[linux-audio-user] Ok, what about non firewire mobile cards?

[Lee Revell]

On Sun, 2006-09-17 at 02:29 +0000, carmen wrote:
> > > I found a page on someone reverse engineering the MOTU stuff to make 
> > > drivers, is that a dead project then? Or just a long shot?
> > 
> 
> http://www.olafchrist.de/ieee1394/index.php . soudns like a bit of a
> gamble. i made the mistake of buying MOTU once and it barely worked on
> windows. only would properly install after a clean wipe of windows,
> due to ghosted registry entries or something screwing up their
> ancient, broken installer. got it working once, but it was chewing 20%
> of the CPU just to channel MIDI, which is 20% more than a 9 dollar
> gameport cable.. plus it wouldnt work on linxu despite the usb-audio
> seeing it..
> 

I suspect the vast majority of MOTU's testing is on OSX.  Digital
Performer doesn't even run on Windows.

Lee