Re: Laptops for firewire based pro-audio on linux

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A little late to the game...

Presonus might be problematic:
http://www.ffado.org/?q=devicesupport%2Flist&filter0=presonus&filter1=&op2=OR

I haven't done any serious research on their devices, but I was
recently looking at a good second-hand deal and didn't go for it
because of the ffado support status.

Just my two cents.


On 2/1/12, Moshe Werner <moshwe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I'm on a Macbook Pro (late 2010). Firewire is Agere, not TI!
>> > I really was angry when I discovered this
>>
>
> I was angry that I was told it was a TI chipset just to find out it was
> Agere.
>
>
>>
>> The first FW643 revision was buggy, but the latest Lucent, er, Agere,
>> I mean, LSI chips (FW643E, FW533E) are actually better then TI chips.
>>
>> > Tried to run Ubuntustudio on the mac and having issues with xruns all
>> over the place.
>>
>> It's hard to be sure what causes them, but it's unlikely to be the
>> controller.
>>
>
> Could be, didn't dig too deep on that matter as I simply use Ardour/Mixbus
> on OSx.
>
>
>> Is your FireWire interrupt shared with other devices?  Are you using the
>> nvidia graphics driver?  Are you running something like NetworkManager
>> that scans for new networks?
>>
>
> Interrupt- Didn't check.
> Graphic driver- yes using nvidia
> Network manager- yes
>
> Just thought I would share my experience (also if it's not much).
>
> Cheers
> Moshe
>
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