Hi,
(C.C.ed to alsa-devel)
At first, I apologize that ALSA fireface driver since Linux kernel v4.12
includes some bugs for its packet handling for PCM capture substream[1].
This bug can brings disorder of jackd process.
Furthermore, even if handling rx packets correctly, Fireface 400 cannot
generate sounds because audio data frame is not picked up from
isochronous packets to DSP[2].
I've already posted some patches to fix these bugs. The patches were
already merged to ALSA upstream and they'll be going to mainline in next
merge window for v4.21 kernel. They were also posted for stable kernel and
later you can receive patched kernel image if you use any stable kernels.
If you'll test these patches in current your environment, please get
recent code from my remote repository for backport to Linux v4.17 or later:
https://github.com/takaswie/snd-firewire-improve
Your test will be great help to me because I've already left Fireface 400.
(I rented it just for two weeks and I'll leave Fireface 800 soon as well.)
On Fri, 14 Dec 2018, thet wrote:
OK I have the FF400 set up now.
In my recent work for Fireface 800[3][4], I ensure that Fireface 800
can generate sounds even if the HOST LED turns on. This is the same
experience with Fireface 400. Thus you can ignore whether the LED turn off
or not.
What action should I take to create an error that is meaningful?
..
when I start audacious from the terminal using the alsa output plugin
and the FF400 selected I get:
Any GUI tools are not necessarily good for debugging. Please use 'aplay'
insted, like:
$ aplay -v -D hw:Fireface400 -r 44100 -c 18 -f S32_LE /dev/urandom
$ aplay -v -D hw:Fireface400 -r 88200 -c 14 -f S32_LE /dev/urandom
$ aplay -v -D hw:Fireface400 -r 192000 -c 10 -f S32_LE /dev/urandom
In the above cases, I expect your unit can generate noisy sounds with the
latest code of driver.
Anyway, I note you not to drop list address (alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
from CC list. It's valuable to share experiences of errors/failures
because potentially they are good information for developers to seek bugs
in software and be going to fix them.
[1] [PATCH 1/3] ALSA: firewire-lib: fix wrong handling
payload_length as payload_quadlet
http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2018-December/143147.html
[2] [PATCH] ALSA: fireface: fix for state to fetch PCM frames
http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2018-December/143150.html
[3] [PATCH 0/8] ALSA: fireface: add support for Fireface 800
with MIDI functionality only
http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2018-December/142826.html
[4] [PATCH 0/5] ALSA: fireface: add support for Fireface 800
with streaming functionality
http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2018-December/143154.html
Regards
Takashi Sakamoto
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