On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 20:53, Patrick Shirkey wrote: > Rohan Parkes wrote: > > I installed Jack from Planet-CCRMA. I have a Soundblaster Live with RH > > 9.0. However, Jack doesn't seem to start completely. > > > > I understand that I should be able to basically start Jack using > > jackd -d alsa -d hw:0 > > or > > jackstart -R -d alsa -d hw -r 44100 > > > > However, it stops at > > > > jackd -d alsa -d hw:0 > > > > loading driver .. > > creating alsa driver ... hw:0|1024|2|48000|swmon|rt > > > > I think it should set up channels, etc. Jack-dependent apps complain > > that Jack isn't working. > > > > Several times, it has done this correctly, but I can't understand why it > > worked then but doesn't now. As far as I can see, the ALSA drivers are > > loaded and working. > > > > Do you have any other apps running before you start jack? > > Did this happen several times over reboots or without rebooting? > > Can you send us the version of jack you are using? It is provided when > starting jack? > Piping the output from the command jackstart -R -d alsa -d hw -r 44100 to a text file produces the following (although I don't see the first line nor anything from the second occurence of "jackd 0.71.1" onwards when I launch it - I don't know why the text is getting repeated). received signal 15 during shutdown (ignored) jackd 0.71.1 Copyright 2001-2003 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 creating alsa driver ... hw|1024|2|44100|swmon|swmeter|rt jackd 0.71.1 Copyright 2001-2003 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 I might have xawtv running, but no audio apps (and shutting xawtv down doesn't have any effect). I always seem to get the problem - as I mentioned, a couple of days ago I seemed to briefly be able to get it to work, but I can't work out what I might have done differently. Rebooting doesn't make any difference. -- Rohan Parkes <rparkes@xxxxxxxxx>