I finally got it working: The hunch about compiling the kernel was correct, I simply did the wrong steps. I stumbled over this page on the wiki , where the correct way of compiling the kernel is described. To know that I needed to build an uImage was the key (and that the right one has to be replace...

I figured I'll most likely need to recompile the kernel. I cloned this repo: https://github.com/friendlyarm/linux-3.4.y and could enable USB audio devices in menuconfig. Compiling the kernel was somewhat OK, I had to pass in parameters like "CC=/usr/bin/gcc LD=..." and so forth in order to...

Hey, kevin16 - did you have any success meanwhile? If so, what did you do? Running Debian (fused yesterday), I am now at a similar position. I have added a USB soundcard and alsamixer won't show it. Only the SPDIF card, presumably the one of HDMI, is available. Here's the relevant output from dmesg:...