Taybin Rutkin wrote: > What's your soundcard? I think being able to open a sound device multiple times is dependent on if the hardware supports that. I can > run jack and xmms (without the jack plugin) concurrently on my sb512. SBLive Value, and of course it just occurs to me that I've run and recorded from XMMS with Ardour many times, so the problem must lie elsewheres, i.e., not with JACK, yes ? Best regards, == Dave Phillips The Book Of Linux Music & Sound at http://www.nostarch.com/lms.htm The Linux Soundapps Site at http://linux-sound.org