On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 15:36:32 -0700 Bob van der Poel <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've decided that the only way I'm going to get my system to record > anything decent is to use jackd. But, I'm being a total idiot with > this ... > > First off, I have the the following devices: > > bob$ aplay -l > **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** > card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC883 Analog [ALC883 Analog] > Subdevices: 1/1 > Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 > card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: ALC883 Digital [ALC883 Digital] > Subdevices: 1/1 > Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 > card 1: CODEC [USB Audio CODEC], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio] > Subdevices: 1/1 > Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 > > The 2nd one is a spdif speaker attached to the mother board. For now, > lets try to get jack working with this. > > pasuspender -- jackd -d alsa "ALC883 Digital" > > (BTW, I tried hw0,1 and some other combinations ... but they are the > same results) > > After the command I get: > > bob$ pasuspender -- jackd -d alsa "ALC883 Digital" > jackd 0.121.2 > Copyright 2001-2009 Paul Davis, Stephane Letz, Jack O'Quinn, Torben > Hohn 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 > > JACK compiled with System V SHM support. > cannot lock down memory for jackd (Cannot allocate memory) > loading driver .. > 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 (21.3 ms), buffer = 2 periods > ALSA: final selected sample format for capture: 32bit integer little-endian > ALSA: use 2 periods for capture > ALSA: final selected sample format for playback: 32bit integer little-endian > ALSA: use 2 periods for playback > JACK: unable to mlock() port buffers: Cannot allocate memory > JACK: unable to mlock() port buffers: Cannot allocate memory > > > **** alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 0.033 msecs > > > Which seems to be okay? > > Now, I run audacity. Got jack as an output option and load a file. > Play it ... the VU meter shows, but no audio. NADA. Just silence. > > > If I can't get a simple play to work, I fear becoming a recording star > is out of my reach! > > Please, this shouldn't be that hard??? > What distro are you using? Are you running their own packaged apps or compiling yourself? I once tried building everything up peace-meal which is probably why I now have nearly white hair :( Is the alsa-only layer working? Is pulse audio installed and maybe getting in the way? -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
