On 20 May 2015 at 19:49, <meino.cra...@gmx.de> wrote: > (it become really fun to create Koans from problems! Nice > and positive way to walk down the way to the solution...<grin)
:) I'm afraid my English is not quite up to the task, but it's fun to try. > While it was calm and silent on the surface of the system and > the spirit of nothing moves across the face of the tasklist, > the ancient seer spake > lsof /dev/snd/* > > and an echo from the far answered: > /root>lsof /dev/snd/* > COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME > volumeico 4231 mccramer 8u CHR 116,2 0t0 4554 /dev/snd/controlC0 > jackd 6539 mccramer mem CHR 116,3 4555 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p > jackd 6539 mccramer mem CHR 116,4 4556 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0c > jackd 6539 mccramer 8u CHR 116,2 0t0 4554 /dev/snd/controlC0 > jackd 6539 mccramer 10u CHR 116,3 0t0 4555 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p > jackd 6539 mccramer 11u CHR 116,4 0t0 4556 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0c > jackd 6539 mccramer 12u CHR 116,1 0t0 2052 /dev/snd/seq > [1] 15019 exit 1 lsof /dev/snd/* > > And again the great Jack D. displays its mighty so that all follows > him and no one and nothing leads him. > > A lone voice in system he is... It seem so, that no cunning foe is stealing the resource, for the great Jack D.'s voice to be heard. So the humble scholar found another word of hope, buried deep within the arcane tomes: for the .asoundrc spell, for the rite to be complete that will allow the foreigners to be heard by Jack D., the caster needs an artifact, a mystic scroll from the Great Library, and that scroll is named /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_jack.so and can be summoned with the magic words: # sudo USE="jack" emerge -av media-plugins/alsa-plugins -- Emanuele Rusconi