[PD] compile on ubuntu (again)

Andre Schmidt huolong at arcor.de
Mon Feb 6 15:44:57 CET 2006


i never played with JACK, but im using ubuntu too.

have you tried to search/ask on these

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/
#ubuntu on irc.freenode.net

terveisin
-andre



On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 23:19 -0800, david golightly wrote:
> Yes, XMMS is working fine.  Actually, I'm not getting any sound from
> Alsaplayer, though XMMS is supposedly using the XMMS-JACK driver.  The
> output I pasted is from qjackctl with verbose turned on, though when I
> run jackd I get the same output.  I've tried messing around with
> various Jack settings, but nothing seems to make any difference.
> What's puzzling is that it appears to be working until it says "Could
> not connect to JACK server as client".  Could it have something to do
> with Alsa not being configured properly? 
> 
> I'm sure this is typical of the Linux world, but there seems to be a
> lot of obsolete information that comes up on Google searches.  It
> would be nice if things came down after a few years... for instance,
> the mini Alsa HOWTO posted on the alsa wiki site alsa.opensrc.org is
> from 1999... I think probably a lot has changed in the last 7 years!
> I would like to contribute some time to keeping these things up to
> date, but I don't feel that I have the expertise just yet.  Certainly
> once I can reimage a low-latency machine with jack & alsa working
> right away I'm going to be paying back for all the help I've received
> over the years! 
> 
> 
> On 2/5/06, John Harrison <john.harrison at wichita.edu> wrote:
>         Is XMMS with the JACK output driver working for you? That's my
>         standard JACK test...but...if qjackctl isn't working...I doubt
>         the problem is with Pd. Sounds more like a problem  with
>         jackd. When messing with JACK initially, I always find it
>         easiest to run jackd or jackstart from qjackctl. Easier to
>         debug what is going on.
>         
>         Is the output below from jackd or qjackctl? Whatever it
>         is...it isn't happy. That's the place to start.
>         
>         -John
>         
>         
>         
>         david golightly wrote: 
>         > Hello everyone!
>         > 
>         > Sorry to be a drag here, but I've been scratching my head on
>         > this for several days now.  I'm trying to coordinate pd,
>         > alsa, and jack on ubuntu (actually demudi multimedia kernel
>         > 2.6.12 in ubuntu) and I've got a number of symptoms here,
>         > but I've not been able to diagnose what's going on:
>         > 
>         > - not getting any sound from pd; pd doesn't recognize any
>         > devices
>         > - pd's Media menu lists 'OSS', 'ALSA', and 'Jack'
>         > - compiled pd 0.39-2 with --enable-alsa --enable-jack
>         > - alsa seems to be installed fine, alsamixer works, cds play
>         > in alsaplayer
>         > - qjackctl will not connect to jack server as client - but
>         > jack appears to start fine (?):
>         > 
>         > 13:44:26.950 JACK was started with PID=6255 (0x186f).
>         > jackd 0.100.9
>         > Copyright 2001-2005 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 = 48000
>         > creating alsa driver ... hw:0|hw:0|1024|2|48000|2|2|nomon|
>         > swmeter|-|32bit
>         > control device hw:0
>         > configuring for 48000Hz, period = 1024 frames, buffer = 2
>         > periods
>         > Note: audio device hw:0 doesn't support a 32bit sample
>         > format so JACK will try a 24bit format instead
>         > Note: audio device hw:0 doesn't support a 24bit sample
>         > format so JACK will try a 16bit format instead
>         > nperiods = 2 for capture
>         > nperiods = 2 for playback
>         > 13:44:29.002 Could not connect to JACK server as client.
>         > 13:44:31.629 JACK is stopping...
>         > 
>         > So I was wondering, anyone have any pointers here?  I'm
>         > stumped.
>         > 
>         > Thanks,
>         > 
>         > David
>         > 
>         > 
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