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Thanks for the interesting info, it's good to know that not everyone
has decided to (stupidly :) ) buy a mac for audio!

What other software on Linux are you using for audio stuff, some of it
I've found (on FreeBSD) to look nice but crash a lot. Not having a lot
of luck with that bit myself. (bad choice of OS probably.)

        Steve

On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 10:06:56AM +0000, Raymond Brooks wrote:
> This is kind of a cross post from BBLUG but I thought it might be of 
> interest to some parties on this list, also.
> Big love and New Yearz greetz,
> Ray x
> 
> Guys and girls,
> 
>  Just thought I'd update any interested parties with my audio exploits.
> Finally plumped for the Firewire PCMCIA card option after reading about
> freebob (freebob.sourceforge.net). Freebob is a driver for the D1000
> chipset which powers a lot of Firewire based pro audio cards. The card I
> finally plumped for (tried the M-Audio Audiophile first but that totally
> refused to work and just sat there flashing angrily) is the 10-in,
> 10-out Edirol FA101.
>  After several days of struggling, I have finally managed to get the
> damned thing working and it sounds great! I found this blog post to be
> very helpful... took me 90% of the way:
> http://parumi.wordpress.com/tag/ubuntu/
>  The final 10% took 90% of my time. I discovered that my soundcard
> (raw1394 over PCMCIA) does not like to be ACPI managed and although the
> driver will load, discovers the ports and appears to be loaded and
> functioning, nothing plays on the card and I could find no documentation
> as to why this may be. It seems that as soon as you turn off APCI PCI
> power management, it starts working like a charm. (I have an IBM R40 and
> as such, it comes with IBM's own BIOS so this problem may even be
> restricted to this make or even model, I just don't know). I don't know
> why this may be (read something vague and hand-wavy about IRQ routing)
> but frankly, if it works now I really don't care...
>  The distribution I settled on is Ubuntu Feisty, which I have found to
> be very well put together and fast. Feisty has the advantages of being
> super up-to-date (for an alpha it's surprisingly unbuggy) and therefore
> has very good multimedia support. The other obvious choices were FC6
> (always been a redhat boy but I really think I could change, now. FC6
> wasn't as slick as I was hoping and not as nice as Ubuntu) and Planet
> CCRMA (although this is more out of date as their latest distro is based
> on FC5).
>  Hope this helps anyone considering a Linux pro audio set-up. See you
> down the front :)
> 
> Rx
> 
> Raymond Brooks wrote:
>  > Hallooo...
>  >  I know some of you lot do audio stuff and was wondering if I could
>  > ask for some advice. I'm after an external sound card for my laptop
>  > and have been looking into the various options available to me. The
>  > laptop has USB 2 but no IEE1394. As far as I can tell, my options are
>  > as follows:
>  >
>  > 1. Buy a USB 2 sound card
>  > 2. Buy a PCMCIA IEE1394 adapter and a Firewire soundcard
>  >
>  > Ideally, I would like as many analogue I/O ports as possible. I've
>  > looked at various M Audio cards (Audiophile & 410) and the Edirol UA101.
>  >> From my research, the M Audio boxes look good but as I have no
>  > experience with FireWire on Linux I'm slightly wary of spending the
>  > cash then finding the devices won't talk. From what I've read, the
>  > UA101 will not work at all due to Edirol choosing a proprietary USB
>  > audio implementation, which sucks as I quite like their things. Has
>  > anyone used M Audio kit under Linux? Are there any other devices
>  > bblugsters would recommend? All wisdom forthcoming re: PCMCIA FireWire
>  > would also be very helpful.
>  >
>  > Thanks all,
>  >
>  > Ray
>  >
> 
> 
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