26 Apr
2004
26 Apr
'04
11:58 a.m.
Hi everyone
It's that time of the year when I convince the missus that a studio PC upgrade is
"necessary" and I go out and buy new hardware :-)
Is anyone on the list running either of the two M-Audio setups currently available: the
Audiophile 2496 (PCI) or the Audiophile USB? Alternatively, can anyone recommend something
similar? Incidentally, I'm currently running Mandrake 10 (Community), with the 2.6x
kernel...
cheers!
daniel
www.onionjack.com
26 Apr
26 Apr
3:43 p.m.
Hi,
On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 02:51:49PM +0100,
daniel.vincent(a)blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
Is anyone on the list running either of the two
M-Audio setups
currently available: the Audiophile 2496 (PCI) or the Audiophile USB?
Alternatively, can anyone recommend something similar? Incidentally,
I'm currently running Mandrake 10 (Community), with the 2.6x kernel...
I'm running the PCI version of the Audiophile 2496, and it works
flawlessly. Use the ice1712 ALSA driver, and build envy24control (found
in either alsa-tools or alsa-utils) to set up routing, levels, etc. for
the card.
Thanks,
Greg
--
Greg Jednaszewski
greg(a)attenuated.org
4:29 p.m.
Hallo,
daniel.vincent(a)blueyonder.co.uk hat gesagt: // daniel.vincent(a)blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
It's that time of the year when I convince the
missus that a studio
PC upgrade is "necessary" and I go out and buy new hardware :-)
Is anyone on the list running either of the two M-Audio setups
currently available: the Audiophile 2496 (PCI) or the Audiophile
USB? Alternatively, can anyone recommend something similar?
Incidentally, I'm currently running Mandrake 10 (Community), with
the 2.6x kernel...
The USB won't run on kernel 2.6 at all, because it, ah again, violates
the USB specification. There are some patches that can enable this
card, but you'll need to patch the kernel yourself, AFAIK. Plus: I
don't know if the USB is supported by ALSA. Last time I looked (about
two months ago) there was no firmware loader. Conclusion: Don't buy
it, there are many USB devices which are easier to set up.
The PCI Audiophile however is a fine card, I myself own it for over a
year, maybe two years. OSS-emulation for the mixer doesn't work, but
you can use native ALSA mixers like alsamixer and of course
envy24control. Also has a slight problem sometimes with delayed
startup in OSS mode, which can be fixed with a driver module option,
but I don't know which one that was. Otherwise: Great card, good
quality, maybe a tiny bit too expensive compared to some very similar
Hoontech or Terratec cards. I'd probably buy it again.
Ciao
--
Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__
27 Apr
27 Apr
5:31 a.m.
Frank Barknecht wrote:
daniel.vincent(a)blueyonder.co.uk hat gesagt: //
daniel.vincent(a)blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
The Audiophile USB doesn't need a firmware loader because it already
has an EEPROM with the firmware.
Other M-Audio devices have an EEPROM, too, but M-Audio didn't bother
to put the firmware in there. (I have a report from someone who got
the Sonica to work by simply burning the firmware file into the
EEPROM.)
Is anyone on the list running either of the two
M-Audio setups
currently available: the Audiophile 2496 (PCI) or the Audiophile
USB? Alternatively, can anyone recommend something similar?
Incidentally, I'm currently running Mandrake 10 (Community), with
the 2.6x kernel...
The USB won't run on kernel 2.6 at all, because it, ah again, violates
the USB specification. There are some patches that can enable this
card, but you'll need to patch the kernel yourself, AFAIK. Plus: I
don't know if the USB is supported by ALSA. Last time I looked (about
two months ago) there was no firmware loader. Conclusion: Don't buy it, there are many USB
devices which are
easier to set up.
And if possible, don't use a USB device but a PCI card.
HTH
Clemens
12:34 p.m.
Frank Barknecht wrote:
Clemens Ladisch hat gesagt: // Clemens Ladisch wrote:
Well, apart from the discontinuous alternate setting numbers, there
are problems with frequency feedback, and it uses big-endian samples,
and it requires setting the sample rate although the descriptors claim
it doesn't support that, and the MIDI port uses some M-Audio-specific
protocol. But the driver has workarounds for those, uh, features.
Regards,
Clemens
The Audiophile USB doesn't need a firmware
loader because it already
has an EEPROM with the firmware.
So the Audiophile USB does work on 2.4?
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