JACK's behavior revealed another problem

[Tomas Valusek]

Hello,

thanks for help. Unfortunately, I can't type anything into Interface
field of JACK Control setup window, since this field is greyed out.

Tomas Valusek

2008/11/10  <hollunder at gmx.at>:
> On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:25:40 -0600
> Mark Stuart Burge <mark at msbrepairs.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Tomas Valusek wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > thank you for your help with JACK. I have cought very basic grip of
>> > it, and stumbled upon another problem. I'm using proprietary ATI
>> > drivers, since with them work cltr-alt-grayplus and
>> > ctrl-alt-greyminus to change screen resolution while maintaining a
>> > desktop size, thus providing mi with very useful, although very
>> > basic, magnifier. But now when system starts, sound devices are
>> > given their system names randomly - sometimes is hw:0 assigned to
>> > SB Audigy and hw:2 to HDA ATI HDMI, sometimes is HW:0 ATI and hw:2
>> > Audigy. I have not recognized the way hw:* devices are assigned,
>> > but when JACK stumbles upon ATI, it refuses to start. So every time
>> > I see JACK's error message, I have to enter setup window and
>> > re-select input and output devices.
>> >
>> > And BTW, latency displayed by the Setup dialog is 46.4 msec :(
>> >
>> > Tomas Valusek
>> >
>> > PS: Here is my current contents of .jackdrc file:
>> >
>> > /usr/bin/jackd -dalsa -r44100 -p1024 -n2 -D -Chw:0 -Phw:0
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>> An alternative to try if that doesn't work for you is:
>>
>> sudo asoundconf list
>
> Thanks, this is a nicer way to of getting the name, but sudo isn't
> needed at this point.
>
>>
>>   You might see something like this :
>>
>> Names of available sound cards:
>> Audigy
>> ATI-Sound-Card
>>
>> To set the audigy as the default card (replace audigy with the exact
>> name of the audigy card as it appears in the list:
>>
>> sudo asoundconf set-default-card Audigy
>
>
> Thanks for this as well. One should note that this likely not only
> affects jack but all audio applications and might not be desirable.
>
>
>> followed by a reboot to test.
>>
>>
>> That is a  solution found here, thanks to Rocklobsta:
>>
>> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/ubuntu-63/how-do-you-change-the-default-sound-card-in-kubuntu-499520/
>>
>
> Best regards,
>        Philipp
>
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