Jack Control

If this is the wrong forum I apologize. None of my Dell Vostro 1000 (AMD64 Dual Core), Inspiron 1500 can’t run Jack Control.
The error always is: … boken pipe… can’t crea’t graph…

Only the Acer Aspire One - MINI laptop and the Dell B130 (4 years old) all works fine under same setup UBUNTU 9.04 Studio (both generic and rt kernels) The Acer is just too slow for music recording.

On the Vostro and the Inspiron I can get Jack running with the Behringer UCA202 external interface which records a very low signal. Is there any way to boost the recording (input) signal in Ardour? I am facinated with the idea to record under linux and this excellent program here. It just drives me bananas that I can’t use my AMD64 Dual core to get Jack running for my TASCAM US224 which runs perfect on the Acer Aspire One. Kindly help if possible. I appreciate this Forum and if there is a JACK forum you know please let me know.

Have a great week!

Hans

Thorgal thanks so much I will do when I get home from work.

Hans

Following the actual error: (Thank you for your help)

ALSA: poll time out, polled for 32003486 usecs
DRIVER NT: could not run driver cycle
jack main caught signal 12
no message buffer overruns
cannot continue execution of the processing graph (Broken pipe)
cannot continue execution of the processing graph (Broken pipe)
cannot continue execution of the processing graph (Broken pipe)
cannot continue execution of the processing graph (Broken pipe)
cannot continue execution of the processing graph (Broken pipe)
cannot continue execution of the processing graph (Broken pipe)
cannot continue execution of the processing graph (Broken pipe)
cannot continue execution of the processing graph (Broken pipe)
cannot continue execution of the processing graph (Broken pipe)
cannot continue execution of the processing graph (Broken pipe)
cannot continue execution of the processing graph (Broken pipe)
cannot continue execution of the processing graph (Broken pipe)
cannot continue execution of the processing graph (Broken pipe)
cannot continue execution of the processing graph (Broken pipe)
cannot continue execution of the processing graph (Broken pipe)
18:09:11.007 Client deactivated.
cannot continue execution of the pro
18:09:11.009 JACK was stopped successfully.
18:09:11.010 Post-shutdown script…
18:09:11.011 killall jackd

sounds like you have problems with your audio interface, probably some intel HDA garbage. you should start by telling us what audio interface (“soundcard”) you are in fact using, and then i’d recommend hustling on over to IRC where you can get better realtime help (at the right time of day, at least).

Thank you for your fast answer Paul,

It is the same sound card TASCAM 224 which work perfectly fine on the Acer Aspire One Mini Notebook (even in real-time mode) In one of your postings I read that you recommend a REM interface. Can you kindly recommend a model … Since you mentioned it I will get it if I don’t get the TASCAM 224 to work on the Dell VOSTRO 64 Dual Core. Let me know since I will not give up on LINUX recording. Your software ROCKS!

Hans

With the TASCAM 224 in -rt mode I get this Jack message and Jack shuts down…
I have to mention that the same sound card works on my acer aspire one mini notebook in rt mode - same software setup…

Copyright 2001-2005 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
JACK compiled with System V SHM support.
loading driver …
apparent rate = 48000
creating alsa driver … hw:1|hw:1|1024|4|48000|0|0|nomon|swmeter|soft-mode|32bit
control device hw:1
configuring for 48000Hz, period = 1024 frames (21.3 ms), buffer = 4 periods
ALSA: final selected sample format for capture: 24bit little-endian
ALSA: use 4 periods for capture
ALSA: final selected sample format for playback: 24bit little-endian
ALSA: use 4 periods for playback
ALSA: cannot set hardware parameters for playback
ALSA: cannot configure playback channel
cannot load driver module alsa
no message buffer overruns
21:47:56.951 JACK was stopped successfully.
21:47:56.953 Post-shutdown script…
21:47:56.953 killall jackd
jackd: no process killed
21:47:57.370 Post-shutdown script terminated with exit status=256.
21:47:58.494 Could not connect to JACK server as client. - Overall operation failed. - Unable to connect to server. Please check the messages window for more info.

M-Audio Fast Track USB Computer Recording Interface

Does anybody know if this interface is working with Ardour?

Thanks

Have you read the info at
http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Tascam_US-224 ?

Also, the “buffer = 4 periods” seems a bit odd, it’s usually 2 or 3 (though 4 might be just fine in this case…)

Thank you for your help. I just want to point out that the sound card TASCAM 244 is woking on an ACER mini laptop perfectly well and I navigate Ardour with TASCAM 244. It is jsut not working on any of my DELL computers with the same setup.

Thanks,
Hans

you’ve got to compare both systems thoroughly :

kernel version

uname -a

ALSA cards detected at boot time

cat /proc/asound/cards

ALSA kernel modules loaded at boot time

lsmod | grep snd

and if it exists (I am at work right now, so I am not sure on that one):

ALAS version

cat /proc/asound/version

if it does not return anything, try

debian like systems

dpkg -l alsa-base

The only way I got Jack running again on the 64bit Dell Machine was to start with a fresh install UBUNTU 8.10 then upgrade immediately over the INTERNET to Studio 9.04 - I know this is very unsophisticated but HEY - At least this worked for me.

All the best to everybody.

Hans

Hello, i installed ardour on ubuntu 9.04 and i have a well working sound card (i think Intel ICH5) and a microphone, a Samson Q1u, when i record in the standard Sound Recorder, i have sound, music video’s; sound but when i start ardour i have to select my input and output, it only see’s my soundcard, but i don’t see’s my microphone, but i can record in the normal standard recorder program that’s installed already in ubuntu.
Anybody Can help me so Ardour see’s my Microphone?