On 05/21/2011 04:20 PM, JD wrote: > On 05/21/11 15:03, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >> I searched everywhere on the Internet and found >> lots of people complaining that PCM could not be >> opened, thus terminating jackd. >> >> Here is what I an getting from starting jackd via qjackctl: >> >> $ jackd -d alsa >> jackd 0.118.0 >> Copyright 2001-2009 Paul Davis, Stephane Letz, Jack O'Quinn, Torben Hohn >> and others. >> jackd comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY >> This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it >> under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details >> >> >> Memory locking is unlimited - this is dangerous. You should probably >> alter the line: >> @audio - memlock unlimited >> in your /etc/limits.conf to read: >> @audio - memlock 1540245 >> JACK compiled with System V SHM support. >> loading driver .. >> creating alsa driver ... hw:0|hw:0|1024|2|48000|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit >> control device hw:0 >> ALSA: Cannot open PCM device alsa_pcm for playback. Falling back to >> capture-only mode >> configuring for 48000Hz, period = 1024 frames (21.3 ms), buffer = 2 periods >> ALSA: final selected sample format for capture: 16bit little-endian >> ALSA: use 2 periods for capture >> impossible sample width (1) discovered! >> >> I have tried everything, including the kitchen sink and cannot >> seem to get jackd running. >> >> > I had tried some months ago. > I gave up because it ended up screwing up my audio > so I could no longer get sound out. > The hard part is finding a site that tells you step-by-step what exactly needs to be done. I had to cobble bits and pieces together from different Internet postings to get it to work, as many are for older versions of jack and/or pulseaudio and for different distros - so I used Ubuntu/Fedora distros to assemble it specifically for F13. >From memory, I recall: 1) yum install pulseaudio-module-jack alsa-plugins-jack jack-audio-connection-kit 2) Add the user to audio, jackuser, pulse, pulse-access 3) echo "autospawn = no" > ~/.pulse/client.conf 4) cp /etc/pulse/default.pa ~/.pulse/pulsejack.pa Edit and add after the below commented out line: #load-module module-pipe-sink load-module module-jack-source load-module module-jack-sink 5) reboot Sorry that I cannot locate the specific links where I found all of the pieces... But once the basic configuration is done for both jack and pulse audio, then one can proceed to use qjackctl tool. See: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToJACKConfiguration I found that jack has to be "tuned" to make sure that there is the proper latency settings (mine is @ ~25ms, and you can easily do this with the jack tool: qjackctl and keeping an eye on minimizing the Xruns, which determines the "optimal" latency setting for your system. I have tried Hydrogen, MuseScore, Rosegarden and these seem to work well. For fun. I had Amarok running and at the same time Hydrogen Jazz drums running and it was odd, but interesting. Some notes: 1) Be careful not to checkbox the qjackctl->Misc:"Start jack audioserver on application startup" as it hung qjackctl and jackd. If that happens, then you have to blow away: ~/.config/rncbc.org/QjackCtl.conf file and start all over with the proper settings. I could not locate the auto??? entry in this file. 2) Make SURE you get the correct qjackctl->Settings:Interface value for your audio hardware or you get: 'Cannot find PCM..." cryptic error. I hope I got it all here.... (crossing fingers) -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines