[LAU] tips for beginners

[David Adler]

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 6:40 PM, David Santamauro
<david.santamauro at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been lurking around a few weeks now as I get my feet wet in the world
> of linux audio. I find it very difficult to get off the ground, to be
> honest. I dusted off an older PC that I had used for audio in the MS Windows
> environment and carved out a partition for fedora 11 with the real-time
> kernel from PlanetCCRMA. OS install went off without a hitch as did
> installing the new kernel. That's just about where "easy" stopped.
>
> I have a list of things I'd like to ask about but I think I'll just start
> off simple. Silly me thought I could plug speakers into the output of the
> 2496 and I'd be able to hear (and eventually *make*) glorious music -- no
> such luck. So, onto my first issue:
>
> I check what the system sees
> $ cat /proc/asound/cards
>  0 [au8810         ]: au8810 - Aureal Vortex au8810
>                      Aureal Vortex au8810 at 0xfea80000 irq 21
>  1 [M2496          ]: ICE1712 - M Audio Audiophile 24/96
>                      M Audio Audiophile 24/96 at 0xdf80, irq 22
>
> ... so far so good
>
> Now, I just want to use the sound preferences dialog and make sure the
> system is using the 2496 as main output. Problem is, although both the 8810
> and 2496 are present in the "Capture" tab, only the 8810 is available from
> the "Playback" tab.
>
I am unfamilliar with the sound preferences dialog you
are using, no specific help there.

In the settings dialog of qjackctl, do the 'missing'
playback ports show up in the drop-down list where
you choose 'Output device'?

> Actually _hearing_ the music aside, I decided to try my luck with JACK.
> Funny enough, I was able to get a rudimentary JACK infrastructure passing
> xmms audio over to ardour2 (was a small tutorial I found) ... still, no
> sound from the speakers though ;-)
>
> Could anyone here possibly help or point me to a resource that can?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> David
>
>
>
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