[FFADO-user] firewire MSG: xrun detected

[Robert J. <rj...@sp...>]

Hello everybody,

I'm trying to get an FA-66 up and running and have some stability problems.

I don't get any xruns but get sporadic drop-outs in the audio. After
running jack with verbose I see I get these messages
firewire MSG: xrun detected

And with context
load = 1.8896 max usecs: 1595.000, spare = 83738.000
load = 1.8817 max usecs: 1599.000, spare = 83734.000
firewire MSG: xrun detected
client event poll on 47 for MPlayer [2412] starts at 3153546496
back from client event poll after 56 usecs
load = 1.8795 max usecs: 1602.000, spare = 83731.000

My first question would be what this message means? Trouble with the
firewire connection? I tried exchanging the cable...

According to ffado-diag I'm running the new stack. Kernel is currently
2.6.38-5-lowlatency #32~ppa1-Ubuntu. The hardware is a few years old
macbook, lspci has the following line about the firewire interface.
03:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Agere Systems FW322/323 (rev 61)

Haven't tried the old stack, guessing that is a good next step if I
can get it running?

Regards,
Robert