Help! USB Sound card and 1 year of trying !! YES, it true !

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Help! USB Sound card and 1 year of trying !! YES, it true !

Postby befuddled » Sun May 17, 2015 12:00 am

Have I been trying to get my USB sound card working or what !!!

I have a Pogoplug running ArchLinux with kernel 4.0 (now that I updated). I have a Creative Soundblaster live card that puts out great audio *only when it works*.
*Using alsa
* playing with mpd

1. I get audio for a few minutes to secs and the it cuts out. The audio is still playing but there is no sound......the progress meter is running. If I go into alsamixer and toggle the PCM the audio will come back, then cut out again. I can keep doing this.
2. After a while lot of messing around with alsa, sample rates, etc. etc... it looks like my USB card is getting reset.
3. Sometimes it plays for several minutes over two songs or so....
4. Why is the sound card being dropped?
5. The alsa-driver for this card - snd-ca0106 - is outdated. I have tried to compile it but the kernel is to new for it. Is it possible to compile it?

Here is the output of
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
dmesg | grep usb

[ 1.842495] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 1.842570] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 1.842631] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 3.939195] usbcore: registered new interface driver uas
[ 3.944729] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[ 3.950815] usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-alauda
[ 3.956861] usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-cypress
[ 3.962952] usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-datafab
[ 3.969062] usbcore: registered new interface driver ums_eneub6250
[ 3.975345] usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-freecom
[ 3.981428] usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-isd200
[ 3.987450] usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-jumpshot
[ 3.993618] usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-karma
[ 3.999554] usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-onetouch
[ 4.005767] usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-realtek
[ 4.011860] usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-sddr09
[ 4.017890] usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-sddr55
[ 4.023886] usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-usbat
[ 4.253954] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using orion-ehci
[ 4.694223] usb 1-1.1: new high-speed USB device number 3 using orion-ehci
[ 5.082929] usbcore: registered new interface driver r8712u
[ 6.464072] scsi host0: usb-storage 1-1.1:1.0
[ 22.776523] systemd[1]: Activating swap /media/usb/swapfile.img...
[ 28.214236] usb 1-1.3: new high-speed USB device number 4 using orion-ehci
[ 28.326724] usb-storage 1-1.3:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[ 28.350996] scsi host1: usb-storage 1-1.3:1.0
[ 32.233807] Adding 1048572k swap on /media/usb/swapfile.img. Priority:-1 extents:15 across:6409608k
[ 32.264181] systemd[1]: Activated swap /media/usb/swapfile.img.
[ 37.426841] usb 1-1.2: new full-speed USB device number 5 using orion-ehci
[ 39.364406] snd_usb_audio: unknown parameter 'nrpacks' ignored
[ 39.370284] snd_usb_audio: unknown parameter 'power_save' ignored
[ 39.520458] usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio
[18033.734987] usb 1-1.2: USB disconnect, device number 5
[18033.740198] usb 1-1.2: cannot submit urb (err = -19)
[18033.754709] usb 1-1.2: 1:2: cannot set freq 44100 to ep 0x1
[18044.974732] usb 1-1.2: new full-speed USB device number 6 using orion-ehci
[19186.139235] usb 1-1.3: reset high-speed USB device number 4 using orion-ehci
[19225.377989] usb 1-1.3: reset high-speed USB device number 4 using orion-ehci
[19380.613235] usb 1-1.3: reset high-speed USB device number 4 using orion-ehci
[19464.240609] usb 1-1.3: reset high-speed USB device number 4 using orion-ehci
[19530.778485] usb 1-1.3: reset high-speed USB device number 4 using orion-ehci
[19602.976233] usb 1-1.3: reset high-speed USB device number 4 using orion-ehci
[19828.569360] usb 1-1.3: reset high-speed USB device number 4 using orion-ehci
[19856.338487] usb 1-1.3: reset high-speed USB device number 4 using orion-ehci
[19903.326989] usb 1-1.3: reset high-speed USB device number 4 using orion-ehci
')

And

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
aplay -l


**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: External [SB Live! 24-bit External], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

---------------------------------------------------------------------
aplay -L

Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
pulse
PulseAudio Sound Server
sysdefault:CARD=External
SB Live! 24-bit External, USB Audio
Default Audio Device
front:CARD=External,DEV=0
SB Live! 24-bit External, USB Audio
Front speakers
surround21:CARD=External,DEV=0
SB Live! 24-bit External, USB Audio
2.1 Surround output to Front and Subwoofer speakers
surround40:CARD=External,DEV=0
SB Live! 24-bit External, USB Audio
4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=External,DEV=0
SB Live! 24-bit External, USB Audio
4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=External,DEV=0
SB Live! 24-bit External, USB Audio
5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=External,DEV=0
SB Live! 24-bit External, USB Audio
5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=External,DEV=0
SB Live! 24-bit External, USB Audio
7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=External,DEV=0
SB Live! 24-bit External, USB Audio
IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
')


I dont know what else I need to output, but please let me know and I will do so.
befuddled
 
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