Re: [FFADO-user] Problems setting up my new soundcard

[Edward D. <di...@um...>]

Your point is well taken.  There are a great many variables in device
support and it seems to be hard to get one distribution to support
everything.   Do you have any idea what the problem was with the
SaffireLE in AVLinux?   Was this problem with the latest version (5)?
I had to do a bit of configuration to get earlier versions of AVLinux to
get the Pro24 to work, but AVLinux5 works even from the LiveDVD.
However, it also possible, for example, that a given user has a
non-supported firewire controller which will never work in Linux.

My general comment to people who want to do music on Linux is to start
from an audio-centered Linux distribution rather than a general distro.
Actually, even with there are quite a few options for music distros and
its hard to know which might be best which changes year-by-year.  Ubuntu
studio is one way to go, though think kxstudio is likely a better option
if you want to use Ubuntu (based on comments I've seen on various
forums).  


On Thu, 2011-08-18 at 14:38 -0700, sevol wrote:
> On 8/18/11, Edward Diehl <di...@um...> wrote:
> > What I would do in your situation is burn a DVD of AVLinux, boot that
> > and see if your device works.   There are several configuration steps
> > needed to get firewire devices to work and I do not know if Ubuntu
> > Studio does them all by default.  I have had very good experience with
> > AVLinux -- supports my Focusrite Saffire Pro 24 firewire device out of
> > the box.   AVLinux is already very well optimized for audio work and
> > up-to-date with Linux development so it will save you a lot of
> > configuration headaches.   Starting from Ubuntu 10.04 it seems to me
> > like you will have to make a lot of patches to make firewire work well.
> >
> What you say may be true for some devices, but I've had no luck
> getting a Focusrite SaffireLE working with AVLinux. Just saying, as a
> caution, a reduction in config headaches is not guaranteed by going
> this way.
> 
> Still, worth a try.
> 
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