[pulseaudio-discuss] 'Failed to find a working profile' for firewire sound devices

[Takashi Sakamoto]

Hi David,

 > Thanks for this effort! IMO, the lack of ALSA support for firewire
 > devices have been one of ALSA's bigger shortcomings.

I remember your blueprint for 'N'. Yes, it's really tough work...

 > A PulseAudio verbose log, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio/Log
 > would be the next step. The log is massive, but you can hopefully go
 > through that log yourself and see where it fails trying to open
 > something it should succeed in opening. If you can't find it, pastebin
 > the log somewhere and let some of us have a look.

Here the logs:

1.snd-fireworks with Echo Audio Audiofire4
pulseverbose_fireworks.log
http://ubuntuone.com/05s7BXWAyXcZkDEQJZYxZV

$ cat /proc/asound/pcm
00-00: ALC889 Analog : ALC889 Analog : playback 1 : capture 1
00-01: ALC889 Digital : ALC889 Digital : playback 1 : capture 1
00-02: ALC889 Alt Analog : ALC889 Alt Analog : capture 2
01-00: Fireworks : AudioFire4 PCM : playback 1 : capture 1

$ cat /proc/asound/cards
  0 [Intel          ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
                       HDA Intel at 0xfbff4000 irq 54
  1 [AudioFire4     ]: Fireworks - AudioFire4
                       Echo Digital Audio AudioFire4 v5.5, GUID 
0014860f5a616e83 at fw1.0, S400


2. snd-bebob with M-Audio Firewire Solo
pulseverbose_bebob.log
http://ubuntuone.com/53Enu6RsjmmscdkRyJNm54

$ cat /proc/asound/pcm
00-00: ALC889 Analog : ALC889 Analog : playback 1 : capture 1
00-01: ALC889 Digital : ALC889 Digital : playback 1 : capture 1
00-02: ALC889 Alt Analog : ALC889 Alt Analog : capture 2
01-00: BeBoB : FW Solo PCM : playback 1 : capture 1

$ cat /proc/asound/cards
  0 [Intel          ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
                       HDA Intel at 0xfbff4000 irq 54
  1 [Solo           ]: BeBoB - FW Solo
                       M-Audio FW Solo (id:144, rev:0), GUID 
000d6c0b00c256a4 at fw1.0, S400


If you need my sources, please use repositories below:
https://github.com/takaswie/snd-firewire-improve
https://github.com/takaswie/sound


Thanks

Takashi Sakamoto