28 Sep
2005
28 Sep
'05
4:43 p.m.
Am Mittwoch, 28. September 2005 15:46 schrieb Dmitry Baikov:
On 9/28/05, *Paul Davis*
<paul(a)linuxaudiosystems.com
<mailto:paul@linuxaudiosystems.com>> wrote:
Hi,
I'm using the cardbus interface with a RME Multiface on following CardBus
bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev ac) controller.
It's working fine, even with low latencies.
My former notebook had an ENE controller that didn't work but with the Ricoh
controller it worked out of the box and I'm still very happy having this
soundcard. The sound is great, the driver is rock solid and can reach lowest
latencies with jack. There is also a very nice mixer and control software in
the alsa package and the developer really care about it.
regards,
Martin
Is it possible in practice? And for what number
of channels? Also,
is FW
much better than USB2 and why?
yes, its much better: vastly higher bandwidth, much faster bus clock.
Theoretical(!) numbers are: FW-400 = 400MBits/s, USB2.0 = 480 MBits/s
As for RME Multiface
i'm not sure that its that hard anymore. kernel 2.6 seemed to have
fixes ...
--p
As I see, you insist on RME :) Reasonable choice. More expensive, but
bullet-proof.
From reading RME mailing lists, I know there were many problems with
Ricoh controllers (on PCI bursts). And everybody recommends TI. But most
notebooks to choose from have Ricoh controllers. Do you know if these
problems were solved? According to the list everybody went for Fireface
now, so there's no feedback on modern cardbus setups.
And even less on linux setups.
Questions about FA-101 still remain :)
More opinions / experiences are welcome :)
Thank you.
Dmitry.