Thu, 10 Aug 2023 17:32:02 +0930 Simon Lees <sflees@suse.de> :
On 8/10/23 12:09, bent fender wrote:
My previous 15.x and 15.y upgarded twice or more to 15.5 finally got to the point where it would recognize only that one of my two soundcards that wasn't plugged-in at the time. DON'T ask me hoe it did that!!!
So I did a fresh install and am tweaking it. The card in use is a CMI8788 XONAR Essence STX-II. It gets recognised but there's this issue in the pulse Volume window:
Input-Devices, port "whatever" selected, the slider remains DEAD.
Since I use my compuker mostly for guitar sessions this is a no-go, my playing makes dogs howl but it risks getting better if I can't hear it
Please raise a bug for the kernel team, Its a pretty uncommon piece of hardware in that most hardware designed to use ASIO drivers under windows is normally external, these day's most will ship with a "Class Complaint" mode with a reduced software feature set that allows them to work out of the box on Linux and iOS where as I expect this card probably needs a somewhat custom driver atleast to operate at the low latencies you probably want when playing a guitar through it. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net
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Thanks for chiming-in, there are no problems with the card under Tumbleweed and there were actually even fewer ones under Leap until my old getup started disintegrating. I'm convinced that THAT is where things went south. Actually I was doing even better under Leap in that I didn't even have to start jack or ANYTHING as my guitar could be heard as soon as logged into Plasma so that with Leap I only used jack if I had to have really low latency (w. rosegarden and simultaneous everything). This automatic monitoring a soon as logged in is something I have never been able to duplicate with TW, alas not with my new Leap install either. For now I'll continue tweaking to see how far I get, the immediate issue is resolved (see my follow-up). My other card is also XONAR, a level lower in features and it shows up as a USB for some reason instead of ePCI, the sound quality is A1 but it has no separate speakerand headset outports. The STX-II has more features but is loud waaaaaaaaaaay too loud. Maybe a driver redo would come in handy but right now I don't know what complaint I would open a bug report with (and I've never done one of those).