Hey,
I also got a very quick response from the Focusrite Team:
Hi Christoph,
>
> Thanks for your e-mail and for your interest in the 6 USB.
>
> I'm afraid we do not officially support Linux for any of our products and
> there are no 3rd party drivers available for the 6USB, that I know of.
>
> There are 3rd party drivers available that are compatible with our FireWire
> interfaces from here: http://www.ffado.org/
>
> I will talk to our developers to see if we can push for FFADO to do the
> same for our USB interface, however I don't foresee this happening in the
> very near future.
>
> Let me know if I can be of further assistance.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Chris Ready
> Focusrite/Novation Tech Support
>
I earnestly hope that ffado or any alsa developer will be interested in
developing a driver eventually.
As far as I know Focusrite hasn't developed any USB interfaces yet. Since
the Saffire 6 is still pretty new it can't be listet at
http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Main or did I miss
something? If all else fails I guess I have to learn how to write a driver
by myself :) I have to use this thing with linux somehow!
Regards,
Christoph
2010/2/9 Pandu Rakimanputra <pandu.rakimanpu...@rocketmail.com>
> --- On Mon, 2/8/10, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Alsa-user] [LAU] How to make Focusrite Saffire 6 USB works?
> > To: "Pandu Rakimanputra" <pandu.rakimanpu...@rocketmail.com>
> > Cc: "alsa-users" <alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
> > Date: Monday, February 8, 2010, 1:08 AM
> > On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Pandu
> > Rakimanputra
> > <pandu.rakimanpu...@rocketmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > <SNIP>
> > >
> > > I've tried to load snd-audio-module using:
> > > $ sudo modprobe snd-usb-audio vid=0x1235 pid=0x0010
> > >
> > > But nothing happend
> > >
> > > Thanks for your attention Mark
> > >
> > > Pandu P
> > >
> >
> > By 'nothing happened' do you mean that lsmod doesn't show
> > the module
> > or that sound didn't start working? After modprobing the
> > driver what
> > does modinfo tell you? What's new in dmesg?
> >
> > Is there any evidence elsewhere that this device is
> > supported? When I look here
> >
> > http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Main
> >
> > I don't see anything from Focusrite listed. Maybe it's an
> > off-brand
> > version of some other card?
> >
> > - Mark
> >
>
> 'nothing happened' means my soundcard still not working (not detected
> exactly).
>
> Anyway, this is my dmesg right after plug my soundcard:
>
> --------------------------------------
> 45.923021] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
> [ 157.825829] smartpanel[3986]: segfault at 7fe71c763280 ip
> 00007fe71c763280 sp 00007fe71ad26108 error 14 in
> libqxim.so[7fe71c984000+f000]
> [ 9323.493027] usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and
> address 2
> [ 9323.709846] usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> -----------------------------------------
>
> This is after i'm doing some modprobing:
>
> -----------------------------------------------
> [ 45.923021] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
> [ 157.825829] smartpanel[3986]: segfault at 7fe71c763280 ip
> 00007fe71c763280 sp 00007fe71ad26108 error 14 in
> libqxim.so[7fe71c984000+f000]
> [ 9323.493027] usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and
> address 2
> [ 9323.709846] usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> [ 9387.303389] usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio
> -----------------------------------
>
> My Soundcard still not Detected as a soundcard.
>
> Anyway, i have a good news i sent an email to focusrite team:
>
> "Very quick respose, Great jobs Focusrite TEAM...:D
>
> Is there any plan from focusrite to develop driver/firmware/anything
> that can make this saffire works under linux? Or is it possible to
> release focusrite Hardware Abstraction Layer to linux community?
>
> I Think it will be a great things if saffire supported Linux
>
> thx anyway.
>
> Pandu Rakimanputra"
>
> and their answer is:
>
> "Hi Pandu
>
> Thanks for your email.
>
> If there was a developer seriously interested in developing a Linux driver
> for the 6 USB, I don't see why we wouldn't be able to offer them the same
> support and co-operation that we have given the guys at Ffado when they have
> been developing drivers for our FireWire interfaces. However, I'm afraid we
> have no plans to implement Linux support for the 6 USB ourselves.
>
> Best regards
>
> Andy Poole
> Focusrite"
>
> Is there any alsa developer interested to work on this soundcard?
>
> About http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Main, Is it always
> update? I have Alesis IO|2 before this saffire, and It works without any
> problem. But Alesis IO|2 isn't listed.
>
>
>
> Pandu P. Rakimanputra
>
>
>
>
>
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