[LAU] [FFADO-devel] [ANN] FFADO 2.0 Release Candidate 1 (1.999.40) available

[Pieter Palmers]

Rick Green wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Nov 2008, Pieter Palmers wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> The FFADO team is proud to announce the first release candidate for
>> FFADO 2.0.
>>
> I just downloaded and compiled  the tarball using the scons method.  I 
> had to invoke sudo at the install step.

First of all, thanks for testing FFADO.

Did you read the README file in the tarball? It describes how to install 
ffado correctly. Moreover it also explains how to generate the 
information we require to solve any problems.

> 
> Hoowever. that's as far as I got.  When I hit 'start' in jackctl, I get 
> the following:
> 
> jackd 0.113.0
> Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others.
> jackd 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
> JACK compiled with System V SHM support.
> loading driver ..
> 08042264252:  (ffado.cpp)[  92] ffado_streaming_init: libffado 1.999.40- 
> built Nov 23 2008 09:09:39
> firewire ERR: Error creating FFADO streaming device
> cannot load driver module firewire
> 

Apparently something went wrong somewhere.

Greets,

Pieter