Re: [LAU] Step-by-step instructions to have Linux recognize Audiofire 12 Firewire device?

Hey David, The AudioFire has been supported in FFADO for a very long time, as Echo were helpful and provided "generic" source code for thier devices. The FFADO site explains details, but all you need is a newish Linux Distro which has a JACK with FFADO on it. The new Ubuntu studio has JACK & FFADO, but gave me lots of unknown problems with my AudioFire12, AVLinux works very well for me. The new Pure::Dyne works insanely well. (Pure:Dyne is what I currently have installed.) Pure::Dyne runs as a Live CD, so you can try it without destroying you XP, and all I needed to do to get firewire audio running, was: 1. sudo modprobe raw1394 // loads the firewire module 2. sudo chmod 777 /dev/raw1394 // allows all users acces the firewire port 3. start jack (I use QJackCtl). If there's errors... check your firewire settings, make sure that the "backend" in QJackCtl = "firewire", and dont set the latency/buffer-sizes etc too low to start. A little bit of common sense and it should work NP! Hope that helped... -Harry PS: If you havent upgraded the firmware on the AudioFire to version 5, DONT! I'm getting a latency of 14.5 ms on an AudioFire2 (firm:5.5), while the same machine under the same approx settings gets 2ms (yes, just two!) on an AudioFire12 (firm:4.8).