[Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#988073: xoscope: ALSA support is missing in xoscope v2.2

[Adrian Bunk]

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On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 05:50:23PM -0700, bob prohaska wrote:
> Package: xoscope
> Version: 2.2-1+b1
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> It looks like ALSA support has been omitted in the RaspiOS port
> of xoscope. The program runs but can't find the audio input device.
> The audacity package finds the capture device via ALSA, so the
> hardware is ok, along with the rest of the OS.
> 
> Xoscope was installed using sudo apt install xoscope. No errors were
> reported, the program runs fine but only recognizes COMEDIA input 
> devices, which don't seem to exist for the Pi.
> 
> The device is quite generic, called DIGITNOW Audio Capture and sold
> on Amazon. 
> 
> As an aside, I tried to compile xoscope 2.3 from source, but the
> config process failed in what looked like a fundamental way.

Thanks for the bug report.

This has already been fixed for the upcoming Debian 11,
but is unfortunately unlikely to get fixed in the current
Debian 10.

> Thanks for reading,
> 
> bob prohaska

cu
Adrian