Hello! I am trying to use jack 0.70.4. The reason for the old version is simple - rosegarden 4 0.9.1 fails to build with 0.72.4. But before I can use rosegarden, I need to run fluidsynth. And I can't get as far as this. Connecting fluidsynth's jack ports to the alsa ones causes an immediate jack crash! Any advice on getting this to work would be very appreciared! Deteils follow. I run three root terminal windows (rxvt or xterm - does not matter). In one of them I start jackd; in the other, fluidsynth; and in the third, try to get ports connected. Here is all that I do, and the output I get. In the jackd terminal: === [root@ramendik misha]# jackd -d alsa -d hw:0 jackd 0.70.4 Copyright 2001-2003 Paul Davis and others. jackd comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details JACK compiled with System V SHM support loading driver .. creating alsa driver ... hw:0|1024|2|48000|swmon|swmeter|rt open port alsa_pcm:capture_1 has mixdown = 0x4001da28 port alsa_pcm:capture_2 has mixdown = 0x4001da28 port alsa_pcm:playback_1 has mixdown = 0x4001da28 port alsa_pcm:playback_2 has mixdown = 0x4001da28 starting engine === in the fluidsynth terminal: === [root@ramendik misha]# fluidsynth -a jack YamahaGrand_Adcock.SF2 fluidsynth version 1.0.2 Copyright (C) 2000-2002 Peter Hanappe and others. FLUID Synth comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; see the COPYING file for details. SoundFont(R) is a registered trademark of E-mu Systems, Inc. Type 'help' to get information on the shell commands. === This happens in the jackd terminal: === port fluidsynth:left has mixdown = 0x4001da28 port fluidsynth:right has mixdown = 0x4001da28 === In the third terminal: === [root@ramendik misha]# jack_connect fluidsynth:left alsa_pcm:playback_1 engine sample rate: 48000 [root@ramendik misha]# jack_connect fluidsynth:right alsa_pcm:playback_2 engine sample rate: 48000 === This causes an immediate crash of jackd, with this output: === cannot send event to client [jack_connect] (Broken pipe) jack main caught signal 13 === at the same time in the fluidsynth terminal: === fluidsynth: error: Help! Lost the connection to the JACK server === What "zombified" means is clear - it also happens if I simply Ctrl-C the jackd terminal. So it looks like a jack crash, not a fluidsynth one. Help... Thanks in advance for any tips. Yours, Mikhail Ramendik