[LAU] No audio going between JACK and sound card

andy baxter andy at earthsong.free-online.co.uk
Thu Sep 11 13:47:40 EDT 2008


Justin Smith wrote:
> 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.
>   

Also useful I guess if you have some kind of setup where you just want 
to batch process loads of audio but not listen to it on that machine?



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