FFADO-DIAG(1)

💖 FFADO-DIAG 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual page for ffado-diag, and yes you're gonna read the whole thing because it's short and it's important 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

ffado-diag — print system diagnostic information related to FFADO. that's it, that's the job, and it does it iconically 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ffado-diag[--static|-V|--version|--usage]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so ffado-diag prints out a whole extensive collection of diagnostic info about the computer it's running on. like, it spills the tea fr fr ☕✨

what's in the pile? the FFADO version number, the version number of libraries which FFADO depends on, the FireWire interface card, interrupt usage, and so on. the whole vibe check on your machine, basically 🌈

who is this for? developers! when you're asking for support over on the FFADO mailing lists, this output tells them what they need to know. and listen — for anything that isn't a trivial lil issue, the output of ffado-diag is gonna be one of the first things asked fro when debugging a problem. (yes, "fro" — we're keeping the typo, it's part of the lore now 😭💀)

so if something's broken and you're about to post: run this first. no cap. it saves everybody a round trip 🎀

👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -V, --version — display version information. quick lil flex of what you're running ✨
• --usage — print a short usage message and exit. it's giving "here's the tl;dr" 💅
• --static — only display executable paths and libraries. minimal, understated, main character energy 🔥

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

nothing here bestie, the original page had no SEE ALSO section. we're not gonna invent one, that would be lying and lying is not slay 🙈

and that's the whole page! you ate that 🍓🧚

this was brought to you by the fine folks behind ffado-diag, dated 27-Mar-2012, living under the source/version banner FFADO-DIAG(1). periodt 💖