On 06/25/2016 11:06 PM, Mathias Buhr wrote: > On 25.06.2016 22:48, Maurizio Berti wrote: >> Hello, >> I'm going to buy an used Focusrite Saffire Pro 10, but I wanted to be >> sure about its usability on linux and ardour before. >> According to the ffado page about it, the support is complete, but it >> looks like there's a bug while on freewheeling mode, as reported here: >> http://subversion.ffado.org/ticket/359. >> What I need to understand is the bug still exists (sometimes bugs just >> disappear, or are resolved from another upgrade and are forgotten) or, >> eventually, if the related alsa/firewire stack (the Saffire seems to be >> compatible with the snd-bebob driver) has the same problem too. >> Does anyone here have such a device and can report his/her experience? >> >> Thank you for your help, >> >> MaurizioB >> PS: >> Sorry for double posting here and in other forum/ML. The vendor has >> kindly agreed to wait for an answer from me, but I don't want to take >> too much advantage of it. >> >> >> -- >> È difficile avere una convinzione precisa quando si parla delle ragioni >> del cuore. - "Sostiene Pereira", Antonio Tabucchi >> http://www.jidesk.net >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-audio-user mailing list >> Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user >> > > Hi Maurizio, > > There is a good chance that this device will work out of the box on > recent kernels. You might not need ffado and hence, the bug might not be > present. See [1] for reference. > From my own experience, I can recommend DICE-based devices (like TC > Eletronic stuff and some Focusrite devices). I own a StudioKonnekt 48 > and a Konnekt 24D. Both work pretty nicely without compiling or > configuring anything. > > Regards, > Mathias > > > Links: > [1] https://github.com/takaswie/snd-firewire-improve > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user > Hi, The linked repo is now merged to the kernel/ALSA. Asking on the ALSA mailing list is probably more efficient. The autor of that driver is active there (alsa-devel and alsa-user) but I guess it's faster if you give it a try and see what happens. Feel free to post your experiences here. Regards, Mathias P.S.: Please respond to the mailing list so everyone can find and benefit from this in the future. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
