jackd can't connect to firewire sound card

[ttoine]

On Karmic beta, before and/or after applying the patch of Martin Pitt for accessing firewire hard drives without sudo password (https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/442604) , jackd can not access to my presonus firebox sound card.

The problem is the same using the freebob driver, or the firewire driver. All the package about FFADO are installed. This external firewire sound card works well with Hardy LTS, Intrepid and Jaunty. My username is in the "disk" group, wich was the key to access to firewire sound cards with freebob driver on previous version than Karmic.

So, is it a bug ? What is the way to configure ffado/freebob in jackd/qjackctl?

Don't hesitate to ask me to test more and report.

[Martin P (martin-pittamitz)]

I'm having a similar problem I guess, my Alesis io26 interface is not recognized by ffado-dbus-server or jackd. After compiling from source (both libffado and jackd) it works, but sadly this breaks a lot of dependencies (ardour etc.). What could be the problem?

[ttoine (ttoine)]

Martin,

http://www.ffado.org/?q=devicesupport%2Flist&filter0=alesis&filter1=&op2=OR

Your sound card is not supported...

[VELAYUDHAN M R (mrvel-muttathil)]

When tried to remove 'libffado' from software centre'The installation or removal of a software package failed.'message is coming.
Details-
installArchives() failed: perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
 LANGUAGE = (unset),
 LC_ALL = (unset),
 LANG = "en_IN.ISO8859-1"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
 LANGUAGE = (unset),
 LC_ALL = (unset),
 LANG = "en_IN.ISO8859-1"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
 LANGUAGE = (unset),
 LC_ALL = (unset),
 LANG = "en_IN.ISO8859-1"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing package libffado2 (--remove):
 package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should
 reinstall it before attempting a removal
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(Reading database ... 268157 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing libconfig++9:amd64 (1.4.9-2) ...
Removing libxml++2.6-2 (2.36.0-2ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-0ubuntu6.6) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libffado2
Error in function:

Also repair option failed on executed.

[Pander (pander)]

Is this still a bug with ffado version 2.4.4 on Ubuntu 21.04?

[Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.

Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic) reached end-of-life on April 30, 2011.

See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it any more. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test. If you then find the bug is still present in the newer Ubuntu version, please add a comment here telling us which new version it is in.

[Pander (pander)]

From FFADO maintainer:

   Bug: Could not use Personus Firebox

   Suggestion:
       This bug report is over 10 years old. It should be closed unless
       updated information is available. My understanding based on the
       FFADO "configuration" file is that the Firebox is currently supported.

       The comment from 2015 is irrelevant: that's about software
       deinstallation which is an Ubuntu distribution issue.