M-Audio MobilePre & Jack1 = bus error HELP!

[zenon222]

Is it possible to use an M-Audio MobilePre with JACK1 or JACK2 ?

I have searched and have not found any success. I am willing to be a JACK2 guinea pig if that's what it takes.


root@zenon-ubuntu:/home/zenon# jackd -s -R -P 70 -dalsa -dhw:0 -p1024 -r48000 -n2 -X seq
no message buffer overruns
jackd 0.116.1
Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others.
jackd comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details

JACK compiled with System V SHM support.
loading driver ..
Enhanced3DNow! detected
SSE2 detected
apparent rate = 48000
creating alsa driver ... hw:0|hw:0|1024|2|48000|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit
control device hw:0
Bus error
root@zenon-ubuntu:/home/zenon#
I just noticed "32bit" in the output, this card is 16/48k could that be an issue?

MobilePre: http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/MobilePreUSB.html

[AutoStatic]

Hello zenon222,

From the manual:
Class-compliancy on Windows XP & Mac OS X (10.2.6 & higher) systems
So it should work out of the box.
Could you post the outcome of aplay -l with the device attached?
And your nick, has it anything to do with the protagonist of L'Œuvre au Noir (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27%C5%92uvre_au_noir)? Just curious :)

[zenon222]

The card works beautifully and out of the box with typical ALSA + Gstreamer. It is only JACKd that causes issues. Which is why I'm wondering if upgrading to JACK2 may help.

zenon@zenon-ubuntu:~$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 1: MobilePre [MobilePre], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
zenon@zenon-ubuntu:~$
The handle has no specific relation to said book, it is a cyber pseudonym that came to me many years ago. However, in Athens I was informed by an astute greek at the end of a chance encounter and long conversation that Zeno is the name of a respected greek philosopher who apparently has a similar personality to myself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno_of_Elea

[robeast]

What are your JACK settings?

I'm guessing that "control device hw:0" is not the location of your hardware...just a guess.

[AutoStatic]

I'm guessing that "control device hw:0" is not the location of your hardware...just a guess.It's hw:1, or even better hw:MobilePre. Use the latter as the Interface name and it should work.

@zenon222, cool story! If you ever have the time you should read The Abyss, my Bachelor thesis was based on that book and Zénon (the French equivalent of Zeno) is just a marvellous personality.