27 Sep
2016
27 Sep
'16
1:01 p.m.
Please don't reply off-list. On the list there are several subscribers
who maintain an Ubuntu flavour, that AFAIK by default combines jackdbus
and pulseaudio, they could help you much better than I could do, since
I categorically refuse pulseaudio.
On Tue, 27 Sep 2016 11:29:34 +0100, Bill Purvis wrote:
Thanks Ralf, but it was all working with jack in place
before I set
this up. Pulseaudio is latest version from LAU so I don;t see why
there should be a problem.
You should mention what pulseaudio version, jackd version etc. you are
using, since "latest version from LAU" is not really useful. Perhaps
mentioning the distro and it's release could be also helpful. I never
used pulseaudio and never ever will use it, I don't have it installed,
so I only could provide a link:
http://www.jackaudio.org/faq/pulseaudio_and_jack.html
Regards,
Ralf
27 Sep
27 Sep
1:53 p.m.
New subject: Laptop sound problems
On 27/09/16 12:01, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Please don't reply off-list.
Apologies, I thought I was replying to list - must be having a bad day....
On the list there are several subscribers
who maintain an Ubuntu flavour, that AFAIK by default combines jackdbus
and pulseaudio, they could help you much better than I could do, since
I categorically refuse pulseaudio.
On Tue, 27 Sep 2016 11:29:34 +0100, Bill Purvis wrote:
Again, many thanks for responding.
I use my laptop for all sorts of things - browsing, editing development and
make use of various programs (I hate the word apps) that produce audio:
totem,
firefox (YouTube etc.) and I don't see any easy way to avoid pulseaudio.
I understood
that the versions of pulseaudio from the LAU distribution were fully
aware of Jack, and they
have proved to work in most cases.
For the record, the versions of pulseaudio modules installed are:
~$ dpkg -l | fgrep pulseaudio
ii gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio:amd64 0.10.31-3+nmu1ubuntu5 amd64
GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio
ii gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio:amd64 1.2.4-1~ubuntu1 amd64
GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio
ii pulseaudio 1:4.0-0ubuntu11.1+kxstudio1
amd64 PulseAudio sound server
ii pulseaudio-module-bluetooth 1:4.0-0ubuntu11.1+kxstudio1
amd64 Bluetooth module for PulseAudio sound server
ii pulseaudio-module-x11 1:4.0-0ubuntu11.1+kxstudio1
amd64 X11 module for PulseAudio sound server
ii pulseaudio-utils 1:4.0-0ubuntu11.1+kxstudio1
amd64 Command line tools for the PulseAudio sound server
and for jack:
~$ dpkg -l | fgrep jack
ii azr3-jack 1.2.3-2 amd64 drawbar organ
simulator
ii jack-keyboard 1:2.7.1-1kxstudio1.1 amd64
Virtual MIDI keyboard for JACK MIDI
ii jackd 5 all JACK Audio
Connection Kit (default server package)
ii jackd2 2:1.9.11~20160620-5~trusty1
amd64 JACK Audio Connection Kit (server and example clients)
ii libjack-jackd2-0:amd64 2:1.9.11~20160620-5~trusty1
amd64 JACK Audio Connection Kit (libraries)
ii libjack-jackd2-0:i386 2:1.9.11~20160620-5~trusty1
i386 JACK Audio Connection Kit (libraries)
ii libjack-jackd2-dev:amd64 2:1.9.11~20160620-5~trusty1
amd64 JACK Audio Connection Kit (development files)
ii qjackctl 2:0.4.1-1kxstudio2 amd64
User interface for controlling the JACK sound server
Bill
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Thanks Ralf, but it was all working with jack in
place before I set
this up. Pulseaudio is latest version from LAU so I don;t see why
there should be a problem.
You should mention what pulseaudio version, jackd
version etc. you are
using, since "latest version from LAU" is not really useful. Perhaps
mentioning the distro and it's release could be also helpful. I never
used pulseaudio and never ever will use it, I don't have it installed,
so I only could provide a link:
http://www.jackaudio.org/faq/pulseaudio_and_jack.html
Regards,
Ralf
2:12 p.m.
