Torsten Schenk

Hi Mario, it's a bit unfortunate but a more minimalistic version is already included in the kernel. Maybe you loaded that module. Where is the module located? If modinfo shows a path like kernel/sound/usb/6fire/snd-usb-6fire.ko, you in fact loaded the included kernel module. The version you find on this site has some minor improvements. But the version in the kernel already works fine, so if everything works for you, you don't have to install the driver from here.

Hi Mario, could you post the whole ssl error message? If it is the one I have in mind, it shouldn't be a problem to load the module automatically nevertheless, I think. Why doesn't that work for you? Concerning the other problem: please run sudo depmod -a and check again Regards Torsten

Hi, I'm also no alsa configuration expert. However, defaults.pcm.device 1 indicates, that you set the default output to be digital output. Other than the Windows driver, the driver from here has two separate devices for analog/digital audio. So if you select device to be 0, you have 6 analog outputs. If you select device 1, you have 2 digital outputs. Regards, Torsten

Hello Werner, you need to install the linux headers: sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers Regards, Torsten

Ah yes, of course... The hack I posted is so hacky that it also sets the minimum INPUT channel count to 6 and the maximum to 4 - which of course cannot work. I'll separate input and output channel paramerers when patching the driver.

PS: it just occured to me, what does pulseaudio do, if you set the minimum channel count to 6? Can you output to all 3 stereo outputs then?

Hi vgc, so after setting the minimum channel count to 2, pulseaudio now allows outputting 2 stereo channels instead of 1 mono channel? Wow... Wonder, how pulseaudio determines the card's capabilities. Whatever, after all I've read here, next version will contain an explicit mono-enable module parameter. Regards, Torsten

Hi again, if you want to test the driver patch, you can insert the following line (line number: 85) to fhe file "pcm.c": alsa_rt->hw.channels_min = 2; If that works fine for you, I will add a module parameter which allows disabling mono. Regards, Torsten