On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 07:57, Patrick Shirkey wrote: > > With 2.4, it works okay, but jackd keeps quitting at strange times with > > some sort if IO CTL borken pipe error for no obvious reason. I forget > > the exact error right now. It's been mentioned once or twice on the alsa > > list, but no suggestions yet. > > > > That's strange I can run it for hours with no problems using -p 1024 -n3 [root@gamma373-179 austin]# jackd -d alsa -d hw:1 -p 1024 -n 3 jackd 0.80.0 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 JACK compiled with System V SHM support loading driver .. creating alsa driver ... hw:1|hw:1|1024|3|48000|nomon|swmeter|rt open starting engine [... about 30 seconds later...] **** alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 10.923 msecs ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:494:(snd_pcm_hw_start) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_START failed: Broken pipe could not start playback (Broken pipe) Sometimes it runs for a few minutes before doing this... Any suggestions? Austin -- Austin Acton Synthetic Organic Chemist, Teaching Assistant, Ph.D. Candidate Department of Chemistry, York University, Toronto MandrakeLinux Volunteer Developer, homepage: www.groundstate.ca