You probably need to run as root. Check my page - http://myweb.cableone.net/eviltwin69/ALSA_JACK_ARDOUR.html. It's somewhat out of date but it might help. Jan On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 17:55, Josenildo Marques wrote: > Hello. > > I've been out of luck trying to work with sound on Linux. My experience > with Audacity, Jack and Ardour haven't been successful at all. > I was trying to create a .asoundrc file as, from what I read, it would > be one of the first necessary steps. > My soundcard is > [cyb@kali cyb]$ cat /proc/asound/cards > 0 [Live ]: EMU10K1 - Sound Blaster Live! > Sound Blaster Live! (rev.8) at 0xa800, irq 10 > > and it's working well and I'm running Mandrake Linux 9.2 with Gnome. > My attempt at editing a .asoundrc file is shown below > > pcm.!sb { > type hw > card 0 > } > > ctl.!sb { > type hw > card 0 > } > pcm.jackplug { > type plug > slave { pcm "jack" } > } > > pcm.jack { > type jack > playback_ports { > 0 alsa_pcm:playback_1 > 1 alsa_pcm:playback_2 > } > capture_ports { > 0 alsa_pcm:capture_1 > 1 alsa_pcm:capture_2 > } > } > > which I copied and pasted from the Alsa site. Apparently it is working > because when I issued some commands to play a file they worked. > [cyb@kali cyb]$ aplay -d sd docs/voz.wav > Playing WAVE 'docs/voz.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 > Hz, Stereo[cyb@kali cyb]$ aplay -djackplug docs/voz.wav > Playing WAVE 'docs/voz.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 > Hz, Stereo > > However, Jack is not working properly and when I try to run Ardour all > my running apps are killed and disappear. > Jack shows the following messages: > > JACK compiled with System V SHM support > loading driver .. > open > starting engine > cannot set thread to real-time priority (FIFO/10) (1: Operation not > permitted) > cannot set thread to real-time priority (FIFO/20) (1: Operation not > permitted) > **** alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 10.319 msecs > > I'm very sorry if the message is bit lengthy, but I wanted to give all > the info that I think is needed. Any tip or hint appreciated. > TIA > > > -- > josenildo marques > icq #289971493 > homepage http://cyb.ezdir.net > registered linux user #341648 > ********* > "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." James Joyce >
