I have for almost a decade now been using ffado and an Echo Audiofire12.
It is plugged into the firewire card and powered on, hadn't thought to mention...my bad.
Interesting point on the alsa driver for firewire. I did note on my other machine where this all works that alsa does see the AF12, as does jack.
I rarely look at alsa, so I have no idea how to tell if the fw alsa driver is loaded. At least some part of alsa it is there since if I select it as the driver with jack_control and start jack it finds the sound devices on the MOBO.
AS I said this behavior of UBS install is new to me, since it has always just found everything. Of course the only common things are the AF12 and UBS 16.04. The MOBO, fw card, etc. are new.
And the entirety of ffado-diag:
FFADO diagnostic utility 2.2.1
============================
(C) 2008 Pieter Palmers
2009-2010 Arnold Krille
=== CHECK ===
Base system...
kernel version............ 4.10.0-37-lowlatency
Preempt (low latency)... True
RT patched.............. False
old 1394 stack present.... False
old 1394 stack loaded..... False
old 1394 stack active..... False
new 1394 stack present.... True
new 1394 stack loaded..... True
new 1394 stack active..... True
/dev/raw1394 node present. False
/dev/fw* permissions:
crw------- 1 root root 247, 0 Oct 17 10:02 /dev/fw0
User IDs:
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
Prerequisites (dynamic at run-time)...
gcc ............... gcc (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.5) 5.4.0 20160609
g++ ............... g++ (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.5) 5.4.0 20160609
PyQt4 (by pyuic4) . Python User Interface Compiler 4.11.4 for Qt version 4.8.7
jackd ............. no message buffer overruns
path ............ /usr/bin/jackd
flags ........... -ljack
libraw1394 ........ Package libraw1394 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libraw1394.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'libraw1394' found
flags ........... Package libraw1394 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libraw1394.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'libraw1394' found
libavc1394 ........ Package libavc1394 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libavc1394.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'libavc1394' found
flags ........... Package libavc1394 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libavc1394.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'libavc1394' found
libiec61883 ....... Package libiec61883 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libiec61883.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'libiec61883' found
flags ........... Package libiec61883 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libiec61883.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'libiec61883' found
libxml++-2.6 ...... Package libxml++-2.6 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libxml++-2.6.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'libxml++-2.6' found
flags ........... Package libxml++-2.6 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libxml++-2.6.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'libxml++-2.6' found
dbus-1 ............ 1.10.6
flags ........... -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dbus-1.0/include -ldbus-1
Prerequisites (static at compile-time)...
gcc ............... gcc (Ubuntu 5.2.1-27ubuntu1) 5.2.1 20151129
g++ ............... g++ (Ubuntu 5.2.1-27ubuntu1) 5.2.1 20151129
PyQt4 (by pyuic4) . Python User Interface Compiler 4.11.4 for Qt version 4.8.6
jackd ............. sh: 1: jackd: not found
path ............
flags ........... Package jack was not found in the pkg-config search path.
libraw1394 ........ 2.1.1
flags ........... -lraw1394
libavc1394 ........ Package libavc1394 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
flags ........... Package libavc1394 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
libiec61883 ....... 1.2.0
flags ........... -liec61883 -lraw1394
libxml++-2.6 ...... 2.40.1
flags ........... -std=c++11 -I/usr/include/libxml++-2.6 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxml++-2.6/include -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/glibmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glibmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/sigc++-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sigc++-2.0/include -lxml++-2.6 -lxml2 -lglibmm-2.4 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lsigc-2.0
dbus-1 ............ 1.10.4
flags ........... -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dbus-1.0/include -ldbus-1
uname -a...
Linux ubstwo 4.10.0-37-lowlatency #41~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT Fri Oct 6 23:37:18 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Hardware...
Host controllers:
05:05.3 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306/7/8 [Fire II(M)] IEEE 1394 OHCI Controller [1106:3044] (rev 80) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306/7/8 [Fire II(M)] IEEE 1394 OHCI Controller [1106:3044]
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping+ SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 32 (8000ns max), Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 20
Region 0: Memory at fe700000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Region 1: I/O ports at c000 [size=128]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+)
Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
Kernel driver in use: firewire_ohci
Kernel modules: firewire_ohci
CPU info:
Architecture: x86_64
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 6
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-5
Thread(s) per core: 2
Core(s) per socket: 3
Socket(s): 1
NUMA node(s): 1
Vendor ID: AuthenticAMD
CPU family: 21
Model: 2
Model name: AMD FX(tm)-6350 Six-Core Processor
Stepping: 0
CPU MHz: 1400.000
CPU max MHz: 3900.0000
CPU min MHz: 1400.0000
BogoMIPS: 8452.90
Virtualization: AMD-V
L1d cache: 16K
L1i cache: 64K
L2 cache: 2048K
L3 cache: 8192K
NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-5
Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc extd_apicid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq monitor ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes xsave avx f16c lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs xop skinit wdt lwp fma4 tce nodeid_msr tbm topoext perfctr_core perfctr_nb cpb hw_pstate vmmcall bmi1 arat npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save tsc_scale vmcb_clean flushbyasid decodeassists pausefilter pfthreshold
Configuration...
