(I just discovered that the subject line is a bit inappropriate, since I don't have a mac mini; just an iMic on ppc (iBook, in this case).) On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 20:11 -0500, Paul Davis wrote: > when you get it working with another program, make sure you are playing > a long file and then while that is happening cat the contents of > > /proc/asound/ID/pcm0p/sub0/hwparams > /proc/asound/ID/pcm0p/sub0/swparams > /proc/asound/ID/pcm0p/sub0/status > /proc/asound/ID/pcm0p/sub0/info > > post the results here. this will reveal whatever configuration details > are working for those other programs, but are not working via jackd. This is hw_params access: MMAP_INTERLEAVED format: S16_LE subformat: STD channels: 2 rate: 44100 (44100/1) period_size: 256 buffer_size: 16384 tick_time: 1000 16_LE??!??!? Isn't this a big-endian machine? This is sw_params: tstamp_mode: NONE period_step: 1 sleep_min: 0 avail_min: 256 xfer_align: 256 start_threshold: 1 stop_threshold: 16384 silence_threshold: 0 silence_size: 0 boundary: 1073741824 This is info: card: 1 device: 0 subdevice: 0 stream: PLAYBACK id: USB Audio name: USB Audio subname: subdevice #0 class: 0 subclass: 0 subdevices_count: 1 subdevices_avail: 0 This is status: state: RUNNING trigger_time: 1142486595.602373000 tstamp : 1142486650.617726000 delay : 16155 avail : 229 avail_max : 763 ----- hw_ptr : 2426117 appl_ptr : 2442272 I played Muine (gstreamer-based) through esd -d plughw:1 Thanks, Sunnan