[Lancaster] Sound on Linux

[Andy Baxter]

On Thursday 05 August 2004 17:01, Ken Hough wrote:
> 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.

yes.

> > 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.

not really - i just know how to get alsa working under debian. alsa has an OSS 
emulation mode if you install the modules snd-pcm-oss and snd-mixer-oss, so 
you should still be able to use jack's OSSSS setup if alsa won't work.

if you're looking for a sound recorder/editor, see if you can get rezound 
working.

> 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
>
>
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Thanks, andy.