Re: [LAU] Laptops for firewire based pro-audio on linux

From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Wed Feb 01 2012 - 11:35:26 EET

Moshe Werner wrote:
> I'm on a Macbook Pro (late 2010). Firewire is Agere, not TI!
> I really was angry when I discovered this

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.

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?

Regards,
Clemens
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