Re: [FFADO-user] Echo Audiofire 4

[Bob C. <rco...@gm...>]

It seems that disabling the new 1394 stack and compiling the legacy stack as
a module solved some of my problems.  Not sure which since I did both at the
same time.  Now I'm down to this error::

20:06:10 [doki_pen@geard ~]$ sudo ffado-dbus-server
-----------------------------------------------
FFADO Control DBUS service
Part of the FFADO project -- www.ffado.org
Version: 2.0.1
(C) 2008, Pieter Palmers
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
-----------------------------------------------

 Discovering devices...
00087046725: Error (fireworks_device.cpp)[ 175] discoverUsingEFC: Firmware
version 3.0 (rev 512) not recent enough. FFADO requires at least version 4.8
(rev 0).
00087046756: Error (devicemanager.cpp)[ 606] discover: could not discover
device
 Starting DBUS service...
 Running... (press ctrl-c to stop & exit)


On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Bob Corsaro <rco...@gm...> wrote:

> I'm having trouble getting a brand new Echo Audiofire 4 working on my Linux
> box.  I'm completely new to ieee1394.  My kernel has both the new 1394 stack
> and the legacy stack built in.  Any help is appreciated.   I thought
> Audiofire 4 was supported some I'm worred about the "unsupported device"
> line.
>
> Gentoo with pro-audio overlay
>   * libffado-2.0.1
>   * jack-audio-connection-kit-0.120.2
>
> Here is some output from ffado-dbus-server::
>
> 19:37:12 [doki_pen@geard ~]$ sudo ffado-dbus-server
> -----------------------------------------------
> FFADO Control DBUS service
> Part of the FFADO project -- www.ffado.org
> Version: 2.0.1
> (C) 2008, Pieter Palmers
> This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> -----------------------------------------------
>
>  Discovering devices...
> 00700228262: Warning (bebob_avdevice.cpp)[ 188] discover: Using generic
> BeBoB support for unsupported device 'Echo Digital Audio AudioFire4'
> 00700239018: Error (bebob_avplug.cpp)[ 161] discover: Could not discover
> stream format (0,31,255,0,0)
> 00700239047: Error (avc_unit.cpp)[ 442] discoverPlugsPCR: plug discovering
> failed
> 00700239069: Error (avc_unit.cpp)[ 394] discoverPlugs: pcr input plug
> discovering failed
> 00700239079: Error (avc_unit.cpp)[ 182] discover: Detecting plugs failed
> 00700239092: Error (bebob_avdevice.cpp)[ 192] discover: Could not discover
> unit
> 00700239100: Error (devicemanager.cpp)[ 606] discover: could not discover
> device
>  Starting DBUS service...
>  Running... (press ctrl-c to stop & exit)
>
>
> Here is some output from jackd with ffado-dbus-server running::
>
> 19:53:38 [doki_pen@geard ~]$ jackd -d firewire
> jackd 0.120.2
> Copyright 2001-2009 Paul Davis, Stephane Letz, Jack O'Quinn, Torben Hohn
> 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
>
> no message buffer overruns
> JACK compiled with System V SHM support.
> cannot lock down memory for jackd (Cannot allocate memory)
> loading driver ..
> Enhanced3DNow! detected
> SSE2 detected
> JACK: unable to mlock() port buffers: Cannot allocate memory
> JACK: unable to mlock() port buffers: Cannot allocate memory
> libffado 2.0.1 built Jun 23 2011 17:45:16
> firewire ERR: Error creating FFADO streaming device
> cannot load driver module firewire
> no message buffer overruns
>
>