Re: [FFADO-devel] Compliing ffado

[Pieter P. <pi...@jo...>]

Morgan Tørvolt wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I have just had the Dell guy here swapping the motherboard on my
> laptop to a new one. My firewire works just fine now, playing
> flawlessly in windows except when I spend all my computer resources on
> loading a heavy program or such. Then I get some static noise from
> time to time.
> I have had some success with the freebob 1.0.3 (or whichever it was,
> the latest "stable" version at least), but I got no sound output. I
> used to get some sound output using my friends computer (which is
> exacly the same as mine Dell Inspiron 9400). Mplayer seemed to be
> doing fine though, and everything was reacting as expected both in
> Mplayer and qjackctl, so I guess I did something in windows to mute
> the sound output. I therefor decided to go try out the latest code of
> ffado, but I am having compilation issues.

I don't think the new code will help if the old doesn't work. The first 
thing is to make sure your setup works with the internal soundcard and 
ALSA. It should run at decent period sizes (3x128) and realtime mode has 
to work. This to eliminate all non-freebob configuration issues.

> I know that my firewire interface has caused problems for alot of
> people (ricoh), but it has at least worked partially for me, and quite
> good in windows, and it works even better on the new motherboard, so I
> will give it a go.
Apparently not all ricoh chipsets are bad.

> The compile problems are not really ffado problems, but Jack compiling
> problems. It seems that the jack version i get from SVN still has a
> thing for freebob, as ffado is not mentioned even once in the source
> code. Is there a different branch?
I cooked up
http://subversion.ffado.org/index.fcgi/wiki/JackForTrunk
to have this answered for the future.

> Also, I have a Focusrite Saffire Pro 10i/o, and it worked with
> freebob. The test application "test-ffado Discover" does not find it,
> although test-freebob does. Running "test-fw410 0" rebootet my
> soundcard, so at least something happens.
This might help:
http://subversion.ffado.org/index.fcgi/wiki/AddingDeviceIds


Pieter