[PlanetCCRMA] problems running jack Server

[Kevin English]

Thanks for the help, i got it running. i was running it as root and then
trying to run the other programs as me. is there a service script thing
for the Jack Server or do you need to run it by hand everytime?

kevin

>>   I've got all of the alsa driver loaded, now i'm trying to get this
>> jack
>> server running so i can connect to it via xmms, audacity, hydrogen, etc.
>> I run the jackstart as described (jackstart -R -d alsa -d hw -r 44100),
>> but when i fire up Xmms and hydrogen and select jack, they give me erros
>> like "
>> ERR: JACK_OpenDevice:jack server not running?
>> after JACK_Close()"
>>
>> Here's the output of the jackstart
>>
>> jackd 0.94.0
>> 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
>>
>> loading driver ..
>> creating alsa driver ...
>> hw:0|hw:0|1024|2|48000|0|0|nomon|swmeter|rt|32bit
>> 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
>> Couldn't open hw:0 for 32bit samples trying 24bit instead
>> Couldn't open hw:0 for 24bit samples trying 16bit instead
>
> It looks like it is running normally. Are you starting it as a normal
> user? (not root), and if that is the case, did you start it as root
> before? You should check that the fifos that jack uses have proper
> ownership:
>
>   ls -l /var/lib/jack/tmp/
>
> Sometimes permissions can be left in the wrong state and the outcome is
> that the clients cannot connect to the server.
>
> Could you try, for example, freqtweak? (which is a "jack only"
> application). Or see if jack_lsp lists all the ports of the jack server?
> (it is part of the jack-audio-connection-kit-example-clients package).
>
> On xmms you have to select the proper jack output plugin, in hydrogen
> you may have to start it again after selecting jack in its preferences.
>
> -- Fernando
>
>
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Kevin W. English
Software Developer, X5Software
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