[LAU] hardware & distro recos for using with Presonus Firepod?

[Mac McIlvaine]

>Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 22:48:31 -0800
>From: Iain Duncan <iainduncanlists at gmail.com>
>Subject: [LAU] hardware & distro recos for using with Presonus
>	Firepod?
>To: linux-audio-user at lists.linuxaudio.org

>Hi folks, my machine just died so it's time to shop for a new one,
and might
>as well kick the tires on distros at the same time. Can anyone give 
my their
>recommendations (and stay-away-froms) for a microATX factor board/chip 
combo
>that will work well for setting up a linux audio workstation to 
be used with
>a Presonus Firepod?
>
>Anyone have experiences to share re the Ubuntu Studio 9.10 and the 
Firepod?
>( or other presonus firewire cards ).
>

I have successfully had twin Firepods running on Ubuntu 9.04 with 
the custom rt kernel. I was never able to have non-xrun recording 
otherwise.

The only hardware that seems critical is the firewire chipset. The 
TI chipset seems to work fine, other not so much.

I don't have an opinion on the cpu or mobo, have used both intel 
and amd. (googling "don't use this particular model#" in this application 
is always a good idea.)

I have not attempted 9.10 (either vanilla or Ubuntu Studio) I'm in 
the middle of a big mastering job and don't have time to fool with 
the "oh, well build this and tweak that stuff that always seems to 
result when changing things.



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