I am having trouble getting JACK control to work with Soundblaster Audigy ZS 2
 

Hi All
I am having trouble getting the audio to work on this computer (ACER 5570-4765 with PCM Audigy ZS 2) running Ubuntu Studio 10.10.

I can get JACK to run without errors but I am not sure if settings are correct.

For now I would just like to listen to music using Audacious but I would eventually like to record guitar using Rakarrack (I have this installed but I am having zero luck with this as well)

I am a newbie and find JACK documentation very confusing. I am starting to like Linux though.

Thanks in advance for any help

Here are a few lines from the JACK message screen if this is any help

19:13:18.734 JACK is starting...
19:13:18.735 /usr/bin/jackd -P1 -dalsa -r44100 -p1024 -n2 -D -Chw:0 -Phw:0 -S -i1 -o1 -Xraw
19:13:18.748 JACK was started with PID=2671.
no message buffer overruns
no message buffer overruns
jackdmp 1.9.6
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Copyright 2004-2010 Grame.
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JACK server starting in realtime mode with priority 1
audio_reservation_init
Acquire audio card Audio0
creating alsa driver ... hw:0|hw:0|1024|2|44100|1|1|nomon|swmeter|-|16bit
Using ALSA driver Audigy2 running on card 0 - SB Audigy 2 ZS Notebook [SB0530] (rev.0, serial:0x20011102) at 0x6000, irq 20
configuring for 44100Hz, period = 1024 frames (23.2 ms), buffer = 2 periods
ALSA: final selected sample format for capture: 16bit little-endian
ALSA: use 2 periods for capture
ALSA: final selected sample format for playback: 16bit little-endian
ALSA: use 2 periods for playback
scan: added port hw:0,0,0 in-hw-0-0-0-Audigy-MPU-401--UART-
scan: added port hw:0,0,0 out-hw-0-0-0-Audigy-MPU-401--UART-


Scans a bunch of ports then :

ALSA lib rawmidi_hw.c:233:(snd_rawmidi_hw_open) open /dev/snd/midiC0D0 failed: Device or resource busy
scan: can't open port hw:0,0,0 in-hw-0-0-0-Audigy-MPU-401--UART-, error code -16, zombified
ALSA lib rawmidi_hw.c:233:(snd_rawmidi_hw_open) open /dev/snd/midiC0D0 failed: Device or resource busy
scan: can't open port hw:0,0,0 out-hw-0-0-0-Audigy-MPU-401--UART-, error code -16, zombified

Hi, try the seq midi option instead of raw

Regards Glenn

Thanks very much for your help. Works fine now.