I've been trying unsuccessfully to get jackd to run and wonder if
the problem may be my Turtle Beach Motego II soundcard. I read in
the ALSA pages that some vortex basedmcards were problematic for
ALSA and am wondering if this may be why I can't get jackd to start
successfully. My card is not always found upon boot (I load using
alsaconf maybe half the time.) Sound works ok for both playback
and record using audacity, but I can't get jack to work so have
been unable to get any jackified apps going.

So I have two question that I'd like feed back on. First, is the
problem with jackd perhaps tied to my card's problem with ALSA,
and if you have a setup that is running jackd successfully, what
card are you using? I've looked at the ALSA sound card matrix but
want feedback on what's working from users (since my Turtle Beach
card is shown to work according to the matrix). Software:
Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Official) for i586, KDE 3.2, Opera
8.51 Kernel Info: 2.6.8.1-12mdk #1 Fri Oct 1 12:53:41 CEST 2004
i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) unknown GNU/Linux – also
kernel-multimedia -2.6.10-3.mm.4mdk-1-1mdk
Hardware: Compaq Deskpro EN;CPU P III 866; HDD Maxtor 20GB
partitioned 50% fat32 (hda1) and 50% ext3 (including swap and home)
and Seagate Barracuda 20 GB (hdb - ext3 excluding swap; Sound card:
Voyetra TurtleBeach Montego II.(au8830 Aureal Semiconductor Vortex 2
(rev fa)); Monitor: NEC MultiSync95; Modem (external): USR Sportster
005686-03 FaxModem

please edit your post to make it more readable.. include line breaks.
you will get more responses--most people im sure, including myself, dont even bother reading the content because of the appearance.

thanks