[Lancaster] Sound on Linux

[Ken Hough]

Tim Churchill wrote:
> I have temporarily given up on using sound on ArkLinux, due to lack 
> of editing programs. I have managed to get them to package Ardour, 
> but didn't have enough knowledge to get it to run. I have since 
> learnt that one needs Jack installed and running before Ardour will 
> run.
> 
> After some thought and research I have downloaded Fedora core 1 and 
> then used Planet CCRMA's patched kernel and some of their software. 
> This gave me the ability to run Ardour and Audacity using the AC97 
> onboard sound system of the PC and OSS. I then attempted to install 
> and configure ALSA to replace OSS. This gets rid of OSS, but has 
> landed me with a modules.conf file that I don't understand and Jack 
> refusing to start The error message I get is <jackstart: pcm.c:690: 
> snd_pcm_nonblock: Assertion 'pcm' failed. Aborted.>
> 
> The sound configuration GUI doesn't show ALSA as an option. Has 
> anyone any ideas as to what I am doing wrong?
> 
Andy seems to be a sound guru. I have two points to make.

1. Fedora Core is said to be iffy when loaded with MS Windows XP. there 
are reports of it screwing up the NTFS partition. Also why Core 1? 2 is 
available now.

2. I've gone with the default installations for sound under Suse. Have 
now installed SuSE v9.1 on three different PCs (an Athlon, a K6II and a 
PIII laptop) without any problems and have had no problems in running 
Audacity, Broadcast2000, etc. Have previously used Broadcast2000 on v8.2 
as well.

Ken Hough