[PlanetCCRMA] Saffire LE silence: a few, probably dumb, questions
sevol
sevols.ear at gmail.com
Sat Apr 11 05:38:27 PDT 2009
Hi Humans,
The list seems a little quiet, so thought I'd take the opportunity to
ask a few quuestions.
But first, a bit of background hum. I've been trying to get a workable
Linux DAW for... oh, it's way too embarrassing to admit in public. The
fumbling hasn't all been do to my nearly complete lack of Linux
skillz; I've had hardware issue, too, but I think mainly I don't know
what I'm doing still.
I read mailinglist & google & type stuff in the CLI, & then, I do it
all over again. But I've never gotten the audio working where it's
actually usable. & with no proper audio, I've forgotten about learning
the software that's available with Linux. I don't even try to make
music any more. I've almost stopped listening to it. I've lost all the
momentum I once had for this. Almost.
Now, for the bad news :) I can't seem to just give up.
My system:
motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-MA78G-DS3H (w/ onboard AMD 780G video &
Realtek ALC889A audio chipsets)
cpu: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Duel Core 5400+
I'm running Fedora 10 x64 with this kernel:
2.6.26.8-1.rt16.1.fc10.ccrma.x86_64.rt
&
jack-audio-connection-kit-1.9.2-1.fc10.ccrma.x86_64
&
a Focusrite Saffire LE firewire audio card
(I switched from fedora 8 to 10 toget this card running with ffado.)
After I do:
# modprobe raw1394
&
start jack:
02:21:20.636 JACK is starting...
02:21:20.637 /usr/bin/jackd -R -t15000 -dfirewire -r88200 -p256 -n3
02:21:20.653 JACK was started with PID=5934.
no message buffer overruns
no message buffer overruns
jackdmp 1.9.2
Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others.
Copyright 2004-2008 Grame.
jackdmp 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 server starting in realtime mode with priority 10
106076163746: (ffado.cpp)[ 92] ffado_streaming_init: libffado
1.999.40- built Dec 12 2008 16:33:54
02:21:25.473 Server configuration saved to "/home/sevol/.jackdrc".
Things seem fine. But testing with a mic & Ardour there's no input
showing or any sound output. I might not have it setup right - it's
the first time I've tried Ardour. What'd be the simplist method of
testing if the card is doing it's job? I mean, what's the simplest
program to check for incoming audio signal?
Here's some other stuff - might be irrelevant:
# cat /proc/asound/devices
2: : timer
3: : sequencer
4: [ 0- 2]: digital audio capture
5: [ 0- 1]: digital audio playback
6: [ 0- 1]: digital audio capture
7: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback
8: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture
9: [ 0- 0]: hardware dependent
10: [ 0] : control
11: [ 1- 3]: digital audio playback
12: [ 1- 0]: hardware dependent
13: [ 1] : control
# cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0 CPU1
0: 85 0 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 4203 3468 IO-APIC-edge i8042
4: 0 2 IO-APIC-edge
6: 0 5 IO-APIC-edge floppy
7: 0 0 IO-APIC-edge parport0
8: 0 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc0
9: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi
12: 291273 6469 IO-APIC-edge i8042
14: 3043 1183334 IO-APIC-edge pata_atiixp
15: 2 526 IO-APIC-edge pata_atiixp
16: 1241 242 IO-APIC-fasteoi ohci_hcd:usb3,
ohci_hcd:usb4, HDA Intel
17: 0 37 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb1
18: 212200 22 IO-APIC-fasteoi ohci_hcd:usb5,
ohci_hcd:usb6, ohci_hcd:usb7, eth0
19: 0 18 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb2, HDA Intel
22: 4 10613474 IO-APIC-fasteoi ahci, ohci1394
NMI: 0 0 Non-maskable interrupts
LOC: 119331107 120216144 Local timer interrupts
RES: 11884641 5514268 Rescheduling interrupts
CAL: 1205 207 function call interrupts
TLB: 1669 2279 TLB shootdowns
TRM: 0 0 Thermal event interrupts
THR: 0 0 Threshold APIC interrupts
SPU: 0 0 Spurious interrupts
ERR: 0
BTW, in ALSA Mixer it shows Card: PulseAudio Chip: PulseAudio - I
can't figure out the small interface at all. I'm certain I've
overlooked something completely simple. Any pointers? Help!
Thanks,
-sevol
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