Why would Ubuntu studio work so well without MIDI capabilities? Why bother?
Wouldn't we call it Ubuntu Not Really a Studio?


On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 8:36 AM, Brad Ritchie <email address hidden> wrote:

> Onboard sound disabled because M-audio provides MIDI in/out and handling
> from the card. Onboard audio does not. Suggest other card that has MIDI
> handling with 2 in/2 out and I'd get it. Creative had one but it was only
> stage one, I have been unhappy with Creative since they lied about
> Vista-compatible drivers. Also Creative MIDI card is out of production.
> Tried UEFI and it does not work on my computer, I have to reflash BIOS for
> MBR setup. Back to square one. Suggestions welcome.
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 8:24 PM, Raymond <email address hidden>wrote:
>
>> it seem that pulseaudio no longer support ice1712 after the introduction
>> of profile of multi channels since the name of the volume controls are
>> not standard name and the number of playback and capture are 10/12
>>
>>
>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/commit/?id=078a39af886ea3bb590595b973343af77c2837fe
>>
>>
>> if the thinkpad_acpi card can be ignored by modifying
>>  ENV{PULSE_IGNORE}="1" in 90-pulseaudio.rules
>>
>> this may mean that you can add an entry to ignore your m-audio card and
>> you can run Jack server with your ice1712
>>
>> is there any reason for you to disable the onboard sound ? (seem to be a
>> realtek codec according to the specification of the mothboard)
>>
>> --
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>> report.
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1110830
>>
>> Title:
>>   [ICE1712 - M Audio Audiophile 24/96, playback] No sound at all
>>
>> Status in “alsa-driver” package in Ubuntu:
>>   New
>>
>> Bug description:
>>   Crash report listed Totem as having been stopped. I was not running
>> movie player. Please try to follow this. I had no sound from m-audio 2496
>> using ice1712 module , no sound issue for seven months now. My son
>> installed a flash update to the BIOS to make it a dual boot uefi bios, and
>> after rebooting Ubuntu 12.10 the m-audio card came up as installed, listed
>> everywhere, and sound even WORKED for awhile. I played an internet radio
>> station and audacious played again until I rebooted. Then audacious
>> crashed, with "Alsa error "snd_pcm_open failed: Invalid argument." Too bad
>> it took seven months of dicking around with this only to have it work for
>> me for ten minutes. I don't even mind that the BIOS flash wiped out Win7
>> completely, I was hoping that Ubuntu would finally work for me and was
>> overjoyed when it worked for a short while.
>>   using Ubuntu 12.10.
>>   uname -a
>>   Linux brad-Z68AP-D3 3.5.0-22-lowlatency #21-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT Sat Jan
>> 12 15:36:50 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>
>>    Xfce desktop 4.10, Ubuntu Studio. Nvidia Geforce gtx-560Ti using
>> Nvidia Linux-x86_64 driver version 313.09. Gigabyte GA-z68ap-d3 ver2; 8gb
>> ddr3-2133 ram; M-audio audiophile 2496 pci soundcard. No other pci cards at
>> this time. /proc/asound/version is alsa driver version 1.0.25.
>>    /proc/asound/pcm ──────────────────────┐        │
>>   │       │01-00: ICE1712 multi : ICE1712 multi : playback 1 : capture 1│
>>        │
>>   Alsamixer now defaults to "Nvidia ID 16" and "this sound device does
>> not have any controls" and resets to that if I select the M-audio card (F6)
>> and close alsamixer. Alsamixer (F2) /proc/asound/cards now lists
>>   0 [NVidia         ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia                    │      │
>>   │      │                      HDA NVidia at 0xf6080000 irq 17
>> │      │
>>   │      │ 1 [M2496          ]: ICE1712 - M Audio Audiophile 24/96
>>  │      │
>>   │      │                      M Audio Audiophile 24/96 at 0xc040, irq 19
>>
>>   whereas prior to BIOS flash the m-audio card was not listed.
