[ardour-users] A decent sound card for Ardour

[Brett Clark]

For what its worth, ive seen the "device busy" message before when
i tried running an app that writes directly to ALSA and i had
JACK running.  You may want to try 1 of the following 2 ideas:
  1) shutdown JACK and see if you still get that message 
  2) try playing sound from a JACK aware app
 
I am, of course, assuming that the app you are running isnt JACK
aware.
 
--Brett
 

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From: ardour-users-bounces at lists.ardour.org on behalf of John Emmas
Sent: Thu 2/8/2007 1:23 PM
To: ardour-users at lists.ardour.org
Subject: Re: [ardour-users] A decent sound card for Ardour



Just going off topic for a moment - is anyone here using OpenSUSE?

Frustrated with having paid £300 for a new sound card, only to find that
Ubuntu still won't work with it, I decided to try a copy of OpenSUSE 10.2
that I got free with a magazine.  My first impressions were quite good - it
recognised my sound card, though admittedly it still wouldn't play any
sound..!  When I try to play a sound file I get a message along the lines
"Unable to start playback - device is busy".  I'm just using Amarok for the
moment.  I haven't installed Ardour yet.  However, Jack seems to be
pre-installed (it wasn't installed by Ubuntu) and in fact, most of my
hardware devices were found & configured a lot better than Ubuntu handled
them.  OpenSuse seems to have a more 'polished' feel about it, to my
uneducated eyes.

I was just wondering if it might be worth switching to OpenSUSE or maybe
some other distro?

John
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