[ardour-users] where do i start]

vector vector180 at aanet.com.au
Wed Jan 26 22:08:39 PST 2005


ok lets go basic ;)
new sarge install
apt-get install alsa
which then says run alsaconf
alsaconf
modinfo: snd: no module by that name found
modinfo: snd: no module by that name found
modinfo: snd: no module by that name found

which then says cant find sound cards
then tries for legacy
basicly cant find sound card
i have a sound blaster 128

Wayne Myers wrote:

>I've just installed Debian sarge and have ardour, jack, and alsa
>working fine, modulo my crappy hardware :). Maybe I can help.
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>>while i have apt-get install ardour, jack, alsa
>>ardour still wont find jack
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>What do you mean by this? I'm wondering if you're trying to start
>ardour without seperately starting jack, and having ardour barf
>because it needs jackd to be running before it starts (and doesn't
>start it itself if it isn't found because it has no way of guessing
>what the correct way to start it will be, though, presumably, some
>future version might be able to do that if it was told how explicitly).
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>I looked briefly at the documentation for jack
>(http://jackit.sourceforge.net/docs/), but by that time
>I'd already apt-got qjackctl; it's a GUI that starts jack for you
>at the click of a button. Basically it sorts out the correct
>command line to run jack with, and makes it really easy to play with
>different options to get it running well, once you've got it running
>at all.
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>What I do now is this: start qjackctl, hit the 'start jack' button, then
>start ardour. First I'd had to tell qjackctl to use 'jackstart' not
>'jackd', because I'd gone through the process described here:
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>http://jackit.sourceforge.net/docs/faq.php#a54
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>and enabled capabilities in the kernel, which I'd wanted to recompile
>anyway to get the lowlatency patch version. (I didn't know then you
>could just download one via Agnula as Derek described in his last
>mail, and wonder if it also has the capabilities thing already in it
>too). With capabilities you can start qjackctl (and ardour) as a normal
>user instead of root. They both have to be running as the same user or
>it won't work; obviously it's best not to run as root if possible.
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>But it sounds like you're wanting to get it running at all before you
>start worrying about which user you're running it as. I found qjackctl
>a great help in terms of sidestepping the 'can't get jack running'
>problem; maybe you will too.
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>>PLEASE NOTE if you think in in over my head,askign too much please say
>>so now ;)
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>Why should anyone think that?
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>Hope you get it all running soon.
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>Cheers,
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>Wayne
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