Ken Restivo wrote: > Well I decided to try again to bring my 64-bit Intel Micro-ITX board > alive, running 64studio and Ardour, to use as an alternate DAW > machine at a friend's studio. I gave up trying to make a headless > softsynth out of it, because it wouldn't boot off of a USB flash > drive. Now that I have the Atom-based EEE, that's working out rather > well as a portable softsynth, so I'm trying to find another use for > the Micro-ITX since it's been sitting around unused for many mohths. > > The studio has two Digidesign Firewire audio interfaces there, one > with 4 inputs and one with 8. I'd ultimately like to have them both > running, sync'ed up, for 12 tracks of audio. > > Problem is, 64studio 2.1 seems to have an ancient version of FreeBoB > (no FFADO) and an even more ancient version of JACKD (0.103.0, the > same one I've been running for two years now on my laptop). > > Just for grins, I tried to hook up the Digi Firewire box, but jackd > said "Root node has no children!" over and over again, then > SIGSEGV'ed. Oh well. gscanbus showed the firewire interface just > fine, and the binary package of FreeBoB doesn't seem to include the > "test-freebob" script and tools. > > I dunno. Should I go with Sid? Or do any of the other Debian-derived > audio distros support FFADO right now? AFAIK FFADO won't help you with digidesign gear. > > I was hoping to show off how easily a 1.6Ghz 64-bit machine could > record 12 tracks of audio with low latency using Linux. Alas, the > knock-yer-socks-off Linux demo might have to wait a while. It will have to wait until someone convinces digidesign that FFADO is something they want to help. Greets, Pieter _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
