qsynth error

[degras]

When I start qsynth I get this message:

Qsynth1: Failed to create the audio driver (jack).
Cannot continue without it.

I am running on gentoo (AMD64)
Thanks.
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[Viktor Mastoridis]

When I start qsynth I get this message:
Qsynth1: Failed to create the audio driver (jack).
Cannot continue without it.
I am running on gentoo (AMD64)
Thanks.

Do you have jack installed and running? On Gentoo jack isn't installed by default and I am not too familiar with Gentoo to get you to do it.

But going down the lane, by your question, I need to ask you the following:
Are you a beginner in the Linux Audio world?
If yes, and you are just starting with Linux audio, I could recommend that you search and try some distros that are maybe easier to handle at the beginning? Like Ubuntu Studio, or AVLinux?

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& Educator
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Apparently there is a proaudio overlay for Gentoo - you probably want to enable that.

Hopefully an actual gentoo user will come and clarify the situation further

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 7:39 AM, Viktor Mastoridis <viktor@...> wrote:

When I start qsynth I get this message:
Qsynth1: Failed to create the audio driver (jack).
Cannot continue without it.
I am running on gentoo (AMD64)
Thanks.

Do you have jack installed and running? On Gentoo jack isn't installed by default and I am not too familiar with Gentoo to get you to do it.

But going down the lane, by your question, I need to ask you the following:
Are you a beginner in the Linux Audio world?
If yes, and you are just starting with Linux audio, I could recommend that you search and try some distros that are maybe easier to handle at the beginning? Like Ubuntu Studio, or AVLinux?

--
Viktor Mastoridis
Music-o-Graph
& Educator
www.MediTera.Co.Uk

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[degras]

I had the proaudio overlay, but I did not have jack installed.  I have
now installed jack and this is what happens if I run it:

tux maudio # jack
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/jack", line 42, in <module>
    import jack_argv
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/jack_argv.py", line 22, in <module>
    import jack_utils
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/jack_utils.py", line 26, in <module>
    import jack_functions
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/jack_functions.py", line 222
    def starts_with(str, with):
                            ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax


I also installed qjackctl which seems to run independently from jack.
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[Gabriel M. Beddingfield]

On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, Daniel Grace wrote:

> tux maudio # jack

Try 'jackd'

'jack' is a CD ripper.

-gabriel

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