[LAU] Focusrite Saffire LE (2)

[Pieter Palmers]

Chris Wenn wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:51 AM, Pieter Palmers <pieterp at joow.be 
> <mailto:pieterp at joow.be>> wrote:
> 
>     Chris Wenn wrote:
> 
>         Hi Pieter and anyone else following this discussion.
> 
>         After some additional troubleshooting, I've discovered that
>         either the
>         Expresscard or the Expresscard adapter in my M1210 is the culprit in
>         this problem. I hope it's the card, because at least I can throw
>         that
>         out :)
> 
>         I got desperate and tried out the whole setup in Windows
>         (*sigh*), and
>         it didn't work there either.
> 
>     DELL has some bios updates mentioning expresscard support
>     improvements for some laptops, maybe that's the case for you too?
> 
>     In any case, it should be possible to make it work on windows, or
>     work with DELL to make it work. Usually they are less reluctant to
>     help windows users than they are to help Linux users. They always
>     seem to expect that crappy hardware is due to the Linux OS.
> 
> 
> I'm on rev. A07 and there's an A08, so I'll try to get that to work - 
> seems it has to be installed from the first partition (which Windows 
> isn't) and I've mislaid my documentation for updating from Linux. In any 
> case, using the Saffire via the Expresscard produced really strange 
> timing errors (audio was crackly and slowed down by about 50%, with huge 
> CPU usage) under Windows, however the Ricoh device worked fine.
>  
> 
> 
> 
>         Interestingly, the onboard Ricoh firewire works perfectly - it's
>         total
>         failure to work at all in Linux was the start of this quest, so
>         I'm a
>         bit bewildered.
> 
> 
>     The Ricoh controller is a mistery to me too. I really can't figure
>     out what the exact problem is. In the logs you provided I don't see
>     it though. What version of the Ricoh chip do you have?
> 
>     Greets,
> 
>     Pieter
> 
> 
> The 8522, IIRC - integrated with SD/MMC reader. Under Linux (both Ubuntu 
> and 64Studio) it crashes out with an Iso Xmit Error 0, as described here 
> http://freebob.sourceforge.net/index.php/FAQ, which seems to be 
> unrecoverable. In Windows it's working fine - which goes against reports 
> I'd seen of the problem being cross-platform...

It would be good if you could run the ffado-diag tool such that we can 
figure out what hardware revision of the ricoh chip you have.

Greets,

Pieter