[linux-audio-user] Newbie Questions

Eric Dantan Rzewnicki rzewnickie at rfa.org
Thu May 27 16:20:44 EDT 2004


On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 10:35:02PM +0200, Bryan Jurish wrote:
> On 26 May 2004 at 12:00:51, Ryan appears to have written:
>  > On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 07:35, Chris Share wrote:
>  > > My second question concerns audio hardware. Here at the SARC I have
>  > > access to a Digi 002r audio/MIDI interface which uses Firewire. I can't
>  > > find any information about this interface and was wondering if it was
>  > > possible to use it with Linux.
>  > Possible... anything is.  Likely/easy certainly not.  M-audio for
>  > low-end cheaper, RME for high end spensive.
> i know nothing about firewire audio under linux, but my 
> (unsolicited) advice is to stay away from m-audio : their
> usb devices Just Plain Don't Work under kernel 2.6, and
> the company has no plans to actively support linux
> themselves... bummer for me as someone who bought a
> Quattro, but maybe it'll save someone else some headaches...

While there have been troubles with m-audio's usb devices, it should be
noted that many of their PCI audio cards are well supported. The Delta
series based on the ice1712 chip are good cards.

-Eric Rz.



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