[ardour-users] where do i start

[Jan Depner]

I wish I could help you with your Debian/Ubuntu woes but I've never run
those distros.  For a complete newbie to run Ardour/JACK the best (and
simplest) answer (at present) is to use Fedora Core 1 with the Planet
CCRMA packages.  There are a couple of good reasons for doing this, not
the least of which is that that is what Paul D. is running.  Second
reason - JAMin runs well on that distro (it's what I'm running ;-)  If
you'd like to switch and would like help (prior to loading to make it
easy) I'll be glad to help you out.

Jan

On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 18:20, vector wrote:
> Hi all
> I have no specific Q in this email just a big Im lost,, i need a hand to 
> hold.
> 
> I realise long emails are a pain so i'll keep it as short as possible.
> I was once a winxp looser ;) but have spent the last 6 months playing 
> with linux.
> My main reason? cakewalk was consistantly dropping its bundle right when 
> you needed it to record.
> Im not a: pro,technican, IT or sound eng, just a muso trying to get his 
> band up and going.
> ardour looked great so I started the slippery snake of linux.
> and this is where im at.
> im running debian on 3 or so machines. (sarge and ubuntu install) I have 
> tried various others lately but im now used to apt-get and su root and 
> really find other "flavours" confusing now.
> problem is im having trouble getting alsa and jack to take hold
> im like totally lost.
> some cd player apps work others dont
> ive never gotten ardour past the front "you dont have jack" message.
> I think its gotten confused with whatever audio drivers were originally 
> loaded. I hoped ubuntu would help.I just installed it fresh on yet 
> another machine because it uses ALSA but i notice now it doesnt have 
> jack and when I apt-cache search ardour its not listed. so im lost yet 
> again.
> 
> If anyone is willing to hold my hand and take me thru this one step at a 
> time id really appreciate it.
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