[19:15] Hi everyone. I'm a French LinuxMAO.org helper for french Linux and MAO users. I have a question of someone who wanted to use his EDIROL FA-66 (FireWire) and I don't know what to tell with the new 24.04 Pipewire Ubuntustudio. Can anyone help ? [19:17] jujudusud: We don't know either (I don't have FireWire hardware to test, and I'm the lead). I'd check with #pipewire on OFTL. [19:18] Hello Erich, Yes I know who you are. Thanks for this fast response. I think I can tell him to install pipewire-ffado. [19:19] jujudusud: We don't have any such package. It should be part of the standard installed pipewire stack. [19:20] I'm actually telling him to see if ALSA sees his card. [19:21] Ok, I use archlinux on my side and I don't really know exactly the names of Ubuntu's packages. I will check just now ! [19:21] Right. So, in Ubuntu/Debian land, if it's not a package on its own, it's part of the all-encompassing default stack. [19:22] Like a meta package ? [19:24] Ok I have the list here: https://ubuntu.pkgs.org/24.04/ubuntu-main-amd64/5/ [19:25] More like https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pipewire/1.0.5-1ubuntu1 to be more atomic [19:25] Thanks! [19:29] Ok, so you don't have omething like : https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/pipewire-ffado/ [19:29] usr/lib/pipewire-0.3/libpipewire-module-ffado-driver.so [19:33] Apparently not. The packaging is all done upstream in Debian. [19:34] jujudusud: The file you referenced is in libpipewire-0.3-modules, which is installed by default. [19:36] Actually, I take that back. It's referenced in a manpage. [19:36] Debian never packaged it. 🤦 TIL [19:37] Ok, thanks a lot! Can you tell me if there is a 'ffado' or 'libffado' package in order to make those cards to work ? [19:38] I think it should be possible with JACK. [19:39] There is, and it's installed by default, it just doesn't work with PipeWire. One can go into Ubuntu Studio Audio Config and disable the PipeWire-JACK module to run JACK natively. From there JACK2 can be run in lieu of the PipeWire-JACK setup. [19:39] https://ubuntustudio.org/audio-configuration/ [19:42] Yes, I read this already. Thanks for the work you did with your team! [19:43] The new tools are awesome in my opinion. Thanks for that. [19:43] Quite welcome! [19:43] Ubuntu Studio Audio Configuration and Ubuntu Studio Installer [19:44] Planning on combining them into one tool in the future, probably for 25.04. [19:45] Ok Thanks Erich, I will tell him to to use JACK2 and FFADO for now for his Edirol card. [19:46] Nice plan for 25.04! Which you and your team all the best! [19:46] That's probably the best way to go. FireWire is great, but it's really antique technology at this point. Everything is moving to USB and Thunderbolt. [19:47] Yes you are right! Linux French users are a little bit "nostalgic". Lol.