[ubuntu-studio-devel] ALSA firewire drivers

[David Henningsson]

Hi studio people,

Takashi Sakamoto has been working, for a while, to make proper ALSA 
drivers for Firewire, so we don't have to rely on libffado for Firewire 
support - Firewire sound cards will just work like any other sound card, 
e g USB.

I've set up automatic builds of his work (for Ubuntu 14.04), and you can 
find and test the result here:

https://launchpad.net/~diwic/+archive/snd-firewire-improve

I'm sure he will welcome more testing of his drivers while they make 
their way upstream.

It's currently known that they don't work with Audacity and many cards 
will not work with PulseAudio either (without special configuration in 
PulseAudio). Stuff like this requires work across the stack, so not 
everything can or should be fixed in the drivers.

Nevertheless it would be interesting to know what other common 
applications work and don't work with his new drivers.

So if you have an old (or new!) firewire sound card in your shelf, feel 
free to grab it and plug it in. Happy testing!

-- 
David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd.
https://launchpad.net/~diwic