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 <[email protected]> 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 > ------------------------------ > > > Message: 6 > Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 09:58:59 +1100 > From: Luke Yelavich > <[email protected]<http://mc/[email protected]> > > > Subject: Re: Mackie Onyx Firewire > To: > [email protected]<http://mc/[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]<http://mc/[email protected]> > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > 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 > > > > -- > Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users > >
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