On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine(a)gmail.com> wrote: That's true, but I don't think Wacom provides direct support, do they? Not like nVidia does for their binary drivers. Anyway, the point is a lot of companies won't provide support for Linux but will just send people here :-) -- Brett W. McCoy -- http://www.brettwmccoy.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "In the rhythm of music a secret is hidden; If I were to divulge it, it would overturn the world." -- Jelaleddin Rumi

On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 09:20 -0500, Brett McCoy wrote: That's what makes me a little bit indignant about RME. Thank you for buying our card, if you need help visit an ALSA forum, OWTTE translated [1]. They've got a Linux forum, that implies that RME can be used with Linux, especially if they keep claims that something is working. Yes many cards are working and even my card does work, it's simply not working if I need more than a simple stereo card. On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 15:19 +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: I don't understand Alexandre's "not looking for offences?". Are customers today supplicants? Is it offence to ask for support? I also got friendly answers from RME. e.g. that ADAT sync is ok, offset is normal, it's just that different converters will have an offset comparable to some cm different microphone position, users don't need to be aware of this. Using word clock won't improve the sync. I disagree, I need to be aware of the offset, to avoid bad phases, however, the friendly reply regarding to bad latency and unusable IOs is to ask the Linux community. "Hardware" isn't a problem insofar as there are many cards known as working with Linux. Some do have a less good audio quality, others are outdated because they are for PCI only, others are to expensive cards for my purse. The HDSPe AIO has very good audio quality and is less expensive and I did much research before I decided to order this card. For other OSs there are other not to expensive high quality cards available that can't be used with Linux. In the past I very often send so called Linux compatible equipment back to the dealer and I got my money back. In this case I planed to do the same, unfortunately it was my failure not to test the card completely, directly after it was delivered. The problem is, that just listening to a production, it's really impossible to hear a difference between my elCheapo TerraTec Envy24 cards and the RME card. You hear the difference, if you try to master a production yourself, when it becomes easier to do the mastering, something seems to be more accurate for one card than for the other. So when looking for a new card IMO some recommendation is needed, just listening to cards that do work with Linux, to hear if the sound is ok, won't help. Reading advertisings, won't help. Gerald Albright, played Saxophone for Quincy Jones uses M-Audio ... ;). Nice, he isn't "the" producer of Quincy Jones. [1] "[...] Hilfe findet sich ggf. in ALSA-Foren oder auch in der Linux-Abteilung unseres eigenen Forums (rme-audio.de/forum) [...]"