Re: [LAU] Focusrite Saffire LE (2)

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:51 AM, Pieter Palmers <pieterp@email-addr-hidden> wrote:

> Chris Wenn wrote:
>
>> Hi Pieter and anyone else following this discussion.
>>
>> After some additional troubleshooting, I've discovered that either the
>> Expresscard or the Expresscard adapter in my M1210 is the culprit in
>> this problem. I hope it's the card, because at least I can throw that
>> out :)
>>
>> I got desperate and tried out the whole setup in Windows (*sigh*), and
>> it didn't work there either.
>>
> DELL has some bios updates mentioning expresscard support improvements for
> some laptops, maybe that's the case for you too?
>
> In any case, it should be possible to make it work on windows, or work with
> DELL to make it work. Usually they are less reluctant to help windows users
> than they are to help Linux users. They always seem to expect that crappy
> hardware is due to the Linux OS.
>

I'm on rev. A07 and there's an A08, so I'll try to get that to work - seems
it has to be installed from the first partition (which Windows isn't) and
I've mislaid my documentation for updating from Linux. In any case, using
the Saffire via the Expresscard produced really strange timing errors (audio
was crackly and slowed down by about 50%, with huge CPU usage) under
Windows, however the Ricoh device worked fine.

>
>
>> Interestingly, the onboard Ricoh firewire works perfectly - it's total
>> failure to work at all in Linux was the start of this quest, so I'm a
>> bit bewildered.
>>
>
> The Ricoh controller is a mistery to me too. I really can't figure out what
> the exact problem is. In the logs you provided I don't see it though. What
> version of the Ricoh chip do you have?
>
> Greets,
>
> Pieter

The 8522, IIRC - integrated with SD/MMC reader. Under Linux (both Ubuntu and
64Studio) it crashes out with an Iso Xmit Error 0, as described here
http://freebob.sourceforge.net/index.php/FAQ, which seems to be
unrecoverable. In Windows it's working fine - which goes against reports I'd
seen of the problem being cross-platform...

Chris

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