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#1 2013-02-16 23:52:59

Hakon
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Registered: 2011-04-26
Posts: 10

Jack2 does not start using the firewire driver, does not find the card

Hello

I am trying to install my Presonus Firepod firewire based sound card on my new computer. I have used this card under Linux before, using Ubuntu Studio, probably 12.04 or 12.11. However, on my new computer I can not get it to work, neither using Arch or Ubuntu Studio, both compains about the same errors.

If I start jack from the command line i get the following message:

hakon@hufsa ~ \ :) $ jackd -d firewire -v
jackdmp 1.9.9.5
Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others.
Copyright 2004-2012 Grame.
jackdmp 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
no message buffer overruns
no message buffer overruns
no message buffer overruns
JACK server starting in realtime mode with priority 10
libffado 2.1.0-Unversioned directory built Sep 28 2012 13:37:03
firewire ERR: FFADO: Error creating virtual device
Cannot attach audio driver
1361061639677932: Fatal (devicemanager.cpp)[ 191] initialize: No firewire adapters (ports) found.
1361061639677936: Fatal (ffado.cpp)[ 160] ffado_streaming_init: Could not initialize device manager
JackServer::Open failed with -1
no message buffer overruns
Failed to open server

As root:

[root@hufsa hakon]# jackd -d firewire -v
jackdmp 1.9.9.5
Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others.
Copyright 2004-2012 Grame.
jackdmp 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
no message buffer overruns
no message buffer overruns
no message buffer overruns
JACK server starting in realtime mode with priority 10
libffado 2.1.0-Unversioned directory built Sep 28 2012 13:37:03
1361061664470179: Fatal (ffado.cpp)[ 174] ffado_streaming_init: There are no devices on the bus
firewire ERR: FFADO: Error creating virtual device
Cannot attach audio driver
JackServer::Open failed with -1
no message buffer overruns
Failed to open server

It looks like ffado doesn't see my card, but I know the computer are able to see it, because

hakon@hufsa ~ \ :) $ dmesg | grep firewire
[    0.753848] firewire_ohci 0000:05:01.0: added OHCI v1.10 device as card 0, 4 IR + 8 IT contexts, quirks 0x2
[    1.252141] firewire_core 0000:05:01.0: created device fw0: GUID 660050c50000869f, S400
[  504.507253] firewire_core 0000:05:01.0: rediscovered device fw0

The last line comes after replugging the card.

I have also tried to use qjackctl. It gives me to error messages. The first one says "D-BUS: JACK server could not be started. Sorry", and the second one  which comes a few seconds later says "Could not connect to JACK server as client.
- Overall operation failed.
- Unable to connect to server.
Please check the messages window for more info."
This is the full log from qjackctl's message window:

01:45:21.774 Patchbay deactivated.
01:45:21.778 Statistics reset.
01:45:21.783 ALSA connection change.
01:45:21.951 D-BUS: Service is available (org.jackaudio.service aka jackdbus).
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
jack server is not running or cannot be started
01:45:21.961 ALSA connection graph change.
01:45:35.070 D-BUS: JACK server could not be started. Sorry
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
jack server is not running or cannot be started
Sun Feb 17 01:45:34 2013: Starting jack server...
Sun Feb 17 01:45:35 2013: JACK server starting in realtime mode with priority 10
Sun Feb 17 01:45:35 2013: [1m[31mERROR: firewire ERR: FFADO: Error creating virtual device[0m
Sun Feb 17 01:45:35 2013: [1m[31mERROR: Cannot attach audio driver[0m
Sun Feb 17 01:45:35 2013: [1m[31mERROR: JackServer::Open failed with -1[0m
Sun Feb 17 01:45:35 2013: [1m[31mERROR: Failed to open server[0m
Sun Feb 17 01:45:37 2013: Saving settings to "/home/hakon/.config/jack/conf.xml" ...
01:46:15.587 Could not connect to JACK server as client. - Overall operation failed. - Unable to connect to server. Please check the messages window for more info.
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
jack server is not running or cannot be started

Some general information about the system:

hakon@hufsa ~ \ :) $ uname -r
3.7.8-1-ARCH
hakon@hufsa ~ \ :) $ lspci | grep FireWire
05:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)

The system is a newly installed and updated Arch 64-bit system running jack2. Starting jack with the alsa works (I havent done any recording or playback, but jack starts as it should).

I have seen a lot of differen forum topics about these messages,  but I haven't found any which works for me. Could anyone give my some directotions about what I should do know?

Thanks
Edit: A little bit embarassing, it turned out to be a problem with a cable.

Last edited by Hakon (2013-02-21 22:14:52)

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