New subject: Laptop sound problems
On Tue, 27 Sep 2016 12:53:49 +0100, Bill Purvis wrote:
the LAU distribution
The Linux audio users mailing list is not related to a distribution.
You seem to use KXStudio or Ubuntu with KXStudio repositories.
Regarding http://kxstudio.linuxaudio.org/ there's a KXStudio community,
a chat and a forum.
That you're asking for help on this list is ok, I only want to explain,
that subscribers of this list use different distros. This neither is an
Ubuntu, nor a KXStudio related mailing list.
AFAIK there is nothing like a LAU distribution.
Regards,
Ralf
3:51 p.m.
New subject: Laptop sound problems
On Tue, 27 Sep 2016, Bill Purvis wrote:
I use my laptop for all sorts of things - browsing,
editing development and
make use of various programs (I hate the word apps) that produce audio:
totem,
firefox (YouTube etc.) and I don't see any easy way to avoid pulseaudio. I
understood
that the versions of pulseaudio from the LAU distribution were fully aware of
Jack, and they
have proved to work in most cases.
For the record, the versions of pulseaudio modules installed are:
you need module-jackdbus-detect. the package is pulseaudio-module-jack in
debian/ubuntu. You also need to use jackd2 rather than jackd1.
--
Len Ovens
www.ovenwerks.net
28 Sep
28 Sep
11:28 a.m.
New subject: Laptop sound problems
On 27/09/16 14:51, Len Ovens wrote:
On Tue, 27 Sep 2016, Bill Purvis wrote:
Installed that, but still no sound. Shut down Jackd and it bursts
into
sound.
Tried to restart Jack but it fails:
10:01:19.105 D-BUS: JACK server could not be started. Sorry
Wed Sep 28 10:01:18 2016: Starting jack server...
Wed Sep 28 10:01:18 2016: JACK server starting in realtime mode with
priority 10
Wed Sep 28 10:01:18 2016: self-connect-mode is "Don't restrict self
connect requests"
Wed Sep 28 10:01:19 2016: Acquired audio card Audio0
Wed Sep 28 10:01:19 2016: creating alsa driver ...
hw:0|hw:0|1024|2|44100|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit
Wed Sep 28 10:01:19 2016: Using ALSA driver HDA-Intel running on card 0
- HDA Intel PCH at 0xc2510000 irq 45
Wed Sep 28 10:01:19 2016: ERROR:
ATTENTION: The playback device "hw:0" is already in use. The following
applications are using your soundcard(s) so you should check them and
stop them as necessary before trying to start JACK again:
pulseaudio (process ID 2296)
Wed Sep 28 10:01:19 2016: Released audio card Audio0
Wed Sep 28 10:01:19 2016: ERROR: Cannot initialize driver
Wed Sep 28 10:01:19 2016: ERROR: JackServer::Open failed with -1
Wed Sep 28 10:01:19 2016: ERROR: Failed to open server
Wed Sep 28 10:01:20 2016: Saving settings to
"/home/bill/.config/jack/conf.xml" ...
10:01:25.792 Could not connect to JACK server as client. - Overall
operation failed. - Unable to connect to server. Please check the
messages window for more info.
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
jack server is not running or cannot be started
(above taken from Qjackctl Messages window)
process 2296 is, of course pulseaudio:
bill 2296 1.1 0.0 861316 8004 ? S<l Sep27 12:34
/usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
This was after a reboot of system.
Ran pacmd list-modules which showed module-jackdbus-detect presnt but
not module-jack-sink or module-jack-source.
confirmed that I'm running jackd2 not jackd1:
$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/jackdbus
jackd2: /usr/bin/jackdbus
When does pulseaudio use module-jackbus-detect to check if jack is
running? Do I need to start jack
before pulseaudio?
Tried pacmd load-module module-jack-source and module-jack-sink. They
them show up in pacmd list-modules
but still totem hangs when started.
Bill
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I use my laptop for all sorts of things -
browsing, editing
development and
make use of various programs (I hate the word apps) that produce
audio: totem,
firefox (YouTube etc.) and I don't see any easy way to avoid
pulseaudio. I understood
that the versions of pulseaudio from the LAU distribution were fully
aware of Jack, and they
have proved to work in most cases.
