Hey David,<br><br>The AudioFire has been supported in FFADO for a very long time, <br>as Echo were helpful and provided &quot;generic&quot; source code for thier devices.<br><br>The FFADO site explains details, but all you need is a newish Linux Distro<br>
which has a JACK with FFADO on it. <br><br>The new Ubuntu studio has JACK &amp; FFADO, but gave me lots of unknown problems with my AudioFire12,<br>AVLinux works very well for me. The new Pure::Dyne works insanely well. (Pure:Dyne is what I currently have<br>
installed.)<br><br>Pure::Dyne runs as a Live CD, so you can try it without destroying you XP, and all I needed to do to get <br>firewire audio running, was:<br><br>1. sudo modprobe raw1394               // loads the firewire module<br>
2. sudo chmod 777 /dev/raw1394      // allows all users acces the firewire port<br>3. start jack (I use QJackCtl).<br><br>If there&#39;s errors... check your firewire settings, make sure that the &quot;backend&quot; in QJackCtl = &quot;firewire&quot;,<br>
and dont set the latency/buffer-sizes etc too low to start. A little bit of common sense and it should work<br>NP!<br><br>Hope that helped... -Harry<br><br>PS: If you havent upgraded the firmware on the AudioFire to version 5, DONT! <br>
I&#39;m getting a latency of 14.5 ms on an AudioFire2 (firm:5.5), while the same machine under <br>the same approx settings gets 2ms (yes, just two!) on an AudioFire12 (firm:4.8).<br><br>