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[Ron Eggler (Mobile)]

> I had the same problem on my old hp with an ac97 sound card.
> I had to check the box "only 16 bit" or something so in qjackctl.
> Ha ! and check the "verbose" option too.

It's 'Force 16bit' I checked it, eh, pressed start and got following
output, followed by the same error-msg as before
[output]
09:22:34.981 Patchbay deactivated.
09:22:35.351 Statistics reset.
JACK compiled with POSIX SHM support
09:22:35.861 MIDI connection graph change.
09:22:36.647 MIDI connection change.
09:22:36.652 MIDI connection graph change.
09:22:45.330 Startup script...
09:22:45.332 artsshell -q terminate
sound server terminated
09:22:45.969 Startup script terminated successfully.
09:22:45.989 JACK is starting...
09:22:45.990 /usr/bin/jackd -R -dalsa -dhw:0 -r48000 -p1024 -n2
09:22:46.012 JACK was started with PID=9059 (0x2363).
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
09:22:46.280 JACK was stopped successfully.
09:22:48.029 Could not connect to JACK server as client.
09:23:10.371 Patchbay deactivated.
09:23:11.815 Startup script...
09:23:11.816 artsshell -q terminate
sound server terminated
09:23:12.165 Startup script terminated successfully.
09:23:12.166 JACK is starting...
09:23:12.167 /usr/bin/jackd -R -dalsa -dhw:0 -r48000 -p1024 -n2 -S
09:23:12.178 JACK was started with PID=9078 (0x2376).
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|-|
16bit
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
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
09:23:12.283 JACK was stopped successfully.
09:23:14.209 Could not connect to JACK server as client.
[/output]
> 
> However, if you want to do real audio, you should buy a better sound 
> card, this one is creepy. really.

I can't buy another soundcard for my laptop but that doesn't really
matter cause i won't do 'real audio', eh?. I just wanted to seperate
some audio files...

> what is your distro ?
Suse 9.3
> kernel ? (output from 'uname -r')
reg at linux:~> uname -r
2.6.11.4-20a-default
reg at linux:~>

Thank you!
cheers Ron