<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Re: No success with EchoAudio FireWire 12</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <BLOCKQUOTE>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@ubuntu:~$ cat /etc/issue Ubuntu 9.10 \n \l ii. asmok@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@ubuntu:~$ ls -al /dev/raw1394 crwxrwxrwx 1 root root 171, 0 2009-11-22 16:38 /dev/raw1394 iv. asmok@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@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 - <a href="http://lca2009.linux.org.au/slides/77.pdf">http://lca2009.linux.org.au/slides/77.pdf</a> Best Regards Asmo Koskinen. </BLOCKQUOTE> 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 </BODY> </HTML>