Apparently there is a proaudio overlay for Gentoo - you probably want to enable that.<div>Hopefully an actual gentoo user will come and clarify the situation further<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 7:39 AM, Viktor Mastoridis <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:viktor@mastoridis.co.uk">viktor@mastoridis.co.uk</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
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When I start qsynth I get this message:<br>

Qsynth1: Failed to create the audio driver (jack).<br>
Cannot continue without it.<br>

I am running on gentoo (AMD64)<br>
Thanks.<br></blockquote></div><div><br>Do you have jack installed and running? On Gentoo jack isn&#39;t installed by default and I am not too familiar with Gentoo to get you to do it. <br><br>But going down the lane, by your question, I need to ask you the following:<br>


Are you a beginner in the Linux Audio world?<br>If yes, and you are just starting with Linux audio, I could recommend that you search and try some distros that are maybe easier to handle at the beginning? Like Ubuntu Studio, or AVLinux? <br>


</div></div><br>-- <br>Viktor Mastoridis<br>Music-o-Graph <br>&amp; Educator<br><a href="http://www.MediTera.Co.Uk" target="_blank">www.MediTera.Co.Uk</a><br>
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