JACK keeps me frustrated

[Tomas Valusek]

Hello,

excuse me - board Asus P5GD1Pro, Processor Intel Celeron single-core 
3.2GHz, ATI 3600 PCIe, 2GB RAM, Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS/PCI, HDD WD 500 
GB + Seagate 250GB, USB Bluetooth adapter Belkin, two DVD-RW drives.

Tomas Valusek

Matthew Polashek napsal(a):
> what is your computer hardware?
> 
> Tomas Valusek wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm playing with Ubuntu Studio 8.10. I like restore points since they 
>> are created before software installs (here either by Add/Remove applet, 
>> manual apt invoking or using Synaptic) and they helped me much on 
>> Windows since I could easily remember when my system worked fine and 
>> could choose this "random" point, as you say.
>>
>> My soundcard is SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS PCI. Now I'm about to restar 
>> installing Ubuntu Studio from scratch, losing all tweaks I've already 
>> performed.
>>
>> Thanks for your patience, since messing with partially known apps is 
>> always dangerous and I still cannot understand JACK well - and maybe 
>> some apps I would never suspect interfere with it - maybe Bluetooth 
>> Manager, maybe OpenOffice, maybe Sun JRE 6.10, maybe OpenOffice 2.4.1, 
>> maybe even Gnome games - BTW, I tried "mother" Ubuntu Interpid distro 
>> and JACK was unable to start after I installed ubuntu-studio-audio and 
>> ubuntu-studio-audio-plugins metapackages.
>>
>> Tomas Valusek
>>
>> sandie napsal(a):
>>   
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> If you click "Setup" in jackctl, you can save your presets, a very nice 
>>> feature if you play around with the settings, and imho... it's a much 
>>> better option than those "random" restore points.
>>>
>>> and remember... Linux is not windows ;-)
>>>
>>> Kind regards
>>> Sandie
>>>
>>>
>>> Tomas Valusek wrote:
>>>     
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I curse JACK - such a hostile piece of software, whose error messages 
>>>> provide no help, stops itself working after mere editing of options 
>>>> according to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToJACKConfiguration 
>>>> (first example, I happen to have the same sound card).
>>>>
>>>> The worst - I don't know how to return to previous working state other 
>>>> from completely reinstall Ubuntu Studio from scratch ... If only Linux 
>>>> had Restore points as WinXP does ...
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately, I'm sending this mail from Windows, which is still my 
>>>> main working OS, Ubuntu Studio didn't make it from experimentation state 
>>>> yet, so I can't provide contents of JAKC's Message Window.
>>>>
>>>> I absolutely don't know what now, how to return JACK to its previous 
>>>> working state. Can anyone help me? Many thanks in advance.
>>>>
>>>> Tomas Valusek
>>>>
>>>>   
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>>>     
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