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Hi,
I just installed Mageia 2, squashing my older Mandriva 2010.2! Everything is starting to work fine (just), apart from many of my favourite oldies that I couldn't find on the distro's repository, which I intend to later install from source. Still, since I'm a composer, I cannot just live without all my musical arsenal (where is Bristol??!!).

On launching QjackCtl, JACK claims it can't find seq, and the directory where it resides (/dev/snd/) is inaccessible to it, which is more than strange!!! I'm having pulseaudio on, with all its necessary paraphernalia to work along side JACK. By the way, Aumix wouldn't work, either; I suppose for the same reason(s).

Could you please help? Many thanks in advance.

Hosam Adeeb Nashed Fahmy

Is your user member of the audio group?

Apart from that, you should take a look at viewtopic.php?f=26&t=627 and viewtopic.php?f=4&t=56

Hi, thanks
I didn't check, actually. But I had read the article you're referring to, and I did un-check pulseaudio in the Hardware section in the CP, after which everything seems to work just fine. Except that, sometimes, pulse gets mysteriously invoked, in which case I have to manually kill it for things to return to normal, i.e. just plain ALSA and JACK.