[ardour-users] start?

[Ron Eggler (Mobile)]

Am Montag, den 23.01.2006, 01:38 +0100 schrieb MAtt:
> What is your soundcard ?

the one in my DELL inspiron 510m noteook, YAST recognizes it as:
'82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller'

> could you give us the output of
> jackd -v -R -d alsa -d hw:0 -r 44100 -p 1024 -n 2
> ??

getting driver descriptor from /usr/lib/jack/jack_dummy.so
getting driver descriptor from /usr/lib/jack/jack_oss.so
getting driver descriptor from /usr/lib/jack/jack_alsa.so
jackd 0.99.0
Copyright 2001-2003 Paul Davis and others.
jackd comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details

registered builtin port type 32 bit float mono audio
cannot lock down memory for jackd (Cannot allocate memory)
loading driver ..
new client: alsa_pcm, id = 1 type 1 @ 0x805ea08 fd = -1
apparent rate = 44100
creating alsa driver ... hw:0|hw:0|1024|2|44100|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|
32bit
ALSA: Cannot open PCM device alsa_pcm for playback. Falling back to
capture-only mode
control device hw:0
configuring for 44100Hz, period = 1024 frames, buffer = 2 periods
Couldn't open hw:0 for 32bit samples trying 24bit instead
Couldn't open hw:0 for 24bit samples trying 16bit instead
new buffer size 1024
JACK: unable to mlock() port buffers: Cannot allocate memory
registered port alsa_pcm:capture_1, offset = 4096
registered port alsa_pcm:capture_2, offset = 8192
++ jack_rechain_graph():
client alsa_pcm: internal client, execution_order=0.
-- jack_rechain_graph()
jack_create_thread: error -1 switching current thread to rt for
inheritance: Unknown error 4294967295
cannot start watchdog thread
cannot load driver module alsa
reg at linux:~>  

> I hope i can help...
> You should (if you don't) use qjackctl to lauch jack, it's very 

just installed...
I started it and pressed start and got following output followed by the
message 'Could not connect to JACK server as a client.':

22:00:19.731 Patchbay deactivated.
22:00:19.735 Statistics reset.
22:00:19.940 MIDI connection graph change.
22:00:20.099 MIDI connection change.
22:00:20.099 MIDI connection graph change.
22:00:25.215 Startup script...
22:00:25.215 artsshell -q terminate
sound server terminated
22:00:26.049 Startup script terminated successfully.
22:00:26.049 JACK is starting...
22:00:26.049 /usr/bin/jackd -R -dalsa -dhw:0 -r48000 -p1024 -n2
22:00:26.054 JACK was started with PID=24425 (0x5f69).
jackd 0.99.0
Copyright 2001-2003 Paul Davis and others.
jackd comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details
cannot lock down memory for jackd (Cannot allocate memory)
loading driver ..
apparent rate = 48000
creating alsa driver ... hw:0|hw:0|1024|2|48000|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|
32bit
ALSA: Cannot open PCM device alsa_pcm for playback. Falling back to
capture-only mode
control device hw:0
configuring for 48000Hz, period = 1024 frames, buffer = 2 periods
Couldn't open hw:0 for 32bit samples trying 24bit instead
Couldn't open hw:0 for 24bit samples trying 16bit instead
JACK: unable to mlock() port buffers: Cannot allocate memory
jack_create_thread: error -1 switching current thread to rt for
inheritance: Unknown error 4294967295
cannot start watchdog thread
cannot load driver module alsa
22:00:26.121 JACK was stopped successfully.
22:00:28.066 Could not connect to JACK server as client.
22:01:24.843 Startup script...
22:01:24.844 artsshell -q terminate
sound server terminated
22:01:25.161 Startup script terminated successfully.
22:01:25.162 JACK is starting...
22:01:25.162 /usr/bin/jackd -R -dalsa -dhw:0 -r48000 -p1024 -n2
22:01:25.173 JACK was started with PID=24454 (0x5f86).
jackd 0.99.0
Copyright 2001-2003 Paul Davis and others.
jackd comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details
cannot lock down memory for jackd (Cannot allocate memory)
loading driver ..
apparent rate = 48000
creating alsa driver ... hw:0|hw:0|1024|2|48000|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|
32bit
ALSA: Cannot open PCM device alsa_pcm for playback. Falling back to
capture-only mode
control device hw:0
configuring for 48000Hz, period = 1024 frames, buffer = 2 periods
Couldn't open hw:0 for 32bit samples trying 24bit instead
Couldn't open hw:0 for 24bit samples trying 16bit instead
JACK: unable to mlock() port buffers: Cannot allocate memory
jack_create_thread: error -1 switching current thread to rt for
inheritance: Unknown error 4294967295
cannot start watchdog thread
cannot load driver module alsa
22:01:25.300 JACK was stopped successfully.
22:01:27.186 Could not connect to JACK server as client.

> efficient and easy.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> 
> Ron Eggler (Mobile) wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I got a suse 9.3 system with Ardour installed but i can't even start 
> > it, it gives the message: 'Ardour could not connect to JACK.,There are 
> > several possible teasons:, 1) JACK is not running., 2) JACK is running 
> > as another user, perhaps root, 3) There is already another client 
> > called "ardour". Please consider possibilities, and perhaps restart JACK.
> > Okay what I did is:
> > [shell]
> > reg at linux:~> ps aux|grep jack
> > reg      11609  0.0  0.0   2752   740 pts/1    R+   16:10   0:00 grep jack
> > reg at linux:~> ps aux|grep ardour
> > reg      11644  0.0  0.0   2752   740 pts/1    R+   16:10   0:00 grep 
> > ardour
> > reg at linux:~> jackd -R -d alsa -d hw:0 -r 44100 -p 1024 -n 2 &
> > jackd 0.99.0
> > Copyright 2001-2003 Paul Davis and others.
> > jackd comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
> > This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
> > under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details
> >
> > cannot lock down memory for jackd (Cannot allocate memory)
> > loading driver ..
> > apparent rate = 44100
> > creating alsa driver ... hw:0|hw:0|1024|2|44100|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit
> > control device hw:0
> > configuring for 44100Hz, period = 1024 frames, buffer = 2 periods
> > Couldn't open hw:0 for 32bit samples trying 24bit instead
> > Couldn't open hw:0 for 24bit samples trying 16bit instead
> > JACK: unable to mlock() port buffers: Cannot allocate memory
> > jack_create_thread: error -1 switching current thread to rt for 
> > inheritance: Unknown error 4294967295
> > cannot start watchdog thread
> > cannot load driver module alsa
> > [1] 11673
> > reg at linux:~>  
> > [/shell]
> > But i still get the same error message. why? what to do to get it 
> > running? Thank you!
> >
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