On 10/28/2010 03:43 PM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > Jeremy Jongepier wrote: >> 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. > Interesting... what sound card is it? What apps are you using it with? Focusrite Saffire Pro 10. With all kinds of apps, multitrackers, softsynths, sequencers. >>> 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. > True... I've read (and heard) different opinions about it. >>> 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. > Well that's what I though/hoped.. but the fact that with same system > configuration and different chipsets one gets different results must > mean something I guess. > It means that that specific same configuration doesn't work with all chipsets. Every system needs to be set up differently. Best, Jeremy _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
