Cannot load frebob or firewire drivers
Thu, 2009-11-05 23:16
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,
Fri, 2009-11-06 15:45
#2
(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.
Fri, 2009-11-06 20:12
#3
thanks for the reply "/dev/raw1394 " doesn't exist on my box. Where do I go from here?
Thanks,
Sat, 2009-11-07 05:21
#4
It could be in /dev/.static/raw1394
Sat, 2009-11-07 09:25
#5
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.
Sat, 2009-11-07 10:15
#6
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).
Sun, 2009-11-08 10:38
#7
Hi, I tried both but still not working.
Sun, 2009-11-08 10:41
#8
did /dev/raw1394 exist in your system ? if not do a modprobe raw1394 to "create" it
Mon, 2009-11-09 19:19
#9
I tried "sudo modprobe raw1394" it did not create "/dev/raw1394" but did not indicate error either.
Tue, 2009-11-10 09:23
#10
have you tried this on root: "chmod 777 /dev/raw1394" ?
Tue, 2009-11-10 11:59
#11
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.
Tue, 2009-11-10 13:29
#12
Yes it is the Onyx Mixer, I'll try to jump on irc later.
Thanks
Fri, 2010-02-19 12:16
#13
I've got the same problem and after several tries it solved
try this
type in terminal
$ ffado-dbus-server
-----------------------------------------------
FFADO Control DBUS service
Part of the FFADO project -- www.ffado.org
Version: 1.999.43
(C) 2008, Pieter Palmers
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
-----------------------------------------------
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
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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.....
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?