On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 4:57 PM Max <abonnements@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Fernando Lopez-Lezcano discussed the pitfalls of using the MOTU AVB
external audio interfaces with Linux in his paper [1] and also in the
keynote at LAC-19.
Let's start another thread around this card.
Fernando mentioned that different firmwares expose different issues, but
downgrading is possible. Issues are:
1. Channels are not persistent and swap around.
2. Total number of channels has been reduced in newer firmwares.
3. An endless card aquisition loop between Jack and Pulseaudio caused by
the long time the card needs to switch sampling rate.
4. Seemingly erratic behavior, opening the device fails, fails again,
again, then works suddenly.
issue 4 is not resolvable via firmware changes. it seems part of the device design.
I have a couple of questions and experiences.
Is there a table of the firmware versions somewhere (linuxaudio wiki?)
which tell me which versions has which features (removed)?
fernando mentioned a post on "linux musicians" which describes each one.
Are all the Class Compliant models having the same quirks as listed
above? For example the
MOTU UltraLite AVB versus the MOTU 624 AVB?
Is it possible to use the Thunderbolt port to connect the card to a
Linux computer?
Why can't I tell ALSA to use only the first 2, 4 whatever channels of
the device? I can only open the device if all channels are connected. Is
this always like that or is that a limitation of MOTU's implementation?
ALSA doesn't work that way. You open a device. You tell it how many channels you want to use.
On my laptop with only one USB bus, If I connected the MOTU 624 AVB and
then another high speed usb device, the computer could not connect the
later, because the MOTU reserved all the bandwith for itself. Connecting
the other device and then the MOTU worked.
this is correct, and likely a sensible design choice. others may disagree. i actually threw away a webcam because i mistakenly believed that it was no longer working (because of this issue).
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