Installation

2008-07-05

Submitted by ppalmers

For generic and up-to-date installation documentation, please see http://subversion.ffado.org/wiki/InstallingFfadoFromSource.

This post is no longer needed, since FFADO has fallback discovery of the Phonic Helix MKII from FFADO RC2

FFADO for Phonic Helix 24mkII on Xubuntu 7.10. Testet on a P4 2.4Ghz single core with 768MB of 2100DDR RAM (266Mhz) and a VIA VT6306 ohci1394 chipset PCI card.

Install realtime kernel:

 $ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.22-14-rt linux-image-2.6.22-14-rt linux-restricted-modules-2.6.22-14-rt linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.22-14-rt
 $ sudo reboot

Install ubuntu studio through synatic (Don’t think this is necessary. Just nice to have):
```
 $ sudo apt-get install ubuntustudio-audio
```
Install subversion (SVN) This is needed download of some of the newest version not yet available as .deb packages:
```
 $ sudo apt-get install subversion
```
Install c++ compiler (You’ll probaly need the xubuntu installation CDROM for this):
```
 $ sudo apt-get install g++
```

Install libs and tools needed for compiling drivers etc.:

 $ sudo apt-get install autoconf automake libtool libxml2-dev libcap-dev libasound2-dev libxml++2.6-dev libdbus-1-dev libexpat1-dev liblo-dev sconspython-qt4 python-qt4-dev docbook-utils pyqt-tools

Install libraw1394 from SVN:

 $ svn co svn://svn.linux1394.org/libraw1394/trunk
 $ cd libraw1394/trunk
 $ sh autogen.sh
 $ autoreconf -f -i -s
 $ ./configure
 $ make
 $ sudo make install
 $ sudo mknod -m666 /dev/raw1394 c 171 0

Install musical transportation standard iec61883 library from SVN:

 $ svn checkout svn://svn.linux1394.org/libiec61883/trunk/ libiec61883
 $ cd libiec61883
 $ sh autogen.sh
 $ autoreconf -f -i -s
 $ ./configure
 $ make
 $ sudo make install

Finally Install the FFADO driver from SVN:
```
 $ svn co http://subversion.ffado.org/ffado/trunk libffado
 $ scons -h
 $ scons
 $ sudo scons install
```
(Disregard scons errors like: “Exception exceptions.TypeError: TypeError("‘NoneType’ object is not callable”,)")

To make sure jackd works with new ffado, Install Jackd from SVN:

 $ svn co http://subversion.jackaudio.org/jack/trunk/jack
 $ cd jack
 $ sh autogen.sh
 $ ./configure --prefix=/usr
 $ make
 $ sudo make install

Install QJackCTL (if you like to have a graphical gui) from SVN

 $ sudo apt-get install cvs
 $ sudo apt-get install libqt4-dev (This install almost 80mb of required packages, puh)
 $ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@qjackctl.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/qjackctl login
 Enter blank password
 $ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@qjackctl.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/qjackctl co qjackctl
 $ cd qjackctl
 $ make -f Makefile.cvs
 $ ./configure --prefix=/usr
 $ make
 $ sudo make install

Make it possible to start jackd in RealTme:
```
 $ sudo vi /etc/security/limits.conf
```
Add following 3 lines:
```
  - rtprio 99
  - nice -10
  - memlock 5120000
```
Save and exit VI You’ll need to logout and login again for that to take effect.
Make sure /dev/raw1394 exists, otherwise create it again by
```
 $ sudo mknod -m666 /dev/raw1394 c 171 0
```
Configure the correct rights for /dev/raw1394, so your normal unprivilledge user can access it. This might introduce a system security risk, but i know no other way:
```
 $ sudo vi /etc/udev/rules.d/40-permissions.rules
```
locate line containing: KERNEL=="raw1394”, GROUP="disk”

add:
```
, MODE="0666"
```
so it looks like:
```
KERNEL=="raw1394", GROUP="disk", MODE="0666"
```
save and exit VI
```
 $ sudo /etc/init.d/udev restart
```

Now you should be good to go!! start up qjackctl and choose firewire as the backend, realtime and priority of 70