Re: [FFADO-user] [I'm a user and need support] Ubuntu Studio 11.10 (uses XFCE Windows Manager)

[ROY L. <r.m...@bt...>]

Thank you, Stefan,

That was a great help.

>________________________________
> From: Stefan Richter <st...@s5...>
>To: r.m...@bt... 
>
>On Dec 25 r.m...@bt... wrote:
>
>> With Ubuntu Studio 11.10, which, now, uses the XFCE window manager, I have
>> libraw1394-11 2.0.7.1  installed by default.
>> 
>> I have the following port installed which has worked well, before.
>> 
>> I have installed the Ubuntu Studio
>> Control which seems to work as well as in the past.
>
>So what do you get from "ffado-test ListDevices", run as the same user who
>runs jackd and from "ls -l /dev/fw*" while the Saffire is connected and
>powered?
>
roy@Laptop:~$ ffado-test ListDevices
Cannot create thread 1 Operation not permitted
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FFADO test and diagnostic utility...
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=== 1394 PORT 0 ===
Node id GUID VendorId ModelId Vendor - Model
0 0x00130e0100060f3e 0x0000130E 0x00000006 Focusrite - Pro10IO
ERROR: messagebuffer not initialized: 00616777965: Error (configrom.cpp)[ 150] initialize: Could not parse config rom of node 1 on port 0

[sudo] password for roy: 
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FFADO test and diagnostic utility...
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=== 1394 PORT 0 ===
Node id GUID VendorId ModelId Vendor - Model
0 0x0090f5000048a072 0x000090F5 0x00000000 Linux Firewire - 
1 0x00130e0100060f3e 0x0000130E 0x00000006 Focusrite - Pro10IO
no message buffer overruns

_____So, there is a permissions problem. The rules file you noted is in place in /lib/udev/rules.d and I am a member of the audio group. (BTW, the file includes interesting info about my Mackie Onyx which is working well on a much older version of Ubuntu Studio atm.)

roy@Laptop:~$ ls -l /dev/fw*
crw------- 1 root root 251, 0 2011-12-26 11:07 /dev/fw0
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 251, 1 2011-12-26 11:12 /dev/fw1

______So, it is the first port which has the problem.


60-raw1394.rules:

#This is a file for Ubuntu Studio Controls to write firewire access rules to
#it's advised that you do not manually edit this file.

KERNEL=="raw1394", GROUP="audio"

This is in /etc/udev/rules.d and is, obviously, out of date because raw1394 is no longer used for FFADO. The question is now what the KERNEL rule for port fw0 should be and where should it be put?

Regards
Roy Leith