[PlanetCCRMA] Tascam US-122 not working

[Daniel Flickinger]

Hello.  I'm trying to use a Tascam US-122 with my Compaq Presario
2580us running Redhat 9, but it's never recognized properly--the light
never turns on.  I've just started installing the Planet CCRMA
software, so everything is probably up to date.  I'm using kernel
2.4.26-1.ll.rh90.ccrma, and ALSA 1.0.4.

Here is my modules.conf file:
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alias eth0 natsemi
alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
alias usb-controller1 usb-uhci
alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394
# --- ALSA ---
alias char-major-116 snd
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias snd-card-0 snd-ali5451
alias snd-card-1 snd-usb-usx2y
 
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
 
alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1
alias sound-service-1-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-1-12 snd-pcm-oss
#--- Options
options snd major=116 cards_limit=2 \
  device_mode=0666 device_gid=0 device_uid=0
options snd-ali5451 index=0
options snd-usb-usx2y index=1 vid=0x1604
 
# -- Keep modules from being autocleaned (CCRMA mod)
add options -k snd-card-0
add options -k snd-card-1
 
# Old OSS stuff?  (I'm not so sure about the last two lines)
# alias sound-slot-0 trident
# post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L
>/dev/null 2>&1 || :
# pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S
>/dev/null 2>&1 || :
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Here is my /var/log/messages file after: running alsasound stop,
running alsasound start, and then plugging in the US-122:
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Jun 27 22:52:00 daf modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-seq-client-62
Jun 27 22:52:00 daf kernel: usb.c: deregistering driver snd-usb-usx2y
Jun 27 22:52:00 daf kernel: usb.c: deregistering driver snd-usb-audio
Jun 27 22:52:00 daf alsasound: sound driver stop succeeded
Jun 27 22:52:11 daf modprobe: Warning: ignoring device_mode=0666, no
such parameter in this module
Jun 27 22:52:11 daf modprobe: Warning: ignoring device_gid=0, no such parameter
in this module
Jun 27 22:52:11 daf modprobe: Warning: ignoring device_uid=0, no such parameter
in this module
Jun 27 22:52:11 daf modprobe: Module snd loaded, with warnings
Jun 27 22:52:11 daf modprobe: Module snd-ac97-codec loaded, with warnings
Jun 27 22:52:11 daf modprobe: Module snd-timer loaded, with warnings
Jun 27 22:52:11 daf modprobe: Module snd-pcm loaded, with warnings
Jun 27 22:52:11 daf modprobe: Module snd-ali5451 loaded, with warnings
Jun 27 22:52:11 daf alsasound: Starting sound driver snd-ali5451 succeeded
Jun 27 22:52:11 daf kernel: usb.c: registered new driver snd-usb-audio
Jun 27 22:52:11 daf modprobe: Warning: ignoring vid=0x1604, no such
parameter in this module
Jun 27 22:52:11 daf kernel: usb.c: registered new driver snd-usb-usx2y
Jun 27 22:52:11 daf modprobe: Module snd-usb-usx2y loaded, with warnings
Jun 27 22:52:11 daf alsasound: Starting sound driver snd-usb-usx2y succeeded
Jun 27 22:52:11 daf alsasound: Starting sequencer succeeded
Jun 27 22:52:11 daf alsasound: Restoring sound driver settings succeeded
Jun 27 22:52:21 daf kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:0b.1-2, assigned address 2
Jun 27 22:52:21 daf kernel: usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod
0x1604/0x8006) is not claimed by any active driver.
Jun 27 22:52:24 daf /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: ... no modules for USB
product 1604/8006/100
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Many of the options don't seem to be recognized, but the real problem
to me seems to be the last line, no?  Here is a snippet of my lsusb -v
after plugging in:
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....
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 1604:8006 Tascam
  Language IDs: none (invalid length string descriptor 02; len=2)
Device Descriptor:
  bLength                18
  bDescriptorType         1
  bcdUSB               1.00
  bDeviceClass          255 Vendor Specific Class
  bDeviceSubClass       255 Vendor Specific Subclass
  bDeviceProtocol       255 Vendor Specific Protocol
  bMaxPacketSize0        64
.....
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so it seems that something at least knows that the device is there. 
There is no mention of the device or card1 at all in /proc/asound/ or
the files contained in it.  Running usx2yloader returns "usx2yloader:
no US-X2Y-compatible cards found" (and I'm starting to think that this
is the main problem--the firmware never gets loaded, so the device ID
8006 never turns into 8007?).   If I run alsasound start after the
device is already plugged in, there is no improvement.  Any thoughts? 
I'm not quite sure how to check which versions of hotplug and fxload
I'm running, but they should definitely be up to date enough, it
seems...

Best,
Dan Flickinger (who has been away from the Knoll too long)