Fedora :: Using A Presonus Firebox + Soundcard On 11?
Sep 21, 2009
This is how I got my firebox to work in conjunction with my onboard soundcard (in my case, Intel HDA) on Fedora 11 x86_64. This article assumes you have basic knowledge on jack and qjackctl and a jack-compatible program such as ardour.
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Reasons: Personally, I just wanted to be able to do it and to be able to give a good explanation when people ask me why I'm monitoring recordings through headphones - and because it won't work through the PC speakers wasn't going to cut it. You may also need it because while recording "deaf" might be fine, playback needs to go through your state-of-the-art monitors. You may need it because you have a studio all set up and for some odd reason, you just need to add a firebox in. Of course, if you had a studio, you could have just patched the line outs to your main speakers. But that is besides the point.
After searching for almost 3-4 days, I chanced upon rokit's thread and was very disheartened when he seemed to have found no solution. Today, he solved the connection issues but I wanted more. Unlike him, I wasn't using my firebox as a sound card. It would be a sin to waste my onboard audio capabilities. The Juice (some parts paraphrased from rokit's solution)You need to install the PlanetCCRMA repository. Since I'm using Fedora 11 (x86_64), I used this one. This will install the repositories for you so tat yum will be able to locate the needed updates.
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If you have jack1 (0.x.x) already installed, you MUST uninstall it. jack2 will NOT work with jack1.
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yum remove jack-audio-connection-kit*
The * at the end will also remove the -devel version if you had it installed. Uninstalling jack will remove a lot of existing software that uses jack as a dependancy. Take note of them so you can reinstall them later. Install FFADO. FFADO is the new Freebob from the same developers. It's the driver that will connect jack2 to the firebox. You MUST install this before jack2.
Like rokit, I have had much trouble running this without the realtime kernel. I ended up installing Fedora in another partition and this is what I have. As a result, I now have no graphics driver and everything looks weird. I will try to install ATI Catalyst 9,9 and if it works I'll post back. If I don't, assume it doesn't.
If you want to get your Firebox working with Fedora, this is how I was able to do it. This may also work with other Presonus audio interfaces. First of all you need to install the CCRMA repository for your version of Fedora. Here's a link to the CCRMA Fedora index. Since I'm using FC 11 x86_64 I used this one. This is a well known repository for audio work. If you have jack installed already, then you'll need to uninstall it. Open add/remove software, search for FFADO and install it. Basically, FFADO is Freebob under a different name. One difference is that FFADO uses the new firewire drivers and Freebob uses the old ones. As of this writing, it's still in the experimental stage, but in my case it works. Now, install jack2 (which I will just refer to as jack). You can't just do a search for jack2, it's called the-jack-audio-connection-kit-1.9.x.x. Don't get this confused with jack1, which is the-jack-audio-connection-kit-0.116.1. Be sure to install FFADO before you install jack. I also recommend installing qjackctl because it will make your life a lot easier when configuring jack.
Now, you need a real-time kernel. I could not get any of this to work without one. Do a search for kernel-rt and install the real-time kernel. In my case it was kernel-rt-2.6.29.6-1. I also had to install the kernel-rt-devel because I'm using akmod for my nvidia driver. Now just reboot and you should be able to boot into your real-time kernel. Now, to configure jack. Open qjackctl from applications>sound and video. Click setup and you'll see several options. For driver select "firewire" and under parameters check "realtime". Server path should be "jackd". The rest of the settings should be fine, but I have frames/period set to 128. If you're having trouble, you might want to set this to a higher value. Don't forget to start jack. Now, you should be able to play some tunes! Just make sure that whatever media player you are using outputs to jack. In my case, I'm using the qmmp media player and it works flawlessly. That's it for basic sound. This will probably be enough to get you up and running with Ardor as well. You might also have to configure the patchbay, but that is easy enough.
