Re: [FFADO-user] patches: enable mixer/router for Saffire Pro 14

[Jonathan W. <jw...@ju...>]

Hi Tim, Tobi

> >i had the same problem i think. I got the hint to install (in
> >Synaptic) the developer packages of jack as well. Althogh i thing
> >jonathan also told that it should not be neccesary anymore with
> >actual versions. Perhaps you can give it a try, if it is working
> >then, we know that there is something still wrong with the
> >"building" routine.
>
> Thanks for the advice , worked for me.

I'm glad to see that you have a working system now.  However, given that the
original problem was associated with jackd not knowing about its "firewire"
driver I can't quite see the connection with the apparent need to install
the jackd development package:

  jackd -P70 -d firewire -r44100 -p256 -n3 DEBUG=yes
  jackdmp 1.9.8
  :
  Unknown driver "firewire"

Whether jackd knows about the "firewire" driver is dependent only on FFADO
being installed on the system at the time jackd is compiled.  Anything
that's done by FFADO's scons script is irrelevant.

The problem which Tobi wrote about was slightly different to what you had;
his was the situation where jackd knows of the "firewire" driver but aborts
with an error to the effect that the libffado version is incompatible. 
Since r2189 (28 July 2012) there should no longer be a need to have the
jackd development package installed in order to get a FFADO that's
compatible with the installed jackd.  This has worked on all systems I've
tested it with thus far and we have reports from other users that it's all
good too.  If there is a system where it's still not working I would like to
see the detailed scons output to determine why.

Regards
  jonathan