No success with EchoAudio FireWire 12

[Michael Sullivan]

S. Josey wrote:
>
>     S. Josey kirjoitti:
>
>     > I have recently made a fresh install of Ubuntu Studio 9.10 and
>     tried to get
>     > it to work with my EchoAudio 12.
>
>     > cannot load driver module firewire
>
>     > Can anyone advise me how to overcome this error and get JACK working.
>
>     This is laptop and Echo AudioFire 4.
>
>     i.
>     asmok at ubuntu:~$ cat /etc/issue
>     Ubuntu 9.10 \n \l
>
>     ii.
>     asmok at ubuntu:~$ uname -a
>     Linux ubuntu 2.6.31-9-rt #152-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT RT Thu Oct 15
>     05:01:14
>     UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
>
>     iii.
>     asmok at ubuntu:~$ ls -al /dev/raw1394
>     crwxrwxrwx 1 root root 171, 0 2009-11-22 16:38 /dev/raw1394
>
>     iv.
>     asmok at ubuntu:~$ ffado-test ListDevices
>     -----------------------------------------------
>     FFADO test and diagnostic utility
>     Part of the FFADO project -- www.ffado.org
>     Version: 1.999.43
>     (C) 2008, Daniel Wagner, Pieter Palmers
>     This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
>     -----------------------------------------------
>
>     === 1394 PORT 0 ===
>     Node id GUID VendorId ModelId Vendor - Model
>     0 0x00a0d1a0d1a38156 0x0000A0D1 0x00000000 Linux -
>     ohci1394 -
>     === 1394 PORT 1 ===
>     Node id GUID VendorId ModelId Vendor - Model
>     0 0x0014860968bc006a 0x00001486 0x00000AF4 Echo Digital
>     Audio - AudioFire4
>     1 0x00a0d1a0d1a38155 0x0000A0D1 0x00000000 Linux -
>     ohci1394 -
>     no message buffer overruns
>
>     v.
>
>     asmok at ubuntu:~$ /usr/bin/jackd -R -P89 -m -dfirewire -dhw:1
>     -r44100 -p64 -n3
>     no message buffer overruns
>     jackd 0.116.1
>     Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others.
>     jackd comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
>     This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
>     under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details
>
>     JACK compiled with System V SHM support.
>     loading driver ..
>     00526802280: (ffado.cpp)[ 92] ffado_streaming_init: libffado 1.999.43
>     built Sep 17 2009 20:03:51
>
>     -----
>
>     Just do.
>
>     sudo chmod 777 /dev/raw1394
>
>     And check where is your fw card, mine is in hw:1 - not hw:0!
>
>     "User running jackd/FFADO needs read-write access to /dev/raw1394"
>
>     Page 21 - http://lca2009.linux.org.au/slides/77.pdf
>
>     Best Regards Asmo Koskinen.
>
>
> Well, I have done exactly what was written above and got the output of 
> the various commands to exactly match what is shown above (except my 
> 1394 card shows the Echo box on hw:0), but I’m still getting the same 
> error. I am now completely re-installing UbuntuStudio for a fresh 
> start tomorrow night. Will attempt to make it work “out of the box”. 
> Very frustrated and very disappointed.
>
> SJ
>
>
Hmm I am no expert but you said that your firewire card lists the echo 
box as hw:0 but your jackd command seems to be pointing to hw:1

if you have done a fresh install you will need to re-do the sudo chmod 
777 /dev/raw1394 command

good luck