<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi,<br>Thanks for the tips. When I type aplay -l my sound card is not listed, so I guess I can't use it with alsa then. Also man jackd will display the messages you pasted in your email, but if I type jackd I get some comments which include this:<br>
<br>-d master-backend-name [ ... master-backend args ... ]<br> Available master backends may include: alsa, dummy, freebob, firewire, net or netone.<br><br></div>firewire is there, though it says 'may include'.<br>
Typing jackd -d firewire --help, I do get comments though about the firewire driver (though this includes: Cannot create thread 1 Operation not permitted. It doesn't sound very good).<br>I tried qjackctl too, and when I hit Setup and choose firewire and then hit start, it freezes, then dims, and finally crashes. After this every time I start it, it's window opens, but it's blank, and it crashes. I have to restart my computer for it to work again.<br>
If it's not possible to use this sound card with jack, is there any other way to use it?<br><br></div>Thanks<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 10:03 PM, Funs Seelen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:funsseelen@gmail.com" target="_blank">funsseelen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hi Alexandros,<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 8:24 PM, Alexandros Drymonitis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:adrcki@gmail.com" target="_blank">adrcki@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hi,<br></div>I'm trying to use my presonus firebox sound card (which is firewire) with jack by typing jackd -d firewire (maybe no space between flag and argument? I tried both). I get this:<br>
<br></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I would like to point you to two commands. First:<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">$ man jackd<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">.. shows:<br><br>OPTIONS<br> -d, --driver backend [backend-parameters ]<br>
Select the audio interface backend. The current list of sup‐<br> ported backends is: alsa, coreaudio, dummy, freebob, oss sun and<br> portaudio. They are not all available on all platforms. All<br>
backend-parameters are optional.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">There doesn't seem to exist a supported backend called "firewire".<br><br>
</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Second:<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">$ aplay -l<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
.. will list your "PLAYBACK Hardware Devices" recognized by alsa.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">If your card is listed there you could run jack with alsa backend and select your preferred device (e.g. hw:0, hw:1, etc..). Perhaps using qjackctl would make both easier. Otherwise you could try:<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">$ jackd -d alsa -d hw:0<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
Regards,<br></div>Funs</div></div></div></div></div>
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