[LAU] clicking noise in all audio programswith new linux user

Miguel Morales therevoltingx at gmail.com
Thu Sep 18 19:32:03 EDT 2008


Oh, I forgot, to kill artsd is:
killall artsd


On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 16:25 -0700, Miguel Morales wrote:
> I didn't know that audacity worked with jack.  
> Have you tried to use the oss drivers instead of the alsa ones.
> Should be an option for this if you're using qjackctl.
> Do you get constant xruns when running jack?
> Perhaps you can post the ouput of jack when you run it and run a sound
> application that causes clicking.
> 
> Also, make sure you hit reply-to-all when replying to the list.  ^_^
> 
> On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 16:15 -0700, un records wrote:
> > Thanks for the response.  how do you kill an artsd process?  the
> > clicking when happens when i open jack, sound recorder, ardour, or
> > audacity.  it's an irregular fast tick/clicking noise that changes
> > speed slightly when i change the latency rate.  it doesn't happen when
> > i open a regular player like rythmbox or media player.  It does happen
> > when i open Hydrogen (drum sequencer).  So it only happens with music
> > creation/editing programs and Jack.  
> > 
> > --- On Thu, 9/18/08, Miguel Morales <therevoltingx at gmail.com> wrote:
> >         From: Miguel Morales <therevoltingx at gmail.com>
> >         Subject: Re: [LAU] clicking noise in all audio programswith
> >         new linux user
> >         To: unrecordsbooking at yahoo.com
> >         Cc: linux-audio-user at lists.linuxaudio.org
> >         Date: Thursday, September 18, 2008, 6:26 PM
> >         
> >         Does the clicking happen with an audio program that doesn't take input?
> >         i.e. zynaddsubfx.  
> >         Also, make sure you kill any artsd process.  Does the clicking happen
> >         when using alsa by itself.  i.e. using xmms to play audio, without jack
> >         running?
> >         
> >         
> >         On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 13:38 -0700, un records wrote:
> >         > 
> >         > 
> >         > I am a new ubuntu user who is trying to optimize my system to run
> >         > ardour and audacity.  It's a dell d630 laptop.  I have installed both
> >         > programs and Jack, but there is a constant clicking noise whenever i
> >         > open any audio program including jack.  I think it has something to do
> >         > with the latency, but i've tried all settings and the clicking
> >         > persists.  I do not have programming experience.  Is there any advice
> >         > you can give on how to set up my system.
> >         > 
> >         >
> >          Thanks.
> >         > 
> >         > 
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