[Ardour-Users] Fw: can't get midi to work

[Paul Davis]

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 6:15 AM, Nick Ramm <seeyoushortly at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> thanks for your reply Tim!
> Yes, i tried this and got the error message "Cannot create jack client"
> Actually, When i boot up Ardour3alpha10 it warns me that my version of jack
> is old.
> I'm running Lynx64 and i think the version of jack i have is
> 0.118+szn3796-ubuntu2
> On synaptic is says this is the latest release..

just for some context: JACK 0.118 was released on 2009-11-16 09:36

that's not far off 2 years ago. A distribution that can't update a
package (that has almost no hard dependencies) during 2 years? no
comment.