Re: [FFADO-user] Echo AudioFire 4 stability issues

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

One of the Ubuntu Studio guys runs his AF12 at 16/2. You should try harder. :-D I know ALSA can't do as low a latency as FFADO can for FW devices.

I'm running the newest version and ALSA doesn't work at all.

-brian
On Feb 8, 2021, 20:23 -0500, Luke Tidd <luk...@gm...>, wrote:
> I'm using 2x AudioFire 12s and I think 256 or 512 was the lowest I
> could run them, but they were stable. If the 4 is anything like the
> 12, FFADO only works with the oldest firmware, ALSA works with the
> newer firmwares. Not sure if ALSA is causing your problem or your
> buffer size, but I'm guessing it's the buffer size. Although if I
> could run these things at a 64 buffer, that'd be something else.
>
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 5:19 PM Brian Hechinger <wo...@4a...> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
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