Re: [FFADO-devel] motu user mail to motu

[Jonathan W. <jw...@ph...>]

Hi guys

> > > If their is any dev that would like to help me with this efford ...
> > > help would be greatly apprechiated.
> >
> > I am willing to help you in this endevour but there are a few things you
> > need to know.  Firstly, you will almost certainly need to purchase some
> > hardware to help with this.  Expect it to cost around US$100.  Secondly, I
> > am working with another ultralite mk3 owner via a slightly different way
> > which avoids the need for extra hardware but is a lot more time consuming.
> > This means that we might get the ultralike mk3 working but there's no
> > timeframe on this.  In addition, I don't own an ultralite mk3 which will
> > make testing and debugging a slow process.  Of course if someone were to
> > donate an ultralite mk3 (or even temporarily loan one to me) the support
> > could be added much quicker.
> >
> I would be willing to lend my sniffing firewire card (PCILynx??) for a few
> months, as long as you cover shipping costs.

Greg: I'll leave you to sort this out with Patrick directly.  If this works
out, please contact me and I'll provide more details of the kinds of things
which I need you to do.

> Note, you also need a second PC running an O/S supported by MOTU
> (Windows/Mac), to exercise the device.

Correct.  In short you connect like this:

  winPC ---- Linux PC ---- MOTU

The winPC has a standard (OHCI) firewire card, the Linux PC has the
PCILynx-based card.  You run software called nosy (git version) on the Linux
PC to do the actual capturing while changing device settings on the winPC in
a controlled way.  It's a little more involved than this short explanation
suggests, but if you go about it in a logical way it's not too bad.  Let me
know if this comes off and we can take it from there.

Regards
  jonathan

PS: Greg - your yahoo.de mail account was not accepting emails yesterday.  I
got a "deferred (temporary failure)" response to yesterday's post which I
CCed to you.  We'll see what happens to this one.