JACK keeps me frustrated

[Matthew Polashek]

what is your computer hardware?

Tomas Valusek wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm playing with Ubuntu Studio 8.10. I like restore points since they 
> are created before software installs (here either by Add/Remove applet, 
> manual apt invoking or using Synaptic) and they helped me much on 
> Windows since I could easily remember when my system worked fine and 
> could choose this "random" point, as you say.
>
> My soundcard is SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS PCI. Now I'm about to restar 
> installing Ubuntu Studio from scratch, losing all tweaks I've already 
> performed.
>
> Thanks for your patience, since messing with partially known apps is 
> always dangerous and I still cannot understand JACK well - and maybe 
> some apps I would never suspect interfere with it - maybe Bluetooth 
> Manager, maybe OpenOffice, maybe Sun JRE 6.10, maybe OpenOffice 2.4.1, 
> maybe even Gnome games - BTW, I tried "mother" Ubuntu Interpid distro 
> and JACK was unable to start after I installed ubuntu-studio-audio and 
> ubuntu-studio-audio-plugins metapackages.
>
> Tomas Valusek
>
> sandie napsal(a):
>   
>> Hi
>>
>> If you click "Setup" in jackctl, you can save your presets, a very nice 
>> feature if you play around with the settings, and imho... it's a much 
>> better option than those "random" restore points.
>>
>> and remember... Linux is not windows ;-)
>>
>> Kind regards
>> Sandie
>>
>>
>> Tomas Valusek wrote:
>>     
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I curse JACK - such a hostile piece of software, whose error messages 
>>> provide no help, stops itself working after mere editing of options 
>>> according to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToJACKConfiguration 
>>> (first example, I happen to have the same sound card).
>>>
>>> The worst - I don't know how to return to previous working state other 
>>> from completely reinstall Ubuntu Studio from scratch ... If only Linux 
>>> had Restore points as WinXP does ...
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, I'm sending this mail from Windows, which is still my 
>>> main working OS, Ubuntu Studio didn't make it from experimentation state 
>>> yet, so I can't provide contents of JAKC's Message Window.
>>>
>>> I absolutely don't know what now, how to return JACK to its previous 
>>> working state. Can anyone help me? Many thanks in advance.
>>>
>>> Tomas Valusek
>>>
>>>   
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