On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 8:24 PM, Alexandros Drymonitis <adrcki@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to use my presonus firebox sound card (which is firewire) with jack by typing jackd -d firewire (maybe no space between flag and argument? I tried both). I get this:
I would like to point you to two commands. First:
$ man jackd
.. shows:
OPTIONS -d, --driver backend [backend-parameters ]
Select the audio interface backend. The current list of sup‐ ported backends is: alsa, coreaudio, dummy, freebob, oss sun and portaudio. They are not all available on all platforms. All
backend-parameters are optional.
There doesn't seem to exist a supported backend called "firewire".
Second:
$ aplay -l
.. will list your "PLAYBACK Hardware Devices" recognized by alsa.
If your card is listed there you could run jack with alsa backend and select your preferred device (e.g. hw:0, hw:1, etc..). Perhaps using qjackctl would make both easier. Otherwise you could try: