[PlanetCCRMA] Updating libraw1394, scons, and others...

[Hector Centeno]

Thanks! After installing ffado and dealing with a SELinux complain
about loading libffado I finally got firewire working in FC10!

Cheers,

Hector


On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
<nando at ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 14:52 -0500, Hector Centeno wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm trying to get a firewire interface to work with Fedora 10 and the
>> new 2.6.26.8-1.rt12.2 kernel. It doesn't work with the juju stack so I
>> was wondering if there will be a substitute libraw1394 for this kernel
>> from CCRMA.
>
> The current packages available from Planet CCRMA should be enough. I did
> get an Edirol FA-101 to work (as stated below).
>
> The current Fedora version of libraw1394 (2.x) can deal with both the
> old firewire stack and juju so it all depends on the kernel modules you
> have loaded. With the Planet CCRMA kernel it will be the old stack.
>
> You have to install ffado and that will enable you to use it with the
> current Planet CCRMA jack in fc10.
>
> -- Fernando
>
>
>> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
>> <nando at ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote:
>> > On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 09:23 -0800, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
>> >> On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 23:20 -0700, David Nielson wrote:
>> >> > Scons has been at version 1.1.0 stable for a long time. Libraw1394 has
>> >> > been at stable 2.0.0 for a long time. This email is for my benefit: I am
>> >> > complaining that Fedora isn't updating these packages, and I can't see a
>> >> > good reason why. This makes a hassle for me, as I have to remove the
>> >> > Fedora-provided Scons and install the newer version, overwrite
>> >> > libraw1394 1.3.0 with 2.0.0, before I can even think about compiling the
>> >> > current RC for libffado and jack.
>> >>
>> >> Just yesterday I was trying to work again on libraw1394 and libfaado. I
>> >> built packages for fc10 that I was trying to test together with a ffado
>> >> enabled jack build (in fc10 libraw1394 has been updated to 2.0.0). I
>> >> have not yet tried to build on fc9 but I presume that will work...
>> >
>> > Well, I built the (unstable) kernel-rt package for fc10 to just test and
>> > with libffado 2.0.0 rc1 and a new jack with ffado support I managed to
>> > get an Edirol FA-101 working... With the standard Fedora kernel and the
>> > juju firewire stack it still does not work (although it tries).
>> >
>> > -- Fernando
>> >
>> >
>> >> > Grumble grumble.
>> >>
>> >> Yep. Same here.
>> >> You could also try creating a bug report on Redhat's bugzilla... that
>> >> would be a more effective way of complaining (although the bug report
>> >> may be ignored then it is there for the record - _I_ should be posting
>> >> bugs about some stuff as well...)
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