[Traverso-devel] Troubleshooting

[Nicola Döbelin]

Hi List,

How does installing cdrdao work on Windows? Is there an official binary? Is 
anything else required to get cd-writing to work?

I also started to write a "troubleshooting" section for the manual. If anyone  
has some more ideas than the ones listed below, please let me know. Anything 
trivial or not-so-obvious users will stumble across is welcome.

Cheers
Nicola


Q: Playback is not smooth and I get lots of xruns
A: If you are using an Intel onboard sound chip, you may have to set the 
Number of Periods to 3 instead of 2. This can be done in the ``Audio Driver'' 
page of the Preferences dialogue, or in your jackd configuration (e.\,g. 
qjackctl).

Q: I can't hear anything
A: If playback seems to be working (VUMeters indicate a signal), but you hear 
no sound, check if the ``Null Driver'' is loaded. If yes, load a different 
driver, e.\,g. ALSA on Linux, or PortAudio on OS X or Windows, and try again. 
If you are using the jackd driver, make sure the output of Traverso is 
connected to a hardware output. This is described in chapter 
\ref{sect_setup}.

Q: I can't load the driver
A: One problem could be that the buffer size specified in the driver settings 
is too large for your sound card. Try reducing the latency a bit. It can also 
happen that the sound system is blocked by another application or demon. If 
you are using KDE, make sure aRTs terminates automatically after a few 
seconds, and try to shut down any other application blocking the sound card.