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 > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user