<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">hey all first off i when i tried to start ardour it gave me an error message saying it couldn't start jack because of several possible reasons it also said some thing about memory allocation in the message does any one know what this problem is and how to solve it? <div><br></div><div>Secondly i inputted the below command into terminal for my ederol u a 25 and avid m box mini sound cards and got the below results: </div><div><br></div><div>ed command inputted for ederol and avid sound cards: </div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Courier; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">jackd -d alsa -d hw:UA25 -n 3 -p 128 -r 48000 </div></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">u a 25 output results: </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; "><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; ">sound-warrior@the-megga-machine:~$ jackd -d alsa -d hw:UA25 -n 3 -p 128 -r 4800</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; ">jackdmp 1.9.8</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; ">Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; ">Copyright 2004-2011 Grame.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; ">jackdmp comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; ">This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; ">under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; ">Cannot create thread 1 Operation not permitted</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; ">Cannot create thread 1 Operation not permitted</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; ">Cannot create thread 1 Operation not permitted</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; ">JACK server starting in realtime mode with priority 10</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; ">Cannot lock down 82241434 byte memory area (Cannot allocate memory)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; ">audio_reservation_init</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; ">Acquire audio card Audio1</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; ">creating alsa driver ... hw:UA25|hw:UA25|128|3|4800|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; ">configuring for 4800Hz, period = 128 frames (26.7 ms), buffer = 3 periods</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; ">ALSA: final selected sample format for capture: 24bit little-endian</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; ">ALSA: use 3 periods for capture</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; ">ALSA: final selected sample format for playback: 24bit little-endian</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; ">ALSA: use 3 periods for playback</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; ">Cannot use real-time scheduling (RR/10)(1: Operation not permitted)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; ">AcquireSelfRealTime error</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; ">avid m box mini output results: </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; "><div style="margin: 0px; "><br>
sound-warrior@the-megga-machine:~$ jackd -d alsa -d hw: Avid Mbox Mini -n 3 -p 128 -r 4800</div><div style="margin: 0px; ">jackdmp 1.9.8</div><div style="margin: 0px; ">Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others.</div><div style="margin: 0px; ">Copyright 2004-2011 Grame.</div><div style="margin: 0px; ">jackdmp comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY</div><div style="margin: 0px; ">This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it</div><div style="margin: 0px; ">under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details</div><div style="margin: 0px; ">Cannot create thread 1 Operation not permitted</div><div style="margin: 0px; ">Cannot create thread 1 Operation not permitted</div><div style="margin: 0px; ">Cannot create thread 1 Operation not permitted</div><div style="margin: 0px; ">JACK server starting in realtime mode with priority 10</div><div style="margin: 0px; ">Cannot lock down 82241434 byte memory area (Cannot allocate memory)</div><div style="margin: 0px; ">audio_reservation_init</div><div style="margin: 0px; ">Acquire audio card Audio0</div><div style="margin: 0px; ">creating alsa driver ... hw:|hw:|128|3|4800|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; ">ATTENTION: The playback device "hw:" is already in use. Please stop the application using it and run JACK again</div><div style="margin: 0px; ">Cannot initialize driver</div><div style="margin: 0px; ">JackServer::Open() failed with -1</div><div style="margin: 0px; ">Failed to open server</div><div style="margin: 0px; ">sound-warrior@the-megga-machine:~$ </div><div> </div><div><br></div><div>does any one know what these errors given by terminal mean? and how to solve the problem? </div><div><br></div><div>Your help with these problems would be most welcome kind regards trahern.</div></div></div></body></html>