I found a novel solution to my Revo problems. I moved the card from my G5 to a Hackintosh. I then downloaded an Envy24HT driver from www.audio-evolution.com/drivers and voila, I got lovely sound from my Revo. The problem: no volume control, or for that matter any control. But at least these drivers don't garble the output or cause kernel panics.
Eric On Feb 5, 2009, at 3:20 PM, yawg wrote: > > Hi Eric, > > The M-Audio drivers are buggy as hell. And the M-Audio support for > Macs is non-existent. The Rev. 7.1 card sounds very good anyway IMO. > You just have to fiddle about with the different M-Audio driver > versions. Open up the Apple System Prefs and the M-Audio Revolution > 7.1app at the same time and click to and fro ... > > I lost my card after a DVD-writer upgrade, no more digital out and had > to click and click, now my card works again and it sounds marvellous > connected to my Cayin DA-2 tube DAC. > > Under Tiger the Digital Out of the card's Pref panel just showed the > max. upsampling rate which my DAC can't even use but it worked > anyway ... > > Don't give up. The hardware is excellent. If it finds its way through > the labyrinth of the stupid M-Audio programmers' buggy software it > really shines. > > I'm listening to the Rev. 7.1 under Panther at the moment, connected > to my trusty Cayin DAC, souped up with vintage Siemens/Halske CCa > tubes, fed into the fabulous vintage Pütz P2 preamp which feeds my > gorgeous vintage Esoteric Audio Research 549 power monos, souped up > with vintage Telefunken ECC85's and General Electric 5751 military > triple mica black plates from the 50s. Total bliss, get my drift? > > Success! Kind regards from the Netherlands, > > Jörg. > > On Feb 3, 5:13 am, Eric Volker <[email protected]> wrote: >> I recently tried using a M-Audio Revolution in my dual 1.8 G5 (OS >> 10.5.6.) It mostly worked, but would occasionally distort or drop >> audio - just not acceptable for daily use. Has anyone else here had >> problems with M-Audio drivers. >> >> I also tried getting a Delta 410 into my G5, but the slots weren't >> keyed properly. As far as I can tell, it's because the Delta is a 5V >> card, whereas the Powermac G5 is keyed to accept only 3.3V cards. Can >> anyone here verify that? I believe I have a PCI rev 2.3 Powermac >> (rather than PCI-X), but I'm not 100% sure. >> >> Eric > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
