[LAU] disappointing experience with firewire

[Florian Faber]

Arnold,

> First: This is still an english-speaking list...

Yes, evolution defaults to author, kmail to list, I got mixed up.
 
> Second: That might be your oppinion, but its not a universal rule.

I wanted to point out an alternative if she needs lots of IO and is
stuck on a notebook. I don't see how that classifies as opinion, it's
just another option.

> I did use 
> my firewire-setup with great success for live-foh-mixing and foh-effects. Yes, I 
> did have low-latency. Firewire is capable of that...

Latency and system load are still worse than with native PCI/PCIe
solutions in current implementations, no matter what Firewire is
theoretically capable of. And since I don't know what exactly she is
doing, ..

> And I don't think buying an expensive RME pcmcia interface will help
> Susanne because her pcmcia-slot is sharing its interrupt with the
> graphics card. 

Yes, that's broken by design. Something that even can be seen on recent
notebooks. Maybe we should start a list of notebooks with proper
interrupt setup to inform people *before* buying a new machine. What
would be a good place for this?


Flo
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