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Focusrite saffire 6 USB config for linux
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IMPORTANT
None of the steps that were here are required any more. The kernel has had support for this
(now otherwise end of support) device since 2020thanks to the following commit:
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/470757f5b3a46bd85741bb0d8c1fd3f21048a2af
If you want, you can still see the old notes if you view the gist history,
but please do not act on them, they are outdated and will break the functioning system.
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odinho commented Feb 7, 2021

This quirk fix has been added to the Linux 5.9 kernel! Which means Linux 5.10 which is a LTS release has it, and should hopefully be part of most distro releases coming out this year. Notably Ubuntu 21.04 will have it, and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS will actually get this kernel backported and so should at that time hopefully magically just work.

The patch is smaller than the one above here, but hoping that's all that's needed ^_^

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iwconfig commented Feb 7, 2021

Awesome, thanks for the heads up. That is wonderful news! 👍

Here's the commit for anyone interested: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=470757f5b3a46bd85741bb0d8c1fd3f21048a2af

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jcozain commented Oct 24, 2021

thanks for posting this. i am using ubuntu studio 21.04 and i found this interface used for very cheap. it gets recognized on plugin but only works in pulse audio. jack wont start neither ardour using alsa directly. is there anything i need to modyfy for alsa to work? i tried every sampling rate / buffer size combo available.

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shiona commented Nov 22, 2021

I'm sorry, I'm no longer using this interface and am unable to comment on how/if should work with current systems.

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