Re: jackd trouble

[Henry Hollenberg <hgh@rcwm.com>]

Jan C. Nordholz wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 04:29:19PM -0600, Henry Hollenberg wrote:
>
> > I think jackd is acting up.  Rosegarden4 complains about the sequencer not 
> > starting
> > and I think jackd has something to do with this but not sure what...any 
> > ideas?
> >
> >
> > Here is the startup on jackd:
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > Here is the rosegarden4 startup:
> >
> > hgh@opie:~$ rosegarden4
> > [snip]
> > JackDriver::initialiseAudio - JACK server not running
> > ALSA lib seq_hw.c:446:(snd_seq_hw_open) open /dev/snd/seq failed: No such 
> > file or directory
>
>
> This one's bad. /dev/snd/seq should exist and look approximately like this:
> user@host:~$ ll /dev/snd/seq
> crw-rw----  1 root audio 116, 1 2003-05-30 21:57 /dev/snd/seq

hgh@opie:/dev/snd$ ls -l
total 0
crw-rw----  1 root audio 116,  0 Feb 15 16:04 controlC0
crw-rw----  1 root audio 116, 24 Feb 15 16:04 pcmC0D0c
crw-rw----  1 root audio 116, 16 Feb 15 16:04 pcmC0D0p
crw-rw----  1 root audio 116, 25 Feb 15 16:04 pcmC0D1c
crw-rw----  1 root audio 116, 26 Feb 15 16:04 pcmC0D2c
crw-rw----  1 root audio 116, 27 Feb 15 16:04 pcmC0D3c
crw-rw----  1 root audio 116, 20 Feb 15 16:04 pcmC0D4p
crw-rw----  1 root audio 116, 33 Feb 15 16:04 timer


> Do you use some kind of device filesystem (devfs, udev)? And do you have
> Alsa Sequencer support compiled into the kernel, or loaded as a module (and
> is the module loaded at all? Give it a look with lsmod)? Or did you change
> your kernel recently?

hgh@opie:/etc/init.d$ ls udev devfsd
devfsd  udev

opie:/etc/init.d# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
radeon                123684  2
pcmcia_core            51908  0
af_packet              12552  2
ide_scsi               13700  0
sg                     32672  0
scsi_mod               74560  2 ide_scsi,sg
snd_intel8x0           29320  1
snd_ac97_codec         64388  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss            47656  0
snd_mixer_oss          17152  2 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                79880  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              19716  1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc          8968  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
snd_mpu401_uart         5888  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_rawmidi            19236  1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device          6536  1 snd_rawmidi
snd                    44772  9 
snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore               7008  2 snd
hw_random               4500  0
ehci_hcd               38020  0
uhci_hcd               29068  0
usbcore               109540  4 ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
intel_agp              19232  1
joydev                  8000  0
evdev                   7424  0
nls_iso8859_1           3968  1
nls_cp437               5632  1
vfat                   11264  1
fat                    38336  1 vfat
unix                   21428  450

about 14 times today.  I'm on an ibm t40 laptop running 2.6.8 debian kernel, gnome, xfree86 4.3 
testing, I've got the video and apm suspend looking good, just trying to get a handle on the sound.
looks like I got beaucoup sound modules going...

hgh.
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Henry Hollenberg
hgh@rcwm.com