e-mu 0404

[sam81]

Hi,

I'm having problems getting sound from an external USB souncard, the E-mu 0404 on FreeBSD 9.1. I've loaded the USB sound driver through loader.conf:

nvidia_load="YES"
linux_load="YES"
snd_uaudio_load="YES"

but the soundcard does not appear:

[CMD=root@fuz:/home/sam #]cat /dev/sndstat[/CMD]
FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit 2009061500/amd64)
Installed devices:
pcm0: <Realtek ALC883 (Rear Analog 7.1/2.0)> (play/rec) default
pcm1: <Realtek ALC883 (Front Analog)> (play/rec)
pcm2: <Realtek ALC883 (Rear Digital)> (play)
pcm3: <NVIDIA (0x0014) (HDMI/DP 8ch)> (play)
pcm4: <NVIDIA (0x0014) (HDMI/DP 8ch)> (play)
pcm5: <NVIDIA (0x0014) (HDMI/DP 8ch)> (play)
pcm6: <NVIDIA (0x0014) (HDMI/DP 8ch)> (play)
pcm7: <USB audio> (rec)

I think that pcm7 is my Logitech webcam.

I have tried plugging/unplugging the USB cable but that does not help, in dmesg though I can see that the soundcard is detected somehow:

ugen3.3: <vendor 0x046d> at usbus3
uaudio0: <vendor 0x046d product 0x0809, class 239/2, rev 2.00/0.10, addr 3> on usbus3
uaudio0: No playback.
uaudio0: Record: 48000 Hz, 1 ch, 16-bit S-LE PCM format.
uaudio0: No midi sequencer.
pcm7: <USB audio> on uaudio0
Root mount waiting for: usbus3
ugen3.4: <E-MU Systems, Inc.> at usbus3
Root mount waiting for: usbus3
Root mount waiting for: usbus3
Root mount waiting for: usbus3
ugen1.2: <Logitech> at usbus1

I remember installing PC-BSD one or two years ago and the soundcard was working back then. I tried installing the latest version of PC-BSD but I have exactly the same problem, the card is not listed in /dev/sndstat.

I also attempted to change the default number of channels in USB audio devices as suggested here http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=36810&highlight=uaudio ( sysctl hw.usb.uaudio.default_c/hannels=6) but no luck!

I also tried putting

snd_driver_load="YES"

in loader.conf but no joy!

Finally I tried loading the oss driver to see if the soundcard would work with that, but the system complains that I already have the snd_driver loaded and I should unload it first to load the oss driver. I've tried commenting out the following in loader.conf:

#snd_uaudio_load="YES"
#snd_driver_load="YES"

but I'm still unable to load the OSS drivers, my /dev/sndstat always looks the same.