[fluid-dev] Jack: sound on OS X, but no sound on Yellow Dog Linux

[Ebrahim Mayat]

Hi

If I run fluidsynth in Yellow Dog just as "fluidsynth /path_to_soundfont", I can get sounds using the default alsa sound driver 

but if I do 

jackd -R -d alsa -r 44100 -p 512 -i 2 -o 2 -n  (in one root console) then

fluidsynth -a jack /path_to_soundfont (in a 2nd root console) -----> no sound

On OS X as a normal user, launching Jack Pilot, then running fluidsynth -a jack, then load /path_to soundfont  ----> sound

Any ideas as to why jack is not working as it is supposed to on Yellow Dog?

(Note:  I have done the following prior to building jack on YDL:

# mkdir /mnt/ramfs

[edit /etc/fstab and add the following line]

none       /mnt/ramfs      tmpfs      defaults  0 0

Then add --with-default-tmpdir=/mnt/ramfs to the JACK configure line when you build it.  No clients need to be recompiled.

I also have 1.5 GB of swap space)

TIA.

Ebrahim