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#1 2008-12-19 20:01:35

phonky
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Registered: 2008-12-19
Posts: 69

Emagic emi 26 audio interface not working

I want to turn my old dell inspiron 8100 PIII 1.2 Ghz / 512 MB RAM into my sound center, attached to active loudspeakers and a huge USB external harddrive.
Running arch linux and recently did pacman -Suy.

The internal sound card is broken, I only get distorted sounds (in windows as well).
I want to use my a bit dated emagic emi 26 usb audio interface.

The linux installations has (the exact paths are maybe different, writing from another machine now):
/lib/modules/2.6.27-9-generic/kernel/drivers/usb/misc/emi26.ko
/lib/firmware/emi26

So it seems the interface is supported.

However, when I plug it in, nothing happens. Some LEDs light up on the interface,
but /proc/asound/cards only shows my Maestro3 sound card, also alsamixer
doesn't see the device.

If I enter "lsusb", the terminal hangs, no Ctrl-C helps! I can't even kill -9 it as root!
I have snd_usb_audio and emi26 in my MODULES in rc.conf, while having
!audio and !usb_midi there too.

lsmod shows that emi26 is loaded, as well as snd_usb_audio.

Does anybody have an idea on how to go about this?
I guess there must be some problem with the driver...

Thanks for any help

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