Chris Wenn wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:51 AM, Pieter Palmers <pieterp@xxxxxxx > <mailto:pieterp@xxxxxxx>> wrote: > > Chris Wenn wrote: > > Hi Pieter and anyone else following this discussion. > > After some additional troubleshooting, I've discovered that > either the > Expresscard or the Expresscard adapter in my M1210 is the culprit in > this problem. I hope it's the card, because at least I can throw > that > out :) > > I got desperate and tried out the whole setup in Windows > (*sigh*), and > it didn't work there either. > > DELL has some bios updates mentioning expresscard support > improvements for some laptops, maybe that's the case for you too? > > In any case, it should be possible to make it work on windows, or > work with DELL to make it work. Usually they are less reluctant to > help windows users than they are to help Linux users. They always > seem to expect that crappy hardware is due to the Linux OS. > > > I'm on rev. A07 and there's an A08, so I'll try to get that to work - > seems it has to be installed from the first partition (which Windows > isn't) and I've mislaid my documentation for updating from Linux. In any > case, using the Saffire via the Expresscard produced really strange > timing errors (audio was crackly and slowed down by about 50%, with huge > CPU usage) under Windows, however the Ricoh device worked fine. > > > > > Interestingly, the onboard Ricoh firewire works perfectly - it's > total > failure to work at all in Linux was the start of this quest, so > I'm a > bit bewildered. > > > The Ricoh controller is a mistery to me too. I really can't figure > out what the exact problem is. In the logs you provided I don't see > it though. What version of the Ricoh chip do you have? > > Greets, > > Pieter > > > The 8522, IIRC - integrated with SD/MMC reader. Under Linux (both Ubuntu > and 64Studio) it crashes out with an Iso Xmit Error 0, as described here > http://freebob.sourceforge.net/index.php/FAQ, which seems to be > unrecoverable. In Windows it's working fine - which goes against reports > I'd seen of the problem being cross-platform... It would be good if you could run the ffado-diag tool such that we can figure out what hardware revision of the ricoh chip you have. Greets, Pieter _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
