[FFADO-user] jackd - without ffado/ firewire support...?

[Morgan R. <ms...@re...>]

Hmm...
> I'm not sure it's your worst nightmare, but it's certainly more than a
> little annoying.
Okay, dramatic licence... :)

CentOS 8 (Stream'ish)
$ sudo dnf list --installed jack-audio-connection-kit
[sudo] password for admin:
Installed Packages
jack-audio-connection-kit.x86_64                                        
1.9.12-8.el8                                          @epel
$

I can feel a bug filling frenzy coming on...

Thanks
M

On 29/04/2020 12:36 pm, Jonathan Woithe wrote:
> Hi Morgan
>
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 12:24:11PM +0100, Morgan Read via FFADO-user wrote:
>> I wonder if someone could confirm my worst nightmare...
>>
>> After seemingly going round in circles with qjackctl I decided to resort
>> to the command line to see what I could see - as if life was never
>> thus...  Does this output from jackd indicate ffado/ firewire support is
>> not compiled in to my installed version...:
>> $ jackd --help
>> jackdmp 1.9.12
>> ...
>> Available backends:
>>       net (master)
>>       alsa (master)
>>       proxy (master)
>>       netone (master)
>>       loopback (slave)
>>       alsarawmidi (slave)
>>       dummy (master)
> If that's all the backends that are listed, then I agree that it seems the
> jackd binary presently on your system does not include the "firewire"
> backend.  This is a little unusual in this day and age, but clearly it still
> happens.  I don't have jackdmp (aka jack2) on my system so I can't confirm
> this directly.  If your system included support for the "firewire" backend,
> I would expect to see a line reading "firewire (master)" based on the
> entries reported above.
>
> I'm not sure it's your worst nightmare, but it's certainly more than a
> little annoying.
>
> Which Linux distribution (and version) are you using?  This will determine
> the best approach to use when resolving this issue.  For example, on many
> distributions, uninstalling jackd in the normal way (notionally to make
> ready for a self-compiled version) needs to be avoided because a side effect
> will be to remove most of your multimedia software as well (since these
> packages depend on the jackd package that you're removing).
>
> Not having a jackd with the "firewire" backend available does explain why
> (as you mentioned in a previous post) selecting "firewire" in qjackctl
> didn't do anything useful.
>
> Regards
>   jonathan


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