[PlanetCCRMA] Lost in the backroads..

[Nigel Henry]

On Monday 10 October 2005 00:45, Jeff Farr wrote:
> Ok, thanks for the help. I had a feeling alot of this is total newbie
> stuff, I'm searching the archives, but there is so much to learn (I'm new
> to linux in general) that I'm moving in circles alot. So, I start jack
> using jackd, but now when I open jackRack I get the message "Cannot open
> ALSA sequencer, No such file or directory". Should the terminal that I
> start jack in not go back to a prompt (ie: right now it is stopped on
> "nperiods = 2 for playback")? things like alsaplayer won't run untill I
> close the terminal with jack running. apt-get install planetccrma-core and
> planetccrma-audioapps is what I used, and it shows that I have the latest
> version. However, I haven't been able to find some programs like KConnect
> and QJackConnect. I should mention that there is an on board sound card,
> but I have it disabled in the bios. Is this possibly getting booted as the
> main device (I would doubt this as envy24control and the other mixers bring
> up the interface for the Delta). I'm also doing a parallel install on a
> Dell Latitude C600, and that is working a bit better, however, there are
> alot of pops and clicks, I assume ALSA configs are the place to look to fix
> this, but again I am a bit lost on how to do it.
>
> How do I go about checking that alsa is properly installed? Also, snd cased
> my computer to lock up earlier today when I attempted to record, I could
> open a file but clicking on the play button in the lower right had no
> effect. Trying to play a file in Helix brings message "unable to open the
> audio device, another app may be using it" when I open a file.

Hi Jeff. Sorry for not coming back yesterday. It was getting a bit late here 
in France.  There is a log kept of stuff thats been installed by rpm. Its at, 
as user.  rpm -q -a --last . The last entries are at the top of the list. To 
see if rtirq and rtload are installed , use. rpm -q rtirq   and   
rpm -q rtload .  To see what sound cards have been detected use.
cat /proc/asound/cards.  The version of Alsa is at. cat /proc/asound/version.
I havn't got MDK 10.0 on the machine anymore, but think I had problems with 
the sequencer module as well. Its called  snd-seq-midi . To see a list of 
installed modules use, as user.  /sbin/lsmod  .  To load it manually if it 
isn't there, use the command, while su'ed to root in a console.
modprobe snd-seq-midi .  To force loading of this at bootup, again while su'ed 
to root.  /sbin/chkconfig alsa on .  I use "alsasound" in Fedora, but IIRC 
the command in Mandrake uses just "alsa" , which would also explain why 
you're getting a "command not found" when trying to stop and start Alsa using 
"alsasound" . You need to start and stop Alsa as root as well, not user. I 
disabled my onboard soundcard so as to be able to use my Audigy2 
soundblaster, and had no problem. It was no longer seen. Right.
as root. modprobe snd-seq-midi . Then open qjackctl, jacks GUI and midi 
patchbay. Hopefully it won't complain now about the missing sequencer module. 
All the best. Nigel.


>
> On 10/9/05, Nigel Henry <cave.dnb@tiscali.fr> wrote:
> > On Sunday 09 October 2005 16:59, Nigel Henry wrote:
> > > On Sunday 09 October 2005 16:49, Jeff Farr wrote:
> > > > So I've gotten the low latency kernel up and running on FC3 running
> > > > an ABit NF7 MB which uses the nForce2 chipset, found my MAudio 1010LT
> > > > and used envy24 to get hardware monitoring working so that I can now
> > > > use
> >
> > my
> >
> > > > computer as a mixer like I did in windows. Problem is, almost none of
> >
> > the
> >
> > > > applications in pCCRMA will run, most just fizzle on startup and I
> >
> > never
> >
> > > > even see a GUI element for them. When I start jack this is the output
> >
> > I
> >
> > > > get using jackstart -R -d alsa -d hw -r 44100
> > > >
> > > > jackstart: cannot get realtime capabilities, current capabilities
> > > > are: =ep cap_setpcap-ep
> > > > probably running under a kernel with capabilities disabled,
> > > > a suitable kernel would have printed something like "=eip"
> > > >
> > > > back from read, ret = 1 errno == Success
> > > > jackstart: could not give capabilities: Operation not permitted
> > > > jackd 0.99.36
> > > > 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
> > > >
> > > > JACK compiled with System V SHM support.
> > > > loading driver ..
> > > > apparent rate = 44100
> > > > creating alsa driver ... hw|hw|1024|2|44100|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit
> > > > configuring for 44100Hz, period = 1024 frames, buffer = 2 periods
> > > > nperiods = 2 for capture
> > > > nperiods = 2 for playback
> > > > jack main caught signal 2
> > > > no message buffer overruns
> > > >
> > > > and I've yet to be able to hear something using rythembox or get
> > > > sound
> >
> > at
> >
> > > > all for that matter, hydrogen doesn't do anything for example.
> > > > I've also found that my IRQ settings are not ideal, but aside from
> > > > the physical card shuffling I'm not sure how to change their
> > > > addresses (my sound card is on IRQ5) Are there any utilities for
> > > > doing this?
> > >
> > > Hi Jeff. I found with FC3 that I needed to get packages that come using
> > > apt-get install planetccrma-core . This provides packages for realtime
> >
> > "rtirq &
> >
> > > rtload" , also alsa-oss, alsa-tools, and alsa-firmware. I also got the
> > > package, apt-get install planetccrma-core-edge. Another thing. and I
> >
> > don't
> > start
> >
> > > jack off the CLI but from qjackctl, is to use jackd rather than
> >
> > jackstart,
> >
> > > as jackstart is just for the 2.4 kernels. All the best. Nigel.
> >
> > Sorry for the double posting, Konqueror didn't have the reply to all on
> > it.
> > and the post hasn't turned up on the ccrma list.