[TriLUG] One thing led to another and killed my Samsung Ultrabook running Linux Mint.

[Ken MacKenzie via TriLUG]

Correction file name if GlobalSettings.conf

Plural not singular like the previous email.

Ken

On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 9:19 AM, Ken MacKenzie <ken at mack-z.com> wrote:

> To follow up on my suggestion...
>
> The config file should be in your home directory here:
>
> .config/Cadence/GlobalSetting.conf
>
> Contents of mine:
>
> [JACK]
> AutoStart=false
>
> [ALSA-Audio]
> BridgeIndexType=0
> BridgeChannels=2
> BridgeTool=zita
>
> [A2J]
> AutoStart=false
>
> [Pulse2JACK]
> AutoStart=true
> PlaybackModeOnly=false
>
> To be safe in trying to see if the Jack autostart is the problem the first
> "AutoStart" line definitely needs to be false.  However you may wish to
> make sure all "AutoStart" lines are false.
>
> Make these changes with vim at the command line and then reboot.  That
> should answer the question if cadence and jack are truly the culprit
> crashing mdm.
>
> I will say this though I am current and using Mint 17 with Cadence from
> the KXstudio repos and have had no such problem.  However I don't use
> cinnamon or mate regularly.  I usually use openbox.
>
> Ken
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 6:05 PM, Ken MacKenzie <ken at mack-z.com> wrote:
>
>> Cadence has options for starting jack on startup. I would find the
>> configuration file behind that and prevent it running on startup and see if
>> that allows mdm to start up properly or not.
>>
>> Ken
>>
>
>