I am having enormous trouble getting an FP10 to work with Lucid. I have been able to get exactly the same hardware to work together with previous versions of Ubuntu, it is only now that I am having problems. Firstly, I have installed Kernel 2.6.33-26-realtime from Abogani's PPA. I also have installed FFADO, JACK and libraw1394 from SVN source. This is on a 64-bit system (previously when I used the FP10 on Karmic and Jaunty I used 32-bit). When I plug in and turn on the FP10, I run ffado-test and get :
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ffado-test ListDevices ----------------------------------------------- FFADO test and diagnostic utility Part of the FFADO project -- www.ffado.org
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It either won't start at all, or it does briefly and then crashes. So, what on Earth is going on here? It's so annoying having it so close to working, but not quite. I would like to try the new firewire stack with FFADO, but it just plainly doesn't work. The FP10 doesn't register with JuJu. What do I need to do to use the new stack? Why else would FFADO not work? As I said, I've used exactly the same computer and cable and FP10 and it worked before.
I had just install fedora 10 on ma desktop having xp on it. After so much of googling i am able to connect net on it.I have broadband connection. "Now when i open Mozilla firebox and starts surfing there,after 2 or 3 minutes it got hanged and after that i am not able to do anything.I have to restart my PC."
I'm using an external Cambridge Audio Dacmagic with F12 and Amarok. This worked great, until I upgraded Fedora this morning. The Dacmagic does not appear anymore in the Multimedia Audio Systems settings, only Pulseaudio is shown. However, in my hardware info widget, the Dacmagic does appear? This is shown as "C-media USB Headphone set". Now I'm totally lost. I did restart Fedora with the Dacmagic on, I did restart the Dacmagic with Fedora running, but nothing changed.Any good suggestions on what I can try next--- Post added at 04:47 PM CST ---------- Previous post was at 03:05 PM CST ----------Isn't the net fun? Poking around, I found I could try "lsusb". The output gives:
[root@Mediacenter ~]# lsusb Bus 004 Device 002: ID 0d8c:000c C-Media Electronics, Inc. Audio Adapter Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
I am trying to run xoscope an oscilliscope program that uses the soundcard. It looks for dev/dsp to access the soundcard. I understand that dev/dsp is no longer included in Fedora (Fedora 12 in my case). Is there a way I can make a link called dsp that links to whatever the file is for pulseaudio or also or whatever?
I was using alsa, but then reverted temporarily to pulseAudio due to a minor issue. Later on, I did remove pulseaudio through yum. And that was the end. No matter what alsa/pulseaudio version I install or reinstall...
I'm running Fedora 15 XFCE spin, Audacity 1.3.13-beta and my sound is ALSA/Pulseaudio (I'm not totally sure what these are anyway, are they drivers?) Anyway, when I'm in Audacity and I go to the record options I can choose from default, pulse, and HDA ATI SB:ALC268 Analog (hw:0,0). If I try any of these three options and press record I get static. Here's a screenshot of what it looks like to press record for each of the three options in order.
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The last option won't even record nothing, it just doesn't work. Also, if you look where the little picture of the microphone is, the option to drag the input volume is greyed out.
I put "%" before and after my username and name which gave the install an error. So I changed the username to one without the special character '%' but left the name with and the setup proceeded with an error and skipped the other three stages (sound testing, time, hardware setup). But everything seems fine with the install except I have not configured the sound card.
From what I have seen the install is pretty much fine other than the lack of functions which I obviously missed during the preference end section of the install. And so I was wondering is there a way to manually detect and use a easily configure a sound card or any way for that matter? The installation guide of Fedora 11 gives advice that was outdated 'system-configure-soundcard"(or something similar) has been removed since F9.
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Currently have a few mixers installed which may be conflicting but the extra mixers were a symptom I created due to the no sound problem. The mixers are definitely not the major cause though. My onboard motherboard sound has not been set up as a module to be run is what I assume but any help would be great.
My sound was working quite fine with Fedora 13 (Internal Audio) until I decided that I want to install the appropriate driver from the vendor's website.
