Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Newbie Questions
From: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki (rzewnickie_AT_rfa.org)
Date: Thu May 27 2004 - 23:20:44 EEST
On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 10:35:02PM +0200, Bryan Jurish wrote:
> On 26 May 2004 at 12:00:51, Ryan appears to have written:
> > On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 07:35, Chris Share wrote:
> > > My second question concerns audio hardware. Here at the SARC I have
> > > access to a Digi 002r audio/MIDI interface which uses Firewire. I can't
> > > find any information about this interface and was wondering if it was
> > > possible to use it with Linux.
> > Possible... anything is. Likely/easy certainly not. M-audio for
> > low-end cheaper, RME for high end spensive.
> i know nothing about firewire audio under linux, but my
> (unsolicited) advice is to stay away from m-audio : their
> usb devices Just Plain Don't Work under kernel 2.6, and
> the company has no plans to actively support linux
> themselves... bummer for me as someone who bought a
> Quattro, but maybe it'll save someone else some headaches...
While there have been troubles with m-audio's usb devices, it should be
noted that many of their PCI audio cards are well supported. The Delta
series based on the ice1712 chip are good cards.
-Eric Rz.
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b28 : Thu May 27 2004 - 23:16:18 EEST