Hey thanks for the links and sorry didnt get back to you sooner.
Sorry to get on the band wagon, but with the zamaudio website down, could I beg for the bz2 as well.
email is robin(at)sheehyclan.com
Thanks in advance.
Just in case anybody needs.
I found a link to the 3.2 sources for this driver on the kubuntu forums.
http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php?60733-quot-Making-quot-a-Driver-Package
But that didn’t compile on 3.5 so I made the needed small fixes.
the file can be found at
Hello there, I just got back into linux and I am running ubuntu studio 12.10. Can you give me any instructions as to how to properly get my mbox2 up and running? I have the original mbox2 not the mini
I would appreciate any help or pointing into the right direction. I am a linux re-newbie, if that makes any sense.
Thank you
MBox 2 confirmed working “out of the box” with Xubuntu 13.04 and kernel 3.8.0.19 (low-latency is obviously better but generic works too)
- Install Ardour in the Software Centre
- Plug in the MBox2 and wait foe the lights to come on and stabilise (although the S/PDIF light may keep flashing, that's fine)
- Start up Ardour, the 'Session Control' window should pop up
- Go to the 'Audio Setup' tab, set Driver to 'ALSA' and Interface to 'USB Audio'. My system seems to work with all other settings left at default values
- Give you session a name and start making music!
Hey folks,
I was not aware you were having issues getting my driver working. Please note that after kernel 3.8, the mbox2 will work out-of-the-box because I got the code accepted into ALSA.
For those who want to run older kernels, you can install my github version of alsa-driver from here:
git clone http://github.com/zamaudio/alsa-driver
git checkout mbox2
cd alsa
./gitcompile
sudo make install
Reboot and enjoy.
Hi BennTheBen,
That is not working for me. Running Xubuntu 12.04 (my playbox so has a lot of Gnome stuff and Pulse/Alsa added) with an Mbox2 Mini.
$ sudo git clone http://github.com/zamaudio/alsa-driver
fatal: destination path ‘alsa-driver’ already exists and is not an empty directory.
I tried as you have it here first, without the sudo, but no different.
$ sudo git checkout mbox2
fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
If I then attempt to cd to ‘alsa’ I get the old ‘No such file or directory.’ Any ideas?
I mean HI zamaudio! Hi BennTheBen also but my comments in the last post were for zamaudio.
Great job with the driver firstly. I had it working sometime ago and wanted to get back to it.
See my last post for details. Your instructions aren’t working. 
Hi again. I killed the existing alsa directories I created first time through and started again. Still stopping at the second command with:
$ sudo git checkout mbox2
fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
Fixed. I applied the patch from here:
That worked. Thanks. Just not getting recognised by Audacity and crashing alsa-mixer now (as it was in the new kernel 3.9). Now to sort that out. Bye.