17 Jun
2012
17 Jun
'12
3:45 a.m.
On 06/16/2012 03:25 PM, Danni Coy wrote:
What it seems to be impossible to do is to find a
laptop with a descent
firewire chipset. I looked for ages when making my latest purchase and
everything currently had either ricoh or jmicron. The laptop I got has
jmicron and it locks up within a few seconds of connecting my firewire
soundcard. Since then I have opted for a NI Komplete Audio 6 which has a
reputation for "just works" on linux. It is also completely bus powered
which means I can record without requiring mains power at all.
Here's what lspci reports for my laptop's Firewire port:
02:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306/7/8 [Fire
II(M)] IEEE 1394 OHCI Controller (rev 80)
Desktops I don't think are such a problem as you
can firewire cards with
which ever chipset you need in pci and pci express flavours.
If I can't make my laptop Firewire port work, I might try a PCI adapter
in a slimline desktop machine I'm thinking of using instead.
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