Only jack supports firewire audio devices at this time.

[Eric Hedekar]

Jack uses the ffado driver to connect to the devices.  You require ffado
support for any firewire soundcard on linux at this time.

-Eric

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Steve Meiers <tekrytor at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Luke mentioned "Only jack supports firewire audio devices at this time." in
> his previous message, copied below. I have a few questions regarding Jack's
> firewire support.
>
> How well does Jack support firewire?
>
> Do I still need a ffado supported device and driver to use within Jack or
> does Jack support any and all firewire audio devices without additional
> drivers, etc?
>
> Basically, is it plug-and-play, like most USB midi or USB audio devices
> that I plug into Ubuntu?
>
> So far, there are no ffado drivers for my ADAT-firewire hardware; so it
> would be very cool, but I suspect the answer is sadly no.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Steve
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>
> Message: 6
> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 09:58:59 +1100
> From: Luke Yelavich <themuso at ubuntu.com<http://mc/compose?to=themuso@ubuntu.com>
> >
> Subject: Re: Mackie Onyx Firewire
> To: ubuntu-studio-users at lists.ubuntu.com<http://mc/compose?to=ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com>
> Message-ID: <20100105225859.GA2985 at strigy.yelavich.home<http://mc/compose?to=20100105225859.GA2985@strigy.yelavich.home>
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> On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 09:25:36AM EST, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > I recently purchased the Mackie Onyx Firewire option for my Onyx
> > Mixer.   I am running AMD64 Ubuntu Studio 8.04.  I got the sound working
> > fine with jack, but only using Jack.....    That is to say, if I go to
> > Youtube or some site with embedded audio / video I don't have sound.
> >
> > My previous setup was a M-audio delta 66.  I had no problem using that
> > on web sites.
> >
> > Am I missing something or does the Onyx only work using jack?
>
> Only jack supports firewire audio devices at this time. In order to get
> sound via the firewire device from youtube etc, you would need to set up
> alsa using apps to go via the alsa -> jack plugin.
>
> Luke
>
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