OK I now have a firewire ExpressCard - the cheapest I could get, because they're VERY expensive here! lspci shows:
0e:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB82AA2 IEEE-1394b Link Layer Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 10 [OHCI]) Subsystem: Unknown device 0ee4:3884 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18 Memory at ecc04000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K] Memory at ecc00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 So NOT Ricoh! I have to disable the onboard 1394 to get gscanbus and freeBoB to recognise the device, which is fine and no big deal, plus there was some fiddling to get ExpressCard support (add 'pciehp pciehp_force=1' to /etc/modules) Now, when I start jackd (jackd -R -vv -d freebob) i get JACK compiled with System V SHM support. server `default' registered registered builtin port type 32 bit float mono audio registered builtin port type 8 bit raw midi clock source = system clock via clock_gettime loading driver .. new client: freebob_pcm, id = 1 type 1 @ 0x806ff40 fd = -1 Freebob using Firewire port 0, node -1 new buffer size 1024 LibFreeBoB MSG: FreeBoB Streaming Device Init LibFreeBoB MSG: Using FreeBoB lib version libfreebob 1.0.7 LibFreeBoB MSG: Device information: LibFreeBoB MSG: Device options: LibFreeBoB MSG: Port : 0 LibFreeBoB MSG: Device Node Id : -1 LibFreeBoB MSG: Samplerate : 48000 LibFreeBoB MSG: Period Size : 1024 LibFreeBoB MSG: Nb Buffers : 3 LibFreeBoB MSG: Directions : 0 showDevice: not implemented FreeBoB MSG: Register MIDI IN port dev1c_Midi In FreeBoB MSG: Register MIDI OUT port dev1p_Midi Out FreeBoB MSG: Streaming thread running with Realtime scheduling, priority 14 FreeBoB MSG: Registering audio capture port C0_dev1c_Rec 1 FreeBoB MSG: Registering audio capture port C1_dev1c_Rec 2 FreeBoB MSG: Registering audio capture port C2_dev1c_Rec 3 FreeBoB MSG: Registering audio capture port C3_dev1c_Rec 4 FreeBoB MSG: Registering audio capture port C4_dev1c_Rec 5 FreeBoB MSG: Registering audio capture port C5_dev1c_Rec 6 FreeBoB MSG: Don't register capture port for dev1c_Midi In FreeBoB MSG: Registering playback audio port P0_dev1p_Play 1 FreeBoB MSG: Registering playback audio port P1_dev1p_Play 2 FreeBoB MSG: Registering playback audio port P2_dev1p_Play 3 FreeBoB MSG: Registering playback audio port P3_dev1p_Play 4 FreeBoB MSG: Registering playback audio port P4_dev1p_Play 5 FreeBoB MSG: Registering playback audio port P5_dev1p_Play 6 FreeBoB MSG: Registering playback audio port P6_dev1p_Play 7 FreeBoB MSG: Registering playback audio port P7_dev1p_Play 8 FreeBoB MSG: Don't register playback port dev1p_Midi Out registered port system:capture_1, offset = 4096 registered port system:capture_2, offset = 8192 registered port system:capture_3, offset = 12288 registered port system:capture_4, offset = 16384 registered port system:capture_5, offset = 20480 registered port system:capture_6, offset = 24576 registered port system:playback_1, offset = 0 registered port system:playback_2, offset = 0 registered port system:playback_3, offset = 0 registered port system:playback_4, offset = 0 registered port system:playback_5, offset = 0 registered port system:playback_6, offset = 0 registered port system:playback_7, offset = 0 registered port system:playback_8, offset = 0 ++ jack_rechain_graph(): client freebob_pcm: internal client, execution_order=0. -- jack_rechain_graph() FreeBoB MSG: MIDI threads running with Realtime scheduling, priority 13 FreeBoB MSG: MIDI queue thread started libiec61883 warning: Established connection on channel 0. You may need to manually set the channel on the receiving node. libiec61883 warning: Established connection on channel 1. You may need to manually set the channel on the transmitting node. 21087 waiting for signals Aborted The device clicks as if it's starting, then jack aborts a moment later. WHAT IS GOING ON?! -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users