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On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 6:40 PM, David Santamauro

 wrote:

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> Hi all,

>

> I've been lurking around a few weeks now as I get my feet wet in the world

> of linux audio. I find it very difficult to get off the ground, to be

> honest. I dusted off an older PC that I had used for audio in the MS Windows

> environment and carved out a partition for fedora 11 with the real-time

> kernel from PlanetCCRMA. OS install went off without a hitch as did

> installing the new kernel. That's just about where "easy" stopped.

>

> I have a list of things I'd like to ask about but I think I'll just start

> off simple. Silly me thought I could plug speakers into the output of the

> 2496 and I'd be able to hear (and eventually *make*) glorious music -- no

> such luck. So, onto my first issue:

>

> I check what the system sees

> $ cat /proc/asound/cards

>  0 [au8810         ]: au8810 - Aureal Vortex au8810

>                      Aureal Vortex au8810 at 0xfea80000 irq 21

>  1 [M2496          ]: ICE1712 - M Audio Audiophile 24/96

>                      M Audio Audiophile 24/96 at 0xdf80, irq 22

>

> ... so far so good

>

> Now, I just want to use the sound preferences dialog and make sure the

> system is using the 2496 as main output. Problem is, although both the 8810

> and 2496 are present in the "Capture" tab, only the 8810 is available from

> the "Playback" tab.

>

I am unfamilliar with the sound preferences dialog you

are using, no specific help there.

In the settings dialog of qjackctl, do the 'missing'

playback ports show up in the drop-down list where

you choose 'Output device'?
> Actually _hearing_ the music aside, I decided to try my luck with JACK.

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> Funny enough, I was able to get a rudimentary JACK infrastructure passing

> xmms audio over to ardour2 (was a small tutorial I found) ... still, no

> sound from the speakers though ;-)

>

> Could anyone here possibly help or point me to a resource that can?

>

> Thanks in advance,

>

> David

>

>

>

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