[ardour-users] start?

[Phil Frost]

On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 04:12:50PM -0800, 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!

The '-R' option to jackd isn't going to work unless you install the
realtime-lsm kernel module. See if suse distributes it, or get it from
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/realtime-lsm/>.