Re: [LAU] tips for beginners

From: rosea grammostola <rosea.grammostola@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Tue Jan 05 2010 - 19:48:07 EET

David Santamauro wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been lurking around a few weeks now as I get my feet wet in the world
> of linux audio. I find it very difficult to get off the ground, to be
> honest. I dusted off an older PC that I had used for audio in the MS Windows
> environment and carved out a partition for fedora 11 with the real-time
> kernel from PlanetCCRMA. OS install went off without a hitch as did
> installing the new kernel. That's just about where "easy" stopped.
>
> I have a list of things I'd like to ask about but I think I'll just start
> off simple. Silly me thought I could plug speakers into the output of the
> 2496 and I'd be able to hear (and eventually *make*) glorious music -- no
> such luck. So, onto my first issue:
>
> I check what the system sees
> $ cat /proc/asound/cards
> 0 [au8810 ]: au8810 - Aureal Vortex au8810
> Aureal Vortex au8810 at 0xfea80000 irq 21
> 1 [M2496 ]: ICE1712 - M Audio Audiophile 24/96
> M Audio Audiophile 24/96 at 0xdf80, irq 22
>
> ... so far so good
>
> Now, I just want to use the sound preferences dialog and make sure the
> system is using the 2496 as main output. Problem is, although both the 8810
> and 2496 are present in the "Capture" tab, only the 8810 is available from
> the "Playback" tab.
>
>
Is the 8810 an onboard card? If you don't need it, it might be
preventing problems when you turn it off in your BIOS.

If you want to use the 2496 with Jack you have to set it in qjackctl, setup.
> Actually _hearing_ the music aside, I decided to try my luck with JACK.
> Funny enough, I was able to get a rudimentary JACK infrastructure passing
> xmms audio over to ardour2 (was a small tutorial I found) ... still, no
> sound from the speakers though ;-)
>
> Could anyone here possibly help or point me to a resource that can?
>
This could be useful maybe:
http://wiki.linuxmusicians.com/doku.php
http://apps.linuxaudio.org/

Success!

\r
> Thanks in advance,
>
> David
>
>
>
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