Hi

I have a problem with making my programs connect with the JACK server.
I run Mandrake 10, and an Audiophile 2496 (ice1712) card. I start jack from the terminal in Gnome with "jackd -d alsa &" and then run ardour with just "ardour". Jack starts up fine, but ardour says it's not connecting (nor any of my other alsa capable programs). First I thought I'd start crying lika a baby but then I realized that I'm 31 and that might seem pathethic. That's why I'm asking you guys.

-Tony

Hmm, I guess I have to answer myself here, since I solved it. Maybe someone has the same problem. I installed Slackware 10, downloaded the newest kernel sources from www.kernel.org. Then I compiled the kernel, being sure to incluse all needed hardware, and I added the LSM Kernel patch from ;

http://sourceforge.net/projects/realtime-lsm/

Be sure to enable the security settings like so;

CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_SECURITY=y
CONFIG_SECURITY_CAPABILITIES=m
CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX=y

Read the Readme file for the LSM module and you'll be fine. It's very easy compiling the kernel.

Configure LILO to work with your new kernel (add a new entry, keep your old so you're not left with a system that can't boot).

Enter as root when your system is up and type: modprobe realtime any=1

Then exit root, run as normal user and fire up Jack.

Hopefully it works.

-Tony