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FREEBOB trouble in RAW1394 land.

Help, I had this release running flawlessly.....

I run an Intel C2D 1.8 with 2G Ram, SATA 350G, Presonus Firepod, Terratec EWS88MT. ETC...

I have installed 64 and XP on one drive.

My problem is that I can not get my fire pod to set up on 64... It worked before XP, and I know the easy answer is to remove XP and just run 64.... However I need MS office tools for my "real job"...

When I try to run any of the suggested commands from the Freebob Website I find errors, most notably is in the modprobe RAW1394 were I get a
64studio:~# modprobe raw1394
FATAL: Module raw1394 not found.
64studio:~#

also
nothing shows up in the general modprobe command for ieee1394

I tried to run various commands to obtain raw1394 but failed.

I also tried to runa kernal update but could not figure out how to install the one I wanted.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

thanks.

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hi, i was using ubuntu gutsy

hi,

i was using ubuntu gutsy (7.10) but had some problem with the firepod (glitches after 2 minutes). i just installed 64studio last night and the firepod is working out-of-the-box! really stable, i am quite happy.

start 64studio, without connecting the firepod. open a terminal, connect the firepod and turn it on. type dmesg you see something like ieee node connected etc... wait a bit (10 sec. so the node get connected). then type:

jackd -dfreebob

the light should turn blue. now you can use qjackctl to connect things together (ardour).

of course you should take a look at the options of freebob. mainly -p -n and -dhw:1,2,3,4

-p is period, i need low latency so i put 128, -n 2 (freebob is saying -n should be set to 3... anyway).

-d is your device, if you have more then 1 audio card... maybe try different hw:x. after each try, turn off your firepod and reconnect it waiting another 10 sec.

sorry for my english
pat

can you check that

can you check that libfreebob is installed ?

Toine

  • By ttoine at 02/14/2008 - 14:27
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freebob

I show libfreebob0 to be installed.

  • By acoccoluto at 02/21/2008 - 17:17
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Here is the output from your suggestion.

jackd[5036]: segfault at 00002aaaaac1f8a0 rip 00002aaaaac1f8a0 rsp 00000000418021e8 error 14
jackd[5048]: segfault at 00002aaaaac1f8a0 rip 00002aaaaac1f8a0 rsp 00000000418021e8 error 14
firewire_core: phy config: card 0, new root=ffc1, gap_count=5
firewire_core: phy config: card 0, new root=ffc1, gap_count=5
firewire_core: created new fw device fw1 (1 config rom retries)
64studio:/home/ubf# jackd -dfreebob
jackd 0.103.0
Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others.
jackd comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details

JACK compiled with System V SHM support.
loading driver ..
SSE2 detected
Freebob using Firewire port 0, node -1
Ieee1394Service::initialize: Could not get 1394 handle: No such file or directory
Is ieee1394 and raw1394 driver loaded?
Fatal (devicemanager.cpp)[68] initialize: Could not initialize Ieee1349Service object
Fatal (freebob.cpp)[69] freebob_new_handle: Could not initialize device manager
FreeBoB ERR: FREEBOB: Error creating virtual device
cannot load driver module freebob
Segmentation fault

  • By acoccoluto at 02/21/2008 - 17:22
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try a thing ;-)

hey,

Can you add your user account to the "disk" group ?

command line :
adduser disk

(as root or with sudo)

then, restart the system and try again.

Toine

  • By ttoine at 02/22/2008 - 21:16
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Dumped it.

Hi, thank you all for the insight. I reconfigured my system by adding a seperate SATA drive for Windows. Once I reinstalled 64studio the firepod connected first try. I think I may have inadvertanly upgraded to kernel 2.6.22 which I have heard has some issues with IEEE1394 drivers. I am now back to 2.6.21.

Thanks again,

  • By acoccoluto at 02/23/2008 - 18:50
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Development Stalled

I just checked on the DEV site and the development of this thing is compeltely stalled. I think we should look into creating a Petition to bring things back.

  • By testz at 07/31/2008 - 13:37
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Freebob is replaced:

with FFADO. This is a completer rewrite of the software, and will not only support BeBob devices, but many other firewire sound interfaces.

Check out this post for an interesting tip on getting it going:

http://blog.johnjrussell.com/2007/01/presonus-firepod-linux-ieee1394-jac...

Cheers,

  • By Quentin Harley at 07/31/2008 - 21:11
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Tip from Ubuntuland...

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=522738

  • By Quentin Harley at 07/31/2008 - 21:12
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