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Yes, the sound eventually did work (after a lot of trial & error & self help on the internet) using the SB-awe alsa driver, just not anything to do with JACK.<br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>Regards,</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>Gary Ball</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>Tel.: 905-632-6263 • Cell:905-580-0587</div><div><a href="mailto:gball@cogeco.ca">gball@cogeco.ca</a></div><div>home.cogeco.ca/~gball</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br><div><div>On 15-Mar-08, at 12:35 PM, Mark Stuart Burge wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> Hi Gary,<br> <br> Were you able to get sound to work before running Jack or installing ubuntustudio ? <br> <br> Gary Ball wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:ECD1C911-AB69-466E-B113-F6B123D85829@cogeco.ca" type="cite">Hi All. <div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"> </div> <div>Forgive me, But I'm a linux-ly challenged old fart who left the cushy world of Mac OSX and I am currently trying to set up the sound in UbuntuStudio.</div> <div>Two issues:</div> <div>I get a timidity error whenever it updates ...</div> <div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"> </div> <div> <div>Setting up timidity (2.13.2-15ubuntu1) ...</div> <div> * Starting timidity * Starting TiMidity++ ALSA midi emulation... [fail] </div> <div>invoke-rc.d: initscript timidity, action "start" failed.</div> <div>dpkg: error processing timidity (--configure):</div> <div> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1</div> <div>dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ubuntustudio-audio:</div> <div> ubuntustudio-audio depends on timidity; however:</div> <div> Package timidity is not configured yet.</div> <div>dpkg: error processing ubuntustudio-audio (--configure):</div> <div> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured</div> <div>Errors were encountered while processing:</div> <div> timidity</div> <div> ubuntustudio-audio</div> <div>E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)</div> <div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"> </div> <div>The second issue is when I try to run the JACK controller.</div> <div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"> </div> <div> <div>Creating link /home/gary/.kde/socket-unixOffice.</div> <div>10:15:14.387 Startup script terminated with exit status=256.</div> <div>10:15:14.387 JACK is starting...</div> <div>10:15:14.388 /usr/bin/jackd -R -dalsa -dhw:0 -r44100 -p64 -n2 -m</div> <div>10:15:14.393 JACK was started with PID=12849 (0x3231).</div> <div>jackd 0.103.0</div> <div>Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others.</div> <div>jackd comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY</div> <div>This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it</div> <div>under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details</div> <div>JACK compiled with System V SHM support.</div> <div>loading driver ..</div> <div>apparent rate = 44100</div> <div>creating alsa driver ... hw:0|hw:0|64|2|44100|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit</div> <div>control device hw:0</div> <div>configuring for 44100Hz, period = 64 frames, buffer = 2 periods</div> <div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"> </div> <div>Sorry. The audio interface "hw:0" doesn't support any of the hardware sample formats that JACK's alsa-driver can use.</div> <div>ALSA: cannot configure capture channel</div> <div>cannot load driver module alsa</div> <div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"> </div> <div>no message buffer overruns</div> <div>10:15:15.069 JACK was stopped successfully.</div> <div>10:15:15.074 Post-shutdown script...</div> <div>10:15:15.078 killall jackd</div> <div>jackd: no process killed</div> <div>10:15:15.390 Post-shutdown script terminated with exit status=256.</div> <div>10:15:16.700 Could not connect to JACK server as client. Please check the messages window for more info.</div> <div>JACK tmpdir identified as [/dev/shm]</div> <div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"> </div> <div>Could it be the sound card is too old? If so, can anyone recommend a linux friendly alternative.</div> <div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"> </div> <div>UbuntuStudio looks awesome, but I haven't been able to take full advantage of it yet</div> <div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"> </div> <div>This is my system hardware. it's old, but so am I.</div> <div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"> </div> <div> <div>00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C693A/694x [Apollo PRO133x] (rev c4)</div> <div> Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0</div> <div> Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]</div> <div> Capabilities: <access denied></div> <div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"> </div> <div>00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo MVP3/Pro133x AGP] (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])</div> <div> Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0</div> <div> Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0</div> <div> I/O behind bridge: 0000a000-0000bfff</div> <div> Memory behind bridge: dde00000-dfefffff</div> <div> Prefetchable memory behind bridge: ddc00000-ddcfffff</div> <div> Capabilities: <access denied></div> <div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"> </div> <div>00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 22)</div> <div> Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686/A PCI to ISA Bridge</div> <div> Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 0</div> <div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"> </div> <div>00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 10) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])</div> <div> Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32</div> <div> [virtual] Memory at 000001f0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8]</div> <div> [virtual] Memory at 000003f0 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [size=1]</div> <div> [virtual] Memory at 00000170 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8]</div> <div> [virtual] Memory at 00000370 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [size=1]</div> <div> I/O ports at ffa0 [size=16]</div> <div> Capabilities: <access denied></div> <div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"> </div> <div>00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 10) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])</div> <div> Subsystem: First International Computer, Inc. VA-502 Mainboard</div> <div> Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11</div> <div> I/O ports at dc00 [size=32]</div> <div> Capabilities: <access denied></div> <div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"> </div> <div>00:07.4 SMBus: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 30)</div> <div> Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11</div> <div> Capabilities: <access denied></div> <div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"> </div> <div>00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 42)</div> <div> Subsystem: D-Link System Inc DFE-530TX rev A</div> <div> Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11</div> <div> I/O ports at d800 [size=256]</div> <div> Memory at dfffff00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]</div> <div> Expansion ROM at dffe0000 [disabled] [size=64K]</div> <div> Capabilities: <access denied></div> <div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"> </div> <div>01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X (rev 5c) (prog-if 00 [VGA])</div> <div> Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Pro Turbo AGP 2X</div> <div> Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 9</div> <div> Memory at de000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]</div> <div> I/O ports at b800 [size=256]</div> <div> Memory at dfeff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]</div> <div> Expansion ROM at dfec0000 [disabled] [size=128K]</div> <div> Capabilities: <access denied></div> <div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"> </div> </div> <div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"> </div> <div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"> </div> </div> <br> <div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; 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