Hi, I rebooted with the Audiofire 4 connected and switched on. The second attempt worked after at first it hung at "creating new user" (or something).
I selected 'Firewire' and 'hw:0' in Jack settings. This is the message I get: --------------------- Could not connect to JACK server as client. - Overall operation failed. - Unable to connect to server. Please check the messages window for more info jackd 0.116.1 ... loading driver... 01117948301: (ffado.cpp)[ 92] ffado_sreaming_init: libffado 1.999.43 built Sep 17 2009 20:03:51 firewire ERR: Error creating FFADO streaming device cannot load driver module firewire ------------------------ On the ffado.org website there are articles about some older version of ffado not working with some "new firewire stack". Does anyone know what this is about and what I need to do to make it work? Btw. I typed lspci in a Terminal and it looks like the system is seeing my firewire connection. Cheers, Axel ________________________________ From: Tyler Leavitt <[email protected]> To: puredyne <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, January 3, 2011 6:35:22 PM Subject: Re: [puredyne] Newbie questions I second what Dan S said about gedit.... just looked it up and the plugin is called "Sced" and it is installed on puredyne (9.11 atleast). That being said, I have to point out that you said you were "ready to try" on Linux. I understand the frustration, but if you are ready to give up after not being able to understand vim your first try, you won't last long =) What was the error message in JACK? Copy/paste the error from the window message... Did you have "firewire" selected as your driver? Also... reading this (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=740385) doesn't make your situation look very good. This was posted in June 2009 so it may be different now, but it looks like a hassle setting this card up in Linux. That being said post the Jack error and make sure "firewire" driver is selected. Tyler On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Dan S <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Axel (or John?) - > > >2011/1/3 John Schmitt <[email protected]>: > >> Hi list, >> >> after years and years of music making on Windows and MacOS I'm ready to try >> it on Linux, mainly because Apple is starting to annoy me as much as >> Microsoft did before I switched. > >Yeah I know - I was on Apple for years, but I'm really getting to the >point of being embarrassed to still have some Apple equipment. > > > >> Anyway, here's what I want to do: >> >> I'd like to use my laptop as a low latency live audio processing environment >> (Supercollider, maybe in combination with Ardour which I haven't tried yet >> but which looks nice for mixing) >> >> I'd like to control SC (and Ardour) through a midi/usb interface and >> possibly over wifi using OSC. >> >> Here's what I got: >> >> - a Thinkpad T42. >> - a Dawicontrol dw-1394 pcmcia firewire card with TI chipset (no info about >> this stuff on the net). >> - an Echo Audiofire 4 Audiocard with midi interface (described as fully >> supported on the ffado list). >> - an Akai LPD8 midi over usb interface >> - an iPod touch >> - a Wiimote >> >> I've downloaded the latest Puredyne live cd, connected and turned on my >> Firewire interface and booted the T42. I started Jack which gave me an error >> starting up. > >I don't know much about firewire interfaces I'm afraid since I don't >have fw here - but check the archives, there's been some useful >conversation about getting fw audio working nicely. e.g. >http://lists.goto10.org/pipermail/puredyne/2010-April/003661.html > >But it's really worth saying what the error message *was* - someone >might understand it and know what to suggest. > > >> In the configuration page there was a pulldown device list with >> some strange names. Then I opened SC vim and I didn't even manage to type >> "{SinOsc.ar}.play" >> It was pure frustration. I didn't understand a thing. I heard, Emacs is even >> harder to learn. WTF???? Is there a decent text editor for Linux? >> (intentional polemic ;-)) > >Well both vim and emacs are genuinely very good, but neither of them >is immediately obvious since they use keyboard commands that won't be >familiar to people at first. For example, your vim issue was probably >that you didn't know that you press 'i' to go into insert mode >(allowing you to type text) and Escape to go out of insert mode. Vim >and emacs are the choice of many power-users - you can take that to >mean either that they're probably worth learning, or maybe they're >just geeky enough to earn geek cred ;) > >If you want a text editor that's more like the msword-type mainstream, >look at gedit. It's nice, and it also has a supercollider "mode", so >it might be right up your street. Personally I use scvim so I don't >know the exact details in gedit, but you do something like choose the >supercollider plugin once you've started gedit. (In puredyne it should >be installed already) > >HTH >Dan > > > >> My questions: >> >> - Is there a chance I can do what I want with Puredyne or should I just give >> up and go back into the cozy arms of corporatism? >> - If the answer to the first question is yes, can someone give me some clues >> as to how to achieve it? >> - Is there a text editor that's actually usable with SC? >> - If yes, how???? >> >> Thanks a lot in advance, >> Axel >> >> >> --- >> [email protected] >> http://identi.ca/group/puredyne >> irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne >> > > > >-- >http://www.mcld.co.uk >--- >[email protected] >http://identi.ca/group/puredyne >irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne > --- [email protected] http://identi.ca/group/puredyne irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne
