Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Anyone using multiface+cardbus?
From: Roger Williams (raw_AT_qux.com)
Date: Wed Mar 05 2003 - 01:16:30 EET
>>>>> Jaakko Pr <Jaakko> writes:
> Is anyone using rme multiface with the cardbus interface on a
> linux laptop?
Yes, I've been using it with ecasound for field recording and with
ardour for mixing and editing. (Other HDSP users are also using
ardour for tracking.) Usually I use it with external converters
(through the ADAT inputs); but the Multiface's internal converters
really aren't too bad.
I don't use MIDI much, but it seems to work OK after some recent
patches (there's been some recent, so far unresolved, discussion on
alsa-devel about a low-incidence stuck note issue on the HDSP 9652
MIDI IN, but I don't know if this affects the HDSP/Multiface).
> I saw a message in the alsa-doc saying that you have to downgrade
> the firmware (in windows), is this still true?
Not any more: Paul Davis just released a patch to hdsp.c to support
rev 11 firmware, but I suspect that hasn't made it to CVS yet.
As with any real-time PC Card device, the big issue is getting the
IRQs set up the way you want: you'll have to fiddle with your BIOS to
convince it to give the HDSP interface a dedicated IRQ. (I also had
problems with occasional huge xruns until I disabled CPU speed
switching on my mobile P3.)
-- Roger Williams <raw_AT_qux.com> Qux Tool & Die, Middleborough, Massachusetts // Omne tulit punctum qui misquit utile dulci //
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