' hd_scania@artix
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'ooo' OS: Artix Linux amd64
'ooxoo' Host: HP Laptop 15s-DU3011TU
'ooxxxoo' Kernel: 5.17.4-artix1-1
'oookkxxoo' Uptime: 1 hour, 15 mins
'oiioxkkxxoo' Packages: 1939 (pacman)
':;:iiiioxxxoo' Shell: bash 5.1.16
`'.;::ioxxoo' Resolution: 1920x1080
'-. `':;jiooo' DE: Plasma 5.24.5
'oooio-.. `'i:io' WM: kwin
'ooooxxxxoio:,. `'-;' WM Theme: Monterey-dark
'ooooxxxxxkkxoooIi:-. `' Theme: Breeze Dark [Plasma]
'ooooxxxxxkkkkxoiiiiiji' Icons: [Plasma], WhiteSur-dark [GTK2/3]
'ooooxxxxxkxxoiiii:'` .i' Terminal: qterminal
'ooooxxxxxoi:::'` .;ioxo' Terminal Font: Ubuntu Mono 12
'ooooxooi::'` .:iiixkxxo' CPU: Intel Pentium Gold 7505 (4) @ 3.500GHz
'ooooi:'` `'';ioxxo' GPU: Intel Device 9a78
'i:'` '':io' Memory: 5289MiB / 7691MiB
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% pacman -Ss alsa jack && sudo alsamixer
community/a2jmidid 9-3 (pro-audio) [installed]
A daemon for exposing legacy ALSA sequencer applications in JACK MIDI system.
community/aj-snapshot 0.9.9-2 (pro-audio) [installed]
Command line utility to store/restore ALSA and/or JACK connections to/from an XML file
community/jaaa 0.9.2-2 (pro-audio) [installed]
JACK and ALSA Audio Analyser
community/patchage 1.0.4-1 [installed]
A modular patch bay for audio and MIDI systems based on Jack and Alsa
community/zita-ajbridge 0.8.4-1 (pro-audio) [installed]
Jack client to use additional ALSA devices.
ALSA lib confmisc.c:855:(parse_card) cannot find card '0'
ALSA lib conf.c:5178:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_inum returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:422:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:5178:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1334:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:5178:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:5701:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib control.c:1528:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL sysdefault
cannot open mixer: No such file or directory
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It says ALSA and sndio running but JACK not running somewhy
How to start JACK?
% inxi -Fx
System:
Host: artix Kernel: 5.17.4-artix1-1 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
v: 11.2.0 Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.24.5 Distro: Artix Linux
base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Laptop 15s-du3xxx
v: Type1ProductConfigId serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: HP model: 881D v: 50.27 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Insyde
v: F.53 date: 10/15/2021
Battery:
ID-1: BAT1 charge: 41.9 Wh (100.0%) condition: 41.9/41.0 Wh (102.0%)
volts: 12.9 min: 11.3 model: Hewlett-Packard PABAS0241231 status: full
CPU:
Info: dual core model: Intel Pentium Gold 7505 bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Tiger Lake rev: 1 cache: L1: 160 KiB L2: 2.5 MiB L3: 4 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1208 high: 1354 min/max: 400/3500 cores: 1: 1275
2: 1354 3: 1179 4: 1027 bogomips: 15980
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915 v: kernel
bus-ID: 0000:00:02.0
Device-2: DLEQNA1G4FJYYT HP TrueVision HD Camera type: USB
driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-5:3
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.3 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.1
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: intel
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa gpu: i915 resolution: 2398x1349
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics (TGL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 22.0.3
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl bus-ID: 0000:00:1f.3
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.17.6-artix1-1 running: yes
Sound Server-2: sndio v: N/A running: yes
Sound Server-3: JACK v: 1.9.21 running: no
Sound Server-4: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
Sound Server-5: PipeWire v: 0.3.51 running: no
Network:
Device-1: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX201 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
bus-ID: 0000:00:14.3
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: 10:3d:1c:f6:2b:ec
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 3000
bus-ID: 0000:01:00.0
IF: eth0 state: down mac: e0:70:ea:58:12:4f
Bluetooth:
Device-1: N/A type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-10:4
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down bt-service: not found
rfk-block: hardware: no software: no address: see --recommends
RAID:
Hardware-1: Intel Volume Management Device NVMe RAID Controller driver: vmd
v: 0.6 bus-ID: 0000:00:0e.0
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.14 TiB used: 190.76 GiB (16.3%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Western Digital
model: PC SN530 SDBPNPZ-256G-1006 size: 238.47 GiB temp: 47.9 C
ID-2: /dev/sda type: USB vendor: Samsung model: Portable SSD T5
size: 931.51 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 40 GiB used: 20.97 GiB (52.4%) fs: reiserfs
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 3.99 GiB used: 15.7 MiB (0.4%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 16 GiB used: 1.33 GiB (8.3%)
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 27.8 C mobo: 10.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 fan-2: 0
Info:
Processes: 250 Uptime: 20h 54m Memory: 7.51 GiB used: 5.58 GiB (74.3%)
Init: runit Compilers: gcc: 12.1.0 Packages: 1940 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16
inxi: 3.3.15
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I only use alsa + the nice qastools mixer after removing all pulse packages except libpulse and libcanberra.
I've never used Jack Audio, but I know you need a low latency kernel :
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Professional_audio