For the record, the versions of pulseaudio modules installed are:
you need module-jackdbus-detect. the package is pulseaudio-module-jack
in debian/ubuntu. You also need to use jackd2 rather than jackd1.
--
Len Ovens
www.ovenwerks.net
4:49 p.m.
New subject: Laptop sound problems
On Wed, 28 Sep 2016, Bill Purvis wrote:
On 27/09/16 14:51, Len Ovens wrote:
>
> you need module-jackdbus-detect. the package is pulseaudio-module-jack in
> debian/ubuntu. You also need to use jackd2 rather than jackd1.
Installed that, but still no sound. Shut down Jackd
and it bursts into sound.
Tried to restart Jack but it fails:
Run pavucontrol. In the playback tab under the stream you are listening
to there will be a box with the name of your audio device. clicking on
that gives a drop down ... select jack sink. Sound should return. Then go
to the output devices tab and find jack sink. There is a square button
with a checkmark in it to "set as fallback". clicking on this makes that
the default.
In my case, I unload the PA alsa module and the PA udev module so that
pulse only ever sees the jack sink and then run jack at session start.
In my opinion, Pulse has the front end jackd should have always had and
jackd provides a stable backend that pulse should have always had.
--
Len Ovens
www.ovenwerks.net
8:47 p.m.
New subject: Laptop sound problems
On 28/09/16 15:49, Len Ovens wrote:
On Wed, 28 Sep 2016, Bill Purvis wrote:
pavucontrol only shows a dummy output device! Shut down jack, but
still
only dummy!
Bill
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On 27/09/16 14:51, Len Ovens wrote:
>
> you need module-jackdbus-detect. the package is
> pulseaudio-module-jack in debian/ubuntu. You also need to use jackd2
> rather than jackd1.
Installed that, but still no sound. Shut down
Jackd and it bursts
into sound.
Tried to restart Jack but it fails:
Run pavucontrol. In the playback tab under the stream you are
listening to there will be a box with the name of your audio device.
clicking on that gives a drop down ... select jack sink. Sound should
return. Then go to the output devices tab and find jack sink. There is
a square button with a checkmark in it to "set as fallback". clicking
on this makes that the default.
In my case, I unload the PA alsa module and the PA udev module so that
pulse only ever sees the jack sink and then run jack at session start.
In my opinion, Pulse has the front end jackd should have always had
and jackd provides a stable backend that pulse should have always had.
--
Len Ovens
www.ovenwerks.net 
10:25 p.m.
New subject: Laptop sound problems
Reply to list because not sure who start this post, maybe this page will
help her/him :
http://jackaudio.org/faq/pulseaudio_and_jack.html
Have fun;
--
Fred,
11:04 p.m.
New subject: Laptop sound problems
On Wed, 28 Sep 2016, Bill Purvis wrote:
On 28/09/16 15:49, Len Ovens wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Sep 2016, Bill Purvis wrote:
>
>> On 27/09/16 14:51, Len Ovens wrote:
>>>
>>> you need module-jackdbus-detect. the package is pulseaudio-module-jack in
>>> debian/ubuntu. You also need to use jackd2 rather than jackd1.
>
>> Installed that, but still no sound. Shut down Jackd and it bursts into
>> sound.
>> Tried to restart Jack but it fails:
>
> Run pavucontrol. In the playback tab under the stream you are listening to
> there will be a box with the name of your audio device. clicking on that
pavucontrol only shows a dummy output device! Shut
down jack, but still only
dummy!
Ah, sounds like you are running jackd and not jackdbus.
--
Len Ovens
www.ovenwerks.net
29 Sep
29 Sep
5:39 p.m.
New subject: Laptop sound problems
On 28/09/16 22:04, Len Ovens wrote:
On Wed, 28 Sep 2016, Bill Purvis wrote:
Hi Len, (and list)
I don't think so - I'm pretty sure it's been jackdbus for quite a while.
As it happens, I set everything back to the failing situation and
rebooted the laptop.
It now works as it should, with QjackCtl in control. There's no sign of
a pulseaudio
running and yet totem is working?
