audio/jack: jackd fails to start

[Christian Walther]

On 18/01/2008, Christian Walther <cptsalek at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> today I installed audio/jack as needed for audio/ardour.
> The problem is that ardour2 fails to initialize jackd during startup. Trying
>
> $ jackd -d oss
>
> gives the same error message:
>
> jackd 0.103.0
> Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others.
> jackd comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
> This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
> under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details
>
> JACK compiled with System V SHM support.
> loading driver ..
> OSS: failed to open device /dev/dsp: oss_driver.c at 527, errno=2
> cannot start driver
> zsh: segmentation fault  jackd -d oss
[...]

FYI: I just finished upgrading to FreeBSD 7 and found jackd to be
working without any problem:

% jackd -d oss
jackd 0.103.0
Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others.
jackd comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details

JACK compiled with System V SHM support.
loading driver ..
oss_driver: /dev/dsp : 0x10/2/48000 (4096)
oss_driver: indevbuf 4096 B, outdevbuf 4096 B
oss_driver: not using barrier mode, (single thread)

Christian