Hello all,

I recently bought an Edirol FA-66. I tried to use it with jack and freebob driver, and I have this output error in qjackctl :

"zombified - calling shutdown handler
12:40:49.136 MIDI connection graph change.

12:40:49.140 Shutdown notification.
12:40:49.144 Client deactivated.
12:40:49.147 JACK was stopped successfully.
12:40:49.148 Post-shutdown script...
12:40:49.149 killall jackd
cannot send request type 7 to server

cannot read result for request type 7 from server (Relais brisé (pipe))
cannot send request type 7 to server
cannot read result for request type 7 from server (Relais brisé (pipe))
12:40:49.286 MIDI connection graph change.

jackd: aucun processus tué
12:40:49.412 Post-shutdown script terminated with exit status=256."

I use a laptop with a PCMCIA firewire card to connect the FA-66.

I tried to use the FA-66 on a normal computer with Ubuntu-studio and it works very well.


I think the problem come from the use of a laptop, like this post say (
http://www.linuxmao.org/tikiwiki/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?comments_parentId=6763&forum Id=3&highlight=fa-66), but I don't know how to resolve it.
(sorry the post is in french)

I would really like the FA-66 works on my laptop, because I bought it essentially for its portability and use on linux.


Regards

Arnaud

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Hi Arnaud,

> I use a laptop with a PCMCIA firewire card to connect the FA-66.

Could you post the output of lspci -v please? Also, which make/model is
the PCMCIA card? Some of those PCMCIA cards are just no good for audio use.

Cheers!

Daniel

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Hi,

Could you post the output of lspci -v please?
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this is the output of lspci -v :

00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 Host Bridge (rev a4)
*** Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0
*** Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]

*** Capabilities: <access denied>

00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 LPC Bridge (rev a6)
*** Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0c80
*** Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0


00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce3 SMBus (rev a4)
*** Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 006d
*** Flags: 66MHz, fast devsel, IRQ 10
*** I/O ports at 2040 [size=64]
*** I/O ports at 2000 [size=64]

*** Capabilities: <access denied>

00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 USB 1.1 (rev a5) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
*** Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0c80
*** Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19

*** Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
*** Capabilities: <access denied>

00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 USB 1.1 (rev a5) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
*** Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0c80

*** Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
*** Memory at e8001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
*** Capabilities: <access denied>

00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 USB
2.0 (rev a2) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
*** Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0c80
*** Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
*** Memory at e8004000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]

*** Capabilities: <access denied>

00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 Audio (rev a2)
*** Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 006d
*** Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19

*** I/O ports at 1400 [size=256]
*** I/O ports at 1c00 [size=128]
*** Memory at e8002000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
*** Capabilities: <access denied>

00:06.1 Modem: nVidia Corporation nForce3 Audio (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [Generic])

*** Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 006d
*** Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
*** I/O ports at 1800 [size=256]
*** I/O ports at 1c80 [size=128]
*** Memory at e8003000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

*** Capabilities: <access denied>

00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce3 IDE (rev a5) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
*** Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0c80
*** Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0

*** [virtual] Memory at 000001f0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=8]
*** [virtual] Memory at 000003f0 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=1]
*** [virtual] Memory at 00000170 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=8]

*** [virtual] Memory at 00000370 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=1]
*** I/O ports at 2080 [size=16]
*** Capabilities: <access denied>

00:0a.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 PCI Bridge (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])

*** Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0
*** Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=0a, sec-latency=128
*** I/O behind bridge: 00003000-00007fff
*** Memory behind bridge: e8100000-e97fffff

*** Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 40000000-47ffffff

00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 AGP Bridge (rev a4) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
*** Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 16

*** Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=10
*** Memory behind bridge: ea000000-eaffffff
*** Prefetchable memory behind bridge: f8000000-fc0fffff

00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration

*** Flags: fast devsel
*** Capabilities: <access denied>

00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
*** Flags: fast devsel

00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller

*** Flags: fast devsel

00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
*** Flags: fast devsel

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 420 Go 32M] (rev a3) (prog-if 00 [VGA])

*** Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 006d
*** Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 248, IRQ 22
*** Memory at ea000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
*** Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]

*** Memory at fc000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=512K]
*** [virtual] Expansion ROM at fc080000 [disabled] [size=128K]
*** Capabilities: <access denied>

02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)

*** Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RT8139
*** Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
*** I/O ports at 7000 [size=256]
*** Memory at e8104000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]

*** Capabilities: <access denied>

02:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4303 802.11b Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
*** Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 12f3
*** Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 21

*** Memory at e8100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]

02:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1620 PC Card Controller (rev 01)
*** Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 006d
*** Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 16

*** Memory at e8102000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
*** Bus: primary=02, secondary=03, subordinate=06, sec-latency=176
*** Memory window 0: 40000000-43fff000 (prefetchable)
*** Memory window 1: e8400000-e87ff000

*** I/O window 0: 00003000-000030ff
*** I/O window 1: 00003400-000034ff
*** 16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

02:04.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1620 PC Card Controller (rev 01)
*** Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 006d

*** Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 17
*** Memory at e8103000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
*** Bus: primary=02, secondary=07, subordinate=0a, sec-latency=176
*** Memory window 0: 44000000-47fff000 (prefetchable)

*** Memory window 1: e8c00000-e8fff000
*** I/O window 0: 00003800-000038ff
*** I/O window 1: 00003c00-00003cff
*** 16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

02:04.2 System peripheral: Texas Instruments PCI1620 Firmware Loading Function (rev 01)

*** Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 006d
*** Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64
*** I/O ports at 7400 [size=64]
*** Capabilities: <access denied>

03:00.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB
1.1 Controller (rev 62) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
*** Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller
*** Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 22, IRQ 16
*** Memory at e8400800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]

*** I/O ports at 3080 [size=32]
*** Capabilities: <access denied>

03:00.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 65) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
*** Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0

*** Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 22, IRQ 16
*** Memory at e8400900 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
*** Memory at e8400a00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
*** Capabilities: <access denied>


03:00.3 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
*** Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller
*** Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16

*** Memory at e8400000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
*** I/O ports at 3000 [size=128]
*** Capabilities: <access denied>




Also, which make/model is
the PCMCIA card? Some of those PCMCIA cards are just no good for audio use.
I don't know the make and the model. This seems to be a generic PCMCIA card. I bougth it on
materiel.net http://www.materiel.net/ctl/Firewire/32642-Carte_PCMCIA_Firewire_USB_2_0.html.



Cheers,

Arnaud

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Hi Arnaud,

I think these are the relevant entries here:

> 02:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1620 PC Card Controller (rev
> 01)

> 02:04.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1620 PC Card Controller (rev
> 01)

These should be OK, but it's worth searching for problems people may
have had with the FA-66 or other Freebob devices.

> 03:00.3 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host
> Controller (rev 80) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])

> I don't know the make and the model. This seems to be a generic PCMCIA card.

I think this VIA chipset is most likely to be the cause of your
problems, unless it works fine in Ubuntu Studio. You could try asking
for recommendations for a better PCMCIA card on the Freebob list.

Cheers!

Daniel

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Hi Daniel and others,


I think this VIA chipset is most likely to be the cause of your

problems, unless it works fine in Ubuntu Studio. You could try asking
for recommendations for a better PCMCIA card on the Freebob list.

I bought today a new PCMCIA firewire card. This one is based on a NEC chipset.

I tried it and it seems to work now. I tried with some soft : qjackctl, jack-rack, jamin, qsynth and rosegarden. Everything is fine ! ! !
Apparently, the best chipset for audio work is Texas Instrument, but this one works for me.


Thanks for your help.

NB : is there somewhere a place where hardware which is working and not working is referenced? I think I could write that VIA chipset gives some problems.

Cheers

Arnaud

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