Audio capture through the JACK / FreeBoB drivers fails with the following message: ohci1394: fw-host0: Unrecoverable error! ohci1394: fw-host0: Iso Xmit 0 Context died: ctrl[20649806] cmdptr[f000e2c3] Happens with the following FierWire controller which is found as onboard controller of a number of relatively current notebooks: FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C552 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 08) http://marc.info/?l=linux1394-user&m=116290542300958 http://marc.info/?l=linux1394-user&m=117891813528258
Closing out stale bugs
Downstream bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-meta/+bug/232490
Other posts about this problem: http://marc.info/?l=linux1394-devel&m=114971484119328 http://marc.info/?l=linux1394-devel&m=117108997515305 From the latter thread: The "event" part of the ctrl bitfield means "evt_descriptor_read = An unrecoverable error occurred while the Host Controller was reading a descriptor block." Not very helpful though.