[PlanetCCRMA] Newbie needs help - Jack

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Sun, 2006-08-06 at 20:31 -0500, Roy Vestal wrote:
> Ok...I'm new to DAW on Linux. I've used Windows and Mac but I'm building 
> my own and it's the first I've worked with on Linux.
> 
> Here's my setup:
> 
> FC3
> Delta 1010 (NOT LT) - No other sound card
> Ardour
> QJackCtl
>
> Now, when a start Jack as a USER (normal user), I get the error: "Cannot 
> connect to Jack with client", I'm assuming it's a permissions problem, 
> because if I run it as root, it loads and I can connect in's to out's 
> and such.
> 
> Obviously, Ardour laughed at me when I started it up as USER. When I 
> started qjackctl as root and ardour as root and it was still not happy. 
> Which is what I was hoping.
> 
> The docs for Jack are very vague and not easy to follow.
> 
> So my question is, how do I setup jack so a normal user can start the 
> daemon and connect using my software?

You should not need to do anything special. The particular error message
you are getting sometimes indicates a conflict of libraries, did you
ever install jack manually at some point?

What is printed if you do this? (as a normal non-root user):
  jackd -d alsa -d hw

(BTW: the only difference between root/non-root could be - for a non
configured system - that you can't get realtime privileges, that should
not affect the basic jack startup)

-- Fernando