[LAU] Audiofire8 and how I chose the wrong motherboard.

[Harry Van Haaren]

Toby,

True, only the FFADO can "access" the AudioFire 8. Its a firewire device,
and hence ALSA has no intrest in it.
Niether does OSS.

On the bright side of the rainbow, there are ways to route ALSA / Pulse /
OSS / whatever-you-need to JACK.

Try google "ALSA program JACK output", in short: you need this article:
http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Jack_(plugin)<http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Jack_%28plugin%29>

Hth, I've a AudioFire 2 & 12, works no probs on either, so its gotta do on
your 8!
Cheers, -Harry


On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Toby <toby at tobiah.org> wrote:

> Short version:
>
> Have an Audiofire8, and it works great through FFADO but only with
> Jack.  Jack is cool, but how do I get my normal system
> sounds (like from Firefox, etc...) out of it?  Alsa seems
> not to be present at all.  Did I choose badly?  Can I ever get
> normal ALSA programs to see my Audiofire 8?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Toby
>
> Saga:
>
> I ordered a refurb box from Fry's in US.  8 Gig Ram, 1TB Hd,
> four core AMD Phenom, +extras $600.  How could I refuse?
>
> Excitedly opening the box upon arrival I noticed that there
> was no PCI slot on the board whatsoever.
>
> So I go to the net.  At that time there were only purely consumer
> type PCI-e sound boards, and I gave up on that.  I had good luck
> with my USB 1.0 Tascam US-122 with linux, so without diligently
> checking compatibility, I ordered the US-144mkII; I need RCS
> S/PDIF I/O.
>
> A brief search after receiving the unit told me that I was lame,
> and should be ashamed to call myself a Linux user due to my lack
> of research before ordering.
>
> So I look around, and decide on an Echo again.  This time an
> Audiofire8.  I wanted the 4, but found the 8 on Craigslist
> for $300 flat.  Seems I could not pass that up.
>
> I had done at least cursory research this time, and was indeed
> able to get the unit working properly through FFADO, but apparently
> only through Jackd.  That's pretty cool for Ardour, but I can't even
> get Audacity or alsaplayer to use jack.  Plus, how will I ever get
> Firefox, or other possibly non-jack aware programs to play
> through jack?  I don't seem to have any alsa devices, even though
> the unit works great with Ardour.
>
> I suppose I could just dedicate another mixer blade to the onboard
> sound card (hear Simpson's shudder: Ughghghghghghhhhhhhhh).
>
> I seem to always be chasing rainbows.  I remember when Alsa first
> came out.  I thought it looked really neat, but not much used it
> at first.  Then they had OSS emu, etc, but it took a long time for
> ALSA to win the audio war, and then another long time before it
> was second nature to me, and everything started to support it, and
> now, even oss emu seems a thing of the past.  /dev/dsp?  what's that?
>
> Now, with Jack, it seems that I am on another loop of this treadmill.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tobiah
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