[LAU] Hard lock-ups plus MOTU UltrLite Mk3

Pieter Palmers pieterp at joow.be
Sat May 23 17:46:38 EDT 2009


Darren Landrum wrote:
> drew Roberts wrote:
>> On Saturday 23 May 2009 12:12:02 Darren Landrum wrote:
>>> Unfortunately, I didn't ping the machine
>>> because it suddenly occurred to me that I'd never tried to ping the
>>> machine when it was working, so any result might be meaningless.
>> It would only have been worthless if you got no response. If you had gotten a 
>> response, you would have gathered some information.
> 
> I just yanked the sound card and went back to on-board sound. I have a
> feeling that the system is going to be stable from here on out. It
> happened just that way once before.
> 
> The only question, then, is is it a hardware or driver issue? I really
> don't care anymore.
> 
> I have my sights set on a MOTU UltraLite Mk3 firewire interface. I don't
> know where I'm going to get the money for it, but it has other features
> (high-impedance DIs, for a start) that will help me out greatly.
> 
> Does anyone have experience with the MOTU under Linux? Thanks!

Don't buy it if you want to use Linux. MOTU is Linux hostile and won't 
cooperate towards a driver. The best you will get is a reverse 
engineered driver, but currently nobody is working on the mk3.

In any case, as it is now MOTU is evil.

Greets,

Pieter Palmers
FFADO developer



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