dhw:1 $file

The Audiobox and the internal have no overlap, Audiobox is card 1 and the internal is card 2 that's the first delimiter you should look at. Subdevices are subdevices of the same card. What's weird here is that you have no card 0 which is likely the reason applications won't find your default device and hence no sound, have you looked into https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ad … sound_card ?

There are also chances that fedora did use pulseaudio by default, something you might want to look into as well if you don't want to bother with ALSA configuration https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio

Last edited by V1del (2015-11-30 07:44:33)

gangsterpols · 2015-12-02 19:37:14

V1del wrote:

you should be using
aplay -Dhw:1 $file
The Audiobox and the internal have no overlap, Audiobox is card 1 and the internal is card 2 that's the first delimiter you should look at. Subdevices are subdevices of the same card. What's weird here is that you have no card 0 which is likely the reason applications won't find your default device and hence no sound, have you looked into https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ad … sound_card ?
There are also chances that fedora did use pulseaudio by default, something you might want to look into as well if you don't want to bother with ALSA configuration https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio

Thanks for helping. I'll eventually get it figured out. When I do I'll be sure to post the solution.

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#1 2015-11-29 18:09:47

Presonus Audiobox

#2 2015-11-29 18:52:05

Re: Presonus Audiobox

#3 2015-11-29 19:07:06

Re: Presonus Audiobox

#4 2015-11-29 21:35:17

Re: Presonus Audiobox

#5 2015-11-30 00:37:14

Re: Presonus Audiobox

#6 2015-11-30 07:40:54

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#7 2015-12-02 19:37:14

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