Used the qjackctl utility for now but will probably want to part a startup script instead. Will not run "real time"--need kernel patch for that (2.6.6) but I do my windows stuff with > 100ms latency so not to run afoul of plugins that do not correctly do lookaheads. Main thing now is sharing the ports and experimenting with various plugins. My advanced MIDI tools remain on Windows and all this stuff goes into Cakewalk. Now if Ardour could read the Cakewalk files ....