Hi again,
It was suggested that I stick to it and work a bit to get it to run. The
problem
is: I don't have a clue about what to do next. And without any further help
I'll
have to suspend my Linux plans. The very first and most important thing is to
get my ("fully supported") firewire interface to work. But how?
Is there a chance to make it work if I install the system to disk and update
ffado myself? What are the odds? Would you help me should I get stuck?
Can anyone comment on the problems I described in my earlier email? And if not:
Are there better places to ask about those?
Originally, I decided to try puredyne because it seemed the only Linux audio
distro that has Supercollider preinstalled. Also, I'm all for a llightweight
window system. But maybe a distro with more frequently updated sources will be
better after all.
But with this, I need assistence.
Btw, does anyone here use firewire audio without problems? If yes, what's your
config/hardware?
Many questions, I know.
Cheers,
Axel
----- Original Message ----
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
---
[email protected]
http://identi.ca/group/puredyne
irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne
