On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 14:45:52 -0700 (PDT)
Renato Fabbri <renatoftato(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
  Hardware: P4 3.6 HT, 1G Ram, M-audio Delta 66. It is a
 Dell computer, a GX280.
 Problems:
 1- Kmenu->Control Center->Sound & Multimedia->Sound
 System
 There is a jack option there, but, when I start it, I
 see a window:
 "Sound server informational message:
 Error while initializing the sound driver:
 Couldn´t connect to jackd
 The sound server will continue using the null output
 device" 
Ok, seems either
a] jack is not installed properly
b] it is run with options that won't work on your box
c] kde sux ;)
what happens if you do this from the console:
jackd -d alsa -p 512
pkg-config jack --cflags --libs
  2-Making a /home/ref/jack-audio-connection-kit and
 ./configure builds with no alsa support and with oss
 support. (with alsa loaded or oss turned loaded) 
I don't fully understand what you say, but:
Do you have the ALSA development files installed? In pretty much all
distros there's a distinction between just a library package and a
corresponding development packages which you need when you want to
compile stuff against that lib.
  3-When Pd 0.38.4-extended is installed, the pd command
 issues:
 "pd: error while loading shared libraries:
 libjack0.80.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No
 such file or directory 
Did you install jack by hand or from a package?
  4- There is no "alsa" or
"alsasound" file to do the
 usual:
 ..path/alsa stop
 ..path/alsa start
 (commonly at /etc/rc.d/init.d/alsa)
 There is, though, a /etc/init.d/alsa that accepts
 "unload, reload, resolve" commands. 
Hmm, not sure about this one.
  5- While borwsing menus like Kmenu, we hear sound
 hickups. 
This can have soooooooooooooo many reasons. Try usign a bigger
buffersize. I also think i saw that artsd can run with reltime priv,
too. Check the kontrol center for that. Keep in mind you probably need
rtlimits setup correctly or the realtime lsm.
Flo
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