Thanks to everyone who chipped in, the problem has mysteriously sorted
itself out, at
least for the moment, and I'm none the wiser! Such is life...
Bill
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On 28/09/16 15:49, Len Ovens wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Sep 2016, Bill Purvis wrote:
>
>> On 27/09/16 14:51, Len Ovens wrote:
>>>
>>> you need module-jackdbus-detect. the package is
>>> pulseaudio-module-jack in debian/ubuntu. You also need to use
>>> jackd2 rather than jackd1.
>
>> Installed that, but still no sound. Shut down Jackd and it bursts
>> into sound.
>> Tried to restart Jack but it fails:
>
> Run pavucontrol. In the playback tab under the stream you are
> listening to there will be a box with the name of your audio
> device. clicking on that
pavucontrol only shows a dummy output device!
Shut down jack, but
still only dummy!
Ah, sounds like you are running jackd and not jackdbus.
--
Len Ovens
www.ovenwerks.net
6:06 p.m.
New subject: Laptop sound problems
On Thu, 29 Sep 2016, Bill Purvis wrote:
On 28/09/16 22:04, Len Ovens wrote:
>
> Ah, sounds like you are running jackd and not jackdbus.
I don't think so - I'm pretty sure it's
been jackdbus for quite a while.
jackd2 in debian/ubuntu ships with both jackd and jackdbus. Many jack
applications that find no jack server running will start one using jackd
with the temporary flag (we hope). There have been at least some versions
of jackd where this was broken and the started jack server would continue
running. This would block jackdbus from starting. This bug has been fixed
now for over two years. However, ubuntu shipped the buggy version in their
LTS (14.04) and there may be applications that do not bother to set the
temporary flag. Running jackdbus at session start is best practice to
solve this problem. Or use some other method of getting desktop audio into
jack without pulseaudio. On my older system I just did a chmod -x jackd to
solve that... I don't need to any more.
As it happens, I set everything back to the failing
situation and rebooted
the laptop.
It now works as it should, with QjackCtl in control. There's no sign of a
pulseaudio
running and yet totem is working?
Cadence running?
--
Len Ovens
www.ovenwerks.net
10:04 p.m.
New subject: Laptop sound problems
On 29/09/16 17:06, Len Ovens wrote:
On Thu, 29 Sep 2016, Bill Purvis wrote:
Hmmm, there is a process:
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/usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session /usr/bin/im-launch
/usr/bin/cadence-session-start --system-start-by-x11-startup
cinnamon-session-cinnamon
but not an explicit cadence process. It would seem that firing up
cadence once has set something and that is enough.
I'm able to run Qjackctl with any problems, and get sounds from totem etc.
Once again, many thanks for guidance and advice!
Bill
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On 28/09/16 22:04, Len Ovens wrote:
>
> Ah, sounds like you are running jackd and not jackdbus.
I don't think so - I'm pretty sure
it's been jackdbus for quite a while.
jackd2 in debian/ubuntu ships with both jackd and jackdbus. Many jack
applications that find no jack server running will start one using
jackd with the temporary flag (we hope). There have been at least some
versions of jackd where this was broken and the started jack server
would continue running. This would block jackdbus from starting. This
bug has been fixed now for over two years. However, ubuntu shipped the
buggy version in their LTS (14.04) and there may be applications that
do not bother to set the temporary flag. Running jackdbus at session
start is best practice to solve this problem. Or use some other method
of getting desktop audio into jack without pulseaudio. On my older
system I just did a chmod -x jackd to solve that... I don't need to
any more.
As it happens, I set everything back to the
failing situation and
rebooted the laptop.
It now works as it should, with QjackCtl in control. There's no sign
of a pulseaudio
running and yet totem is working?
Cadence running?
--
Len Ovens
www.ovenwerks.net 
1 Oct
1 Oct
2:04 p.m.
New subject: Laptop sound problems
but not an explicit cadence process. It would seem that firing up
cadence once has set something and that is enough.
I'm able to run Qjackctl with any problems, and get sounds from totem
etc.
That's the reason why I love Cadence ;)
Regards,
Thierry
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