On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 5:34 PM, trahern culver <sound.warrior20@gmail.com> wrote:

hey all first off i when i tried to start ardour it gave me an error message saying it couldn't start jack because of several possible reasons it also said some thing about memory allocation in the message does any one know what this problem is and how to solve it?

you've got most of the standard problems:

(1) your system is not configured to allow you to use realtime scheduling or memory locking
(2) you have something else using your audio interface (a guess would be pulseaudio)

see the JACK FAQ for suggestions on both questions.