[Voyage-linux] Re: voyage-mpd and Ayre QB9

[Frank Lübeck]

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 11:45:18AM +0000, Muffinman wrote:
> Frank Lübeck <frank at ...> writes:
> 
> > 
> > Dear voyage experts,
> > 
> > I'm trying to evaluate a new Ayre QB9 using an Alix 3D3 board with voyage
> > linux. But I don't get started. I first want to get the USB Audio 1.0
> > interface (up to 96/24) running. I'm using this board since quite some time 
> > to feed a Trends Audio UD10.1 audio interface.
> > 
> > Pluging in the QB9 I expected to see "---" in its display, indicating
> > that it waits for input. But after showing the "---" less than a second
> > the display switches to "96", despite no sound is played.
> > 
> > I append below the output of some commands. These were on a the Alix with
> > the current voyage-mpd 0.7.0 (but it is the same with an older voyage
> > 0.6.2). The UD10.1 works fine with the same setup and the Ayre plugged 
> > into a netbook running Win XP also works as expected.
> > 
> > Can someone help? Am I overlooking something obvious?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance,
> > 
> >   Frank
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I'm currently facing an identical problem (soundcard, errors etc), though with
> Debian 6.0.1 and kernel 2.6.32. I was wondering if the original poster solved
> his problem and if the experience might benefit my issue.
> 
> Thanks in advance, Maarten
> 
> ps. I hope this message doesn't show up twice in the coming period. I've posted
> this through gmane.org and yesterday's version hasn't shown up yet.

Hi Maarten, dear all,

The problem is not solved for me. The status is that I got via the German
distributor into contact with  Ayre. After I had sent them a lot of debugging
output from various Linux computers they tried themselves to connect a
current QB-9 to an Ubuntu machine - and they confirmed to get the same
result as me. They told me that they want to look into this, but since one 
week I didn't get any further response. 

Please, also contact your dealer and distributor and maybe also the Ayre
support directly - in the hope that this increases their priority level for
this problem! 

I think this is not a voyage specific problem, I tried various older and
newer Linux versions on various machines, but always the same problem 
(the mode switch of the QB-9 in A position, i.e. class 1 up to 96/24,
this I think is expected to work with any of the Linux versions I tried;
the newest kernel/ALSA would only be needed for the class 2 support
up to 192/24).

The sound of the QB-9 is really great, I really want to get it working
with my Alix/Voyage system!

Best regards,
   Frank

PS: As a temporary workaround I managed to put a Win XP Prof SP2 on my
Alix, headless with tightvncserver. But this is very unstable and 
just reboots itself every few hours for no reasons I can see. Anyone 
with experience on this?

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