Hi I'm interested in your problem, but I'm a newbie who's just been wrestling with a similar problem, so don't take anything I say as definitive. On Wednesday 12 March 2003 10:34, Raphaël Haberer-Proust wrote: > when I launch jackd, I have the same error messages: > > titanium:~# jackd -d alsa -d powermac > jackd 0.50.0 > Copyright 2001-2002 Paul Davis 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 > > loading driver .. > creating alsa driver ... powermac|1024|2|48000|swmon|rt > ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:866:(snd_pcm_hw_open) open /dev/snd/pcmC0D0c failed: > No such file or directory ALSA: Cannot open PCM device alsa_pcm > cannot load driver module alsa > jack main caught signal 15 Your card does not have capture capability, or very many devices at all! advice I was given on this matter: [thanks Bob] If you do "jackd -d alsa --help" you'll get a list of options for the alsa driver. Try giving it -P (which makes it use playback mode so it won't try and set up capture.) > alsamixer works fine, I also tried to rmmod all the modules that have > "oss" in their name, no change. These are the modules that are loaded: > > titanium:~# lsmod > Module Size Used by Not tainted > snd-seq-oss 32592 0 (unused) > snd-seq-midi-event 3952 0 [snd-seq-oss] > snd-seq 52760 2 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event] > snd-pcm-oss 56948 0 (unused) > snd-mixer-oss 16608 1 [snd-pcm-oss] > snd-usb-audio 48528 0 (unused) > snd-rawmidi 18256 0 [snd-usb-audio] > snd-seq-device 5668 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-rawmidi] > snd-powermac 42756 1 > snd-pcm 81808 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-usb-audio > snd-powermac] snd-timer 15232 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm] > snd 46220 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event > snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-usb-audio snd-rawmidi > snd-seq-device snd-powermac snd-pcm snd-timer] soundcore > 4584 5 [snd] I don't _think_ you want to remove the alsa oss compatibility modules, all the modules with snd- prefix are alsa modules. Good Luck tim hall
