On Sat Mar 28 6:37 , Atte André Jensen sent: >Hi > >I went ahead and got myself a edirol fa-66. Having no experience with >firewire I have no idea why it doesn't work. The problem is that jack >(qjackctl) seems to start up fine, but dies after a few seconds. My jack >settings are IMO conservative: buffer size of 256. > >Here's what's printed in "messages": >19:39:10.306 Patchbay activated. >19:39:10.354 Statistics reset. >19:39:10.364 Startup script... >19:39:10.365 artsshell -q terminate >19:39:10.403 ALSA connection graph change. >19:39:10.787 Startup script terminated with exit status=256. >19:39:10.788 JACK is starting... >19:39:10.788 /usr/bin/jackd -R -P80 -m -dfreebob -dhw:0 -r48000 -p128 -n3 -D >19:39:10.790 JACK was started with PID=10604. >jackd 0.109.2 >Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others. >jackd comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY >This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it >under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details >JACK compiled with System V SHM support. >loading driver .. >Freebob using Firewire port 0, node -1 >19:39:10.989 MIDI active patchbay scan... >19:39:10.992 ALSA connection change. >19:39:11.192 MIDI active patchbay scan... >19:39:11.715 ALSA connection graph change. >libiec61883 warning: iec61883_cmp_create_p2p_output: Failed to set the >oPCR[0] plug for node 0. >LibFreeBoB ERR: Could not do CMP for connection 0 >FreeBoB ERR: Could not start streaming threads >DRIVER NT: could not start driver >cannot start driver >19:39:11.793 MIDI active patchbay scan... >19:39:11.795 ALSA connection change. >19:39:31.721 Could not connect to JACK server as client. - Overall >operation failed. - Server communication error. Please check the >messages window for more info. >jackd watchdog: timeout - killing jackd >could not attach as JACK client (server has exited) >19:39:31.918 ALSA connection graph change. >19:39:31.919 JACK was stopped successfully. >19:39:31.919 Post-shutdown script... >19:39:31.920 killall jackd >19:39:31.920 JACK has crashed. >jackd: no process killed >19:39:32.335 Post-shutdown script terminated with exit status=256. >20:27:22.325 MIDI active patchbay scan... >20:27:22.327 ALSA connection change. >20:27:22.528 MIDI active patchbay scan... > >What I did + info about my system (ubuntu 8.04): >atte@vestbjerg:~$ uname -r >2.6.24-21-rt > >atte@vestbjerg:~$ lsmod | grep 1394 >dv1394 20664 0 >raw1394 29400 0 >ohci1394 34096 1 dv1394 >ieee1394 95544 4 dv1394,raw1394,sbp2,ohci1394 > >atte@vestbjerg:~$ grep disk /etc/udev/rules.d/40-permissions.rules >ATTRS{removable}!="1", GROUP="disk" >KERNEL=="raw1394", GROUP="disk" >ATTRS{type}=="0", GROUP="disk" > >atte@vestbjerg:~$ grep disk /etc/group >disk:x:6:atte > >This is what dmesg says when plugging the fa-66 in: >[ 3824.579054] ieee1394: Node changed: 0-01:1023 -> 0-00:1023 >[ 3824.579064] ieee1394: Node suspended: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] >GUID[0040ab0000c37a87] >[ 3830.249545] ieee1394: Error parsing configrom for node 0-00:1023 >[ 3830.249623] ieee1394: Node changed: 0-00:1023 -> 0-01:1023 >[ 3831.383625] doh, someone wants to mess with state set >[ 3831.453179] ieee1394: Node resumed: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] >GUID[0040ab0000c37a87] > >Besides this, I'm not sure what to look for. Any help appreciated! > >-- >Atte > >http://atte.dk http://modlys.dk >_______________________________________________ >Linux-audio-user mailing list >Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user >) I'm also a newbie with firewire, but had more success with FFADO, (it is more current anyway).. I don't have an edirol, but a focusrite saffire pro 10. Simply install it, fire up ffado-dbus-server run qjackctl and select firewire as the driver. I am able to get better latency performance with ffado, way better than freebob but even better than ALSA (under 3ms with 44100 and 48000 khz)...
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