Do your jack clients also have to run as root to connect when jack is run as root? Also is 256 megs of ram enough to run jackd well, or do I need more like 500megs or more? On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 03:55, Patrick Shirkey wrote: > Austin wrote: > > > > > > [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 > > > > What do you get if you use > > jackd -v -R -a -d alsa -d hw:1 -p 1024 -n 3 > > running as root. > >