Hello I have a Mackie Onyx I’m trying to configure in Jack. When I plug the device in it appears to be recognized “ieee1394: Node added: ID:BUS[0-01:1023]”. When I go into Jack and try to switch from alsa to either “firewire” or “freebob” I get the following:
loading driver …
SSE2 detected
13243805598: (ffado.cpp)[ 92] ffado_streaming_init: libffado 1.999.43 built Sep 17 2009 20:06:09
firewire ERR: Error creating FFADO streaming device
cannot load driver module firewire
Any ideas?
Thanks,
I don’t have any personal experience with firewire cards but first of all, unless it’s a Onyx Mixer, the FFADO support doesn’t seem that great (http://www.ffado.org/?q=devicesupport/list&page=1).
And second; shouldn’t you select ffado in jack, if that’s what you’re running?
(peder) Jack refers to FFADO as firewire.
Have you checked the permissions of /dev/raw1394? Your user needs to have read/write permission, most distributions don’t permit this by default as it can be a security risk, apparently. How you achieve this can depend on which distribution you are running - the best method is to make /dev/raw1394 owned by a group that your user is a member of. You may be able just to chgrp it but on *buntu distributions it’s necessary to create a udev rule. I can look mine up if you need it.
thanks for the reply "/dev/raw1394 " doesn’t exist on my box. Where do I go from here?
Thanks,
It could be in /dev/.static/raw1394
the command
sudo modprobe raw1394
would be my first step if that results in you seeing a /dev/raw1394 device
then you should add the line
raw1394
to the /etc/modules
if I remember correctly… This forces the raw firewire interface to be loaded at boot.
Hello,
Have you tried this?
sudo adduser YOURUSERNAME disk
Linux looks at firewire as a hard disk interface primarily, adding yourself to the disk group usually addresses the permissions issue (on Debian anyway).
Hi, I tried both but still not working.
did /dev/raw1394 exist in your system ? if not do a modprobe raw1394 to “create” it
I tried “sudo modprobe raw1394” it did not create “/dev/raw1394” but did not indicate error either.
have you tried this on root: “chmod 777 /dev/raw1394” ?
nickyrugg, you seriously need to get on IRC to get help with this.
Is it an Onyx Mixer or something else? As I stated in my first reply FFADO doesn’t seem to support any other Mackie stuff but that one.
Yes it is the Onyx Mixer, I’ll try to jump on irc later.
Thanks
I’ve got the same problem and after several tries it solved
try this
type in terminal
$ ffado-dbus-server
01594487264: (ffado-dbus-server.cpp)[ 269] main: Discovering devices…
01594540667: Debug (devicemanager.cpp)[ 332] discover: Starting discovery…
01594540796: Debug (devicemanager.cpp)[ 639] discover: Discovery finished…
01594540810: Debug (devicemanager.cpp)[1184] showDeviceInfo: ===== Device Manager =====
01594540836: Debug (Element.cpp)[ 121] show: Element DeviceManager
01594540849: Debug (devicemanager.cpp)[1192] showDeviceInfo: — IEEE1394 Service 0 —
Iso handler info:
Dumping IsoHandlerManager Stream handler information…
State: 2
01594540902: Debug (devicemanager.cpp)[1192] showDeviceInfo: — IEEE1394 Service 1 —
Iso handler info:
Dumping IsoHandlerManager Stream handler information…
State: 2
01594540990: (ffado-dbus-server.cpp)[ 312] main: Starting DBUS service…
01594557429: (ffado-dbus-server.cpp)[ 328] main: Running… (press ctrl-c to stop & exit)
01594557483: Debug (ffado-dbus-server.cpp)[ 331] main: dispatching…
Watch out at this line:
01594540849: Debug (devicemanager.cpp)[1192] showDeviceInfo: — IEEE1394 Service 0 —
Iso handler info:
Dumping IsoHandlerManager Stream handler information…
State: 2
01594540902: Debug (devicemanager.cpp)[1192] showDeviceInfo: — IEEE1394 Service 1 —
Service 0 means hw:0
Service 1 means hw:1
just change your jackd command into this…
jackd -R -P70 -dfirewire -dhw:1 -r44100 -p128 -n3
where -dhw:1 is to tell jackd where is your firewire port
you can change into -dhw:0
or
go to qjackctl
setup —> write into interface label hw:0 or hw:1 or hw:2 whatever…
goodluck…