Re: [gentoo-user] Poor mans audio in the world of the great Jack D.

[Bruce Schultz <brulzki@gmail.com>]

On 21 May 2015 2:23:54 AM AEST, Meino.Cramer@gmx.de wrote:
>Emanuele Rusconi <emarsk@gmail.com> [15-05-20 17:36]:
>> On 19 May 2015 at 17:24,  <Meino.Cramer@gmx.de> wrote:
>> >
>> > The master control program (qsstv) raises its shield against Tron,
>displaying
>> > "Sound card error: Device or resource busy."
>> >
>> > And silence was the only voice heard by the folks...
>> > And nothing was displayed anymore.
>> 
>> Oops, I forgot the last line of my koan:
>> 
>> pcm.!default { type plug; slave { pcm "rawjack" } }
>> 
>> -- Emanuele Rusconi
>> 
>
>...and confusion reaches the head of great Jack D. and
>from his mouth the words were heard:
>
>#>sudo /etc/init.d/jackd restart
> * Starting JACK Daemon ...
>* JACK daemon can't be started! Check logfile: /var/log/jackd.log      
>                             [ !! ]
> * ERROR: jackd failed to start
>[1]    6210 exit 1     sudo /etc/init.d/jackd restart
>
>...but none of his words, which were good and wise in the past, were
>written down for those who came after him:
>
>#>ls -l /var/log/jackd.log
>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2015-05-20 18:18 /var/log/jackd.log
>
>And the children - left alone in the dark of this ancient machine -
>stared into the empty LED eyes of their grandmaster not knowing
>to where to go and whether to flee or stand still...
>
>"Help - Oh help us brotheren of the Gentoo! Help!"
>they cried.

Perhaps the great Jack D. Is talking to itself?

The pcm.!default line says: when opening alsa, connect to rawjack

The earlier .asoundrc says: when opening alsa rawjack, direct the connection to the great Jack D.

If the jackd connects to the default alsa output, aka rawjack, coult it be tripping itself up? Is there maybe a jack option to direct the alsa output to the sound hardware instead?



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:B