[LAU] Laptops for firewire based pro-audio on linux

[Danni Coy]

I have had both cards working on my Linux based workstation. I would like a
working sw mixer but other than that everything is peachy.

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 5:20 AM, Egor Sanin <egor.sanin at gmail.com> wrote:

> A little late to the game...
>
> Presonus might be problematic:
>
> http://www.ffado.org/?q=devicesupport%2Flist&filter0=presonus&filter1=&op2=OR
>
> I haven't done any serious research on their devices, but I was
> recently looking at a good second-hand deal and didn't go for it
> because of the ffado support status.
>
> Just my two cents.
>
>
> On 2/1/12, Moshe Werner <moshwe at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I'm on a Macbook Pro (late 2010). Firewire is Agere, not TI!
> >> > I really was angry when I discovered this
> >>
> >
> > I was angry that I was told it was a TI chipset just to find out it was
> > Agere.
> >
> >
> >>
> >> The first FW643 revision was buggy, but the latest Lucent, er, Agere,
> >> I mean, LSI chips (FW643E, FW533E) are actually better then TI chips.
> >>
> >> > Tried to run Ubuntustudio on the mac and having issues with xruns all
> >> over the place.
> >>
> >> It's hard to be sure what causes them, but it's unlikely to be the
> >> controller.
> >>
> >
> > Could be, didn't dig too deep on that matter as I simply use
> Ardour/Mixbus
> > on OSx.
> >
> >
> >> Is your FireWire interrupt shared with other devices?  Are you using the
> >> nvidia graphics driver?  Are you running something like NetworkManager
> >> that scans for new networks?
> >>
> >
> > Interrupt- Didn't check.
> > Graphic driver- yes using nvidia
> > Network manager- yes
> >
> > Just thought I would share my experience (also if it's not much).
> >
> > Cheers
> > Moshe
> >
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