On Tue Feb 17 10:40 , Fernando Lopez-Lezcano sent: >On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 16:24 +0000, Jonathan Gazeley wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm trying to set up my Phonic Helix Board 24 on Fedora 10. I've added >> the CCRMA repository but I'm *not* running a CCMRA kernel. I have just >> used this repository to install ffado and jack. >> >> [jonathan@poseidon ~]$ uname -r >> 2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.i686.PAE >> >> [jonathan@poseidon ~]$ rpm -q ffado >> ffado-2.0-0.6.rc1.fc10.ccrma.i386 >> >> Starting jack gives the output below. Running as root gives exactly the >> same output. I've made sure that all users have read/write permissions >> on the firewire port (chmod a+rw /dev/fw*) >> >> I'm a fairly experienced Linux user but I know very little about audio >> on Linux. Can anyone shed any light on this? I had the same Phonic device >> working on Fedora 8 some time ago but that computer is now a distant memory... >> >> Any help will be gratefully accepted! > >The firewire stack that is built into the Fedora kernels is not >compatible with FFADO. The Fedora kernels have been broken for firewire >audio for a loooong time. > >If you want to use FFADO you will have to boot into the Planet CCRMA rt >kernel which has been build with the old firewire stack (which probably >will have other problems - such is the current state of rt patch, oh >well). > >The issue has nothing to do with the rt patch or running with -R, it is >just the wrong (newer) firewire stack. > >-- Fernando > I use Gentoo and have just ordered a Focusrite Saffire.. Will either the gentoo kernel or the rt patched gentoo kernel (from the pro-audio) overlay have these issues? _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
