Hi all, What is the sound card(s) for laptop *less likely* to make problems on Linux? Anyone of the officially supported by ffado or there are more detailed information about issues ? 2010/9/4 Jeremy Jongepier <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On 09/04/2010 12:44 PM, Lorenzo wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I'm sure this has been discussed many times, so sorry for >>> re-iterating... but I guess new drivers and products come out each >>> day, so here you go: >>> >>> I'm looking at external audio cards (for use with my laptop) >>> especially to do multichannel (balanced!) output >>> >>> - Obviusly they should work with linux-jack (ubuntu if there are any >>> issues with this distro) >>> - at least 8 balanced outputs >>> >> Well, >> It seems that this topic is much less interesting than the mysteries of >> the subconscious :) >> >> Anyway I may have found a bargain for a Focusrite Saffire PRO 24 >> http://www.focusrite.com/products/saffire/saffire_pro_24/ >> Although the ffado site lists support as experimental >> (http://www.ffado.org/?q=node/1204) the posts there and other stuff >> about the pro 10 which I guess is similar make me optimistic about it >> working. >> >> Again it would be nice to hear some current news from someone >> successfully using it >> > > Hello Lorenzo, > > The Saffire Pro 24 differs a lot from the Pro 10 IO. The 24 uses the DICE > chipset and only ffado 2.0.0 from svn trunk supports it. So you have to > either build it yourself or if you use Ubuntu 10.04 you can grab working > drivers from my PPA: > http://ppa.launchpad.net/autostatic/ffado/ubuntu/pool/main/libf/libffado/ > (mixer doesn't work though). FFADO 2.0.1 (the latest stable release) has no > support for DICE chipsets afaik. That release is mainly to provide support > for the new Juju FireWire stack. > I own a Saffire Pro 10 IO myself and I can really recommend it, it just > works so well with Linux and the audio quality is pretty decent. At work I > recently hooked up a Saffire Pro 40 (the 24's big brother) to an Ubuntu > 10.04 machine, that's why I uploaded the FFADO stuff to my PPA, and so far > it performs very well but I haven't tested it thoroughly yet. > > Best, > > Jeremy > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
