I have an Edirol FA-101, and I'm trying to get it to work on my PowerBook with Gentoo Linux installed. The issue is that sound just doesn't work for me.

I do this first:
jackd -d freebob

and I get
jackd 0.102.20
Copyright 2001-2005 [...]

JACK compiled with System V SHM support.
loading driver ..
Freebob using Firewire port 0, node -1
libiec61883 warning: Established connection on channel 0.
You may need to manually set the channel on the receiving node.
libiec61883 warning: Established connection on channel 1.
You may need to manually set the channel on the transmitting node.

This is normal and is what I get on my amd64 system when I use this setup. When I open Pd, however, with -jack as a command line option, the Media menu is empty and Pd doesn't respond to anything. Also, if I don't use -jack, I can go to the Media menu and select jack, but after that everything stops responding.

Also, if I start jackd with -R -P 70, I get the same output from jackd, except after a couple of seconds I see "Aborted" and jackd stops running:
... etc, etc ...
libiec61883 warning: Established connection on channel 1.
You may need to manually set the channel on the transmitting node.
Aborted

I'm using pd-0.39_p1 from the Gentoo portage tree, same as on my amd64 machine.

Thanks.