FishMate Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 Hello. I have been soaking in the great knowledge on this site and have been able to create a pretty robust machine using Kalyway 10.5.2. Pretty much everything works except Firewire Solo. I have installed 3 different drivers with no avail...the sound lasts only a few seconds and then it fades in and out...Is it because of the EFI abstraction layer on top of the bios? Is it because of the ACPI? Any help will be greatly appreciated!!! Please see my specs below: ASUS P5KR (flashed from P5K) eGeForce 8500 GT 512MB (using gfx string working fully) SATA 320 GB - primary (Leopard OS X86 Kalyway 10.5.2 - Vanilla + GUID + EFI V8) IDE 160 GB - Vista x64 ALC8883 with ALCInject and AppleHDA patched (Only Stereo working) 3Com PCI network Very Stable System!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FishMate Posted March 21, 2008 Author Share Posted March 21, 2008 No one??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
putzi Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 if i'm not wrong, m-audio has not yet provided any leopard drivers for this card. it might be necessary to wait for a driver update Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FishMate Posted March 24, 2008 Author Share Posted March 24, 2008 Actually you are partially correct. M-Audio is yet to release a stable version of the driver. However they do have a beta available for a while now: http://www.m-audio.com/index.php?do=suppor...657f0&OS=56 Thanks for your reply. I really suspect that it has something to do with the kernel or EFI...but its just a hunch! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FishMate Posted April 27, 2008 Author Share Posted April 27, 2008 Okay folks...the Firewire stuttering problem solved.... First of all, I am not sure this will work for all motherboards mine is Asus P5K / P5KR and it works like a charm. I am using Leo4allv3 (very good installer), EFI, 9.2.2 vanilla kernel on GUID SATA HD. 3 Gig RAM and q6600 g0 CPU. I finally disabled on-board Firewire and installed a cheap LSI (3 port) firewire PCI card and Voila!!! No more stuttering with M-Audio FireWire Solo using their latest beta driver.... I tested input and output it it sound sweet...now to reinstall Logic and get recording Hope this helps!!! If you get it to work, let me know Peace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hacaira2 Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 Hello Folks, I have the same config : ASUS P5WD2 (updated) 2GB SDRAM 667 MHz Asus 6600 GT silencer SATA 320 GB - (Kalyway 10.5.1 - GUID - EFIV8) Onboard audio off Onboard network card off Firewire card pci-e Sonnet M-audio F/W solo The analogic connections are working fine but when I record via the digital input, the sound recorded is full of cracks (approx. one every 50 ms). I have check the cables, the driver (have tested all available drivers), I have changed the firewire card. Everytime I try to record via the Digital interface, the result is full of cracks. I put the sync source of the firewire card to "external" and after one or two seconde the clock light switch from red to green (which is fine). It does not seems to be a syncro problem but the symptoms looks like it is. I have made the recording test with ableton live6 and audacity. Have anyone successfully tested the digital entry of this box? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justgeeking Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 cool on the pci card cause i had the same problem but i boiught the sonnets firewire card 400 and 2 800 ports and all works well for me also i returned the asus p5k board and reinstalled the srock 4 core dual sata board and poped in the sonnet card and no hicups whats soever put a saffire firewire audio inteface on it updated the firmware on that peice and logic 8 pro is werking like a charm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hacaira2 Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 My ram is at 553 Mhz but it is showing 667 Mhz in system info. I now that 667 Mhz is the minimum ram speed used in the macs. Could it be related to my cracks and clics problem? Or is it a motherboard problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilghan Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 hello everybody. i have the same FishMate's problem but with M-audio Firewire 410 i have p5kr+kalyway 10.5.2+FW 410 i bought a firewire PCI and i hope it works... i ordered a Sonnet Allegro 800/400 how to get it working with my fw 410? when i put the pci card into case will leo install it automatically? have i to disable p5kr fw port? and, is it possible to connect via 800Mb/s with my firewire 410? thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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