Subject: Re: [LAU] 64studio, FFADO, no luck

From: Pieter Palmers <pieterp@...> · Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 - 6:47 pm

Ken Restivo wrote:

quoted text> Well I decided to try again to bring my 64-bit Intel Micro-ITX board

> alive, running 64studio and Ardour, to use as an alternate DAW

> machine at a friend's studio. I gave up trying to make a headless

> softsynth out of it, because it wouldn't boot off of a USB flash

> drive. Now that I have the Atom-based EEE, that's working out rather

> well as a portable softsynth, so I'm trying to find another use for

> the Micro-ITX since it's been sitting around unused for many mohths.

>

> The studio has two Digidesign Firewire audio interfaces there, one

> with 4 inputs and one with 8. I'd ultimately like to have them both

> running, sync'ed up, for 12 tracks of audio.

>

> Problem is, 64studio 2.1 seems to have an ancient version of FreeBoB

> (no FFADO) and an even more ancient version of JACKD (0.103.0, the

> same one I've been running for two years now on my laptop).

>

> Just for grins, I tried to hook up the Digi Firewire box, but jackd

> said "Root node has no children!" over and over again, then

> SIGSEGV'ed. Oh well. gscanbus showed the firewire interface just

> fine, and the binary package of FreeBoB doesn't seem to include the

> "test-freebob" script and tools.

>

> I dunno. Should I go with Sid? Or do any of the other Debian-derived

> audio distros support FFADO right now?
AFAIK FFADO won't help you with digidesign gear.
>

quoted text> I was hoping to show off how easily a 1.6Ghz 64-bit machine could

> record 12 tracks of audio with low latency using Linux. Alas, the

> knock-yer-socks-off Linux demo might have to wait a while.
It will have to wait until someone convinces digidesign that FFADO is

something they want to help.
Greets,
Pieter

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