Re: [LAU] Statement from RME regarding to Linux - Linux-audio-user

14 Nov 2012

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Ralf Mardorf
&lt;ralf.mardorf(a)alice-dsl.net&gt; wrote:

...
    Hm? I paid RME, does RME pay the Linux community to do
the support?
 Does RME give all the needed information, so that theoretically a
 driver could be written? 
 How is this different from the majority of hardware vendors for which
 there are open source drivers? Wacom has a similar policy, they give
 the open source drivers acknowledgement (with a link) on their website
 but don't provide direct support. 
 In don't blame anybody for recommending RME and especially the PCIe
 version instead of the PCI version. It was recommended on this list or
 LAD, with best intentions and I did some research myself before I
 ordered the card. RME was known/is known as good supported and people
 are fine with the AIO too, as I was, when I made quick tests. ADAT 1
 and 2 did work, I tested them and hdspmixer did show a signal for all
 ADAT inputs.

 But I blame RME. I read that the card does work with Linux on
 the RME forums and RME didn't correct this seemingly wrong information! 
I've used both PCI and PCIe cards on Linux (both 32-bit and 64-bit)
and the hardware has performed flawlessly out of the box. But I am
using the HDSP card for Multiface II, maybe the AIO cards work
differently with the driver?

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Brett W. McCoy -- http://www.brettwmccoy.com
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