[PlanetCCRMA] Chasing my tail with ALSA

[Michael]

Oh... and I forgot to mention, that when I try to start Qjackctl, I get 
an error message saying "Cannot connect to Jack server as client"

Not for sure where this error message comes into play, but it probably 
will "go away" once I get the sound configured right, or figure out how 
to start the Jack server automatically on startup, perhaps...

-Mike

Michael wrote:

> Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
>
>> What do you have in /etc/modules.conf?
>> Did you configure your mixer and save your mixer configuration?
>> If alsa activated to start on boot?
>>
> I unmuted the soundcard with alsamixer, and used alsactl store to save 
> my settings.
>
> Is this right?
>
> [mikes@localhost sbin]$ ./chkconfig --list alsasound
> alsasound       0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
> [mikes@localhost sbin]$
>
>>  
>>
> options ide-cd ignore='hdc hdd'
> alias usb-controller usb-uhci
>
> # -- Keep modules from being autocleaned
>
> add options -k snd-card-0
> # --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
> # --- ALSACONF verion 1.0.1 ---
> alias char-major-116 snd
> alias char-major-14 soundcore
> alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
> alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
> alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
> alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
> alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
> alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
> alias sound-slot-0 snd-emu10k1
> # --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
>
>>  
>>
>>> If I start jack, jack says on start up that I'm using a software 
>>> plug, rather than hardware, but at this point, I seem to be able to 
>>> use other jack-dependent apps, like Ardour.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> You should use the "hw" device, not the "default". In a SBLive, I think,
>> you will have to use a period of 512 or lower (not the default 1024).
>
> How do I set this?
>
>>> Alsa Patchbay shows only my EMU10k1 sound card, and earlier today, 
>>> it actually showed my Midispaort 8x8/s (but that was way early this 
>>> morning...) now it shows only the PCI512 soundcard.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> You have to configure (manually) alsa to use the two "cards".
>>  
>>
>>> Patchbay also says it could not connect to LADCCA
>>>   
>>
>>
>> That's fine. -- Fernando
>>
> At least something is O.K. ;-)
>
> Thanks so far for the help,
> -Mike
>
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