=== jussi01 is now known as Guest44296 [22:19] hey all, I'm trying to get an Edirol FA66 working and not getting much luck [22:19] (to be honest under straight ubuntu not the studio version) [22:19] is it supposed to just show up in Pulseaudio?? [23:36] xSmurf: looks like it works out of the box [23:36] http://www.ffado.org/?q=node/12 [23:36] probably want to get used to using JACK [23:36] I'd really rather avoid using jack [23:36] http://jackaudio.org/ [23:36] xSmurf: cool [23:36] good luck with firewire and pulse [23:36] so the drivers are jack only or should it show up in alsa?? [23:36] ive never heard of that, nor cared to try [23:37] xSmurf: the driver is the ffado firwire driver [23:37] yeah I saw that [23:37] thats the driver that'll "just work" [23:37] errr yeah my bad, ffado-mixer now sees the card [23:37] yup :) [23:40] not sure what is going on [23:40] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=975640 [23:41] ^^ makes me think you need JACK to use the FFADO driver and communicate with pulse [23:41] try #opensourcemusicians [23:42] yeah all I see now indicates that [23:42] or indicates no one took the time to write drivers for alsa or pulse :/ [23:42] yeah, and why bother? [23:42] i mean, for comsumer level work, you wont know the difference [23:42] i think most assume you would want JACK [23:43] OR, you'll just be playing mp3's ;) [23:43] depends what your needs are [23:43] I don't need JACK and I need super clean audio IOs [23:43] I do radio stuff, nothing to do with music [23:43] sure... but, if you need clean balanced in's, i think its safe to assume you want to route to something other than pulse [23:43] why so? [23:43] other than getting out of the box [23:43] i mean... you get a nice clean signal for a balanced input to skype? [23:43] to GNURadio... [23:43] i guess thats plausible [23:44] they dont support JACK? [23:44] you can do pulse to JACK easy enough [23:44] they might [23:45] but I don't need jack... [23:45] sure [23:45] anyway [23:45] i agrue that you dont need that edirol [23:45] BUT [23:45] you should be able to use it as you want [23:45] I have my answer, I hope someday someone will take the time to write native drivers for alsa or pulse and I'll be a happy camper [23:45] its just going to be while til those alsa firewire drivers get working... AGAIK [23:45] AFAIK* [23:46] holstein: what would I use instead?? [23:46] the internal card? [23:46] haha [23:46] anything [23:46] whatever you got [23:46] I'm doing signal analysis... [23:46] internal cards are full of noise, horrible [23:46] i do not understand why you would not want JACK for that... but to each his/her own [23:46] seems like just the thing [23:47] but I'm not using it right now and I'm very happy without it [23:47] (when using the shitty internal sound card) [23:47] pulse does all I need it to [23:47] except support for a proper audio device [23:47] pulse is out of the box, so that's nice [23:47] alsa does not yet support your device [23:47] JACK is 'out of the box' as well [23:48] KXstudio was a distro that had it running at login [23:48] now,the dev just gives us PPA's for ubuntu [23:49] anyways... those drivers are coming [23:49] as I mentioned, I'm not running ubuntustudio, I just figured (rightly) you guys would be the most informed on the topic [23:49] well, good to know :) [23:49] count me in for the list of people who actually want those :p [23:49] (to each is own ;) [23:50] https://ieee1394.wiki.kernel.org/articles/o/u/t/Out-of-tree_Kernel_Drivers_7ef1.html [23:53] interesting [23:53] fireworks, an audio driver with ALSA interface for Echo Audio, Gibson, and Mackie Onyx FireWire devices, currently in development [23:53] no edirol though [23:53] oh well [23:53] to be fair the card is not even mine so very little fuck is given ;) [23:53] but would have been nice to borrow