I have a problem with my second sound card. It used to work fine months agos. But I didn't use it anymore for months (since I upgraded to squeeze actually).Now I'm trying to make it work again, but I'm having some trouble.My card is here :
I have a computer without a soundcard and want to stream sound from it. How can I force ALSA to ignore the lack of a soundcard? Whatever I try to do, it complains that it cannot find one.Or could I trick ALSA by making a file /dev/dsp that links to /dev/null or something like that?
I have just installed a Xonar dg onto Ubuntu10.10The MBoard is also Asus with a built in card that works ok. The AlSA site says it may work (although no drivers for this are specific) as it uses a CM 18786 chip & I believe snd-cmipci contains the driver for this.My motherboard has its own driver built in, I can turn this of in the BIOS.Is their an easy install/driver option with Ubuntu 10.10?
Installed Ubuntu today but i cannot get any sound from my pci soundcard the only sound i get is through the inbuilt sound in my motherbaord. Is there a way I can get linux to play sound through the soundcard instead? I have looked for driversasus xonar) but there appears to be no such thing for linux.
I am new in Debian as i am 4-5 year in ubuntu. I switched to Debian recently and it feels great. But i have a problem with sound configuration etc. How can i get my usb soundcard (Behringer UPhoria UM2) working and set it as default soundcard?
I am posting results of several commands
cat /proc/asound/cards : Code: Select all0 [SB ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB HDA ATI SB at 0xfe024000 irq 16 1 [HDMI ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI HDMI HDA ATI HDMI at 0xfdffc000 irq 43 2 [CODEC ]: USB-Audio - USB Audio CODEC Burr-Brown from TI USB Audio CODEC at usb-0000:00:12.1-2, full speed
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Changing the index of snd-usb-audio to 1 does not work.
I am trying very hard last days to fix that problem with no success. Kernel i am running is 3.2.0-4-amd64. Last days i had compiled 3.14 but i dont know if i messed up the configuration for device drivers etc. I certainly want kernel 3.4-lowlatency configured but i dont know what device drivers should be included in menuconfig. Also i do not know for sure if it is a permission issue.
I've installed Debian 6.0.1 with kernel 2.6.32 and I've got an issue with my Ayre QB9 usb soundcard.MPD says: problems opening audio device. I have MPD running as root.Below I've copied a bit of output from terminal that might give someone a clue.dmesg (The second to last OSS line I've only seen once, but as it involves audio I though I might include it. The last line is sometimes there and sometimes not. I can't figure out why.
[779.384053] usb 5-1: USB disconnect, address 2 [783.028037] usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 [783.249119] usb 3-2: New USB device found, idVendor=21b4, idProduct=0130
I have made a clean openbox install with debian and so far everything is going well.Now I need to make my sound work so I've installed alsa-utils. I write "lspci | grep "Audio" in bash and I get the output:Intel Corp. N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
New install of 11.2 with KDE 4.I have two soundcards in my system, one on the motherboard and a soundblaster. I multiboot and all FIVE other images, including SUSE 10.1 with KDE 3, use the soundblaster so that is where the speakers are plugged in. 11.2 insists on configuring the motherboard sound card for KDE, even when I do a fresh install setting the soundblaster as the primary sound card at installation time or when I remove the motherboard sound card from the configuration after installation. KDE 4 never even lists the soundblaster as a known card. Any way to fix or work around this restriction?
My sound stopped working! (after a fresh install, explained below)I just installed the latest release of openSuse. Right after installing, I ran the updates tool and got all recommended updates. All fine.I then installed my ATI catalyst drivers. Rebooted a couple of times. All fine.Everything was working 100% (including sound), I then rebooted, now something is wrong.Now my sound is not working, I right-click the speaker icon in the taskbar, and to my surprise my soundcard is not listed like it was just before. It used to show up as an X-fi card, which was correct.
In Yast, I go to sound, and in the hardware section, there is nothing there, my soundcard is not listed. I tried to add a soundcard in Yast, (creative xfi) but it wont install, I get some IRQ error.I'm all out of ideas. I'm a new to using linux, but I know my way around the console.I have trolled through the internet for hours to no avail
An application I am trying to get going on 9.10 takes over my soundcard whenever I run it. I hear a small pop from the speakers and then no application can play sound after that.
