>So why, having studied the docs, am I completely stumped with jack? It >refuses to play. I don't consider any solution based on a piece of software >_I_ can't operate suitable for general use.
JACK *isn't* intended for general use, and i get tired of suggestions that it should be. there are lots of people working on solutions for "general use". JACK is intended for people who are serious about audio. in particular, although it might work with crappy consumer audio interfaces, its not intended to do so. if you can't run JACK at all, you basically have a box that wouldn't run an ASIO device driver under windows or macos. there's not much we can do about that except to point you at kernel adjustments (like hdparm) and ask that you check other mailing lists to see if your audio interface, video interface, etc. are known to be horrible in some respect. JACK is not yet finished, and it has some definite usability issues that need to be resolved. but it is not, and i hope will never be (primarily) a general purpose sound server. alternatively, there might be a bug in JACK. perhaps you can help us find it. --p
