Linux doesn't recognize my external usb sound card?

[y0ur5h4d0w]

hey guys, i'm running KDE Neon on my thinkpad T61 (reeeeeally old laptop), i'm using it to record my band sessions using the software REAPER by cockos so i can then extract the tracks i need... the problem is that my tascam us-800 is NOT recognized by reaper and somehow i can't see any of the 6 inputs while on windows it should work fine... what can i do to solve the problem?

[Radium_Angel]

20 minutes ago, y0ur5h4d0w said:

KDE Neon

Are there native drivers for your hardware available?

[y0ur5h4d0w]

5 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

Are there native drivers for your hardware available?

i've searched on google and ppl said that this specific card works without drivers on linux, though, they were all old threads (like from 2018 the latest) is there any way to fetch drivers from the terminal?

EDIT: on the tascam product page there's only drivers for Windows and MacOS

[Radium_Angel]

38 minutes ago, y0ur5h4d0w said:

i've searched on google and ppl said that this specific card works without drivers on linux, though, they were all old threads (like from 2018 the latest) is there any way to fetch drivers from the terminal?

EDIT: on the tascam product page there's only drivers for Windows and MacOS

You can force drivers via terminal, but you have to find the repository first, and that's usually kept on the manufacturer's website, if they aren't listing any drivers, it's *possible* they pulled support for it under *nix.

 

I'd write them an e.mail and ask... 

[y0ur5h4d0w]

17 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

You can force drivers via terminal, but you have to find the repository first, and that's usually kept on the manufacturer's website, if they aren't listing any drivers, it's *possible* they pulled support for it under *nix.

 

I'd write them an e.mail and ask... 

i was going to actually... though if i open a ticket they ask for an OS and there's no Linux... i guess there's literally no support for linux... i might be stuck on windows  

[Radium_Angel]

8 minutes ago, y0ur5h4d0w said:

i was going to actually... though if i open a ticket they ask for an OS and there's no Linux... i guess there's literally no support for linux... i might be stuck on windows  

Worst they can say is "Begone with your lame n00b OS and wimpy metal chords, only the true OS and Bathory fans may use our products! Muhahahahaaha!"

 

I mean, worst they can say is the product is no longer supported under *nix.

You still might find an old repository floating somewhere on the 'net tho. 

[y0ur5h4d0w]

On 7/23/2020 at 3:18 PM, Radium_Angel said:

Worst they can say is "Begone with your lame n00b OS and wimpy metal chords, only the true OS and Bathory fans may use our products! Muhahahahaaha!"

 

I mean, worst they can say is the product is no longer supported under *nix.

You still might find an old repository floating somewhere on the 'net tho. 

soooo i managed to make everything ALMOST work, i've swapped from KDA Neon to manjaro 20.xx (latest version from the official website)... now i need to understand why ALSA is capturing my internal laptop microphone instead of my sound card even though in JACK the settings is set to ALSA as driver with my soundcard as interface and i've even used the command "jackd -R -d alsa" to make the jack server work in realtime! 

though, when i start the software REAPER, i get only 2 channels working out of a total of 6 (+2 midi) 

[The Flying Sloth]

Post this in the linux section,
They will know a lot more about using a silly OS than us Audio chads.