Re: [LAD] How well do thinkpad notebooks work for audio?

2009-08-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Ray Rashif wrote: Woohoo..I'm safe. Saffire Pro 10 working well. FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller Good news :). Dunno, but maybe BIOS versions and other issues might have an effect to this. If so, this might be interesting for

Re: [LAD] How well do thinkpad notebooks work for audio?

2009-08-03 Thread Ray Rashif
Woohoo..I'm safe. Saffire Pro 10 working well. FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev

Re: [LAD] How well do thinkpad notebooks work for audio?

2009-08-02 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
hollun...@gmx.at wrote: It feels like my several year old PC will crap out soon for one reason or another, so I need a replacement, better sooner than later. This time it should be a laptop and I heard that formerly IBM and now Lenovo thinkpads are of good build quality, even if they only come

Re: [LAD] How well do thinkpad notebooks work for audio?

2009-08-01 Thread nescivi
On Thursday 30 July 2009 07:55:49 Arnold Krille wrote: On Thursday 30 July 2009 10:49:25 Ralf Mardorf wrote: The question here is: Which ones are the broken ones and which ones the good ones? I wouldn't know where to look for that info, do you? I would never trust any list for

Re: [LAD] How well do thinkpad notebooks work for audio?

2009-07-30 Thread hollunder
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:01:23 +0800 Ray Rashif schivmeis...@gmail.com wrote: Damned right..gotta watch out for that ricoh fw chip. I got the suggestion to forget about firewire and look at expresscard solutions instead. This shouldn't have the same problem as it's just PCIe, or so I've heard.

Re: [LAD] How well do thinkpad notebooks work for audio?

2009-07-30 Thread Arnold Krille
On Thursday 30 July 2009 09:50:01 hollun...@gmx.at wrote: So if you need a power source anyway there's not much reason to use FW besides maybe being a little bit more flexible than with expresscard. Ever tried to connect several expresscard sounddevices at once? With firewire it is _really_

Re: [LAD] How well do thinkpad notebooks work for audio?

2009-07-30 Thread Florian Faber
Arnold Krille wrote: On Thursday 30 July 2009 09:50:01 hollun...@gmx.at wrote: So if you need a power source anyway there's not much reason to use FW besides maybe being a little bit more flexible than with expresscard. Ever tried to connect several expresscard sounddevices at once? The

Re: [LAD] How well do thinkpad notebooks work for audio?

2009-07-30 Thread hollunder
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:14:14 +0200 Arnold Krille arn...@arnoldarts.de wrote: On Thursday 30 July 2009 09:50:01 hollun...@gmx.at wrote: So if you need a power source anyway there's not much reason to use FW besides maybe being a little bit more flexible than with expresscard. Ever tried

Re: [LAD] How well do thinkpad notebooks work for audio?

2009-07-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf
The question here is: Which ones are the broken ones and which ones the good ones? I wouldn't know where to look for that info, do you? I would never trust any list for hardware that should be fine with Linux, ensures there will be some revision that isn't fine. I guess you need to

Re: [LAD] How well do thinkpad notebooks work for audio?

2009-07-29 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, hollun...@gmx.at hat gesagt: // hollun...@gmx.at wrote: It feels like my several year old PC will crap out soon for one reason or another, so I need a replacement, better sooner than later. This time it should be a laptop and I heard that formerly IBM and now Lenovo thinkpads are of

Re: [LAD] How well do thinkpad notebooks work for audio?

2009-07-29 Thread hollunder
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 01:10:50 +0200 Fons Adriaensen f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:27:12AM +0200, hollun...@gmx.at wrote: It feels like my several year old PC will crap out soon for one reason or another, so I need a replacement, better sooner than later. This time

Re: [LAD] How well do thinkpad notebooks work for audio?

2009-07-29 Thread hollunder
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:52:48 +0200 Frank Barknecht f...@footils.org wrote: Hallo, hollun...@gmx.at hat gesagt: // hollun...@gmx.at wrote: It feels like my several year old PC will crap out soon for one reason or another, so I need a replacement, better sooner than later. This time it

Re: [LAD] How well do thinkpad notebooks work for audio?

2009-07-29 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, hollun...@gmx.at hat gesagt: // hollun...@gmx.at wrote: I had a look at thinkwiki but couldn't find what I'm looking for. I also thought about netbooks but they won't cut it in the long run and I'll need a laptop eventually anyway. Could you post a lspci of your new acer as well? It's

Re: [LAD] How well do thinkpad notebooks work for audio?

2009-07-29 Thread Ray Rashif
Damned right..gotta watch out for that ricoh fw chip. ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev

[LAD] How well do thinkpad notebooks work for audio?

2009-07-28 Thread hollunder
It feels like my several year old PC will crap out soon for one reason or another, so I need a replacement, better sooner than later. This time it should be a laptop and I heard that formerly IBM and now Lenovo thinkpads are of good build quality, even if they only come with intel CPUs and cost an

Re: [LAD] How well do thinkpad notebooks work for audio?

2009-07-28 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:27:12AM +0200, hollun...@gmx.at wrote: It feels like my several year old PC will crap out soon for one reason or another, so I need a replacement, better sooner than later. This time it should be a laptop and I heard that formerly IBM and now Lenovo thinkpads are of