[Voyage-linux] QB9 and some earlier silly questions of mine

[Nick L.]

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 12:06 PM, jegunn <jeg at astro.princeton.edu> wrote:

> Most importantly, I discovered that whether the QB9 works or not with its
> USB2.0 setting is very dependent on sequencing. For me, on two machines
> running voyage, if you power up the QB9 with the USB connected, it does NOT
> work; one gets the ubiquitous
>
> ALSA clock.c:227: 4:1:1: cannot get frequency at ep 0x1
>
> and the display immediately comes up "96", and it will not play
> anything.
>
> If, on the other hand, you plug in the USB with voyage running and
> the QB9 powered and running, it works fine. I will keep you posted
> on further developments.

I don't have that issue with my qb-9. It was purchased summer of 2010
and was one of the first units that contained the new 24/192 UAC2
board. Any combination of powering/connecting has worked just fine
with any version of Voyage Linux or Voyage MPD. Normally, the qb-9 is
in standby mode and the Alix gets turned on from a switch. Not once
did I have to unplug/plug it in for it to initialize; truly flawless
from day one.


>One of the machines, a mini-itx with
> a Zotac M880G motherboard, is running 7.0; the other, an old
> VIA C7 mini-itx, is running the slightly more recent current version
> I downloaded a couple of days ago; I do not think there are significant
> changes from 7.0, but Punky could comment.
>
> I have had nutty troubles with mpd building the database from scratch;
> the music on both machines is on a local disk, and I just make a symlink
> called music in /var/lib/mpd to a directory which contains symlinks to
> the real music directories, organized one directory per album, roughly.
> It always takes several restarts and various combinations of deleting
> tag_cache, etc, before the database finally magically appears, and I
> have no real idea of what I did which finally made it happen. I wish
> to hell that mpd --create-db had not gone away; it always seemed to work.

Why not just edit mpd.conf and point to the directories on the local disk?

Nick