Paul, > that's not clear to me from the material that you quoted. i dealt with > several RME firmware upgrades in the past, and they were trivial to > support. you need to understand that the "firmware" is not actually > firmware at all. its just some data to be loaded into the matrix > mixer. That's not correct. It's the firmware for the Xilinx FPGA. I don't see why the card should stop working in linux, it will still use the same firmware as before. The hdspe series is another case, it has its firmware on a flash. Flo -- Machines can do the work, so people have time to think. public key DA43FEF4 x-hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user