Last Sunday 31 July 2005 00:51, PhilJackson was like: > 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? 64 should drive the SoundCanvas. This is usually the external MIDI port. > 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. This means ALSA isn't configured properly. Try alsaconf. cheers, tim hall http://glastonburymusic.org.uk