[ardour-users] where do i start]

[Mark Knecht]

OK - let's get really basic. After you've built this machine and
installed the software can you do anything simple with audio before
selling your soul to the Ardour camp? Can you run alspalayer and play
a CD? Are the sound modules loaded? Provide back

lsmod  output

cat /proc/asound/version

cat /proc/asound/cards


On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 16:08:39 +1000, vector <vector180 at aanet.com.au> wrote:
> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >>while i have apt-get install ardour, jack, alsa
> >>ardour still wont find jack
> >>
> >>
> >
> >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).
> >
> >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.
> >
> >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:
> >
> >http://jackit.sourceforge.net/docs/faq.php#a54
> >
> >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.
> >
> >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.
> >
> >
> >
> >>PLEASE NOTE if you think in in over my head,askign too much please say
> >>so now ;)
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Why should anyone think that?
> >
> >Hope you get it all running soon.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >Wayne
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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