On Tue, October 30, 2012 3:42 am, Richard Bown wrote: > 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. > Thanks, It looks like the real issue is that the packager for jackd2 didn't compile with dbus support. I'll see if I can track them down and discuss with them on why they are doing that. Unless someone here knows already. -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd
