Re: [LAU] Focusrite Saffire LE (2)

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

It would be good if you could run the ffado-diag tool such that we can
figure out what hardware revision of the ricoh chip you have.

Greets,

Pieter
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Received on Wed Jul 16 12:15:03 2008