[ardour-users] JACKD problem on Debian KDE system

woweepratt at comcast.net woweepratt at comcast.net
Fri Sep 2 22:01:42 PDT 2005


Thanks BIGTIME!

I un-checked Realtime adn that enabled me to start qjackctl adn run jack.

Now what? Is the lack of realtime going to make editing and playback miserable?

Robert


> I don't know what the problem is but maybe this will help... When you
> log in as ordinary user (which you should always do), is jack running?
> If you type the following in a terminal:
> 
> 	ps x | grep jack
> 
> do you get a line about jackd?
> 
> If jack is not running, try starting it in the terminal with a command
> like:
> 
> 	jackd -d alsa
> 
> (assuming you use alsa). What messages do you get?
> 
> You can also look at the messages window in qjackctl. Check in qjackctl
> setup that the "realtime" option is disabled (in "pure debian" at least,
> you need to compile and install the realtime-lsm module to run a
> realtime jack as ordinary user, see the realtime-lsm-source package).
> Can you stop/start jack from qjackctl?
> 
> See /usr/share/doc/jackd/README.Debian
> Also /usr/share/doc/qjackctl/README.Debian says something about /dev/shm
> that I don't understand, maybe it's related to your problem...
> 
> 
> Jeremie
> 
> 
> Le vendredi 02 septembre 2005 à 04:49 +0000, woweepratt at comcast.net a
> écrit :
> > Okay the fun has begun! I still have a problem though, probably easy to fix.
> > 
> > I've got JACKD, Ardour and even Rosegarden4 working with no problems...
> > 
> > as long as I'm logged in as root.
> > 
> > If I log in as my ordinary user qjackctl gives me s**t and says it can't 
> connect. 
> > 
> > Is this a simple problem to fix?
> > 
> > FYI. I'm using Simply Mepis with a debian 2.6.10 kernal again. I fouund that 
> my installation problems with Jackd adn Ardour disappered if I removed the 
> unstable repositories from my synaptic list.
> > 
> > Yup, I'm a noob! 
> > 
> > Robert
> > 
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > What version of debian are you using, and where are you taking the
> > > packages for ardour, jackd and kde from? The unstable distribution (sid)
> > > is seeing a lot of transitions currently [1], so that some packages
> > > cannot be installed together (or at all) for the moment. Also, if you
> > > are using stable (sarge) or testing (etch), and try to install packages
> > > that were made for unstable, you can get into troubles. If you are using
> > > stable or testing packages only, you should not have any problem...
> > > 
> > > Concerning jack, there is an ongoing transition from libjack0.80.0-0
> > > (used in the stable distribution and, for now, in testing too) to the
> > > new libjack0.100.0-0 packages. Packages in unstable that depend on jack,
> > > and have not yet been rebuilt against libjack0.100.0-0, cannot be
> > > installed. For example, rosegarden4 in unstable cannot be installed [2].
> > > 
> > > So what are the versions of the packages you want to install?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Yours,
> > > 
> > > Jrmie
> > > 
> > > 
> > > [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/08/msg00014.html
> > > [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=317217
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Le jeudi 01 septembre 2005  09:55 -0500, WoWeePratt a crit :
> > > > I have tried for several days to understand and fix a problem with JACKD 
> and 
> > > > Ardour and am asking for some help and guidance.
> > > > 
> > > > The first problem is that when I try installing Ardour using Synaptic the 
> > > > installation fails because of a JACD dependancy. yet, JACKD is installed 
> on 
> > > > my system, it's just an old version.
> > > > 
> > > > Second problem is updating JACKD. I go to update JACKD and it wants to rip 
> > > > out KDE in the process.
> > > > 
> > > > Thrid problem, JACKD updates and installs, takes out KDE, and I login in 
> at 
> > > > the prompt. I run apt-get install kde and basically it says no problem, 
> will 
> > > > do, but it wants to REMOVE JACKD!
> > > > 
> > > > What gives? 
> > > > 
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