[Pkg-freebob-devel] Presonus Firebox issues on 64studio

[p at phx.dnlr.net]

I'm trying to run a Presonus Firebox under 64studio 2.0 on an AMD64  
3500+ machine using Jack via qjackctl and freebob.

Problem: Jack runs fine when I start it up, but if I start any new  
process, Jack zombifies and aborts.  By 'any new process' I don't just  
mean audio programs -- If I open Iceweasel for instance, Jack will  
zombify and abort.  Even opening the qjackctl 'Messages' console  
causes Jack to zombify and abort.  I've tried restarting jackd after  
resetting the firewire bus using gscanbus and by dis/reconnecting the  
the physical connection to the Firebox and got the same results.

My setup was working intermittently (required some tweaking every time  
I opened qjackctl) before I upgraded to 64studio 2.0.  I think I was  
using 64studio 1.0 before, but I'm not sure of the exact version number.

Installed packages/libraries:
libfreebob0 1.0.3+svn443-2~bpo.1
jackd 0.103.0-6~bpo.1
qjackctl 0.2.22-2~bpo.1
libavc1394-0 0.5.3-1+b1
libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch2
libgcc1 1:4.1.1-21
libiec61883-0 1.1.0-2
libraw1394-8 1.2.1-2
libstdc++6 4.1.1-21
libxml2 2.6.27.dfsg-1

Firewire interface: (lspci):
04:06.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB12LV26 IEEE-1394  
Controller (Link)

/proc/interrupts (APIC is turned off in BIOS):
           CPU0
   0:        201    XT-PIC-XT        timer
   1:      10773    XT-PIC-XT        i8042
   2:          0    XT-PIC-XT        cascade
   5:      46034    XT-PIC-XT        ehci_hcd:usb1, snd_ca0106
   7:     352151    XT-PIC-XT        ohci_hcd:usb2, eth0
   8:          0    XT-PIC-XT        rtc
   9:          0    XT-PIC-XT        acpi
  10:     304009    XT-PIC-XT        ohci1394, nvidia
  11:        321    XT-PIC-XT        libata
  12:          4    XT-PIC-XT        i8042
  14:      43573    XT-PIC-XT        ide0
NMI:          0
LOC:    3242969
ERR:          0

/etc/init.d/rtirq start:
rtirq: start [rtc] irq=8 pid=287 prio=90: OK.
rtirq: start [ohci1394] irq=10 pid=836 prio=85: OK.
rtirq: start [snd] irq=5 pid=796 prio=80: OK.
rtirq: start [ohci_hcd] irq=7 pid=832 prio=75: OK.
rtirq: start [i8042] irq=1 pid=314 prio=70: OK.
rtirq: start [i8042] irq=12 pid=313 prio=69: OK.

jackd command line (used by qjackctl):
/usr/bin/jackd -v -R -P79 -p128 -t1000 -dfreebob -dhw:0 -r48000 -p256 -n3 -D

uname -a:
Linux 64studio 2.6.21-1-multimedia-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Fri Jun 22  
00:00:33 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Link to qjackctl 'Messages' output (I thought it might be a bit long  
to post directly):
http://phxom.matterwave.net/text/freebob_problems/qjackctl-msg.txt
(jack zombified and aborted right after I opened the Messages console)

I couldn't find any relevant output from dmesg, /var/log/messages or  
/var/log/syslog .


Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,