[PlanetCCRMA] fc8 install

[Oded Ben-Tal]

jack:
this is .jackdrc /usr/bin/jackd -R -dalsa -dquattro -r48000 -p1024 -n3 -D 
-Pquattro -i1 -o4
I also tried with 0 input channels as well as 2in 2out (I'm following 
advice from Juan about setting things through qjacktl setup menus). I'm 
also trying -d q4 instead of quattro (both are defined in the .asoundrc 
file. q4 is a 'plug' version, so quattro should be better, right?).
Invariably I get either of these:
configuring for 48000Hz, period = 1024 frames (21.3 ms), buffer = 3 
periods
ALSA: final selected sample format for capture: 24bit big-endian
ALSA: cannot set channel count to 1 for capture
ALSA: cannot configure capture channel
cannot load driver module alsa
no message buffer overruns
cannot read server event (Success)
cannot continue execution of the processing graph (Bad file descriptor)

creating alsa driver ... 
quattro|quattro|1024|3|48000|0|4|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit
configuring for 48000Hz, period = 1024 frames (21.3 ms), buffer = 3 
periods
ALSA: final selected sample format for capture: 24bit big-endian
ALSA: use 3 periods for capture
ALSA: final selected sample format for playback: 24bit little-endian
ALSA: use 3 periods for playback
ALSA: could not start playback (Broken pipe)
DRIVER NT: could not start driver
cannot start driver

I do get 4-channel playback from _snd_ using MUS_ALSA_DEVICE=quattro, but 
it seems it only works if USB card is the first card.

BTW - I also get this error when I start qjacktl:
Warning: no locale found: /usr/share/locale/qjackctl_en_US.qm

2) xemacs
I used your dotemacs (xemacs actually prefers .xemacs/init.el but I get 
the same error in both cases):
(1) (initialization/error) An error has occurred while loading 
/home/oded/.emacs:

Cannot open load file: "timer"

Backtrace follows:

   signal(file-error ("Cannot open load file" "timer"))
   # bind (path handler filename nosuffix nomessage noerror file)
   load("timer" nil require nil)
   # (unwind-protect ...)
   require(timer) etc. etc. etc.

I can print out the rest but it doesn't appear very helpful. If I comment 
out slime from the file I don't get this problem, but than I don't get 
slime either...

And a final short question: how do I stop/start/restart alsa in FC8? 
previously there was /etc/init.d/asound but it moved or disappeared.

thanks
Oded

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Oded Ben-Tal
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