M-Audio Transit broken in Dapper

[Seth]

The M-Audio Transit usb audio device appears to be broken in Dapper (flight-6 installation). This is a regression because it worked fine out of the box in a default Breezy installation. When I plug in the device in Dapper, the only thing that happens is the "new usb device connected" notice in dmesg.

I have also tried following the instructions for setup at http://usb-midi-fw.sourceforge.net/, but after installation nothing still happens.

More linux information on this device can be found at: http://theory.physics.ubc.ca/transit.html

Thanks, Seth

Note: the original reporter indicated the bug was in package 'alsa'; however, that package was not published in Ubuntu.

[Seth (seedifferently)]

Update to original submission:

The link for linux info on the card was broken, correct link is: http://www.theory.physics.ubc.ca/transit.html

I have had success using this card in Dapper <em>only after</em> booting into Windows and having windows load the firmware. If I then reboot into ubuntu without cutting power to the card, Dapper picks up on it fine. I'm assuming this means there's something wrong with the way udev is being processed to load the card and "refresh." I will continue to investigate but admit that I am not very knowledgeable about udev.

[Seth (seedifferently)]

I have been working with the author of madfuload and we found a workaround. Apparently Dapper's udev variables don't resolve themselves correctly or something like that. Anyway, if you install madfuload and change the Transit line in /etc/udev/rules.d/42-madfuload.rules to use the -D option, it seems to work beautifully:

ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", DEVPATH=="/*.0", ENV{PRODUCT}=="763/2806/*", RUN+="/usr/local/sbin/madfuload -l -D %E{DEVICE} -3 -f /usr/local/share/usb/maudio/ma006100.bin"

This is still a regression though, because it does not work out of the box (default flight-6 install).

[Carthik Sharma (carthik)]

Rejecting the upstream udev bug since there is no remote bug tracker bug #. The Ubuntu bug is active.

[Carthik Sharma (carthik)]

Hi,

Is this still an issue for you? Has there been an upstream fix? If you filed an upstream bug, please provide a url for the same. Thanks in advance.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and feel free to submit bug reports in the future.