Apr 4, 2009 12:54 PM
Linux driver for Line6 products
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Hi all!
Since the forum has been rearranged, my previous thread is no longer available, so I start a new one to announce updates of the Line6 Linux driver I'm working on. Recently I got some feedback about missing monitoring capabilities of the TonePort GX, which is fixed in the current version 0.8.1. The software is available at the following site:
http://www.tanzband-scream.at/line6
For a detailed documentation, please read
http://www.tanzband-scream.at/line6/driverdocs.pdf
in particular Section 5 for the TonePort features.
Kind regards,
Markus
Hey grabner, good to see you on top of it again :}
I'm still very much in to make the UX2 working (according to your software poll, about 216 others would love that), but sadly enough haven't been doing my homework, so I'm still utterly inexperienced when it comes to debugging USB / writing drivers / anything inbetween. I could pythonise a cute little frontend though .. ;'D
Hooray for you!
nice nice, my ux2 runs on ubuntu now!
is there something like a gearbox equivalent to use instrs/mics ?
greetz
I just bought myself a pod studio ux2, and it doesn't seem to be supported by this driver. Would it be possible to support this device too? The device itself looks just like a toneport ux2, except for the color... ![]()
Hi!
I have a TonePort UX2, and only input that works for me is monophonic instrument input. How can I use stereo input? I couldn't find any info in documentation about selecting inputs on TonePort. If you needed a tester with UX2, I'm at your command :-) Is there any dedicated support forum od mailing list for your driver? Great work anyway, Markus.
cheers
Maciek
Hey Markus!
very cool Site! (tanzband....)
Does your driver work with PodXT too?
Do u use WINE or something else to get Monkey, Riffworks working?
And your Poll for Linux Software is also very usefull THere are about 1037 Linux-Line6 users until now, maybe we should do a little advertisment for this (-;
greetz Börn!
Make that 1038 Linux/Line 6 users now.
Linux and Line 6 kinda sound the same if you say if fast, so you'd think Line 6 would support Linux too.
Funilly enough - my first thought when hooking my Bass Podxt up to my computer was - wish there was a Linux driver.
Do I was considerring developing one.
You've saved me the trouble - thanks.
If you're looking for any help in further development let me know.
Email : euro_par@lycos.com
Hey grabner,
I just bought the POD X3 live and I'm trying to bang the USB driver into Fedora 10 and I'm going nuts with the install... The source file will not copy the driver to the dir for the planet CCRMA kernel. Really need a rpm file, what ever I can go to help with getting an rpm file built let me know. I also posted the error on sf.net >> http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=713265
thanks
sysdoc
Awesome man. I just found this after doing a google search for Line 6 Linux Drivers. Been looking for something like this for awhile. Do you have X3/L support yet?
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I wish Line6 would work with you in the same way that Wacom work with the open source community. They essentially give the details to the community and its then up to the dev's if they want to support the features or not.
I've switched from Cubase on Windows to a completely Linux setup, fantastic moved and it wouldn't have been possible without your work!
I've come close trying the line6 usb driver and wine with gearbox, but I'm not that well versed in linux to know how to setup all the background stuff:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyfFCsW8l1k
I skinned my ubuntu install to look like windows (and my windows install to look like ubuntu LOL).
Does anyone have suggestions?
I've succefully made my UX1 working with your drivers. I still have to use the line in input instead of the standard guitar one.
Sadly, I was not able to make Pod Studio working (with wine or virtual box.) And apparently, nobody has found a way to make it work.
But Guitar Rig 4 is working fine with wine. That's sad, the next stuff I'll buy will be from National Instrument instead of line6 because of that, and it is preventing me from buying model packs and upgrading to pod studio 2.0.
Buy M-Audio instead. Most USB (and a few firewire) products are Linux compatible.
http://www.m-audio.com/index.php?do=support.faq&ID=cf6f53946a5d2cfa3792487b2af97e61
The next version of the Line6 Linux driver will be ready for release in the near future, and I invite you to try it out and give feedback on version 0.9.1beta which is available under
https://line6linux.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/line6linux/driver/trunk
Here is a brief list of the most important changes compared to version 0.8.1 (there was no "official" version 0.9.0):
Unfortunately the POD X3 is still not supported (and won't make it into this release). The goal of this release is to have a solid replacement for version 0.8.1 which is currently included in the Linux kernel staging tree. I'm going to contact the kernel maintainers soon and submit the code, so if you have any issues with 0.9.1beta, please let me know, and I will try to fix it.
Thanks & kind regards,
Markus
G'day to ye sir,
I might be dum as f***, but I find no
line6usb-0.9.1beta.tar.bz2
-source package or similar in this directory
Could you help me out how to download and install this?
Cheers
This is how I did it on a Fedora machine:
su -
yum -y install svn
svn co https://line6linux.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/line6linux/driver/trunk line6usb
cd line6usb
#before you continue, make sure you have 'kernel-devel' (of the kernel currently in use) installed.#
make install
#if the unit isn't already plugged in, plug it in now.
#wait a minute and type:
cat /proc/asound/cards
#to make sure computer sees it.
yum -y install alsamixergui
#open alsamixergui with 'hw:' to whatever soundcard number. (example:)
alsamixergui -D hw:1
#turn 'monitor' slider all the way down
#open pulse-audio gui and select your card for input and output.
Do you think that will work on Ubuntu?
#Crap! forgot to tell you that you also need 'gcc' and 'make' pre-installed.
#The 10.04 version of ubuntu already has an older version pre-installed so you'll have to remove that one ( http://www.tanzband-scream.at/line6/INSTALL ).
#Also you would have to change some of the commands for logging in as "super-user" and use a different package manager.
#Basically you need to have 'gcc', 'make', 'svn', 'alsamixergui', (and whatever else google tells you you need
) pre-installed.
#Don't forget to have the kernel-devel package of your current kernel installed.
#Then in a terminal you execute the commands:
sudo svn co https://line6linux.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/line6linux/driver/trunk line6usb
cd line6usb
sudo make install
#Then you have to find your souncard with:
/proc/asound/card
#This tells you how your Line 6 device viewed by the computer ('hw:' number).
#Replace 'hw:1' with whatever shows up for your sound card when you type:
alsamixergui -D hw:1
#You HAVE TO turn the 'monitor' slider all the way down or things will crash (unless the 'svn' site has a newer version that fixes this).
#Just so you know, the thing is a little volitile but I was able to use my Line 6 UX2 with jack-audio with (so far) dependable success.
#Just F.Y.I., I bought a M-Audio MobilePre the other day and it works right out of the box.
#Here is who I owe my sanity to: http://www.tanzband-scream.at/line6/
I have hated every second it took me to figure this stuff out. I am very angry with Line 6.
Extreme hate.
I'm trying to get HD300 works with ubuntu lucid (2.6.35-25).
Looks like this devices is not supported.
I change the LINE6_DEVID_POCKETPOD 0x5051 to 0x5057 on the usbdefs.h, compile and reconnect, I can see the driver loads, but not in use, and is not appear on /proc/asound/cards
Any experience with HD300 and ubuntu?
Hello dear ubuntu-line6 users,
I own a pod HD 500 and at this time, I'm not able to manage the full connexion between ubuntu and the pod.
I'll get ubuntu studio soon and then retry.
Somenone has some positive experience in connecting a pod HD with ubuntu?
Is there any other solutions than getting an additional usb sound card? By the way, someone has advices on the usb sound card choice for ubuntu?
Thanks in advance.
Nico.
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