1 Feb
2012
1 Feb
'12
9:20 a.m.
Looking for A laptop that will perform well under linux.
Requirements...
* Must have graphics fast enough to run Unigine (my day job). Prefer
nVidia (higher quality drivers, easier to move systems between my
workstations and laptop)...
* Must be able to do low latency audio via firewire (I have a Presonus
firebox, a Presonus fp8 and a TI based firewire express card)
* Preferably has eSata
My discoveries thus far...
There are specialist audio dealers that have custom built laptops for 2k
to 2.5k even some in Australia.
Apple Mac Book pro seems to be the front runner in terms of off the
shelf performance but - Need to check out the firewire chipset before
purchase and it doesn't look like eSata is available
Dell would otherwise be interesting but tends to use the Ricoh chipset
for firewire which is concidered to have poor performance - is there
anybody here using one of these?
Lenovo -- lots of models that at least have an express card slot... Which
models have people got that work ok with a firewire express card?
System76 some interesting possibilities talked to one of there guys, said
they may take on my suggestion of providing a laptop with descent firewire.
everybody else
Either no firewire or problematic firewire chipsets, No express card
slot. No real market differenciation.
Other suggestions?
1 Feb
1 Feb
9:59 a.m.
Hi there,
I'm on a Macbook Pro (late 2010). Firewire is Agere, not TI!
I really was angry when I discovered this, as I was told by the Apple sales
person that they work with TI. Apple continuously screw their customers
with ever changing chipsets, despite knowing most of their customers are
doing professional work with their macs.
Tried to run Ubuntustudio on the mac and having issues with xruns all over
the place.
Other than that Macs are wonderful machines.
Warm regards,
Moshe
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Danni Coy <danni.coy(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Looking for A laptop that will perform well under
linux.
Requirements...
* Must have graphics fast enough to run Unigine (my day job). Prefer
nVidia (higher quality drivers, easier to move systems between my
workstations and laptop)...
* Must be able to do low latency audio via firewire (I have a Presonus
firebox, a Presonus fp8 and a TI based firewire express card)
* Preferably has eSata
My discoveries thus far...
There are specialist audio dealers that have custom built laptops for
2k to 2.5k even some in Australia.
Apple Mac Book pro seems to be the front runner in terms of off the
shelf performance but - Need to check out the firewire chipset before
purchase and it doesn't look like eSata is available
Dell would otherwise be interesting but tends to use the Ricoh chipset
for firewire which is concidered to have poor performance - is there
anybody here using one of these?
Lenovo -- lots of models that at least have an express card slot...
Which models have people got that work ok with a firewire express card?
System76 some interesting possibilities talked to one of there guys,
said they may take on my suggestion of providing a laptop with descent
firewire.
everybody else
Either no firewire or problematic firewire chipsets, No express card
slot. No real market differenciation.
Other suggestions?
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10:33 a.m.
Moshe Werner wrote:
I'm on a Macbook Pro (late 2010). Firewire is
Agere, not TI!
I really was angry when I discovered this
The first FW643 revision was buggy, but the latest Lucent, er, Agere,
I mean, LSI chips (FW643E, FW533E) are actually better then TI chips.
Tried to run Ubuntustudio on the mac and having issues
with xruns all over the place.
It's hard to be sure what causes them, but it's unlikely to be the
controller.
Is your FireWire interrupt shared with other devices? Are you using the
nvidia graphics driver? Are you running something like NetworkManager
that scans for new networks?
Regards,
Clemens
10:39 a.m.
I'm on a Macbook Pro (late 2010). Firewire is
Agere, not TI!
I was angry that I was told it was a TI chipset just to find out it was
Agere.
I really was angry when I discovered this
The first FW643 revision was buggy, but the latest Lucent, er, Agere,
I mean, LSI chips (FW643E, FW533E) are actually better then TI chips.
Could be, didn't dig too deep on that matter as I simply use Ardour/Mixbus
on OSx.
Tried to run Ubuntustudio on the mac and having
issues with xruns all
over the place.
It's hard to be sure what causes them, but it's unlikely to be the
controller.
Is your FireWire interrupt shared with other devices?
Are you using the
nvidia graphics driver? Are you running something like NetworkManager
that scans for new networks?
Interrupt- Didn't check.
Graphic driver- yes using nvidia
Network manager- yes
Just thought I would share my experience (also if it's not much).
Cheers
Moshe
6 Feb
6 Feb
8:21 p.m.
A little late to the game...
Presonus might be problematic:
http://www.ffado.org/?q=devicesupport%2Flist&filter0=presonus&filte…
I haven't done any serious research on their devices, but I was
recently looking at a good second-hand deal and didn't go for it
because of the ffado support status.
Just my two cents.
On 2/1/12, Moshe Werner <moshwe(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'm on a
Macbook Pro (late 2010). Firewire is Agere, not TI!
I was angry that I was told it was a TI chipset just to find out it was
Agere.
I really was angry when I discovered this
The first FW643 revision was buggy, but the latest Lucent, er, Agere,
I mean, LSI chips (FW643E, FW533E) are actually better then TI chips.
Could be, didn't dig too deep on that matter as I simply use Ardour/Mixbus
on OSx.
Tried to run Ubuntustudio on the mac and having
issues with xruns all
over the place.
It's hard to be sure what causes them, but it's unlikely to be the
controller.
Is your FireWire interrupt shared with other
devices? Are you using the
nvidia graphics driver? Are you running something like NetworkManager
that scans for new networks?
Interrupt- Didn't check.
Graphic driver- yes using nvidia
Network manager- yes
Just thought I would share my experience (also if it's not much).
Cheers
Moshe
7 Feb
7 Feb
5:47 a.m.
I have had both cards working on my Linux based workstation. I would like a
working sw mixer but other than that everything is peachy.
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 5:20 AM, Egor Sanin <egor.sanin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
A little late to the game...
Presonus might be problematic:
http://www.ffado.org/?q=devicesupport%2Flist&filter0=presonus&filte…
I haven't done any serious research on their devices, but I was
recently looking at a good second-hand deal and didn't go for it
because of the ffado support status.
Just my two cents.
On 2/1/12, Moshe Werner <moshwe(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Ardour/Mixbus
I'm
on a Macbook Pro (late 2010). Firewire is Agere, not TI!
I was angry that I was told it was a TI chipset just to find out it was
Agere.
I really was angry when I discovered this
The first FW643 revision was buggy, but the latest Lucent, er, Agere,
I mean, LSI chips (FW643E, FW533E) are actually better then TI chips.
Could be, didn't dig too deep on that matter as I simply use Tried to run Ubuntustudio on the mac and having
issues with xruns all
over the place.
It's hard to be sure what causes them, but it's unlikely to be the
controller.
on OSx.
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Is your FireWire interrupt shared with other
devices? Are you using the
nvidia graphics driver? Are you running something like NetworkManager
that scans for new networks?
Interrupt- Didn't check.
Graphic driver- yes using nvidia
Network manager- yes
Just thought I would share my experience (also if it's not much).
Cheers
Moshe
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