[PlanetCCRMA] firewire status in fc7

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 00:15 -0500, grae wrote:
> I'm pretty sure I searched for this part of the error:
> 
> "Could not get 1394 handle: Invalid argument
> Is ieee1394 and raw1394 driver loaded"
> 
> I uninstalled fc7 in hopes that fc6 would bring the same fortunes.  I
> won't guarantee the errors were exactly the same, because I can't, so
> to avoid having you chase a wild goose, I will reinstall fc7 and get
> back to you asap. :)

Wait wait, if you have fc6 and it runs don't do anything! :-)

> I do appreciate your time.  I as well, have no free time.

I'll see if I can test something soon, I think we do have one firewire
iface I could use. 

-- Fernando


> On 6/28/07, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando@ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 23:43 -0500, grae wrote:
> > > Hi Fernando,
> > >
> > > I was using the rt kernel as documented in your steps for fc6.  I did
> > > a search for the error message that I had received and found this post
> > > from the mailing list.
> > >
> > > http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/pipermail/planetccrma/2007-June/013373.html
> > >
> > > It did make me aware of what the problem was, but the user in that
> > > case ended up moving back to fc6.  Unfortunately for me that is a very
> > > undesirable path, unless somehow I can get my SGI 1600sw monitor to
> > > work in dual display. (good luck!)  I'm not a linux guru, but I have
> > > messed around with xorg.conf enough to know that I don't want to go
> > > there again if I don't have to.
> > >
> > > I would really like to be able to use ccrma to help pull me away from
> > > my mac.  I guess firewire might not be top priority, but if I recall
> > > correctly Freebob recommends ccrma as the distro to use, so it will be
> > > great to hear if there is a solution to this.  Maybe I should talk to
> > > them about it :)
> >
> > I'll see if I can reproduce the problem... but I don't have that much
> > time (any, actually) free. You got the exact same error? Could you copy
> > all the output from jackd?
> >
> > > I do appreciate all your hard work. :)
> >
> > Thanks.
> > -- Fernando
> >
> > > On 6/28/07, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando@ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 21:10 -0500, grae wrote:
> > > > > Hi, I understand that the firewire stack in fc7 has changed and as a
> > > > > result freebob doesn't work.
> > > > >
> > > > > Does anybody have an idea as to when this may be resolved?  I would
> > > > > very much like to be able to use fc7 as it seems to be the only way
> > > > > for my dual monitor setup to work.
> > > > >
> > > > > Any thoughts are appreciated.  Thanks.
> > > >
> > > > I have not tested firewire sound yet on fc7.
> > > >
> > > > If I remember correctly in the Planet CCRMA realtime preemption kernels
> > > > I'm still using the old firewire stack so if those run in your hardware
> > > > you _should_ have no problems... YMMV of course.
> > > >
> > > > -- Fernando
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> >
> >