[LAU] a 100% guaranteed firewire interface for linux?

[Pieter Palmers]

::surian:: wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Just to end this thread..
> I bought an Edirol Fa-66 and, after installing a fresh ubuntu studio, it 
> was almost plug and play!
> uhuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!
> 
> Jack is stable using freebob with 4ms latency --- sample rate is 48kHz 
> /// 64 frames/period /// 3 periods buffer
> 
> My laptop is an HP Pavillion 6700 running ubuntu studio 8.04 with kernel 
> 2.6.24-19-rt
> the firewire chipset is: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller
This controller might or might not cause issues. If you have a revision 
02 version, you are in for troubles. If you have a revision 05 version 
the problems can be circumvented. And we have one report that the 
revision 08 works very well.

Glad it works for you.

Greets,

Pieter