After posting pulse audio clicked in my brain. So I tried:

pasuspender -- jackd &

and this seems to work.

Thanks.

On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 8:59 AM, Gerald Mwangi <gerald.mwangi@gmx.de> wrote:

Are you sure nothing else is blocking the sound card. Try stopping
Pulseaudio if its running
Gerald

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