[PlanetCCRMA] firewire status in fc7

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

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 at 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
> >
> >
> >