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On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 15:36:32 -0700

Bob van der Poel  wrote:
> I've decided that the only way I'm going to get my system to record

quoted text
> anything decent is to use jackd. But, I'm being a total idiot with

> this ...

>

> First off, I have the the following devices:

>

> bob$ aplay -l

> **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****

> card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC883 Analog [ALC883 Analog]

>   Subdevices: 1/1

>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

> card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: ALC883 Digital [ALC883 Digital]

>   Subdevices: 1/1

>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

> card 1: CODEC [USB Audio CODEC], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]

>   Subdevices: 1/1

>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

>

> The 2nd one is a spdif speaker attached to the mother board. For now,

> lets try to get jack working with this.

>

>  pasuspender -- jackd -d alsa "ALC883 Digital"

>

> (BTW, I tried hw0,1 and some other combinations ... but they are the

> same results)

>

> After the command I get:

>

> bob$ pasuspender -- jackd -d alsa "ALC883 Digital"

> jackd 0.121.2

> Copyright 2001-2009 Paul Davis, Stephane Letz, Jack O'Quinn, Torben

> Hohn 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.

> cannot lock down memory for jackd (Cannot allocate memory)

> loading driver ..

> creating alsa driver ... hw:0|hw:0|1024|2|48000|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit

> control device hw:0

> configuring for 48000Hz, period = 1024 frames (21.3 ms), buffer = 2 periods

> ALSA: final selected sample format for capture: 32bit integer little-endian

> ALSA: use 2 periods for capture

> ALSA: final selected sample format for playback: 32bit integer little-endian

> ALSA: use 2 periods for playback

> JACK: unable to mlock() port buffers: Cannot allocate memory

> JACK: unable to mlock() port buffers: Cannot allocate memory

>

>

> **** alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 0.033 msecs

>

>

> Which seems to be okay?

>

> Now, I run audacity. Got jack as an output option and load a file.

> Play it ... the VU meter shows, but no audio. NADA. Just silence.

>

>

> If I can't get a simple play to work, I fear becoming a recording star

> is out of my reach!

>

> Please, this shouldn't be that hard???

>

What distro are you using? Are you running their own packaged apps or compiling

yourself?

I once tried building everything up peace-meal which is probably why I now have

nearly white hair :(
Is the alsa-only layer working?
Is pulse audio installed and maybe getting in the way?
--

Will J Godfrey

http://www.musically.me.uk

Say you have a poem and I have a tune.

Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.

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