> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Rick Green wrote:
>
>> It's about time I finally upgrade my studio machine from UbuntuStudio 8.04.
>> I loaded US 10.04 on a test machine, and was able to run qjackctl, jackd,
>> and ardour briefly, but then got scared off by another thread here talking
>> about broken FFADO and nasty interactions with PulseAudio. I also ran into
>> a bug in xorg that affects any motif-based applications (right-click context
>> menus don't work, and result in a virtual lock-up) I'm following the
>> 'distribution usage' thread, looking for the current 'best option', as I
>> have a recording gig scheduled for next Thursday, and I'd like to be able to
>> validate a new install on my test machine, then perform another install on
>> the studio laptop before then. There aren't enough hours in the day...
>> Currently the test system is loaded with Fedora 12 + CCRMA. My first
>> attempt to start jack returned some error messages, so I edited
>> /etc/security/limits.conf as requested, added myself to the audio group,
>> installed the RT+PAE kernel from the CCRMA repository, rebooted, and tried
>> it again. Now when I try to start jack from qjackctl (with defaults only),
>> it quickly results in qjackctl aborting, leaving jack zombified and
>> unkillable.
>> Any hints on how to get around this, or do I simply blow it away and try
>> the next distro on the list(
www.linux-sound.org/distro.html), which looks
>> like it might be AVLinux?
>>
>> I have past experience with Redhat and SuSe, and for the past three years,
>> almost exclusively Ubuntu variants, so I'm trying to focus on .deb or .rpm
>> -based distros.
>>
>>
> Hello,
> I am in the Audio Production team of Fedora, we work collaboratively
> with CCRMA. We need further information to find the problem.
>
> * First, what version of jack and what version of kernel are you
> using? Fedora comes with jack1, whereas the CCRMA has jack2 which
> would replace jack1 if you choose so. (We are planning to import jack2
> to Fedora soon.)
>
> * What recommendations did you follow for setting
> /etc/security/limits.conf? We need to make sure you didn't follow an
> advise from a random link from the web. CCRMA's jack2 needs different
> settings than Fedora's jack1. CCRMA's jack2 package does the
> modifications in /etc/security/limits.conf automatically. Fedora's
> jack1 does need some manual tweaking, as specified in
> /usr/share/doc/jack-audio-connection-kit-0.118.0/README.Fedora
>
> * What error messages do you get?
>
> * You talked about interactions with pulseaudio but what did you end
> up doing? Did you uninstall it?
>
> I recommend joining the CCRMA mailing list, as there are many more
> people there to help you. e.g. I can't help you much pulseaudio since
> I always remove it from my systems,