Hello. I've been out of luck trying to work with sound on Linux. My experience with Audacity, Jack and Ardour haven't been successful at all. I was trying to create a .asoundrc file as, from what I read, it would be one of the first necessary steps. My soundcard is [cyb@kali cyb]$ cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [Live ]: EMU10K1 - Sound Blaster Live! Sound Blaster Live! (rev.8) at 0xa800, irq 10 and it's working well and I'm running Mandrake Linux 9.2 with Gnome. My attempt at editing a .asoundrc file is shown below pcm.!sb { type hw card 0 } ctl.!sb { type hw card 0 } pcm.jackplug { type plug slave { pcm "jack" } } pcm.jack { type jack playback_ports { 0 alsa_pcm:playback_1 1 alsa_pcm:playback_2 } capture_ports { 0 alsa_pcm:capture_1 1 alsa_pcm:capture_2 } } which I copied and pasted from the Alsa site. Apparently it is working because when I issued some commands to play a file they worked. [cyb@kali cyb]$ aplay -d sd docs/voz.wav Playing WAVE 'docs/voz.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo[cyb@kali cyb]$ aplay -djackplug docs/voz.wav Playing WAVE 'docs/voz.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo However, Jack is not working properly and when I try to run Ardour all my running apps are killed and disappear. Jack shows the following messages: JACK compiled with System V SHM support loading driver .. open starting engine cannot set thread to real-time priority (FIFO/10) (1: Operation not permitted) cannot set thread to real-time priority (FIFO/20) (1: Operation not permitted) **** alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 10.319 msecs I'm very sorry if the message is bit lengthy, but I wanted to give all the info that I think is needed. Any tip or hint appreciated. TIA -- josenildo marques icq #289971493 homepage http://cyb.ezdir.net registered linux user #341648 ********* "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." James Joyce

I'm running Mandrake Linux 9.2 with Gnome.