On Sun, 14 Feb 2021 17:23:24 +0100 Marc Joliet <marcec@xxxxxx> wrote: >Am Samstag, 13. Februar 2021, 17:42:18 CET schrieb Will Godfrey: >> However, I found that it starts up with a firmware update message, and apart >> from Note On, Note Off, Channel Pressure, none of the controls work, not >> even the ones designated for manually setting the others. >> On conacting nektar for support, it took over 2 days for them to tell me >> that I had to install the firmware. >> WTF! >> I've never heard of any hardware being effectively dead until you install >> firmware. What's more, so much for supporting Linux, the software to install >> the firmware is Windows or MacOs - nothing else. > >I wonder if it's worth asking them to consider supporting LVFS (https:// >fwupd.org/). Support for it seems to be growing at a healthy pace (e.g., Dell >and Logitech support it), and I think most major distributions install fwupd >by default now. > >-- >Marc Joliet >-- >"People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we >don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup >_______________________________________________ >Linux-audio-user mailing list >Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user I might suggest it, but I get the feeling they won't be interested. -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk http://yoshimi.github.io Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
