this may sound obvious.. but make sure you're not running any apps with audio. (ie, mp3 player, etc).<br><br>also, disable arts in kde and the sound system in gnome (ESD I think). Hunt around in the "Preferences" menu.
<br><br>Your message is pretty common and I doubt your hardware is broken, only you need to uncheck a few boxes.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/25/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tom Poe</b> <<a href="mailto:tompoe@fngi.net">
tompoe@fngi.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">jackd 0.101.1<br>Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others.
<br>jackd comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY<br>This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it<br>under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details<br>JACK compiled with System V SHM support.<br>11:51:
04.106 MIDI connection change.<br>loading driver ..<br>apparent rate = 48000<br>creating alsa driver ... hw:0|hw:0|1024|2|48000|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit<br>control device hw:0<br>the playback device "hw:0" is already in use. Please stop the
<br>application using it and run JACK again<br>cannot load driver module alsa<br>11:51:04.141 JACK was stopped successfully.<br>11:51:06.121 Could not connect to JACK server as client. Please check<br>the messages window for more info.
<br>- - -<br>How do I determine what device is already in use. I'm running FC5 with<br>planetccrma kernel. I removed all spaces from /etc/modprobe.conf, checked:<br>]# cat /proc/asound/cards<br> 0 [I82801AAICH ]: ICH - Intel 82801AA-ICH
<br> Intel 82801AA-ICH with AD1881 at 0xd800, irq 10<br>[root@localhost bin]# cat /proc/asound/devices<br> 0: [ 0] : control<br> 1: : sequencer<br> 16: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback<br> 24: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture
<br> 25: [ 0- 1]: digital audio capture<br> 33: : timer<br>- - -<br>I shut down computer, then started computer, have the sound volume<br>center thingy on the desktop working, so sound is coming from oss?<br>alsa? But, when I try to start qjackctl, the above message appears.
<br>Tom<br><br><br></blockquote></div><br>