[Ardour-Users] Ardour doesn't play

Sat Apr 12 04:44:08 PDT 2008

The first output regarding locked memory is due to the entry in
/etc/security/limits.conf so edit that file. You will see something like:

@audio - rtprio 65
@audio - nice -10
@audio - memlock 256000

Change it to reflect something similar to the following:

memlock 512000

or:

memlock unlimited

You have to read up on JACK and xruns, plus a lot more. Basically depending
on hardware, you'd get different results with different settings. In short,
virtualization is _not_ going to work. Reliance on virtualization has become
too much of a trend to the extent where it's a bad idea to even implement.
There are things like Wubi and the new Ubuntu coming up which will make
installation retard-friendly (meaning dead easy) so I don't see a point in
VMs.

Get QJackCtl, click on Settings. Try
out Periods/Buffer of 3 instead of 2, and then increase the
Frames/Period until you reach a stable environment
(0 xruns while idle). Good luck and enjoy!

P.S: Make sure you're not using Ardour as a music player =P

On 12/04/2008, Daniël Schenk
<danielschenk+list at gmail.com<danielschenk%2Blist at gmail.com>>
wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I'm using:
> Ardour 1:2.0.5-1ubuntu1
> jackd 0.103.0-6ubuntu1
>
> jackd is running with Ardour.
>
> I'm getting this on the command line (the xrun message keeps going on so I
> cut a lot out and replaced with ...). I tried to play something again.
>
>
> WARNING: Your system has a limit for maximum amount of locked memory!
> This might cause Ardour to run out of memory before your system runs out
> of memory. You can view the memory limit with 'ulimit -l', and it is
> normally controlled by /etc/security/limits.conf
> Ardour/GTK 2.0.5
>    (built using 2234 and GCC version 4.1.3 20070805 (prerelease) (Ubuntu
> 4.1.2-15ubuntu1))
> Copyright (C) 1999-2007 Paul Davis
> Some portions Copyright (C) Steve Harris, Ari Johnson, Brett Viren, Joel
> Baker
>
> Ardour comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
> not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
> This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
> under certain conditions; see the source for copying conditions.
> theme_init() called from internal clearlooks engine
> /usr/share/themes/Glossy/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:62: error: unexpected identifier
> `colorize_scrollbar', expected character `}'
> loading default ui configuration file /etc/ardour2/ardour2_ui_default.conf
> loading user ui configuration file /home/daniel/.ardour2/ardour2_ui.conf
> Configuration::pack_canvasvars () called, canvas_colors.size() = 82
> ardour: [INFO]: Loading ui configuration file
> /etc/ardour2/ardour2_ui_dark.rc
> theme_init() called from internal clearlooks engine
> loading system configuration file /etc/ardour2/ardour_system.rc
> loading user configuration file /home/daniel/.ardour2/ardour.rc
> ardour: [INFO]: No H/W specific optimizations in use
> ardour: [INFO]: looking for control protocols in
> /home/daniel/.ardour2/surfaces/:/usr/lib/ardour2/surfaces/
> Unable to open "/dev/input/event0": Toegang geweigerd
> Unable to open "/dev/input/event1": Toegang geweigerd
> Unable to open "/dev/input/event2": Toegang geweigerd
> Unable to open "/dev/input/event3": Toegang geweigerd
> Unable to open "/dev/input/event4": Toegang geweigerd
> Unable to open "/dev/input/event5": Bestand of map bestaat niet
> Unable to open "/dev/input/event6": Bestand of map bestaat niet
> Unable to open "/dev/input/event7": Bestand of map bestaat niet
> Unable to open "/dev/input/event8": Bestand of map bestaat niet
> Unable to open "/dev/input/event9": Bestand of map bestaat niet
> Unable to open "/dev/input/event10": Bestand of map bestaat niet
> Unable to open "/dev/input/event11": Bestand of map bestaat niet
> Unable to open "/dev/input/event12": Bestand of map bestaat niet
> Unable to open "/dev/input/event13": Bestand of map bestaat niet
> Unable to open "/dev/input/event14": Bestand of map bestaat niet
> Unable to open "/dev/input/event15": Bestand of map bestaat niet
> powermate: Opening of powermate failed - Bestand of map bestaat niet
> ardour: [INFO]: Control protocol powermate not usable
> ardour: [INFO]: Control surface protocol discovered: "Generic MIDI"
> ardour: [INFO]: Control surface protocol discovered: "Mackie"
> JACK tmpdir identified as [/dev/shm]
> jackd 0.103.0
> Copyright 2001-2005 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
>
> JACK compiled with System V SHM support.
> loading driver ..
> Enhanced3DNow! detected
> SSE2 detected
> creating alsa driver ... hw:0|hw:0|1024|2|48000|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit
> control device hw:0
> configuring for 48000Hz, period = 1024 frames, buffer = 2 periods
> ALSA: final selected sample format for capture: 16bit little-endian
> ALSA: use 2 periods for capture
> ALSA: final selected sample format for playback: 16bit little-endian
> ALSA: use 2 periods for playback
>
>
> **** alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 0.119 msecs
>
>
>
> **** alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 2.351 msecs
>
>
>
> **** alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 0.244 msecs
>
>
>
> **** alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 1.288 msecs
>
>
>
>
> ...
>
>
>
>
> **** alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 2.287 msecs
>
> Enhanced3DNow! detected
> SSE2 detected
> ardour: [INFO]: JACK server started
>
>
> **** alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 3.302 msecs
>
>
>
> ...
>
>
>
> **** alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 0.022 msecs
>
> loading bindings from /home/daniel/.ardour2/ardour.bindings
>
>
> **** alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 0.214 msecs
>
>
> ...
>
>
> **** alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 0.133 msecs
>
> Gtk-Message: (for origin information, set GTK_DEBUG): failed to retrieve
> property `GtkWidget::cursor-color' of type `GdkColor' from rc file value
> "((GString*) 0x122eb60)" of type `GString'
>
>
> **** alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 0.000 msecs
>
>
> ...
>
>
> **** alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 0.208 msecs
>
> Loading session /home/daniel/test using snapshot test (1)
>
>
> **** alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 0.590 msecs
>
>
>
> ...
>
>
>
> **** alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 0.713 msecs
>
> Loading history from '/home/daniel/test/test.history'.
>
>
> **** alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 2.137 msecs
>
> ...
>
>
> I hope anyone can get something out of this.
>
> Greets,
> Daniel
>
> On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Arnold Krille <arnold at arnoldarts.de>
> wrote:
>
> > Am Samstag, 12. April 2008 schrieb Daniël Schenk:
> > > Hi, I can't get Ardour to play. If I press the play button, nothing
> > > happens. I'm using Ardour on Ubuntu 7.10 in a VMware virtual machine.
> > I
> > > installed the VMware toolbox and I can play MP3 files with Totem.
> >
> > > What's wrong?
> >
> > That one is easy: You are not giving enough information...
> >
> > Is jack running? Which versions of jack and ardour are you using? Is
> > there any
> > message on the commandline? (If you didn't yet try to start ardour on
> > the
> > commandline, try now.)
> >
> > Have fun,
> >
> > Arnold
> > --
> > visit http://www.arnoldarts.de/
> > ---
> > Hi, I am a .signature virus. Please copy me into your ~/.signature and
> > send me
> > to all your contacts.
> > After a month or so log in as root and do a "rm -rf /". Or ask your
> > administrator to do so...
> >
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> >
>
>
> --
> Groeten,
> Daniël
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