>I'm eying the maudio USB Audio Duo. It seems an ideal soundcard for my >needs, is locally available, and relatively inexpensive, and if I ever >get a laptop, it'll work with that too. I understand usb is not >supported by alsa yet. Is this still true? Is there plans for the >future, or is there something that makes it impossible ever to use with >alsa? The m-audio delta series is well supported, so perhaps this could >be too in the future?
as i noted the other day, i believe that the plan is to support USB (and IEEE1394/firewire) entirely in user space, though with the help of the existing (generic) USB/IEEE1394 drivers. alsa-lib has been designed to support such things. you just write a library that opens the relevant USB device, handles the protocol translation, and provides the functions used by alsa-lib. there is no need to write a kernel driver. however, i have not heard of any plans by anyone to do this. its not that hard in theory, but the impression i have is that very few USB devices are fully standards-compliant, so there is kinds of futzing around to get the device-specific parts of the protocol translation part to work 100%. --p _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
