How can I get ALSA and JACK working

[Douglas Alves]

OK, I had already installed qjackctl. But when I run 
jackd -d alsa
from the command line, it starts saying that 

root:/home/douglas # jackd -d alsa
jackd 0.99.0
Copyright 2001-2003 Paul Davis 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

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, buffer = 2 periods
Couldn't open hw:0 for 32bit samples trying 24bit instead
Couldn't open hw:0 for 24bit samples trying 16bit instead
Couldn't open hw:0 for 32bit samples trying 24bit instead
Couldn't open hw:0 for 24bit samples trying 16bit instead


**** alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 0.059 msecs



**** alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 0.062 msecs



**** alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 0.058 msecs



**** alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 0.038 msecs



**** alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 0.036 msecs

 . . . and so infinitely, as far as I can see . . . 

[2]+  Stopped                 jackd -d alsa
root:/home/douglas #
root:/home/douglas #


What do you think, David?
(and thanks for lending a hand here)

On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 22:58 +0100, david wrote:
> If I remember correctly, from the command line
> 
> jackd start
> 
> If that doesn't work, there is a gui for jackd where you can play with
> settings and drivers called qjackctl. It's showing up in my synaptic
> lists so is readily available.
> 
> regards
> 
> nux
> 
>