I did some more work on it. I used ardour-cvs and it appears to have installed beta8 along with jack 0.89.2. I'm logged in as my user and I run xfce4 as my desktop. In one xterm window I start jack with jackd -d alsa -d hw:0. In another xterm I run the command ardour and get this message.
Ardour/GTK 0.412.0 running with libardour 0.698.0 Loading UI configuration file /etc/ardour/ardour_ui.rc cannot connect to jack server cannot connect to default JACK server ardour: [ERROR]: No JACK server found.client name: ardour Killed I found (with -v) that jack couldn't get permission to access the device even though my user is part of the audio group. I then logged out, ran as root. This time jack starts and ardour will start so I assume it's a permissions problem although my user can access the sound devices without problems. However, I can't add tracks or busses. The first attempt to add a track gives me "can't do this without a new session" and subsequent attempts (after starting a new session) give me a blank log window - it's all a green color background with no text! I quit ardour and the system locked up - had to use the reset button to get it going again. At this point I suspect that Ardour has serious problems under Gentoo. If it was this badly broken on all systems no one would use it! I'll probably bug this to bugzilla tomorrow after I've had time to think on it and then try some other app like Audacity or some of the others you mentioned. The docs on Jack also mention using a /etc/asound.rc or ~/.asound.rc file to set up devices, etc. Have you found that necessary? Thanks. On Friday 31 October 2003 09:30, you wrote: > > > Also, I do presume that you are running at least > > >0.9.6 for Alsa, 0.8 > > >for jack, and something close to whatever the Ardour page > > >says the > > >newest release is > > > > Sorry - too many versions <G>: .9x for Ardour, jack is > > .80, alsa .97 (actually whatever the latest unmasked > > ebuild which is .97 I believe. > > Just make sure it's 0.9beta8 as some of the more recent revisions have been > crashing > > > At this point I'm using the xfs-sources. > > And I just use gentoo-source. It's worked fine for me, but I don't need the > real-time stuff on this box. > > > I used jackd -v -d alsa -d hw:0. Jackstart doesn't exist > > on the Gentoo install. I thought I'd get it working, then > > try other features. > > Perfect, but you will want the -r 44100 option when you start working with > CDs (if that's what you're still planning on doing) as the default > frequency for Jack is 48K. > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
