On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 01:12:00 +1100 Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey at boosthardware.com> wrote: > > On Mon, October 29, 2012 9:39 pm, Richard Bown wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Oct 2012 20:59:05 +1100 > > Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey at boosthardware.com> wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> Does anyone have any thoughts on why the following is happening? > >> > >> Using Debian wheezy on an intel board with built in HDA chipset. > >> (Notebook > >> sound card) > >> > >> I was unable to start jack. It seemed like the problem might have been > >> because pulse was running so I killed pulse with "pulseaudio -k". That > >> didn't help. I installed pulseaudio-module-jack and configured > >> /etc/pulse/default.pa to include > >> > >> load-module module-jack-sink > >> load-module module-jack-source > >> > >> restarted pulseaudio with pulseaudio -k ; pulseaudio and it attempted to > >> start jack server but was not able to. At that point I was unable to get > >> pulseaudio to start at all or jack so I decided to reboot in case it was > >> a > >> kernel oops. > >> > >> After rebooting pulseaudio still would not start. I tried a couple of > >> options but in the end I had to run "pulseaudio --system -D" as > >> superuser. > >> After doing that jackd would run from qjackctl but there are not > >> pulse-sink/source connections in jack probably because pulse is running > >> as > >> superuser but I'm not 100% on the exact reason for this behaviour. I can > >> see that pulseaudio is running with "ps aux". > >> > >> If recent feedback on LAU list anything to go by it seems that I'm not > >> the > >> only one who has encountered issues similar to this recently. > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Patrick Shirkey > > > > > > Patrick are you using jack to connect the onboard HDA to an app using jack > > and > > then to the jack-source module ? > > The jack-source/sink connections don't even appear in qjackctl. > > > If so you need to unload the pulse alsa module for the Intel device, so > > that > > the system inputs and outputs appear when using the jack connection in > > qjackctl. > > I will look at that tomorrow. I thought from previous experience that > pulse was able to automatically reconfigure itself if the jack modules > were installed. Either way I never had to run pulseaudio as root before to > get the jack sink/source connections to load in jack. Seems like something > has been borked in Debian Wheezy. > > > > I managed to get to the stage of everything looking good with jack > > connections, > > but didn't get incoming audio to the jack-source module. I suspect that > > problem > > may have been with the app I was using. > > > > meterbridge is very useful for checking connections with jack connect > > > > jack_lsp works pretty well too ;-) > > > > -- > Patrick Shirkey > Boost Hardware Ltd > If it would help ,I have a shell script that gets the ALSA card number for a M-Audio D66 card , then finds the PA module and unloads it , then starts jackd with the parameters for the D66 card , and loads PA jack source and sink, and starts qiackctl, and then makes a few connections with jack-connect. Once that is all done starts an application I use. If it would help I'll send you a copy direct, and you can hack it to bits for your application. Its written for Fedora FC17, but should run on wheesy. I used wheesy for a while , but got fed up with good apps they dropped in the electronics menu. -- -- Best wishes / 73 Richard Bown e-mail: richard at g8jvm.com Mail now hosted by SimplyMailSolutions Please avoid using old e-mail address of richard.bown at blueyonder.co.uk nil carborundum a illegitemis ################################################################################## Ham Call G8JVM . OS Fedora FC17 x86_64 on a Dell Insiron N5030 laptop Maidenhead QRA: IO82SP38, LAT. 52 39.720' N LONG. 2 28.171 W ( degs+mins ) QRV VHF 6mtrs 200W, 4 mtrs 150W, 2mtrs 350W, 70cms 200W Microwave 23 cms 140W, 13 cms 100W, 6 cms 0W & 3cms 5W ##################################################################################
