Re: [Jack-Devel] help for linux virgin

Hi Richard, consider to subscribe to "Linux-audio-user -- A list for linux audio users" https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user and to repeat your request, since this is the best mailing list for novices to get the kind of help you need. Mint isn't an official Ubuntu flavour, but it much likely does use most packages from the official Ubuntu and official Ubuntu flavour repositories. There is a package search for the repositories, https://packages.ubuntu.com/ . Regarding https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_serena_cinnamon_whatsnew.php your release of Mint seems to be based upon Ubuntu xenial (16.04LTS) [1]. Since you installed qjackctl, the jackd package which depends on jackd2 or jackd1 already should be installed. A dialog should have asked you to configure jackd, but lets focus on this after you subscribed to the Linux-audio-user mailing list. Just in case, you could install https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/jackd2 or https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/jackd1 after opening a terminal, by running sudo apt update && sudo apt install jackd2 The pros and cons of jackd1 and jackd2 are unimportant at the moment, as a starting point jackd2 is a good, but not necessarily the better choice. It depends on a few things what version to chose, however, there are reasons that jackd2 often is preferred. Audacity has a few pitfalls, so it's better to use another app. What app depends a lot on your needs. First of all you should install https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial-updates/linux-lowlatency and https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/rtirq-init , in other words, from command line (a terminal) run sudo apt update && sudo apt install linux-lowlatency rtirq-init After installing the new kernel you need to boot the new kernel. If repeat your request to the Linux-audio-user mailing list post the command line output of lsb_release -a uname -rm id grep -v "#" /etc/security/limits.conf cat /etc/security/limits.d/audio.conf /etc/init.d/rtirq status grep RTIRQ_NAME_LIST /etc/default/rtirq aplay -l arecord -l amidi -l Regards, Ralf [1] "Main components Linux Mint 18.1 features Cinnamon 3.2, MDM 2.0, a Linux kernel 4.4 and an Ubuntu 16.04 package base."