Firepod won't work with JACK

[marxspeakstruth]

Hey guys,
Trying to set up a PreSonus FirePod on my friends Compaq Presario SR2177CL (AMD Athlon X2 64-Bit) and having a little trouble. I followed a guide on this forum ( http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=713695 ) but I still can't get it to work. When I hit "Start" on JACK I get this error:

Could not connect to JACK server as client
-Overall operation failed
-Unable to connect to server
Please check the Messages window for more info.

Messages info gives this information:

p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; } 03:25:48.562 Startup script...
03:25:48.563 artsshell -q terminate
sh: artsshell: not found
03:25:48.967 Startup script terminated with exit status=32512.
03:25:48.967 JACK is starting...
03:25:48.969 /usr/bin/jackd -R -P70 -dfreebob -r44100 -p128 -n3 -D
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.
03:25:49.010 JACK was started with PID=2553.
loading driver ..
Enhanced3DNow! detected
SSE2 detected
Freebob using Firewire port 0, node -1
Ieee1394Service::initialize: Could not get 1394 handle: Invalid argument
Is ieee1394 and raw1394 driver loaded?
Fatal (devicemanager.cpp)[68] initialize: Could not initialize Ieee1349Service object
Fatal (freebob.cpp)[69] freebob_new_handle: Could not initialize device manager
FreeBoB ERR: FREEBOB: Error creating virtual device
cannot load driver module freebob

03:25:49.397 JACK was stopped successfully.
03:25:49.397 Post-shutdown script...
03:25:49.398 killall jackd
jackd: no process found
03:25:49.810 Post-shutdown script terminated with exit status=256.
03:25:51.232 Could not connect to JACK server as client. - Overall operation failed. - Unable to connect to server. Please check the messages window for more info.


I'm pretty sure it has to do with the firewire drivers, but I don't know how to remedy this. Help me if you can, please! Thanks so much!

[marxspeakstruth]

so i figured out that if i run this:

sudo chmod 777 /dev/raw1394

in the terminal before trying to run JACK, it works. I'm not sure why, and I have to do it every time I restart my comp. Anyone know why, or how I could fix it for good?