[Lancaster] Sound on Linux

[Tim Churchill]

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?

Thanks,

Tim.



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