[FFADO-user] Echo AudioFire 4 stability issues

[Brian H. <wo...@4a...>]

I've recently picked up an Echo AudioFire 4 to replace a USB device to 
get better latency.


It does not want to play nice with my system. It doesn't work with ALSA 
at all and when used with jack in FFADO mode it crashes jack immediately 
at 32/2 or 32/3. I can get it to work running 64/2 or 64/3 but it does 
eventually crash jack at those settings as well.


The error is always the same, unhandled xruns:

ERROR: JackFFADODriver::ffado_driver_wait - unhandled xrun
ERROR: firewire ERR: wait status < 0! (= -1)
ERROR: JackAudioDriver::ProcessAsync: read error, stopping...
ERROR: JackPosixProcessSync::LockedTimedWait error usec = 5000000 err = 
Connection timed out
ERROR: Driver is not running
ERROR: Cannot create new client


I have no idea what firmware was on it so I downloaded the latest I 
could find (the 5.8 package) and put that on. It made no difference in 
behavior, but for all I know it had 5.8 on it before as well.


I also got a Thunderbolt to firewire dongle for the mac and it seems to 
run flawlessly under Big Sur.


The details are as follows:

AMD Ryzen 3600X

ASUS Prime B450-Plus

Texus Instruments XIO2213B Firewire card

Ubuntu Studio 20.04 - Same issue with 5.4-lowlatency, 5.8-lowlatency and 
5.10-liquorix kernels


Here are the diagnostic things I can figure out to send:

https://gist.github.com/bhechinger/9974df59ce215b44678180ae5d6057b5


This really seems like a nice little box. I'd really like to get it 
working at 32/2 but at this point I'd happily accept stable at all. :)

Thanks!

-brian