As of today I believe that you cannot run any 1394 audio device under
Alsa. There are no released drivers for any of these sort of units.
A while back Steve Harris indicated that there was some work underway
to support these but I've heard nothing since. I might be willing to
pick one up and be a beta tester if there is a real effort to make
these work.
Sorry for such news. I hope someone pops up and indicates I'm wrong
because it would e good news for laptop users.
Take care,
Mark
On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 16:41:55 +0100 (CET), Olivier Kaloudoff
<kalou(a)kalou.net> wrote:
  Hi,
         I plan to buy one of the following external mobile sound
 interface, to record live with linux;
 - Edirol FA 101 (Firewire, XLR, spdif, MIDI)
 - M Audio Firewire 410 (Firewire, XLR, spdif, DTS)
         is there someone out there using this kind of device
 already with linux ? the manufacturers were unable to give me
 informations about linux compatibility, so I wonder if I'll be
 able to use all the features with the standard linux tools, or
 only a subset.
         would be really happy to ear feedback from you.
 Best Regards,
 Olivier Kaloudoff
 LUG Linux Azur
 
http://www.linux-azur.org
 http://www.edirol.com/products/info/fa101.html
 http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/FireWire410-main.html