From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 21:50:40 +0200 > On Fri, 2012-09-14 at 10:03 -0400, peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> should i try jack1, instead of jack2? > > If I were you I would test Jack2 1.9.8 and current version of Jack1, but > before doing this, I would follow Fernando's advice. His advice seems to > be the only thought to hold water. > >> HwDep ioctl failed. Metering stopped > > On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 13:41 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: >> It can be a bug in alsa-tools that shows up with new kernels, that was a >> problem a while back. Try getting the latest alsa-tools release >> installed (1.0.26), I think I had to patch hdspmixer in previous >> releases for it work fine with current kernels. >> >> -- Fernando > > On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 14:08 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: >> [snip] >> In my experience "HwDep ioctl failed. Metering stopped" has been caused >> by broken versions of hdspmixer (that was the case until very recently). >> >> -- Fernando > > Good luck! > Ralf well... that *might* be a solution for the hdspmixer issue, and i will test it for that. however, note also that jack is still failing for me even if i don't use hdspmixer at all, so there's definitely something else going on (as well). thanks again for your help... it's frustrating to have audio hardware which has been rock-solid for me for years suddenly begin to fall over like this! i can only hope a solution will emerge... cheers! .pltk. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
