17 Oct
2017
17 Oct
'17
7:54 p.m.
Len Ovens <len-ODU3Ot18rIYsV2N9l4h3zg(a)public.gmane.org> writes:
On Tue, 17 Oct 2017, Mac wrote:
It depends. I can use Ffado fine for the Mackie Onyx mixer Firewire
card even though Alsa also offers to access it (through snd_ox I think).
I had to blacklist the (not properly functioning for this card) snd_dice
driver for Ffado to be able to access an Alesis iO|14.
In general, when sound hardware is old enough to have been supported in
the heydey of Ffado, the Alsa drivers are more likely to be of
"afterthought" quality in my experience.
--
David Kastrup
I built a new PC and installed Ubuntu Studio
16.04.
The PC has a firewire card.
As firewire has been added to alsa, the alsa firewire drivers are
loaded instead. So you should be able to see your device as an alsa
device (check arecord -l). I have heard (though I have no FW HW) that
the old FW drivers may still be more stable, but to use them you need
to blacklist the alsa FW module(s) so that the old style FW kernel
modules can load.