Why won't Ardour start on my Mac?!?!?!

So I’ve downloaded Ardour -X11 version binary.

Downloaded Jack, ran Jack before I started Ardour,

Started the program, Ardour comes up, but I just see the menu bar. Next to Ardour 2, it says “File, Edit, Window”

Those are my only options, there is nothing else.

Copied what displays on my console.

7/31/08 2:26:32 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (IDriveDaemon[582]) Exited with exit code: 1
7/31/08 2:26:32 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (IDriveDaemon) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
7/31/08 2:26:37 PM Ardour2[583] Can’t open input server /Users/adrianthomas/Library/InputManagers/Edit in TextMate

7/31/08 2:26:40 PM [0x0-0x52052].org.ardour.Ardour2[583] Ardour/GTK 2.4.1
7/31/08 2:26:40 PM [0x0-0x52052].org.ardour.Ardour2[583] (built using 3201 and GCC version 4.0.0 20041026 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 4061))
7/31/08 2:26:40 PM [0x0-0x52052].org.ardour.Ardour2[583] Copyright © 1999-2008 Paul Davis
7/31/08 2:26:40 PM [0x0-0x52052].org.ardour.Ardour2[583] Some portions Copyright © Steve Harris, Ari Johnson, Brett Viren, Joel Baker
7/31/08 2:26:40 PM [0x0-0x52052].org.ardour.Ardour2[583] Ardour comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
7/31/08 2:26:40 PM [0x0-0x52052].org.ardour.Ardour2[583] not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
7/31/08 2:26:40 PM [0x0-0x52052].org.ardour.Ardour2[583] This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
7/31/08 2:26:40 PM [0x0-0x52052].org.ardour.Ardour2[583] under certain conditions; see the source for copying conditions.
7/31/08 2:26:41 PM org.x.X11[608] X11.app = /Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11
7/31/08 2:26:41 PM org.x.X11[608] TransformProcessType: Success
7/31/08 2:26:41 PM org.x.X11[608] TransformProcessType: Success
7/31/08 2:26:41 PM org.x.X11[608] Launchd command line argument noticed.
7/31/08 2:26:41 PM org.x.X11[608] X11.app starting:
7/31/08 2:26:41 PM org.x.X11[608] X.org Release 7.2
7/31/08 2:26:41 PM org.x.X11[608] X.Org Xquartz X Server 1.3.0-apple5
7/31/08 2:26:41 PM org.x.X11[608] Build Date: 20080305
7/31/08 2:26:41 PM org.x.X11[608] Xquartz: run by launchd for fd 0
7/31/08 2:26:41 PM X11[609] Can’t open input server /Users/adrianthomas/Library/InputManagers/Edit in TextMate

7/31/08 2:26:41 PM org.x.X11[608] 2008-07-31 14:26:41.828 X11[609:10b] Can’t open input server /Users/adrianthomas/Library/InputManagers/Edit in TextMate
7/31/08 2:26:42 PM org.x.X11[608] Could not init font path element /Library/Fonts, removing from list!
7/31/08 2:26:42 PM org.x.X11[608] Could not init font path element /System/Library/Fonts, removing from list!
7/31/08 2:26:42 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (IDriveDaemon[614]) posix_spawnp("/Applications/IDriveforMac/IDriveDaemon.app/Contents/MacOS/IDriveDaemon", …): No such file or directory
7/31/08 2:26:42 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (IDriveDaemon[614]) Exited with exit code: 1
7/31/08 2:26:42 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (IDriveDaemon) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
7/31/08 2:26:52 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (IDriveDaemon[615]) posix_spawnp("/Applications/IDriveforMac/IDriveDaemon.app/Contents/MacOS/IDriveDaemon", …): No such file or directory
7/31/08 2:26:52 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (IDriveDaemon[615]) Exited with exit code: 1
7/31/08 2:26:52 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (IDriveDaemon) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
7/31/08 2:27:02 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (IDriveDaemon[616]) posix_spawnp("/Applications/IDriveforMac/IDriveDaemon.app/Contents/MacOS/IDriveDaemon", …): No such file or directory
7/31/08 2:27:02 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (IDriveDaemon[616]) Exited with exit code: 1
7/31/08 2:27:02 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (IDriveDaemon) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

This works on my linux laptop, but I want to run this on my mac machine.

Help please.

Specs:

G4 Mac Mini 1.42Mhz | Leopard 10.5.3 | 80 Gig HDD | 1 Gig Ram |

Tiger ? Leopard ?
which version of X11 ?

however, the 2.5 native version seems to work pretty well.

Sorry.

10.5.4 Leoprd.

X11 2.1.1

Where can I get the 2.5 Native version of Ardour? Can’t find it from the downloads section.

Re-read the download page.

However, where should I post some feedbacks about ardour 2.5 ? these are not really bugs, but some weird things happens with the GUI…

i cant open ardour on my mac, why?

Where/how does it fail? Perhaps recent OSX which doesn’t run unsigned binaries that are not from official app-store: in that case right-click (or command+click) > context-menu > Open should do.