>>   lspci -v | grep -A7 -i "audio"
>>   01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GF114 HDMI Audio Controller
>> (rev a1)
>>         Subsystem: eVga.com. Corp. Device 1568
>>         Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
>>         Memory at f6080000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
>>         Capabilities: <access denied>
>>         Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
>>         Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
>>
>>   --
>>   06:00.0 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies Inc. ICE1712
>> [Envy24] PCI Multi-Channel I/O Controller (rev 02)
>>         Subsystem: VIA Technologies Inc. M-Audio Delta Audiophile 2496
>>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 19
>>         I/O ports at c040 [size=32]
>>         I/O ports at c070 [size=16]
>>         I/O ports at c060 [size=16]
>>         I/O ports at c000 [size=64]
>>         Capabilities: <access denied>
>>         Kernel driver in use: snd_ice1712
>>   I have seen others with this issue with M-audio card, Giga GA-z68ap-d3
>> motherboard and the Nvidia video cards. There was a breakthrough for awhile
>> using the dual-boot bios, this became available for some of the gigabyte
>> cards only recently. I now suspect issue is with nvidia card and PCM
>> settings somewhere. I do not believe it is a volume issue as it was working
>> yesterday.
>>
>>   ProblemType: Bug
>>   DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
>>   Package: alsa-base 1.0.25+dfsg-0ubuntu3
>>   ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-22.21-lowlatency 3.5.7.2
>>   Uname: Linux 3.5.0-22-lowlatency x86_64
>>   NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
>>   ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu10
>>   Architecture: amd64
>>   AudioDevicesInUse:
>>    USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
>>    /dev/snd/controlC1:  brad       2189 F.... xfce4-volumed
>>                         brad       2253 F.... pulseaudio
>>                         brad       2282 F.... xfce4-mixer-plu
>>                         brad       2950 F.... alsamixer
>>   Date: Wed Jan 30 16:21:55 2013
>>   EcryptfsInUse: Yes
>>   InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-12-01 (60 days ago)
>>   InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Studio 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release
>> amd64 (20121017.1)
>>   MarkForUpload: True
>>   PackageArchitecture: all
>>   ProcEnviron:
>>    PATH=(custom, no user)
>>    XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
>>    LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>>    SHELL=/bin/bash
>>   SourcePackage: alsa-driver
>>   Symptom: audio
>>   Symptom_AlsaPlaybackTest: ALSA playback test through plughw:M2496 failed
>>   Symptom_Card: ICE1712 [Envy24] PCI Multi-Channel I/O Controller - M
>> Audio Audiophile 24/96
>>   Symptom_DevicesInUse:
>>    USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
>>    /dev/snd/controlC1:  brad       2189 F.... xfce4-volumed
>>                         brad       2253 F.... pulseaudio
>>                         brad       2282 F.... xfce4-mixer-plu
>>                         brad       2950 F.... alsamixer
>>   Symptom_Type: No sound at all
>>   Title: [ICE1712 - M Audio Audiophile 24/96, playback] No sound at all
>>   UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>>   dmi.bios.date: 06/13/2012
>>   dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
>>   dmi.bios.version: Ua5
>>   dmi.board.asset.tag: To be filled by O.E.M.
>>   dmi.board.name: Z68AP-D3
>>   dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
>>   dmi.board.version: To be filled by O.E.M.
>>   dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
>>   dmi.chassis.type: 3
>>   dmi.chassis.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
>>   dmi.chassis.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
>>   dmi.modalias:
>> dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrUa5:bd06/13/2012:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnTobefilledbyO.E.M.:pvrTobefilledbyO.E.M.:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnZ68AP-D3:rvrTobefilledbyO.E.M.:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:
>>   dmi.product.name: To be filled by O.E.M.
>>   dmi.product.version: To be filled by O.E.M.
>>   dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
>>   mtime.conffile..etc.modprobe.d.alsa.base.conf:
>> 2013-01-26T10:19:20.715318
>>
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