[LAU] questions about 'LENOVO 3000 N100'

Ken Restivo ken at restivo.org
Mon Aug 20 16:33:08 EDT 2007


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On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 12:30:14PM -0400, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-08-18 at 15:36 -0500, Peter Finnegan wrote:
> 
> > >From my experience with my thinkpad, firewire generally works fine.  I
> > discovered that to get a clean sound with my presonus firebox, I had to
> > turn off the wireless radio, as they shared the same irq interrupt.  I
> > have had no problems capturing video from my camcorder.
> > 
> > I do not know if the 3000 series have the same firewire chipset (Texas
> > Instruments).  
> 
> lspci on my 3000 N100 says that firewire is a Ricoh chipset.
> 05:06.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0832
> 
> 

That is the bad chipset. I have the same one and it does NOT stream correctly, and thus is unusable for Linux audio.

I purchased a FireWire Express Card that has a TI chipset and works perfectly, for US$60 online. In fact, I am using it right this moment, for capturing DV from a friend's camera.

- -ken
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