Christoph Eckert wrote: >>Ok thanks. I fired up qjackctl and haven't the foggiest >>idea what to do with it. >> >> > >Audio applications which use MIDI via the ALSA sequencer or >even JACK do usually not autoconnect to [MIDI/AUDIO][In/Out]. >You have to do it manually. > >In Qjackctl klick on connect and connect your applications and >hardware ports as desired, regardless if it was MIDI or >audio. > > >Best regards > > > ce > >Thanks. I clicked "connect" and am looking at the MIDI tab.On one side is > > Readable Clients /output on the other Writeable Clients /input Under both are two "ports" one with a plugin port icon -64:CS46XX one that looks like the plug on a cable 0:CS64XX Which is which? Under the Audio tab it is simply blank When I click "Start" I get the message below -don't know what they mean, but it doesn't look good... Phil J. Error messages from Jack below: 18:28:24.341 Statistics reset. 18:28:25.558 MIDI connection graph change. 18:28:25.565 MIDI connection change. 18:34:12.073 MIDI connection change. 18:34:17.703 MIDI connection change. 18:34:42.249 Startup script... 18:34:42.254 artsshell -q terminate 18:34:43.299 Startup script terminated with exit status=256. 18:34:43.436 JACK is starting... 18:34:43.438 /usr/bin/jackd -R -dalsa -dhw:0 -r48000 -p1024 -n2 18:34:43.473 JACK was started with PID=7800 (0x1e78). jackd 0.99.0 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 loading driver .. apparent rate = 48000 creating alsa driver ... hw:0|hw:0|1024|2|48000|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit control device hw:0 configuring for 48000Hz, period = 1024 frames, buffer = 2 periods Couldn't open hw:0 for 32bit samples trying 24bit instead Couldn't open hw:0 for 24bit samples trying 16bit instead ALSA: cannot set period size to 1024 frames for capture ALSA: cannot configure capture channel cannot load driver module alsa 18:34:43.998 JACK was stopped successfully. 18:34:45.500 Could not connect to JACK server as client. 18:36:16.931 Startup script... 18:36:16.941 artsshell -q terminate 18:36:17.460 Startup script terminated with exit status=256. 18:36:17.464 JACK is starting... 18:36:17.466 /usr/bin/jackd -R -dalsa -dhw:0 -r48000 -p1024 -n2 18:36:17.484 JACK was started with PID=7803 (0x1e7b). jackd 0.99.0 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 loading driver .. apparent rate = 48000 creating alsa driver ... hw:0|hw:0|1024|2|48000|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit control device hw:0 configuring for 48000Hz, period = 1024 frames, buffer = 2 periods Couldn't open hw:0 for 32bit samples trying 24bit instead Couldn't open hw:0 for 24bit samples trying 16bit instead ALSA: cannot set period size to 1024 frames for capture ALSA: cannot configure capture channel cannot load driver module alsa 18:36:17.686 JACK was stopped successfully. 18:36:19.532 Could not connect to JACK server as client.