Re: [Rosegarden-user] seeking help

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---- Jean <jea...@wa...> wrote: 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm new to this list and to linux sound, installed ubuntu 7.10 last
> november. I used cubase on windows, nothing professional, just
> hobby. I play some instruments and have a AKG C1000 mike.
> 
> I have a few questions. I had rosegarden and Jack working at some point
> but now I can't get Jack to work no more.
> Sound is something difficult to understand in linux. I would appreciate
> some help.
> I now use ESD as my sound server. If I select ALSA I get an error about
> from arts Audiosubsystem::handleIO: write failed. 

I'm not the authority on this by any means but I'm pretty sure that you have to have alsa running in order to use jackd and Rosegarden so if you only have ESD running, that would be the answer to why jackd and rosegarden are not working now. 

I do have mp3
> playback and sound in movies. 
> My soundcard is currently a plain soundblaster CA0106. I do have a
> second mike in the webcam.
> 
> There are other strange things (tm) regarding sound on my system, the
> only volume sliders working on my system are those from alsamixer 

Eh? I thought you said that alsa was not running so how is alsamixer working? Did I misunderstand you?

and
> the one from kmix if I first select the masterchannel. I have no system
> sounds althought that seems someting common on kubuntu (althoudgh
> booting the live cd I have system sounds).
> 
> Starting jack on the commandline gives: *error* Access of CD
> device /dev/cdrom resulted in error: No medium found
> 
> Starting the Jack gui is not very helpful either: 
> 17:47:30.756 JACK is starting...
> 17:47:30.756 jackstart -v -R -P10 -dalsa -dhw:1 -r48000 -p512 -n2
> 17:47:30.759 Could not start JACK. Sorry.
> 
> Any more info I can give? Wine spits out some warnings about alsamixer
> things not found when I start it.

Wine!?! Wine is for running Windows programs. Why would you be running Wine? 

> Any help appreciated.
> Jean.

I agree that Linux sound is very confuing but they are people on this list who do understand it all.

> Greetings from Groningen, netherlands. 
> 
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