[LAU] Fedora 12 & CCRMA

[Rick Green]

On Sun, 16 May 2010, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:

> I know you are frustrated. But let's help each other, shall we?
>
> rpm -q jack-audio-connection-kit qjackctl pulseaudio kernel ardour
> uname -r
>
  OK.  I found another Radeon card in an old machine, swapped it into my 
test machine, and luckily it came up without having to reconfigure X.

Here's the output of the queries you suggested:
[root at angel ~]# rpm -q jack-audio-connection-kit qjackctl pulseaudio 
kernel ardour
jack-audio-connection-kit-1.9.4-1.fc12.ccrma.i686
qjackctl-0.3.6-1.fc12.i686
pulseaudio-0.9.21-5.fc12.i686
kernel-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686
kernel-2.6.32.11-99.fc12.i686
ardour-2.8.7-1.fc12.i686
[root at angel ~]# uname -r
2.6.31.12-1.rt20.1.fc12.ccrma.i686.rtPAE


I continued poking at the system, and stumbled upon more problems:

Launch Ardour, open new session, selecting 'automatically connect inputs'. 
Add two mono tracks to session. Select track 1.  Input at top of editor 
mixer strip shows a '-', and pop-up when hovering shows 'disconnected'. 
I click on it, and select 'in 1'.  Input box still shows '-' and hover 
text shows 'disconnected', yet when I click on it again, 'in 1' is checked 
in the popup menu.

I enable record on that track, enable record in the transport section, and 
click the play button.  Nothing happens - the record button continues to 
flash as if enabled, but the playhead doesn't move. No indication that 
anything is being recorded.

I decide to give up there.  I click 'session' then 'close', get the 
reminder that I haven't saved, and click 'just close'.  Nothing happens, 
and Ardour locks up.  Several minutes later, I issue a kill from a 
terminal window, and Ardour disappears.

In that terminal window, I issue 'ps aux | grep jack', and learn that jack 
is still running.  I attempt to kill it, it doesn't die, then kill it 
again with -s 9, to no avail.

I did check /etc/security/limits.conf, and found this at the end:

## Automatically appended by the Planet CCRMA jack-audio-connection-kit
* - rtprio 99
* - memlock 4194304
* - nice -10


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