On 10/28/2010 03:21 PM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > Hi, > > Hope this helps... > > rosea.grammostola wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Having a ricoh firewire chipset here on a thinkpad t61. Not the best >> one afaik.. Should I go for a usb (edirol for example) or firewire >> interface? > I had an JMicron (?) chipset on the on-board firewire plug on my laptop > which was also on the same IRQ as basically everything (ethernet, > graphics card, 2 usb ports etc.) I found no way to even get it to work > with the 2nd hand FA 101 I bought. > Hello Lorenzo, I've got a notebook with a JMicron FireWire controller too that shares its IRQ with about 4 or 5 other devices. My FireWire card works just fine with that controller. > I then got a (cheap) firewire expresscard. The good thing was that the > express card slot has its own IRQ. The bad thing was that I discovered > the chipset was VIA (they don't tell on the packings) which seems to be > one of the worst around for audio and which would give me a "zombified" > sound card after a few minutes even with rt kernel and all the possible > tweaks explained in all the possible linux firewire/pro-audio tutorials > on the net. > VIA should work, Focusrite even recommends using certain VIA chipsets. > Finally I got a firewire expresscard with Texas Instruments chipset > (again it took quite some research because it's not well advised on the > specs and in the stores), here in italy it's branded Digitus (but > careful because they also have a model with the VIA chipset). It now > seems to work well. No zombies... A few xruns though (but this was > playing heavy with Pd). > > So it looks like the chipset is important... I have seen various > recommended firewire cards (and thus chipsets) on the sound card > manufacturers' pages so I think this is not a linux-related issue. > Chipset is important, but a properly configured system is even more important imho. Best, Jeremy _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