The program is: springlobby My soundcard is: Onboard sound (Asus M4N68T-M motherboard)
I have posted on the application's forum but it seems most of the posters are developers and the advice goes a bit over my head.
Quote: old versions of SL uses SDL audio to access the sound card, make sure SDL audio is set to use alsa+dmix or pulseaudio, if it's set to OSS or alsa with direct card access, it will lock the sound card
if it's a recent version, everything i said applies instead for openal.I have removed pulseaudio but this is not the cause of my problem as it was the same before removal.full thread is here: http:[url]....
I've just bought a very cheap USB sound device as the jacks built into my laptop are practically dead. I bought it as I'd googled around and seen that other people have it working in linux. Anyway, I plug it in and am able to select "USB AUDIO (ALSA)" from the xfce4-mixer. However, I don't get any sound from any applications.
Here is my aplay -l output: Code: **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog] Subdevices: 0/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 1: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 3: ATI HDMI [ATI HDMI] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 2: default [USB AUDIO], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
I can't find any options for the output on alsamixer and don't really know what to do. I'm running Mint with xfce4 on a Dell Studio 15.
I just installed the Yamaha WF192XG soundcard into my computer, connected the MIDI keyboard (Evolution MK-7) and I got the "...is running in low-graphics mode". Rebooted, still got the message.. Entered the nvidia-x-config thing (or whatever the command is) and rebooted. Still got the same message
Using CentOS 5 on a Toshiba laptop with an Edirol UA-4fx USB audio capture external sound card. I would like to be able to record internet radio and also record live sound from the USB card. The sound card that comes with the laptop is really bad.
I listen to the output from internet radio though the earphone jack on the USB card and the sound is really nice. I can record in Vista by running a line from the earphone jack on the USB card to the laptop mic jack and selecting "mic" as input in Audacity. The "mic" setting does not show up in Audacity in CentOS.
I tired Krec but do not see any input from the USB card, even though there is very nice sound great thought the card earphone jack. I do not understand the sound archetecture and would love to find a good "linux sound archetecture for dummies" article. Meanwhile can you suggest a simple way to record output from the USB card in CentOS?
I've stumbled onto a bit of a conundrum regarding my audio, stopping me from listening to the wise teachings of Mac-Gyver (and various other things)
Since I couldn't find a firmware for the Realtek ALC888 device, I downloaded the proprietary driver from the official website. However, when I try and install it I get a message containing "no command alsaconf". I would have installed this "however" alsaconf has been removed from the alsa-utils package; cannot find any way to obtain this file at all.
Assuming having alsaconf will make the proprietary driver work and my audio to blast, how would I get my hands on this? Should I even need to get this? Or maybe there is a free working driver out there somewhere..
By the way if I did a full install with all the system tools and drivers, somewhere amongst that it would work, but that's too easy.
I have 2 soundcard - a M/B built in Intel AC97 and an old Aureal (later SoundBlaster). This is because there's a problem with Intel's microphone in XP. So I use Intel for playback and Aureal for recording.
Now, how do I duplicate same setup in Suse (to avoid switching plugs) ? I am a bit lost in where to specify hardware to be used for recording and playback.
Recently I installed a new soundcard to my computer, and I don't have any sound anymore in Linux. Now I have in YaST two sound chips, one AC97 and my soundcard Asus Xonar Essence STX. Obviously Linux detected my soundcard since the custom driver called "Virtuoso" is there. However, my soundchip has still the slot 0, and my soundcard is not configured yet. And here I'm stuck, because:
1. when I tried to delete the AC97 entry, YaST hangs (actually y2base or something like that, the sound subprogram). Alternatively, I tried to just disable the driver, but this wasn't possible (unlike with Windows, where you just click a checkbox).
2. when I tried to configure my new soundcard, the configuration program got stuck again - with every of the three alternatives (fast setup, normal setup and custom setup or so).
I also tried whether the old soundchip is still working, plugging in my headphone into the output of the AC97 soundchip, but I didn't hear anything, so system sound really seems to be broken.
