[LAU] Statement from RME regarding to Linux

Brett McCoy idragosani at gmail.com
Wed Nov 14 14:25:01 UTC 2012


On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Ralf Mardorf
<ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:

>> > Hm? I paid RME, does RME pay the Linux community to do the support?
>> > Does RME give all the needed information, so that theoretically a
>> > driver could be written?
>>
>> How is this different from the majority of hardware vendors for which
>> there are open source drivers? Wacom has a similar policy, they give
>> the open source drivers acknowledgement (with a link) on their website
>> but don't provide direct support.
>
> In don't blame anybody for recommending RME and especially the PCIe
> version instead of the PCI version. It was recommended on this list or
> LAD, with best intentions and I did some research myself before I
> ordered the card. RME was known/is known as good supported and people
> are fine with the AIO too, as I was, when I made quick tests. ADAT 1
> and 2 did work, I tested them and hdspmixer did show a signal for all
> ADAT inputs.
>
> But I blame RME. I read that the card does work with Linux on
> the RME forums and RME didn't correct this seemingly wrong information!

I've used both PCI and PCIe cards on Linux (both 32-bit and 64-bit)
and the hardware has performed flawlessly out of the box. But I am
using the HDSP card for Multiface II, maybe the AIO cards work
differently with the driver?

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