I also got a very quick response from the Focusrite Team:
Hi Christoph,
Thanks for your e-mail and for your interest in the 6 USB.
I'm afraid we do not officially support Linux for any of our products and there are no 3rd party drivers available for the 6USB, that I know of.
There are 3rd party drivers available that are compatible with our FireWire interfaces from here: http://www.ffado.org/
I will talk to our developers to see if we can push for FFADO to do the same for our USB interface, however I don't foresee this happening in the very near future.
Let me know if I can be of further assistance.
Best regards,
Chris Ready
Focusrite/Novation Tech Support
I earnestly hope that ffado or any alsa developer will be interested in developing a driver eventually.
As far as I know Focusrite hasn't developed any USB interfaces yet. Since the Saffire 6 is still pretty new it can't be listet at http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Main or did I miss something? If all else fails I guess I have to learn how to write a driver by myself :) I have to use this thing with linux somehow!
Regards,
Christoph
2010/2/9 Pandu Rakimanputra <pandu.rakimanputra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
--- On Mon, 2/8/10, Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [LAU] How to make Focusrite Saffire 6 USB works?> To: "Pandu Rakimanputra" <pandu.rakimanputra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "alsa-users" <alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Monday, February 8, 2010, 1:08 AM
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Pandu
> wrote:'nothing happened' means my soundcard still not working (not detected exactly).
> <SNIP>
> >
> > I've tried to load snd-audio-module using:
> > $ sudo modprobe snd-usb-audio vid=0x1235 pid=0x0010
> >
> > But nothing happend
> >
> > Thanks for your attention Mark
> >
> > Pandu P
> >
>
> By 'nothing happened' do you mean that lsmod doesn't show
> the module
> or that sound didn't start working? After modprobing the
> driver what
> does modinfo tell you? What's new in dmesg?
>
> Is there any evidence elsewhere that this device is
> supported? When I look here
>
> http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Main
>
> I don't see anything from Focusrite listed. Maybe it's an
> off-brand
> version of some other card?
>
> - Mark
>
Anyway, this is my dmesg right after plug my soundcard:
--------------------------------------
45.923021] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[ 157.825829] smartpanel[3986]: segfault at 7fe71c763280 ip 00007fe71c763280 sp 00007fe71ad26108 error 14 in libqxim.so[7fe71c984000+f000]
[ 9323.493027] usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
[ 9323.709846] usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
-----------------------------------------
This is after i'm doing some modprobing:
-----------------------------------------------
[ 45.923021] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[ 157.825829] smartpanel[3986]: segfault at 7fe71c763280 ip 00007fe71c763280 sp 00007fe71ad26108 error 14 in libqxim.so[7fe71c984000+f000]
[ 9323.493027] usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
[ 9323.709846] usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 9387.303389] usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio
-----------------------------------
My Soundcard still not Detected as a soundcard.
Anyway, i have a good news i sent an email to focusrite team:
"Very quick respose, Great jobs Focusrite TEAM...:D
Is there any plan from focusrite to develop driver/firmware/anything
that can make this saffire works under linux? Or is it possible to
release focusrite Hardware Abstraction Layer to linux community?
I Think it will be a great things if saffire supported Linux
thx anyway.
Pandu Rakimanputra"
and their answer is:
"Hi Pandu
Thanks for your email.
If there was a developer seriously interested in developing a Linux driver for the 6 USB, I don't see why we wouldn't be able to offer them the same support and co-operation that we have given the guys at Ffado when they have been developing drivers for our FireWire interfaces. However, I'm afraid we have no plans to implement Linux support for the 6 USB ourselves.
Best regards
Andy Poole
Focusrite"
Is there any alsa developer interested to work on this soundcard?
About http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Main, Is it always update? I have Alesis IO|2 before this saffire, and It works without any problem. But Alesis IO|2 isn't listed.
Pandu P. Rakimanputra
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