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alsa needs to be running

my attempt is to set up jack in .kde/Autostart

I created a file (could be anything but I called it jackd-audio).

jackstart --driver=alsa&

Also you need to set the file to be executable

chmod ugo+x jackd-audio

You will need to set arts to use jack-