IRQ information
Hardware Interrupts:
--------------------
IRQ 0: PID: None, count: [137, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], Sched None (priority None), drivers: ['2-edge timer']
IRQ 1: PID: None, count: [2, 2, 1, 1, 3, 0], Sched None (priority None), drivers: ['1-edge i8042']
IRQ 8: PID: None, count: [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1], Sched None (priority None), drivers: ['8-edge rtc0']
IRQ 9: PID: None, count: [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], Sched None (priority None), drivers: ['9-fasteoi acpi']
IRQ 16: PID: None, count: [207, 149243, 74567, 74706, 224422, 78330], Sched None (priority None), drivers: ['16-fasteoi snd_hda_intel:card0']
IRQ 17: PID: None, count: [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], Sched None (priority None), drivers: ['17-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb1']
IRQ 18: PID: None, count: [0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0], Sched None (priority None), drivers: ['18-fasteoi ohci_hcd:usb5', 'ohci_hcd:usb7']
IRQ 19: PID: None, count: [594, 57172, 602, 605, 1814, 663], Sched None (priority None), drivers: ['19-fasteoi ahci']
IRQ 20: PID: None, count: [8, 10, 31783, 52913, 30, 21], Sched None (priority None), drivers: ['20-fasteoi ohci_hcd:usb6', 'uhci_hcd:usb9', 'firewire_ohci']
IRQ 21: PID: None, count: [1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0], Sched None (priority None), drivers: ['21-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb2', 'uhci_hcd:usb10']
IRQ 22: PID: None, count: [0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0], Sched None (priority None), drivers: ['22-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb4', 'ohci_hcd:usb8']
IRQ 23: PID: None, count: [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], Sched None (priority None), drivers: ['23-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb3']
IRQ 27: PID: None, count: [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], Sched None (priority None), drivers: ['1572864-edge xhci_hcd']
IRQ 28: PID: None, count: [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], Sched None (priority None), drivers: ['1572865-edge xhci_hcd']
IRQ 29: PID: None, count: [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], Sched None (priority None), drivers: ['1572866-edge xhci_hcd']
IRQ 30: PID: None, count: [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], Sched None (priority None), drivers: ['1572867-edge xhci_hcd']
IRQ 31: PID: None, count: [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], Sched None (priority None), drivers: ['1572868-edge xhci_hcd']
IRQ 32: PID: None, count: [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], Sched None (priority None), drivers: ['1572869-edge xhci_hcd']
IRQ 33: PID: None, count: [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], Sched None (priority None), drivers: ['1572870-edge xhci_hcd']
IRQ 35: PID: None, count: [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], Sched None (priority None), drivers: ['2097152-edge xhci_hcd']
IRQ 36: PID: None, count: [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], Sched None (priority None), drivers: ['2097153-edge xhci_hcd']
IRQ 37: PID: None, count: [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], Sched None (priority None), drivers: ['2097154-edge xhci_hcd']
IRQ 38: PID: None, count: [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], Sched None (priority None), drivers: ['2097155-edge xhci_hcd']
IRQ 39: PID: None, count: [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], Sched None (priority None), drivers: ['2097156-edge xhci_hcd']
IRQ 40: PID: None, count: [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], Sched None (priority None), drivers: ['2097157-edge xhci_hcd']
IRQ 41: PID: None, count: [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], Sched None (priority None), drivers: ['2097158-edge xhci_hcd']
IRQ 43: PID: None, count: [20, 17, 20, 16, 337706, 26], Sched None (priority None), drivers: ['1048576-edge enp2s0']
IRQ 45: PID: None, count: [1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 7284], Sched None (priority None), drivers: ['524288-edge radeon']
IRQ 47: PID: None, count: [99, 420, 266, 264, 785, 284], Sched None (priority None), drivers: ['526336-edge snd_hda_intel:card1']
Software Interrupts:
--------------------
=== REPORT ===
FireWire kernel drivers:
The new FireWire kernel stack is loaded.
If running a kernel earlier than 2.6.37 and problems are experienced, either
try with the old Firewire kernel stack or upgrade to a newer kernel
(preferrably 2.6.37 or later).