Setting up Jack with Ardour with Eeebuntu Linux on Asus Eee Pc 900

Installation & Configuration Linux
#1

Hi.

I am a brand new Linux user. I have an Asus Eee Pc 900 on which I have installed Eeebuntu, the Netbook version of Ubuntu 8.01 (I think). I have installed Ubuntu Studio as well.

My sound card is a RealTek HD.

Here is my question. Iḿ trying to figure out Jack audio, Ardour, and Linux at the same time. I installed Ubuntu Studio to try to activate real time capabilities, but every time I click on the real time button in Jack it deactivates.

Is there any documentation for the Asus Eee Pc 900 for absolute n00bs who want to know how to set up Jack and Ardour properly on this system. I want to use the Eee 900 for small on the fly recording of guitar and voice. But as of yet cannot get Jack set up right.

Thank you.

–A.

#2

Yes, I have just done all of this. I did not have an audio group set up. Once I did this Real-time capabilities were started, and I am having no trouble with that now.

Thanks for the tips.

Now I just can hear playback from sound check I did. But that is a whole different problem.

#3

or compile your own :slight_smile:

#4

If you’re using Ubunut 8.10, forget realtime. There seems to be no working rt-patch for the kernel. Downgrade to Ubuntu 8.04.1

#5

Or upgrade to 9.04… I think it will hit stable in three days

#6

So you have done the
sudo su -c ‘echo @audio - rtprio 99 >> /etc/security/limits.conf’
sudo su -c ‘echo @audio - memlock 250000 >> /etc/security/limits.conf’
sudo su -c ‘echo @audio - nice -10 >> /etc/security/limits.conf’
right?
Have you added your user to the audio group and logged out and in again?

#7

http://rivendell.tryphon.org/wiki/index.php/Install_Rivendell_on_Ubuntu#Realtime_Preemption

#8

Thank you.

That did not help at all.

On the FAQ the support that was given is as follows

I cannot start JACK in realtime mode!

Sad. Quaint, even.

What a great solution. I ask a question and I get a cocky wiseass.

#9

Here is the error Iḿ getting

18:25:07.411 Patchbay deactivated. 18:25:07.418 Statistics reset. 18:25:07.481 Startup script... 18:25:07.482 artsshell -q terminate 18:25:07.490 ALSA connection graph change. 18:25:07.920 Startup script terminated with exit status=256. 18:25:07.921 JACK is starting... 18:25:07.922 /usr/bin/jackd -R -dalsa -dhw:0 -r44100 -p1024 -n2 -S -i22 -o22 18:25:07.937 JACK was started with PID=6126. jackd 0.109.2 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. cannot use real-time scheduling (FIFO at priority 10) [for thread -1210104144, from thread -1210104144] (1: Operation not permitted) cannot create engine 18:25:07.951 JACK was stopped successfully. 18:25:07.952 Post-shutdown script... 18:25:07.953 killall jackd 18:25:08.139 ALSA connection change. jackd: no process killed 18:25:08.368 Post-shutdown script terminated with exit status=256. 18:25:10.169 Could not connect to JACK server as client. - Overall operation failed. - Unable to connect to server. Please check the messages window for more info.