Anyone try the new M-Audio FW Beta Drvrs (10.4.11 - 10.5.2)?

[JrummerJ]

Just curious, and I figured quite a few people hadn't seen that they had released these yet. Might help out some folks running Leopard....

http://www.m-audio.com/news/en_us-1154.html

[TechKnowledgy]

There were some people on another forum who were reporting problems with the beta driver, but it looks like they've updated the version #; so if anybody is having problems, uninstall the driver and re-download the beta from M-Audio and give this new version a try.

[AND]

I have on 2 systems. One works, one doesn't.

The full story:

Mac Pro 2xdual core 2.66, 5gb ram, m-audio FW1814 OS X 10.5.1 [now 10.5.2]

I heard good reports of FW1814 drivers for OS X 10.4.10 working in Leopard so went ahead... it worked-everything running smoothly until... I tried installing Pro Tools m-powered 7.3 [after also hearing good reports]. Ever since this every time I boot up with the soundcard plugged in I get a Kernel panic.

I've tried uninstalling PT and no luck. I've tried the new beta driver-no change.

M-audio tech support are going to call me sometime tonight (supposedly).

tonight I tried it on my MacBook Pro [2.4, 4gb ram OS X 10.5.2]
don't know why it took me so long to do it-but it works fine.
Hadn't installed any m-audio or PT software since doing a full delete/install of Leopard. Tried with the new beta drivers, and it works nearly perfectly. Haven't tested fully, but the only issue I had first time I booted was needing to change the sample rate settings to hear sound.


I'm thinking it must be PT related, but m-audio say it can't be-PT software shouldn't effect it either way.

[AND]

Just to clarify... I have NOT installed PT m-powered 7.3 on my laptop. FW1814 works fine.

[jbmelby]

The new driver works fine with PTMP 7.4cs2 and my Firewire 410 on 10.5.2.

[frostedonut]

I get a Kernel panic every single time I boot up with the beta drivers.
Running leopard 5.2 on a mac pro

[frostedonut]

I get a Kernel panic every single time I boot up with the beta drivers.
Running leopard 5.2 on a mac pro

[Grooveman JS]

I get a <Kernel panic> every single time I boot up with the beta drivers........

Hi.... I'm really not sure about the beta drivers; btw what's <Kernel Panic>??

[fizzler]

Hi.... I'm really not sure about the beta drivers; btw what's <Kernel Panic>??

"kernel panic" means a system crash where you need to reboot the machine (mostly "force reboot" = hold down the power button for a few seconds) - you are a lucky guy if you never have seen that before, i get it sometimes when hot-plugging fw drives.

[AND]

I get a Kernel panic every single time I boot up with the beta drivers.
Running leopard 5.2 on a mac pro

Are you also running a Kore controller? Or any other usb/FW sound/midi devices?

I've isolated my issue to being directly related to my NI Kore [1]. If both are plugged in I get a kernel panic on login.

Since finding that out I've managed to get PT M-powered running in 10.5.2 as well.

I've noticed one bug in the new beta so far: to get sound coming through you have to change the sample rate in the control panel after each login.