[LAU] disappointing experience with firewire

[Patrick Shirkey]

Florian Faber wrote:
> Arnold,
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>> First: This is still an english-speaking list...
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> Yes, evolution defaults to author, kmail to list, I got mixed up.
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>> Second: That might be your oppinion, but its not a universal rule.
>>     
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> 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...
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> 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, ..
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>> 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. 
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> 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?
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>   

There are too many places that it could be hosted. Most obvious is a 
wiki format on the linuxaudio.org server.

I'll link to it on the LAU-guide when it is up. I'm sure it will be 
helpful as netbook adoption rates are gonna keep growing over the next 
few years.


Cheers.

-- 
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd.