On 12/30/2010 11:10 AM, Harry Van Haaren wrote:

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FFADO test and diagnostic utility
Part of the FFADO project -- www.ffado.org
Version: 2.999.0-
(C) 2008, Daniel Wagner, Pieter Palmers
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
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=== 1394 PORT 0 ===
Node id GUID VendorId ModelId Vendor - Model
0 0x0000000000000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 Linux Firewire -
no message buffer overruns

I presume you've installed the "standard" FFADO from the Ubuntu repo?

what is odd is that firewire audio/video is reported to work out of the box on Ubuntu 10.10

and I don't want to upgrade to Jack2 since Synaptic wants to wipe all my audio apps with the install
not sure why this is unless none of the apps support Jack2 in which case I'll pass on installing it

I've had trouble with JACK1 and that. I'm currently running JACK2 (version 1.9.6)
from "Frasten"'s PPA.

FFADO from the TangoStudio repo, version 2.0.1 - svn1856.

That combo runs fine, but not at extreme low-lat. (I've always had better experience with JACK 1 for < 10 ms lat)

I'm going to buy an Expresscard -> Firewire adapter and see if that works -- something about the 1394 connector on the Dell laptop makes me suspicious for some reason

Cheers, -Harry