8 Nov
2004
8 Nov
'04
11:41 a.m.
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
8 Nov
8 Nov
11:51 a.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] success/failures with M Audio / Edirol Firewire cards ?
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
12:22 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] success/failures with M Audio / Edirol Firewire cards ?
On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Mark Knecht wrote:
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.
Hi Mark,
thank you for the quick answer. Indeed, looking for alsa and
firewire, I found "FreeBob", the open source project to have Bebob under
Linux.
Some previous posts made me think that the specs were all open,
but the freebob developpers probably did not managed to get them all due
to an NDA.
As I really really want to use advanced sound hardware with my
Linux Laptop, would you know if there is a project like "Linuxant" or
ndiswrapper, that would allow people to use the Winblows driver under
linux ? (I'm doing this already for my Wifi broadcom based pcmcia card)
Olivier
http://freebob.sourceforge.net/
http://www.linuxant.com
12:45 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] success/failures with M Audio / Edirol Firewire cards ?
Hallo,
Olivier Kaloudoff hat gesagt: // Olivier Kaloudoff wrote:
Some previous posts made me think that the specs were
all open,
but the freebob developpers probably did not managed to get them all due
to an NDA.
The NDA is no real problem here. The manufacturer of the chip is
supporting developers with hardware (soon) and some more indepth docs
only available through NDA (in the works). But the driver will be a
GPL'd ALSA driver, AFAIK.
As I really really want to use advanced sound
hardware with my
Linux Laptop, would you know if there is a project like "Linuxant" or
ndiswrapper, that would allow people to use the Winblows driver under
linux ? (I'm doing this already for my Wifi broadcom based pcmcia card)
Worse than an NDA. For using Windows drivers, MS-Windows is a much
better system and it's not even free software. ;)
If you need an advanced mobile card now, buy an USB-2.0 or a supported
PCMCIA card like the RME. If it absolutely has to be FW you will need
to be patient and wait a while until Bob is freed.
Ciao
--
Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__
12:58 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] success/failures with M Audio / Edirol Firewire cards ?
On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 17:22:24 +0100 (CET), Olivier Kaloudoff
<kalou(a)kalou.net> wrote:
On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Mark Knecht wrote:
Well, I don't know anything about FreeBob, but seeing that it's only
in the planning stage I expect you should not buy new hardware and
consider using this anytime soon.
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.
Hi Mark,
thank you for the quick answer. Indeed, looking for alsa and
firewire, I found "FreeBob", the open source project to have Bebob under
Linux.
Some previous posts made me think that the specs were all open,
but the freebob developpers probably did not managed to get them all due
to an NDA.
Many of the specs are out in the open, as you say. I think most or all
of the ones needed to support the cards you are interested in are
openly available. I think it really comes down to finding some
developers that are interested and willing to take on the work to make
it happen.
As I really really want to use advanced sound hardware with my
Linux Laptop, would you know if there is a project like "Linuxant" or
ndiswrapper, that would allow people to use the Winblows driver under
linux ? (I'm doing this already for my Wifi broadcom based pcmcia card)
There are none that I know of unfortunately. I've been part fo the
1394 developer's list, as well as the user's list, for years. I'm
pretty sure a question or two would have come up over the years, but
to the best of my knowledge not a single thread has been written.
You're doing better than me with the ndiswrapper stuff. Wireless works
great for me under Windows but I cannot send a packet in Linux even
though all the info says my Broadcom chip is supported.
- Mark
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