Tough experiments with sound in Debian.Help still appreciated.

I began my problems with programs like audacity,ardour etc. I could not get them up and running,it was ardour that could not connect to Jack or audacity that had problems with the audio input/output layer.But I got that my problem was more difficult: the system could not play any sound. With the CD

problem with sound.alsa,ardour,kscd.

I began my problems with programs like audacity,ardour etc. I could not get them up and running,it was ardour that could not connect to Jack or audacity that had problems with the audio input/output layer.But I got that my problem was more difficult: the system could not play any sound. With the CD

Sound specialists,help appreciated.Extensive description.

I did jackstart --driver=alsa and jackstart --realtime --driver=alsa In both cases I received the following warning: jackstart: cannot get realtime capabilities, current capabilities are: =ep cap_setpcap-ep probably running under a kernel with capabi

Sound specialists,help appreciated.

Audacity does not record anything in my computer(iMac first generation 1998, built-in microphone,running Debian Linux 3.1 PPC).When I open Audacity,I receive the following warning: "There was an error initializing the Audio I/O layer.You will not be able to record or play any sound.". The pop-up m