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Finally got it working on 6.06, it seems the real issue was that I needed to wait for the latest alsa-firmware...

alsa-firmware-1.0.12rc1

• upgrade to 686 kernel

• download all alsa source from http://www.alsa-project.org (I got the latest versions, 1.0.12rc1)

  • libs
  • driver (configure --with-cards=intel8x0,mia --with-oss=yes --with-sequencer=yes)
  • firmware
  • utils

Also, used the deb/ubunutu package for the echomixer because it wasn't compiling for me from the alsa-tools source...

I'll try to clean this up and add more details later, or anyone may do so if they have the info! Thanks!

^CB

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All below this line, are regarding the setup with Ubuntu 5.10....

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I am using a run-of-the-mill desktop PC, to which I desired to add-in my ol' Echo Digital Audio Corporation "Mia" card for the purpose of making recordings for librivox.org

It was a bit of a trial (took 2 weeks to find someone to hold my hand) but eventually, I did get it working using the ALSA driver. Below, I have pasted the responce that I wrote to the ALSA-users mailing list, which hopefully has enough detail to help you get the Mia working yourself if you are looking for help!

Best of luck!

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For anyone following along, this issue is now resolved, thanks to the #ubuntu irc network and the most helpful 'crimsun'... here, in summary, are (to the best of my reconstructive abilities) the steps I took to get ALSA working with my Echo Mia card:

NOTE: for the record, this is under Ubuntu 5.10, fully patched (a Debian variant)

export CC=gcc-3.4

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

NOTE: I had thought installing the 'build-essentials' package was sufficient, but adding the header files package resolved some issues too.

cd alsa-driver-1.0.11rc3

make clean

make mrproper

./configure --with-cards=intel8x0,mia --with-oss=yes --with-sequencer=yes

make

sudo make install

depmod -e

sudo invoke-rc.d alsa force-unload

sudo modprobe -r snd-seq-device snd-rawmidi snd-mpu401-uart snd-mpu401

sudo modprobe snd-mia

NOTE: despite getting errors at this point, I decided to reboot, thinking that an active "nobody" session was using snd-seq-device, and while booting the Ubuntu splash screen showed:

alsa setting up card 0

alsa setting up card 1

alsa starting

After some tweaking levels and settings with alsamixer, everything seems to be in proper working order now!

Hopefully this will be useful to someone in the future, since it would seem there is nobody currently on the list using this card/distribution.

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