From: rocco <roc...@ne...> - 2010-08-29 19:30:11
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allcoms wrote: > Hi list! > > We recently purchased a Saffire Pro 26 believing it would be straight > forward to get going under Linux being a fully-supported FFADO device- > as you may have guessed I have found this not to be the case. My aim > has been to get this device to work under a recent distro without > having to recompile anything but I don't think this is going to be > possible. > > Distros I have tried so far include: > > (Vanilla) Debian Squeeze amd64 - I have actually got FFADO to work > under squeeze but only at 44.1Khz and I want to use 48 or 96Khz. The > other problem with Debian is there is no official RT/low-latency > kernel in the repos but maybe I can use the kernel from AV Linux? I > don't think that would get 48 and 96Khz working under FFADO tho. and > the FFADO in squeeze would seem to be pretty up-to-date (its > 2.0.1svnxxx) > > kxstudio - This has been the only distro that let me start FFADO at 48 > and 96 as well as 44.1Khz. However, it was really no use at all as I > was unable to get any sound output. 'jack_lsp -p' listed all jack > ports as outputs instead of half in/ half outputs. I thought an output > would've meant I would be able to get sound output but not record but > it worked the other way round. kxstudio uses jackdmp so maybe thats > the problem here? > > I have also tried AV Linux, Ubuntu(studio), 64 Studio 3.3a2 and Arch > but I had no luck whatsoever with any of them. > > Am I right in thinking that if I'm using any FFADO version earlier > than 2.0.1 I have to use the old firewire stack? > > The documentation for setting up and troubleshooting FFADO on > FFADO.org is very sparse and out of date. Unless someone can recommend > a distro that will 'just work' then a (troubleshooting) guide would be > much appreciated as I would hate to have to resort to using OSX or > Windows instead. > > Thanks! > > Dan Hi Dan, I've been running Fedora/CCRMA since version 3 (I think 12 is ready... but I run 10) and it has always run 'out of the box'. It's not (only) a good audio distribution, but it seems to work with almost anything I plug into the computer or any software I need. It's a very good audio distrob and a very good all around distrob. The repos have pretty much any Audio Software you may need and is well maintained. Fernando Lopez-Lezcano is a computer systems administrator at CCRMA, Stanford University, so he makes sure things run well, and he's been surprisingly responsive to people on the mailing list. The install instructions are strait forward... http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/installplanetnine.html I suggest starting at Fedora 10 only because I know it works for my Saffire Pro 10. Even if the Pro 26 is internally different than the Pro 10 in some way, at least there's some reason to believe that you have a head start going this direction. I suggest you do the "net install" because the regular CD or DVD is huge and has old programs that you will just replace with 'yum update' anyways, so it's wasted time. The Net Install will grab the updated packages the first time around and the CD is very small. Just to tackle another possible obstacle... I shut off Pulse Audio (yum erase pulseaudio). So if you want to just get running without problems, you may want to (at least for now) shut that off. I bought a Trendnet TFW-H2PC Firewire PCMCIA card and it has worked perfectly. I (believe) it has a Texas Instrument chip. It (seems) as if I've heard more success stories with the Texas Instrument chips than others, but I may be wrong. I wrote a step by step instruction on how to get the Pro 10 up and running on CCRMA/Fedora10. Maybe this will apply to the Pro 26. http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/pipermail/planetccrma/2009-March/015554.html If you go this direction, let us know how it worked out. Rocco |