hey Gusano,
Use Puredyne, my Firebox works fine.
My firebox gave me no end of grief on my old laptop, it wasn't until I
learnt that it needs a Texas Instruments firewire 400 chipset (I
understand that this also applies to most other fireaudio audio
interfaces...so if your laptop has an Agave or Via firewire chipset
then, if you have an expresscard slot, get an expresscard. There are
recommendations on the Presonus site, my Startech card works fine.
Assuming you've got all this in order all I had to do was install
Puredyne, the least hassle audio distro I've tried, start up your
computer with the Expresscard inserted (Puredyne doesn't seem to support
plug and play for this)...then...insure you have all the ffado packages
installed...
Then insert the bits below in bold into the /etc/default/rtirq
file...the raw1394 part is just because i'm using an expresscard,
otherwise ignore
# IRQ thread service names
# (space separated list, from higher to lower priority).
RTIRQ_NAME_LIST="rtc0 raw1394 ohci1394 snd usb i8042"
# On kernel configurations that support it,
# which services should be NOT threaded
# (space separated list).
RTIRQ_NON_THREADED="rtc0 snd raw1394 ohci1394"
this information was thanks to this link
http://www.backports.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1328175
then run ffado-dbus-server
then run ffado-test ListDevices
and it should see your firebox, and give you an idea of which port/node
to use (for me this is port 1 node 1,
then start qjackctl and in the settings put your port/node
(for me this is *hw:1,1*)
and then work out what settings will run and start jack,
if you have a stable blue light you're on your way
hope this helps
Hamish
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