FFADO

FFADO is a package containing linux drivers for audio interfaces that connect through IEEE 1394.

Installing Layman
FFADO is in the pro-audio overlay which uses svn, so if you haven't already, install layman with the subversion USE flag. First, add the USE flag:

Then, install layman and add the pro-audio overlay:

Once you have added the pro-audio overlay, uncomment the ``source `` line below as appropriate for your version of layman.

Merging FFADO
With layman installed, portage should install FFADO correctly with

However, if the compile fails with SyntaxError: invalid syntax you may need to use a different version of python. To see which versions are available, run

Switch to another version of python with

where is the number next to the desired version in the above list. If only one version is available, try installing python2, then switch to the new version with eselect.