[LAU] Unable to launch jack with a FA-66

[Peter Finnegan]

On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 13:44 +0200, simone-www.io-lab.org wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:40 PM, simone-www. io-lab. org
> <cimo75 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Pieter Palmers <pieterp at joow.be> wrote:
> >> Arnold Krille wrote:
> >>> Am Mittwoch, 24. September 2008 schrieb simone-www.io-lab.org:
> >>>> thank you for your interest in this desperate case ;)
> >>>> yes everything is connected and powered on as supposed to be
> >>>> the only thing i come to think about is: i am using a PCMCIA card
> >>>> which has 3 ports but in Jack i don t have nay ohter choise than hw:0
> >>>> , that may be the symptom of an unrecognized device?
> >>>
> >>> If your fw-card has three ports, there are two possibilities:
> >>> a) pass hw:X with X in {0,1,2} in the jackd-commandline
> >> note that the number of ports has nothing to do with the hw:x parameter.
> >> the hw:x parameter designates the controller to use. All ports on one
> >> controller are part of the same bus, and are treated the same.
> >>
> >> if you have a built-in controller, you might have to use hw:1.
> >>
> >> Greets,
> >>
> >> Pieter
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> >>
> > so far:
> > i can t find gscanbus on the Fedora repos, but in Ubuntu i have it
> > installed and jack/fa-66 give me the very same problems and in Ubuntu
> > i can see the device.
> 
> yeaahhh! i got it running with a few tricks:
> so the main problem is that i am not able to give the proper
> permissions to my user to access the raw1394 and ieee1394
> modules/devices.
> Till now i was not able to run freebob/jack even with superuser
> because root was not in the audio group, while my user is.
> Now root is in the audio user and root can launch jack with freebob.Nice!
> At this point i only need to figure out how to set the proper
> permissions in /etc/udev/rules.d/ so that my user can access the
> firewire device.
> Thanks
> Simone
> >
The 'old' freebob wiki has instructions on configuring Udev to allow
firewire access to users.  I have found these most helpful.

http://freebob.sourceforge.net/index.php/UdevConfiguration

> >
> > --
> > .wmv , .wma , .pps along with all proprietary Windows formats won t be
> > accepted and/or viewed....
> >
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