M AUDIO FIRE WIRE SOLO

OK.. so i get a gift from a friend. The M AUDIO Firewire Solo. I am stuck. How do i select this to be my audio input on Garage Band V 1.1.0 I WOULD LIKE TO plug my guitar in. Do have to download drivers?.. .My friend is driving me nuts to see how i like it but i cant like it till i know how to get Garage band to reconize it...
HELP..
Thanks.
Tim

I would definitely download the latest drivers from M-Audio. They have a set of drivers for 10.3.9 for their family of firewire interfaces. I have used the Solo without any hitch since it's release.
Understanding M-Audio's difficulties with firewire, I have never been brave enough to hot-plug the interface. I hope you haven't done that, as you may have fried your firewire bus in your Mac. The thing to do would be to download the drivers, shut down your Mac, connect the Solo, and then start up your Mac. When doing this, the system and Garageband both have instantly recognized the Solo.
It is a nice little interface. I hope you getting working.

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hkeewind wrote:
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Ziatron wrote:
or do I have to go the PC route?
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Steve Bowers

To answer your questions--
Dumping preferences usually does not cause problems. More likely you updated some part of your system or are having other hardware issues.
No updates or hardware issues. The original problem (discussed in another thread) was one where the video is skewed inward on the lower right corner. Apple instructed me to dump the preferences and start from scratch. That I did and now I am experiencing problems I did not have before. If it is hardware problems, then I guess it is just coincidental that FCP is just now presenting problems. However, the other problems I am having are software related and does not involve the camera.
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OSX-10.4.8
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Did you record it?
Yes
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Yes
Does it work if you use another computer?
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