[LAU] No audio going between JACK and sound card

[Justin Smith]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 10:23 AM, ANDERSON    GREGORY <gymjb at stu.ca> wrote:
> I just installed Fedora 9 but I am having trouble getting
> JACK configured properly.  The only way I can get jack to
> start without failing is by using the 'dummy' driver.  But
> I cannot get sound out of the computer (even though ardour
> is working properly and playing) or any sound into the
> computer.  Is this 'dummy' driver an actual driver?
>
> I had it woring excellent in Fedora 8 but in my absent
> mindedness did not write down how it was configured.  I do
> believe I was using alsa though.  Do I need to set the
> path to the driver, it just says 'jackd' now?
>
> If someone could answer my questions or at least point me
> to a resource I would be very thankful.
>
> Greg.
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The dummy driver is dummy as in fake, it connects to no sound card,
and is useful for debugging some functionality of jack applications on
a computer without a sound card, and not a whole lot else.