Hi, I bought an Allo USBridge with DietPi. I have heavily distorted audio on output via Roon, especially with higher sampling rates.
Due to a known bug in older kernel versions my T+A DAC8 needs at least kernel 4.9 or greater. It has a Tenor TE8802L USB chip and that has been fixed in recent linux kernel versions but is causing problems like the one I described in older versions.
Unfortunately dietpi is still on an older kernel. I treid with volumio, but volumio for sparky is also on an older kernel since they dont update as regularly as for raspberrypi. I then tried with a raspberry pi and RoPieee and that worked flawlessly since it had kernel 4.1.4. Unfortunately no RoPiee for Sprky as of yet :-(.
So to use my USBridge I need to update the kernel to a more recent version, can anyone help on how to do this or has had similar problems with roon and a SBC (Raspi, Sparky, etc.) and can help?
I know my way around linux a little, so commandline is not a problem. Please help, i am stuck here with a device with no use to me here.
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Allo was asked about this old kernel for Sparky before. They are aware, but there was no answer when the new kernel will be ready for Sparky. I am afraid there is no workaround for now.
So any update on this @spockfish? I am sad to report that @allo.com has not been able to fix this problem with a usb-driver patch. I would be willing to sponsor the development of a ropieee for sparky, since it seems to be a problem finding a linux device with recent kernel except RPI3.
I have also owned an SMS200 by SOTM and it has the exact same issue with an ancient kernel being the source of the problem.