Hi ! Recently I bought an expressCard with firewire extension for my laptop. But when I launch qjackctl, I get this error : 00:57:42.374 Startup script terminated with exit status=256. 00:57:42.374 JACK is starting... 00:57:42.375 jackd -R -P89 -dfreebob -dhw:0 -r48000 -p1024 -n3 -D 00:57:42.386 JACK was started with PID=30313 (0x7669). jackd 0.103.0 Copyright 2001-2005 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 .. SSE2 detected Freebob using Firewire port 0, node -1 00:57:43.157 MIDI connection graph change. libiec61883 warning: Established connection on channel 0. You may need to manually set the channel on the receiving node. libiec61883 warning: Established connection on channel 1. You may need to manually set the channel on the transmitting node. 00:57:43.242 MIDI connection change. 00:57:43.452 Server configuration saved to "/home/mysthr/.jackdrc". 00:57:43.453 Statistics reset. 00:57:43.460 Client activated. 00:57:43.461 Audio connection change. 00:57:43.469 Audio connection graph change. JACK tmpdir identified as [/dev/shm] SSE2 detected 00:57:47.189 MIDI connection graph change. zombified - calling shutdown handler 00:57:47.191 Shutdown notification. 00:57:47.194 Client deactivated. 00:57:47.195 JACK was stopped successfully. 00:57:47.195 Post-shutdown script... 00:57:47.197 killall jackd cannot send request type 7 to server cannot read result for request type 7 from server (Relais brisÃ(c) (pipe)) cannot send request type 7 to server cannot read result for request type 7 from server (Relais brisÃ(c) (pipe)) jackd: aucun processus tuÃ(c) 00:57:47.415 Post-shutdown script terminated with exit status=256. I have a Firebox Presonus on a Dell Inspiron 9400 ; The expressCard got a Texas Instrument chip ; and I am running with fedora Core 6 and planet CCRMA the rtirq script is started : rtirq: start [rtc] irq=8 pid=372 prio=95: OK. rtirq: start [ohci1394] irq=18 pid=1139 prio=90: OK. rtirq: start [snd] irq=20 pid=467 prio=85: OK. I don't know what the problem is. so if someone could help me it should be great :) Thank you best, Erwan -- {^_^} Mysth-R {^_^} http://mysthr.oldiblog.com