Ubuntu Studio and the Tascam US-122 USB sound card

Well, I've been working on recording a record ("Sooperchumpy") and I determined that the 16 bit recordings that I was doing were not of sufficiently high quality. I ebay'd my Fostex MR8 and bought a Tascam US-122. This is where the fun began. I bought this old USB 1.1 recording interface because it seemed to be known to work with Linux. It came the other day and I was anxious to try it out. Initially, it seemed to work great. It would record ten seconds of sound without mishap. Eventually I tried to record something longer and discovered that somewhere just past thirty seconds the device died.

I spent quite a bit of time trying to get the damned thing to work, and eventually figured out that this is something that worked well with Ubuntu Feisty, but was difficult to get using with Gutsy due to something called "ohci". A quick google tells me that this is the "Open Host Controller Interface". That's cool. Anyhow, to make a long story short, downgrading to Feisty made quick work of this problem. There wasn't anything I really needed in Gutsy anyhow. I'm posting links to the articles that were helpful.

Kjel

Mailing list detailing the fix for Gutsy:
http://www.nabble.com/jackd-watchdog:-timeout---killing-jack-t4528241.html

Same problem here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=30891&page=6