[linux-audio-user] Re: [linux-audio-dev] RME is no more

[David Stephens]

Well for once I am glad to have invested in less the cutting edge
hardware, However still  trying to figure out how to get my RME
Multi-face to work on my system....


On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 10:58:42 -0800, Florin Andrei
<florin at andrei.myip.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 19:36 +0100, Georg Rudolph wrote:
> > Firewire needs more time to be more legacy, hopefully not too long :)
> 
> Right. It could be a problem of what RME is afraid to disclose.
> 
> If they don't want to disclose things related to the Fireface
> architecture per se, then it's pretty bad - it's unlikely that they will
> ever disclose anything, until that architecture becomes really obsolete.
> If it's just things related to how to implement a good sound driver for
> Firewire-connected cards, well then... perhaps the Firewire support in
> Linux will get better and eventually RME will release the Fireface-
> specific bits that will allow building a good-enough Linux driver.
> 
> But it's all guessing at this stage.
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Florin Andrei
> 
> http://florin.myip.org/
> 
> 


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